Pressure to obtain the revenue estimates for 2017

	Tax revenue reached more than 91% of the estimate
	Collaboration of information exchange between Tax and Customs
	The Taxation refunded more than 26 trillion VND via application of electronic tax refund

The Tax sector must collect the remaining revenues, because some localities have not completed the estimate. Photo: T.L

Strong pressure

According to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Finance, in the past 11 months, the total State revenue was VND 1,077.3 trillion, reaching 88.9% of the estimate, equivalent to 86.9% of revenue in the whole year reported to the National Assembly, an increase of 14.5% compared to the same period in 2016. Notably, domestic revenue reached VND 859.2 trillion, equivalent to 86.8% of the estimate. Of which, revenue from dividend and remaining profit of State owned enterprises is estimated at VND 63 trillion, equivalent to 105% of the estimate. Revenue from the sale of State owned shares in enterprises reached VND 13 trillion. The rest of domestic revenue was estimated at VND 661.6 trillion, equivalent to 84.5% of the estimate.

Revenue from crude oil in 11 months reached VND 42.4 trillion, exceeding the estimate by 10.7%. Revenue from imports and exports reached VND 262.4 trillion, equivalent to 92.1% of the estimate. According to Ministry of Finance, the State revenue has tended to increase in recent months mainly thanks to the stable growth rate of import-export activities. The total import and export turnover increased over 21% compared to the same period in 2016, of which the import turnover of major commodities such as petroleum products, computer, electronic products and parts, machinery, equipment, telephone and parts sharply increased.

The Ministry of Finance said that in order to achieve the revenue of the whole year reported to the National Assembly, VND 162 trillion must be collected, which is an increase of VND 64 trillion per month compared to the average revenue in the 11 previous months. This amount was mainly of the central budget. If excepting expected revenue from equitization and the Customs revenue, the remaining revenue is a burden for the Tax sector, especially from big localities with revenue to be contributed to the Central Budget.

The progress of revenue collection of localities was quite high compared to the estimate in the same period in 2016. It was estimated that revenues of 49 of 63 localities reached over 89% of the estimate (of which 36 localities reached 95%). Revenues of 59 of 63 localities was higher than the same period in 2016 and revenues of 4 localities was lower than the same period in 2016. The revenues of localities was low due to objective reasons. For example, revenue of Quang Ngai decreased because it no longer applies the mechanism of revised collection for Dung Quat Oil Refinery. Revenue of Vinh Phuc decreased due to the reduction of production and assembly of automobiles; revenue of Thai Binh decreased due to the reduction from Environment protection Tax for petroleum products; revenue of Thanh Hoa decreased from reduction of contractor tax of Nghi Son Refinery.

The Director General of Taxation Bui Van Nam said, only 4 “small” localities have completed the revenue payment to the Central budget. Meanwhile, big localities such as Ha Noi, Vinh Phuc were going to complete. As a result, the Tax sector must collect over VND 96 trillion to reach the target of the Central budget.

Urging to collect tax debt and reviewing the inspection conclusions

The leader of the General Department of Taxation said that the General Department requested the big localities to work with departments of the General Department to review each revenue and determine to complete the estimate, especially Ha Noi, Ho Chi Minh, Binh Duong, Dong Nai, Ba Ria-Vung Tau. Also, the General Department of Taxation reviewed each tax debt of each unit to drastically collect; urged to inspect and audit and quickly implement inspection conclusions of Ministry of Finance, the Government Inspectorate and the State Audit, including paying the revenue to the Central Budget. Especially, the General Department of Taxation focused on inspecting units with risks based on data on Corporate Income Tax to immediately inspect and promptly collect and pay the revenue to the State budget.

For the Customs, in order to reach the revenue target of VND 295 billion, besides actively facilitating business in goods clearance, the Customs will focus on inspection, audit and anti loss of revenue, post clearance audit, recovery and handling of tax debts.

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In the press conference on revenue collection, Mr. Le Manh Hung, Deputy Director of Import and Export Department said that the GDVC assigned working teams to local Customs departments such as Ho Chi Minh City, Hai Phong, Ha Noi, and Lang Son to guide and inspect tax debt management. Because, these were localities having: a high revenue, high tax debt and increase of new tax debt, complex regime, and many sensitive commodities to strictly require localities to actively implement measures to anti-tax losses.

In this week, according to the instruction of Minster of Finance, the representative of Ministry of Finance and relevant units will organize working teams to work with localities with large contribution to the Central budget. Thereby, encouraging and removing difficulties and supporting and promoting localities to complete the assigned estimate.