On December 29, the Government Inspectorate just publicly announced the Inspection Conclusion Notice for works and projects with difficulties and obstacles due to the Tax Department being the investor and project manager.
Previously, implementing Decision No. 671/QD-TTCP of the Government Inspector General, from July 25, 2025 to September 7, 2025, the inspection team conducted inspections at the headquarters of the Tax Department.
The Government Inspectorate has inspected and verified 5 projects: Project to upgrade the technical infrastructure of the electronic invoice system to meet the deployment of the portal to connect and receive electronic invoice data generated from money calculators; Project of working headquarters of Hoan Kiem District Tax Department, Hanoi (old); Project of working headquarters of Binh Duong Provincial Tax Department; Project of working headquarters of Binh Thanh District Tax Department, Ho Chi Minh City (old); Project to build a document warehouse of Ho Chi Minh City Tax Department.
The conclusion notice stated that due to the project's slow progress, the project to upgrade the technical infrastructure of the electronic invoice system to meet the deployment of the electronic invoice data receiving connection gateway generated from the cash register was canceled with a planned capital of 19,389,100,000 VND.
Late completion of payment dossiers, Binh Duong Provincial Tax Department's headquarters project's capital plan of 17,834,891,000 VND was cancelled.
Capital plans are not consistent with the implementation progress, and capital plans are cancelled in 4 projects:
Project of working headquarters of Hoan Kiem District Tax Department cancels capital plan of 43,209,374,441 VND;
Project of working headquarters of Binh Duong Provincial Tax Department cancels capital plan of 17,834,891,000 VND;
Project of working headquarters of Binh Thanh District Tax Department, Ho Chi Minh City cancels capital plan of 32,078,000 VND;
The project to build a document warehouse of the Ho Chi Minh City Tax Department canceled the capital plan of 38,304,233,375 VND.
From January 1, 2025 to September 7, 2025, these projects will not be allocated capital to pay contractors.
The preparation of reports, appraisal, and approval of investment policies; preparation of investment projects, appraisal and approval of investment projects; preparation and appraisal of bidding invitation plans, evaluation of bidding documents, signing and contract implementation of 5 projects have been basically implemented by the Ministry of Finance, the General Department of Taxation (now the Tax Department) and the investor according to the provisions of the law on investment.
However, there are still some specific shortcomings as follows: Determining the total investment level still has some contents that are not consistent with the provisions of the law on investment and construction.
The Ministry of Finance issuing investment decisions is slow and not in accordance with the initial planned plan of the Ministry of Finance.
Approving investment projects before making investment capital allocation decisions. Project implementation time is not consistent with the capital allocation plan.
The work of preparing the general estimate; the work of preparing, appraising and approving the contractor selection plan; the work of preparing bidding documents to evaluate bidding documents; signing contracts and contract implementation still have some errors.
The Government Inspectorate proposed that the Tax Department, according to its functions, tasks, and authority, urgently rectify, overcome, and immediately handle the existing problems and limitations and handle the economic amount of 6,531,694,248 VND mentioned in the Inspection Conclusion, Appendix attached to the Inspection Conclusion.
From the above inspection and examination results, the Government Inspectorate requested the Ministry of Finance to have a document reporting to the Government and the Prime Minister on the difficulties and obstacles at the 5 inspected projects to allocate capital to complete the projects, avoiding causing debt arrears in accordance with legal regulations.
At the same time, the Government Inspectorate proposed that the Ministry of Finance organize reviews and handle the responsibilities of the Tax Department, units, collectives and related individuals mentioned in the Inspection Conclusion, Appendix attached to the Inspection Conclusion.
From July 1, 2025, the system of tax authorities nationwide will be reorganized into 34 provincial and city taxes and 350 grassroots taxes. Previously, at the central level, the General Department model was transformed into a Tax Department directly under the Ministry of Finance to streamline the apparatus and improve operational efficiency in the tax sector.
