Continue to prioritize tax administrative procedures reform

The Deputy Head of the Business Environment Department, Central Institute for Economic Management Nguyen Minh Thao has advised the basis for the changes in the policy and efforts of the Tax sector in the recent years, as expected the amount of taxes paying time will be 119 hours/year and achieve the target that the Government has set out for the revenue in 2016. In 2015, as recorded by the World Bank in the rankings system of business climate index, Vietnam taxes paying and social insurances time had decreased 102 hours and increased by 4 places from the previous ranking.

Notwithstanding this, according to Mrs. Thao, the position of Vietnam in regard to tax reform when compared with other nations in the region is still only no.168, while our neighbor Thailand is no.70 and Malaysia is no.31. Therefore, to innovate tax service remains a key focus.

Yet, the Chairman of the Tax Consultants Association of Vietnam, Nguyen Thi Cuc says “the behavior and service style of tax officers has moved in a positive direction in that they have become more civilized, polite and shall continue to please the taxpayers. Typically, as the civil servants serving as the General Department of Taxation and Tax Departments in all provinces and cities, they have personally connected with foreign invested enterprises and big business.”

Besides, as she stated, a few places that wanted more investment should not set out favorable but incorrect tax policy to attract investment, that have differences of views between the Central Tax Office and local Tax offices, causing trouble for business during the process of calculating effective investment and tax incentives.

Furthermore, small and medium enterprises that have not had access to the new content of beneficial tax policies for businesses, such as to spend directly for employee benefit that has accounted in the calculation cost of corporate income tax; poverty tax, workers homes. will be accounted in the cost.

The representative of the General Department of Taxation, Deputy Director, Deputy Head of Reform and Modernization Department Mrs Hoang Thi Lan Anh confirmed, in the close future, to continue to perform the process of reform in tax administrative procedures, in the group of institutional solution, policy, Tax service will research, develop to eliminate the Sum tax form to Enterprise Income Tax, develop a decree on anti transfer pricing and tax evasion, as well as the legal base and the technical infrastructure to carry out electronic invoicing. The Tax service will also cooperate with the Ministry of Planning and Investment to create the automatically granted tax code system for firms, formulating the process of continuity between the Tax sector and the Land registration office, Land use rights registered office that will be included in solving administrative procedures related to financial obligations on land.

Nearly 100% of enterprises use the electronic declaration system VCN- According to the General Department of Taxation, at this time, 100% local on national Taxation offices ...

In a group of solutions that combine with other related units, which Mrs. Hoang Lan Anh addressed, The General Department of Taxation will establish many channels to collect feedback from the business community, at the same time researching the best practice in the world, reviewing the procedures for receipt and processing of tax administrative procedures, training, supervising on the implementation of Tax officials and the performance in reviewing independent assessment level by measuring satisfaction of taxpayers. To put in place this group of solutions is to aggressively target the tax reform that the Government resolution has set out.