Strengthening tax discipline in an integrated economy
On the afternoon of May 12, the Tax Department and the Immigration Department (Ministry of Public Security) signed a Regulation on coordination in exchanging information on temporary suspension of exit in electronic form.
The new regulations mark an important step forward in efforts to modernize tax management and enforce tax in accordance with the law. Accordingly, information related to the measure of temporary suspension of exit for organizations and individuals who violate tax obligations will be processed electronically, ensuring speed, accuracy and security.
In recent years, along with the process of socio-economic integration and development, tax management has achieved many steps forward in terms of institutions, operations and technology. However, there are still a number of taxpayers who deliberately delay and evade financial obligations to the State. Some cases after arising with large tax obligations or showing signs of violations have sought to exit abroad to avoid responsibility.
In that reality, the requirement is to strengthen tax enforcement measures in a focused, legal and appropriate manner to the above situation.
The Tax sector has proactively reviewed and selected appropriate legal tools to protect financial discipline and ensure revenue for the state budget; promoted the application of temporary exit suspension measures for taxpayers who are individuals and organizations that have not fulfilled their tax obligations and have initially recorded many positive results.
To date, tax authorities at all levels have issued 61,492 notices of temporary suspension of exit with a tax debt of VND 83,028 billion. Of which, 36,646 taxpayers abandoned their business addresses with tax arrears of VND 13,407 billion. The tax authority has collected VND4,955 billion from 7,309 taxpayers whose exit is temporarily suspended, including VND2,694 of taxpayers with VND256 billion of taxpayers who are leaving business addresses.
However, in reality, sending notices of temporary suspension of exit by traditional administrative methods such as paper offices or express delivery, ... is likely to be delayed in time and lack of synchronization in data processing and cause unnecessary administrative costs.
Therefore, it is required to have a flexible, modern and synchronous coordination mechanism in terms of electronic information technology, so that the implementation of temporary suspension of exit can truly promote its role as an effective, accurate and highly deterrent legal tool in the modern tax management system.
The signing ceremony of the Regulation on coordination between the Department of Taxation and the Immigration Department (XNC) has just been expected to meet that requirement in time. This is the concretizing action of the legal, technical and responsible coordination mechanism, where the data is not only a number, but a legal basis to ensure strict implementation of tax policies, protect the interests of the State and the legitimate interests of the taxpayer.
Director of the Tax Department Mai Xuan Thanh affirmed that after the signing ceremony, the two agencies will urgently deploy the content of the Regulations on coordination in exchanging and providing information on temporary suspension of exit via electronic means.
In the coming time, the Tax Department will continue to coordinate with the State Treasury and the Commercial Bank system to transmit and receive tax payment information electronically, in order to shorten the time to confirm tax obligations, promptly remove temporary exit suspension orders, and create conditions for taxpayers - the head of the Tax sector also added.
