Steps in applying IT to tax management
On the afternoon of April 9, the Tax Department held a national online training conference to disseminate the Automatic Personal Income Tax refund process according to Decision No. 108/QD-TCT dated January 24, 2025. Deputy Director of the Tax Department Mai Son chaired the conference.
Speaking at the conference, Deputy Director Mai Son said that on January 24, 2025, the Tax Department issued Decision No. 108/QD-TCT to implement the Automated Personal Income Tax (PIT) refund process. Accordingly, the settlement of personal income tax refunds according to the process will be implemented from the personal income tax settlement period in 2024.
This is a group of tasks on digital transformation of tax management work implemented by the Tax sector under the direction of the Government, the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Finance on accelerating the process of administrative procedure reform, developing e-Government and implementing digital transformation, to promote the application of information technology (IT) in tax management, simplify procedures for taxpayers and reduce processing time and workload of tax authorities - Deputy Director Mai Son shared.
With the application of automatic PIT refund, the tax industry has taken a long step in the application of IT and can be affirmed that this is one of the important automatic applications deployed to accelerate the process of comprehensive and synchronous transformation in the tax administration with the goal of "taking NNT as the center to serve", and continue to accelerate the process of simplifying the process of tax administrative procedures, the maximum of tax administrative procedures, the tax administrative procedure, the maximum of the tax administrative procedure, the maximum of the tax administrative procedure, the tax administrative procedure, the maximum of the tax administrative procedure, the tax administrative procedure, the maximum of the tax administrative procedure NNT.
According to the representative of the Technology Department, digital transformation and automation (Tax Department), the automatic tax refund system uses the maximum available information of the taxpayer to be synthesized from the database of the organizations that return the income and data declared in the year of the year, taxpayers only need to perform very simple operations with the function of "Suggested Personal Tax Declaration Declaration".
"Suggestions of PIT finalization" automatically filled out tax refund information for taxpayers. NNT only needs to go to the Etaxmobile application to confirm the information. Accordingly, the settlement of PIT refunds will be automatically created decisions on tax refund and creating information refund order to the State Treasury to pay tax refund to taxpayers.
To receive a convenient automatic TNCN tax refund in the fastest time, the representative of the Tax Affairs Committee suggested that taxpayers urgently install the eTaxMobile application on their phones to make automatic tax refunds.
Notes for taxpayers when implementing automatic personal income tax refunds
Through reviewing data at tax authorities, one of the typical situations is the case of an organization paying deducted income, declaring, and paying personal income tax on behalf of an individual who has not yet paid the deducted personal income tax to the state budget.
Accordingly, the tax authority recommends that income-paying organizations urgently pay the personal income tax deducted from individuals to the state budget to avoid being fined, charged late payment fees and not to affect the automatic tax refund rights of individuals who carry out tax refund settlement.
A representative of the Tax Department affirmed that if taxpayers have any problems, taxpayers need to contact the nearest tax authority; call or send information via email according to the list of civil servants assigned to support and guide taxpayers of 20 Regional Tax Departments publicly listed on the Tax Department's website and on the Regional Tax Departments' website to promptly support solutions to remove problems.
“The application of automatic PIT refund has omitted the maximum approval steps of manual PIT refund, through which taxpayers are automatically refunded by the system without having to contact tax officials. This is a commitment of the tax industry on conversion and comprehensive reform in serving, providing digital services for taxpayers. Representatives of regional tax departments - are the units with the most practical experience to continue researching, finding solutions to upgrade and develop the application of automatic tax refund is comprehensive, convenient and more utilities, meeting the automation requirements of the PIT refund process to bring more utilities and experience for taxpayers. ” - Deputy Director Mai Son emphasized.
