At the conference to review tax work in the first 6 months of the year, deploying tasks for the last 6 months of 2025 organized by the Tax Department on the afternoon of July 10, Mr. Phan Tien Hoa - Deputy Head of Hanoi Tax Department said that e-commerce activities are becoming more and more vibrant, causing many challenges in tax management, especially for individuals and organizations with large revenues from digital platforms but do not declare and pay taxes according to regulations.
The strong development of information technology has promoted e-commerce to become an inevitable trend. Platforms such as Facebook, TikTok, YouTube are increasingly vibrant with millions of individuals and business organizations, including many celebrities and people with great influence on the community (KOL, KOC).
Along with the explosion in scale and business forms in the digital environment, tax law violations are also increasingly sophisticated. Some subjects use many bank accounts, separate payment systems, combining companies and individuals to conceal revenue, causing budget losses.
Faced with this situation, the tax authority has synchronously deployed solutions to approach the right group of subjects doing business on digital platforms. The focus is on promoting propaganda, warning of violations, popularizing business models of compliance and promoting awareness of self- declare taxes.
Through propaganda and support, many business households that are KOLs and KOCs have proactively declared and paid taxes in a short time. In addition, the tax authority also received the consensus of the people, contributing to improving reputation and management efficiency.
Regarding handling violations, in the past, some typical cases have been handled such as: Do Manh Cuong, mainly selling phone accessories through many accounts on Tiki, Shopee, Lazada, generated revenue of up to hundreds of billions of VND but did not declare taxes, and was charged over 2.5 billion VND.
Recently, three other cases were discovered and handled in June 2025. The first case is Vu Lan Phuong and Hoa Ky Food Joint Stock Company, which have large revenues from online business and stores but do not issue invoices and do not fully declare, causing a loss of more than 10 billion VND.
The second case is MI Hanoi Company Limited, with Doan Manh Hoa as Director, operating on many electronic platforms but not declaring taxes with an amount of up to 33 billion VND, the revenue is transferred to personal accounts for concearance, and is currently under investigation.
The most notable case is Nguyen Thi Thu Huong, born in 1987, who sells handbags, watches, ... with a brand via Facebook. From 2020 to present, this individual has generated revenue of over VND 1,000 billion but has not fulfilled its tax obligations.
Currently, the investigation agency continues to handle the case according to regulations.
