Ho Chi Minh Customs Department: To achieve the target, it must collect 390 billion vnd per day

The Customs Department of Ho Chi Minh City makes procedures for cars imported. Picture: Thu Hòa.

The decrease in automobile imports impacts on revenue

According to the Customs Department of Ho Chi Minh City, by October 17, 2017, the unit collected 83.938 billion vnd of the State budget, reaching 77% of the estimates. This progress is much slower than the overall progress of the whole sector (the whole sector has reached 79% since October 10, 2017). Thus, from now until the end of each year, this unit has to collect about 390 billion vnd to reach the target.

In order to understand and direct the budget collection in the last months of the year, Deputy Director General of Customs Department of HCM City Dinh Ngoc Thang and leaders of Departments and leaders of functional departments have worked with Customs offices which have large revenues to carry out some key tasks.

At the Customs Branch of the Saigon port Zone 1, where the largest collection target of the whole Department was assigned of 40,500 billion vnd - Director Vu Viet Tien said, by October 16, 2017, the unit collected 29,860 billion vnd, achieving 79.63% of the ordinance target (37,500 billion vnd) and achieving 73.73% of the target of VND40.500 billion vnd. It is expected by end on December 31, 2017, the revenue collection of the unit is estimated to reach 38.324 billion vnd, exceeding the ordinance estimates. At present, the working teams have planned specific solutions in the fourth quarter to make a breakthrough in the state budget revenue, striving to reach the highest budget revenue target.

Being the gate specializing in the import of cars, iron and steel, but according to the head of Customs Department of Saigon port Zone 3 Nguyen Dinh Nam, in 2017, these key items decrease sharply, especially cars, leading the revenue of the unit in the first nine months of 2017 fell by 24% compared to the same period in 2016. By the end of September 2017, the Department collected 11,524 billion vnd, achieving 60% of the target of 2017 (19,000 billion vnd). The unit is working with a number of importers of cars to support the implementation of a number of car import contracts in the first month in 2018 to increase revenue.

With the main characteristic of importing automobiles, Head of Hiep Phuoc Port Customs Branch Ly Thanh Binh, said that in the first half of 2017, the number of imported cars increased strongly, the revenue of the department is high. By October 15, 2017, it has collected 11,342 billion vnd to the State budget. However, in the last months of the year, cars under 9 seats imported from the ASEAN countries will reduce much and may not be imported in December because enterprises are waiting for the reduction of import tax from 30% to 0% in early 2018. Thus, it is predicted that the revenue by the end of the year will be more difficult, each month only reached 680-700 billion vnd. However, the unit will keep track of revenue sources for timely and effective collection.

In this situation, Deputy Director General Dinh Ngoc Thang suggested customs branch base on the management characteristics of each department, drastically implement solutions in the reform of procedures, mobilize revenue to focus on State budget revenues. Customs branches actively work, grasp the plan of importing goods of enterprises to analyze, evaluate the work closely, have effective solutions.

Focus on solutions to avoid losses

Along with the revenue solutions, in order to complete the budget collection targets in the context of many import commodities tending to reduce, the leaders of the Customs Department of Ho Chi Minh City asked the units to concentrate on solutions to prevent budget losses. At customs offices at border gates and outside border gates, it should pay special attention to price consultations and post-clearance inspections of import-export dossiers with suspicious signs. With the specific characteristics of imported cars, in the first nine months of 2017, the Hiep Phuoc Port Customs Branch has concentrated on post-clearance inspection of 14 cases, issuing tax assessment decisions for 4 cases, added more than 6 billion vnd to the State budget; consulted price and rejected the value declaration of 20 cases, with a total tax increase of more than 31 billion vnd. From now to the end of the year, the unit will continue to increase revenue through tax calculation of imported goods.

In addition, the customs branch strengthened the workforce in collecting and recovering tax debts. Customs Department of Ho Chi Minh City committed to recover and deal with over 900 billion vnd of debts, but now this figure is only nearly 60 billion vnd. According to Mr. Nguyen Dinh Nam, the tax debt of the Customs Department of Saigon Port Zone 3 is largely under compulsory debt, with a total debt of over 375 billion vnd. This is the amount of debt incurred before the Law on Tax Administration comes into force. During the process of collecting revenue, the unit faced many difficulties due to the fact that the enterprises no longer operated and has left the registered business address.

In order to facilitate the customs branches in implementing the tasks in the last months of the year, Deputy Director General Dinh Ngoc Thang noted: For price consultation, post-clearance inspection at customs branches, arranging professional staffs with professional experience, having experience in taking up these stages, ensuring that they are collected properly and fully; For tax refunds, checking documents, especially C/O to avoid losses of the State budget.

Deputy Director Dinh Ngoc Thang asked the whole Department to make 200% of efforts to complete the targets of budget collection and debt recovery as its commitment to the Director-General Nguyen Van Can.