Implemeting the payment of electronic tax 24/7. What does the enterprises obtain?

Professional operation of Customs Sub-Department at Mong Cai Border Gate, Quang Ninh Customs Department. Photo: T.Trang.

Currently, the collection of tax in cash accounts for about 0.82% of the total of the state budget of the Customs. This is equivalent to a tax of VND 2,500 billion. The company has to pay cash directly to Customs. This is the extremely large money

According to Mr. Le Minh Hung, Deputy Director General of the imported and exported tax Department, although the rate of payment and electronic payment through banks and the state Treasury currently accounts for a relatively high (about 92%) of the total the paid taxes to the state budget, there is no support for the taxpayers to transfer money outside the trading time or holidays, holidays or Tet holidays, Therefore, the Customs units also have to arrange human resources to serve cash collection.

Reviewing some cases, Mr. Le Manh Hung said that there are companies to import vaccines at the airport at 3 am, the vaccines are listed without having to pay the tax, but some vaccines are subject to VAT. In order to receive the goods at once in time for timely delivery of goods, the enterprises had to bring several hundred million in cash to pay directly to the customs office to clear the customs clearance

The case of Petrolimex Petrol Group like an example exports oil through Van Phong port with the tax amount up to several tens of billion. The ship starts at 4:00 pm and the company transfers the tax payment at 3:00 pm, therefore, because it is different from the transactions, the tax is late, the customs office does not receive the money transfer notice and does not allow customs clearance. This has also affected the export and import of enterprises.

Therefore, in order to limit these shortcomings and meet the requirements of administrative reform, it is necessary for the customs sector to upgrade the electronic payment gateway in order to achieve its targets: making favorable for taxpayers who can pay tax at any time, at any place, by any means, minimizing the payment in cash; Ensuring payment information of liquid tax timely and accurately; cutting down the time of tax payment, at the same time, the custom clearance of goods is performed immediately after payment of tax to shorten the time for completion of customs formalities for export and import of enterprises equal to the average level of ASEAN-4 countries. .

Implementing this objective, Deputy General Director of Customs Nguyen Duong Thai signed the decision of approving the project "Electronic tax payment through banks and customs clearance of 24/7” is the central project of the General Department of Customs in 2017 to support businesses to pay directly at the customs e-payment gateway (24/7).

According to the analysis of representatives of the Department of Export-Import Tax, this new form of taxpayers will continue to simplify procedures for tax payment, saving time and costs for businesses, opening more channels for payment to taxpayers. Along with that, wherever there is the internet, businesses can actively pay taxes at any time, anywhere and by any means. The payment of taxes does not depend on the working time and place of work of the collecting agencies, such as banks, state treasuries, and customs.

In particular, this form of the new tax payment will ensure tax payer’s information without disclosing the confidential information during the exchange of information on the system, overcoming the limitation of the information of paying tax when Money exchanges f one or more payment documents through inter-bank payment, overcoming restrictions on the transaction time of commercial banks.

For management agencies, the form of electronic tax payment 24/7 will help to save manpower, ensuring safety in the management, simplifying the process of tax collection, Making sure to correctly subtract the tax debt immediately after the tax payment, ending the enforcement of the wrong company after paying taxes and the maximum restriction of adjusting to the payment vouchers with the inaccurate information. This will help to increase the level of satisfaction of the business community and the international investors.

The commercial banks coordinate with the General Department of Customs to collect the tax, this form of new tax collection will help banks develop and improve payment services for customers, attracting more potential customers, limiting Information errors and the payment vouchers need to be checked.

The 24/7 electronic tax payment process of the customs sector has been in place since November 2017. The condition of tax payment and customs clearance 24/7 for taxpayers need to have a digital signature to make a payment, approve the transfer of tax money and authorize the bank to debit the account for the payment service of electronic tax.