HCM City Customs refunds over VND 49 billion of VAT for foreign passengers

Foreign passengers attend in the cross-border e-commerce exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City in August 2023. Photo: T.H

According to HCM City Customs Department, in June, the department refunded over VND136 billion of VAT on goods brought by foreign passengers and overseas Vietnamese exiting the country, an increase of more than VND16 billion compared to May. About VND9.5 billion of VAT was refunded to 1,948 passengers.

In the first six months of the year, the department refunded VND49 billion of VAT to goods brought by 10,443 foreigners when exiting the country.

Products that carried by foreigners when leaving the country and were refunded VAT, are mainly shoes, sandals, clothes, handbags, cosmetics, watches, glasses...