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Investment/Processing Customs Branch has issued dozens of decisions on tax enforcement for tax debtors per month. Photo: T.H

HCM City Tax Department has proposed HCM City Customs Department to coordinate in applying enforcement measures to suspend customs procedures to recover debts for cases with large tax debts ranging from several billion to thousands of billions of VND.

Most of tax debtors have been enforced by the Investment/ Processing Customs Branch.

As a result, after the enforcement, many high-tax debtors have paid tax debts to the state budget.

Talking about the enforcement by suspending customs procedures for imports and exports of enterprises with domestic tax debt, Manager of Investment/Processing Customs Branch Le Tuan Binh said that the branch has implemented the coordination regulations between HCM City Customs Department and HCM City Tax Department since May 2021.

Accordingly, when overdue tax debts arise, the city’s Tax department will send an official dispatch to the Customs requesting tax debt enforcement for each tax debtor.

The Customs will base on the official dispatches of the Tax man to issue a decision to enforce suspending the import and export of enterprises.

According to Binh, through applying enforcement measures, the tax debt collection has achieved positive results, and many tax debtors have paid taxes.

As of October 25, the branch has issued over 180 decisions to suspend the import and export of tax debtors, with total tax amount of over VND6,225 billion.

Among them, there are high-tax debtors have been enforced such as: Xuyen Viet Oil Travel and Transport Trading Company Limited (address: No. 465-467 Hai Ba Trung, Ward 8, District 3, HCM City), with a debt of over VND1,739 billion;

Golden Hill Investment Joint Stock Company (address: No. 8, Nguyen Hue, Ben Nghe Ward, District 1, HCM City), with a debt of over VND1,289 billion; Pacific Airlines Joint Stock Company (address: 112 Hong Ha Street, Ward 2, Tan Binh District, HCM City), owes over 751 billion VND;

Housing Development and Trading Joint Stock Company (address: 36 Bui Thi Xuan, Ben Thanh Ward, District 1, HCM City), with a tax debt of overVND352 billion; Bach Khoa Viet Trading-Consultancy-Investment - Construction Joint Stock Company (address: 346 Tan Ky Tan Quy, Son Ky ward, Tan Phu district, HCM City), with a tax debt over VND220 billion...

After the Customs authority issued the enforcement decision, there were 34 tax debtors have paid taxes worth over VND237 billion to the State budget.

Many companies have paid large tax debts such as K. Construction Joint Stock Company at over VND51 billion; S. Infrastructure Development Joint Stock Company at about VND39 billion; B. Joint Stock Company at about VND32 billion; C. Development Investment Joint Stock Company at over VND30 billion; T. Construction Investment Joint Stock Company at VND27.5 billion...

According to the Investment/Processing Customs Branch, during the cooperation with HCM Tax Department in implementing enforcement decisions, in addition to positive results, the Customs discovered some shortcomings.

The branch has discussed and made recommendations with the Tax man for the effective performance in the coming time to achieve the highest revenue.

As of October 25, the Branch has issued 1,076 tax enforcement decisions, with a total tax enforcement of about VND 9,400 billion; terminated the enforcement decision of 114 cases, with the total tax revenue of over VND626 billion.