Hanoi Tax Department: Many revenues were at sustainable growth

	Hanoi Tax Department collecting budget increased by 20% over the same period
	Hanoi announces names of 149 enterprises with tax debt
	Hanoi continues to publicize businesses which have tax debt

Operational activities at Hanoi Taxation Department. Photo: Thuy Linh

Mr. Nguyen The Manh, Deputy Director of General Department of Taxation cum Director of Hanoi Tax Department said that: the above achievement resulted from synchronous implementation of all tasks from the beginning of the year, from enhancing the propaganda to reforming administrative procedures and supporting taxpayers. The Hanoi Tax sector is one of leading units in the country on the results of online tax payment and declaration. Until now, 98% of enterprises in operation declare tax via the internet and 95% of those enterprises pay tax electronically, exceeding the target of Government Resolution 19 and reducing costs for taxpayers.

Hànội Taxation has successfully deployed the project of automatic registration and grant of enterprise code within 30 minutes, equal 12.5% of the time as described (5 hours). Besides, it has piloted the declaration and payment of registration fee for motorcycles, electronic motorcycles (level 4) at two Tax Branches (Ba Đình and Hai Bà Trưng), from which the whole area in time.

Especially, Hanoi Tax Department is a first unit carrying out the electronic tax inspection in combination with traditional inspection; applying IT into risk analysis and support for the inspection and examination. As a result, in the first seven months, it has implemented 11,444 inspections and examinations (accounting for 62.8% of the plan); retrieved, refunded and fine 1,503 billion VND (a year-on-year increase of 12.6%); and reduced a loss of 1,485 billion VND and a deductive amount of 177 billion VND.

Regarding the management, urge and enforcement of tax debt collection, over the past 7 months, the Hanoi Tax Department has issued more than 1.3 million notices of tax debts and electronic late payment; more than 12,700 decisions on account enforcement for nearly 9,000 units with a debt amount of 5,786 billion VND and enforcement for 3,167 units with a debt amount of 3,179 billion VND; publicized 7 times of the list of 939 units and projects with debts of taxes, fees and land rental fees of 2,857 billion VND. As a result, Hanoi is one of two localities with reduced debt compared to December 31, 2016.

In addition, the Hanoi Tax Department also built and deployed effectively 7 projects, such as: stamping for 100% of petrol pumps in the city (306 petroleum enterprises with 484 petrol pumps); tax management projects for online business and sent notices by messages to 13,422 personal accounts who were engaged in online business for them to review and identify their responsibilities in tax declaration and payment. Initially, online business individuals have contacted with the Tax Authority for guidance and support.

Concerning key tasks in the remaining months of 2017, Deputy Minister of Finance Do Hoang Anh Tuan requested Hanoi Tax Department to fulfill the target of revenues. In terms of revenues, the unit must strive to increase revenues which are paid to the state budget in accordance with the law, around 3,600-4,000 billion VND; Local budget revenue from land exceeds about 8,000 to 10,000 billion VND. In spite of the difficulties, the unit must strive to pass the target so that the city shall enjoy preferences from the special mechanism, thereby creating more resources for investment and development.

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In terms of tax debts, Mr. Tuan noted that in addition to publicity, enforcement, and collection of tax debts for enterprises which deliberately delayed the payment, the Tax agencies should have measures to remove difficulties, encourage enterprises that actually faced difficulties.