Shall expand the variety of applications on the tax management system

The TMS system has been duplicated across the country. Photo: T.H.

Application in 63 cities and provinces

The Tax Management System (TMS) is the official and unique information technology system supported the tax agencies to manage all types of taxes such as Value Added Tax, Corporate Income Tax, Special Consumption Taxation, Personal Income Tax and other taxes under the policy and the professional process such as tax recordsmanagement , tax declaration/settlementprocessing , tax document processing, tax decision treatment, tax accounting and monitoring the obligations of taxpayers, domestic tax accounting (new regime), outstanding tax management and collectiong the assessment reports,supportinganalysis for the operation and direction.

According to the General Department of Taxation, TMS has replaced 16 applications to support the tax management distributed at the tax departments and tax branches, has met all of the data processing stages for the professional processes:the tax registration, the profile management, the management andprocessof tax declaration / settlement, the domestic tax accounting, the debt management,the tax books, the analyst reports, the reviews.

The TMS application will provide many basic benefits such as: applyingeasily a standardprofessional process of the tax management at all 3 levels of the tax administration in the whole country; providing the electronic services for taxpayers quickly and precisely because this application has not to connectwith many core applications; avoiding the errors when exchanging data among levels and systems; reducing the operation anddeploymentcosts of the system (human resources, funding ...); upgrading easily and taking advantage of the new technology features to optimize the speed of this system.

In particular, the domestic tax accounting regime enacted in 2014 is new one of the Tax Administration, it tracks and accounts the liabilities of taxpayers by the double-entry accounting method under the uniform accounting system, only can be done on the basis of the tax management system - TMS.

Mr Le Huy Vu, Deputy Director of the Information Technology Department, the General Department of Taxation, said that the TMS application has been deployed at 63 Departments of Taxation and all the Tax Branches across the country from January 11th, 2015. Until now, the TMS application has been operated stably, the Tax Departments have closed the accounts, sped up, paid charges of the late tax payment by the automatic system at the specific date monthly. The TMS application meets the tax management for the tax- fixing households from handling the tax fixing household declarations, seting up the tax documents, printing the tax notices, publishing the information of the tax- fixing households on TMS increased from 25% to 30% compared to 2015.

It can say that TMS has created the foundation to ensure the unification of the profession and treatment processes in the country; account the information data fully and exactly; meet basically the core profession of the tax management, particularly meet the pilot requirement for the domestic tax accounting regime; support the collection and supplication of the tax management data quickly and create conditions to expand the electronic services for the tax payers

Next time, TMS will be further extended to integrate the new components such as: Inspection,Examinationthe tax database, analysis and assessment of risks.

The arisen restrictions andproblems

Mr Vu Le Huy said, during the deployment stage, the General Department of Taxation has regularly collected the information, recorded fully the problems, simultaneously, had the plans to make good and support the tax agencies for data conversion from the old system to the new system, data handling stability on the new application, while continuing to add the output requests required by the Tax Departments.

However,Mr Huy admitted that during the pilot operation, the arisen problems was inevitable. "For the problems of the units which are deploying the system, the Department of Information Technology will continue processing and fulfiling and timely supporting to operate TMS smoothly, meet efficient for the tax management. Besides, the effective lessons which have been built up in the work of selecting staff, training human resources, preparing the technical infrastructure, or the executive, coordination of deployment… will be the experiences which are replicated to implement TMS effectively and smoothly in the whole tax administration”, MrVu Le Huy affirmed.

Next time, the General Department of Taxation will continue to analyze and continually upgrade the applications for meeting the professional requirements on the tax accounting regime, the tax registered processes, refund, the tax debt management... and many new tax policies arisen.