The Hanoi Taxation Department: It is necessary to focus further on collection tasks

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Reach over 50% of collection

Reported here, Mr. Mai Son - Deputy Director of The Hanoi Taxation Department said: Determining the implementation of the State budget collection task in 2017 was very difficult, from the beginning of the year, The Hanoi Taxation Department implemented actively the many synchronous solutions of the State budget collection for each department, the Taxation Sub- Department, each Taxation Team and the whole staff. The Hanoi Taxation Department also assigned the State budget collection task of 2017 for each of Head and Deputy Head of Division, Head and Deputy Head of Sub-Department to attach the responsibilities of the leaders to each revenue, each collection figure that they are in charge of, on that basic, tasks were deployed to every officers.

So that, the performance of the collection task in the first 6 months achieved satisfactory results. Total realized budget collection was 93.931 trillion VND, reaching 50.1% of the ordinance budget forecast, up 18% over the same period.

Regarding the tax verification and inspection, against loss in budget collection, in the first 6 months, the unit completed 8,155 inspections, reaching 44.8% of the plan and up 79.6% over the same period; Collect arrears, refund arrears and fine were 1,168 billion VND, up 6.9% over the same period; Reduce deducting was 134.6 billion VND.

The Ha Noi Taxation Department implemented the project and completed to stick the stamp on 100% of gas stations in the area (306 petroleum businesses with 484 gas stores, stations); Made the text message notification to 13,422 account holders of business individuals on social networking websites that the individuals could review themselves, identify and understand their responsibilities of tax declaration and payment, at the same time, assisted the individuals to make registration as required, to avoid tax risks after that and initially, that brought the positive effects.

In particular, it was identified that the problem of tax debts was still one of the major challenges, so, in January 2017, the Hanoi Taxation Department directed the units to implement drastic measures to urge and enforce tax debts in complying with regulations and processes, especially focused on the objects with large debts and receivable debts; To review, identify and classify correctly debts under regulated criterions; To analyse regularly the current financial situation, the cash flow of tax debt companies to focus on urging timely.

In the first six months of the year, the number of coercive decisions via deducting from accounts increased 11.5% over the same period; Enforcement by notification of invoices that had no using value increased 85.5% over the same period. Debts earned in the first 6 months were 6,445 billion VND; The unit made public 6 rounds of the listing of 792 units owed tax and fees, rental land with a total amount of 2.793 billion VND.

Comprehensive and effective implementation of the measures and solutions mentioned above contributed to 8% reduction of the debt being able to collect in June 30th, 2017 compared with December 31st, 2016.

Pay attention to anti-price transfer

Addressing the conference, Deputy Minister of Finance Mr. Do Hoang Anh Tuan and Mr. Nguyen Doan Toan - Vice Chairman of Hanoi People's Committee. - admitted, praised and appreciated the positive results that the Tax Department of the Capital achieved in the past 6 months.

According to a representative of Hanoi, the task in the last 6 months was still quite hard when the State budget revenue of many items had still not reached the estimates. The Hanoi Tax Authority should acknowledge specifically to propose appropriate solutions. Along with that, they should continue solutions to solve difficulties for the enterprises through organizing the dialogues, deepening to find out the difficulties and obstacles of the enterprises to remove timely, to facilitate the development of the enterprises, so that, this would create a sustainable source of revenue for the Tax. In the process of recognition, for the difficulties and problems beyond the authority, the Hanoi Taxation Department should report promptly to the General Department of Taxation, the Ministry of Finance and the leaders of Hanoi to find the solutions.

Mr. Toan said that: the Tax authorities should continue to urge the debt collection by the specific solutions such as review regularly the number of the enterprises, in coordination with the related Branches to report to the People's Committee of the city to meet the enterprises and listen to their recommendations and urge to pay taxes.

Agreeing with the idea, Deputy Minister Do Hoang Anh Tuan added: The inspection, examination, and handling of non-performing debts should pay attention to the implementation of Decree No. 20/2017/ND-CP regulating on the tax management for the enterprises with linked transactions. At present, the number of the foreign invested enterprises in the area has been quite large, but their contributions to the city have been not commensurate with the scale of investment as well as the preferences they have enjoyed. Therefore, the Deputy Minister proposed to focus on implementing anti-price transfer to create stronger transformation, enhance the struggle of the Taxation authorities.

In addition, in order to implement Resolution No. 07-NQ/TU of the Politburo on policies and solutions to restructure the State budget, manage the public debts, also aim at reforming and facilitating the production and business operations, the Hanoi Taxation Department should do the advising role well, help the People's Committee, the Departments, Divisions, Branches and the business associations and contribute to the process of drafting the Law amending and supplementing the five laws on tax.

In addition, other tasks such as transferring the use of traditional invoices to electronics; Completing electronic tax refund level 4 reaches 100%; Advising to build the accounting system supporting business activities; Concretizing the application of information technology; Fixing the lack of updates the database timely to switch to the risk management; Building the electronic Taxation offices to build e-government; Electronizing the internal activities,... should also be promoted.

Leaders of the Ministry of Finance and leaders of the Hanoi People's Committee believed that with the spirit of solidarity, unanimity, creativity, the Hanoi Taxation Department would complete the assigned tasks in 2017.