On November 5, continuing the 8th Session, the National Assembly discussed in the hall the implementation of the state budget in 2024, the state budget estimate, and the central budget allocation plan in 2025.
At the hall, delegate Tran Hoang Ngan (Ho Chi Minh City Delegation) suggested paying more attention to import tax on e-commerce products.
According to this delegate, when we collect this amount, we will increase investment in digital infrastructure, information technology infrastructure, and Internet infrastructure to facilitate transactions.
Explaining and clarifying a number of issues raised by National Assembly delegates, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Ho Duc Phoc highly appreciated the delegates' discussion opinions.
Regarding e-commerce platforms, the Deputy Prime Minister said that cross-border e-commerce platform tax collection has been implemented.
Accordingly, there are 102 foreign suppliers, in other words foreign information technology enterprises, such as Facebook and Google, that have paid 18,600 billion VND in taxes.
"As for domestic e-commerce platforms, we have started collecting this year. Hanoi alone has collected 35,000 billion VND so far," said the Deputy Prime Minister, adding that next week, agencies will launch a tool using artificial intelligence (AI) to control revenue and sales issues on e-commerce platforms.
