Transferring files of cases of intentional tax debt arrears to the police

According to the General Department of Taxation, entering 2024, it is forecasted that the economy will continue to face many difficulties due to fluctuations in the world's political and economic situation, which will continue to have significant impacts on the domestic economy. Therefore, there may be businesses leaving the market and losing their ability to pay, which will lead to more difficulties in tax debt enforcement.

Deputy Director General of the General Department of Taxation Dang Ngoc Minh suggested that the Department of Debt Management and Tax Debt Enforcement should pay attention to directing tax agencies to focus on a number of groups of tasks including: Resolutely implementing full application of tax debt enforcement measures for taxpayers who are subject to enforcement measures.

Deputy General Director Dang Ngoc Minh acknowledged that the results of tax debt management have contributed to the overall results of the entire tax sector in 2023. Photo: General Department of Taxation.

Promote the dissemination of legal and policy documents to taxpayers as well as enforcement measures to improve compliance, voluntary tax payment, and prevent tax debt.

Publicly disclose information about taxpayers who are procrastinating in paying tax debts on newspapers, radio, and tax authority websites.

Continue to closely coordinate with local Party committees, authorities, relevant ministries and branches such as: Public Security, State Bank, Court, Market Management, Investment Planning, Natural Resources and Environment... in recovering tax arrears, especially handling and recovering arrears related to land, mineral exploitation rights fees,...

Focus on reviewing cases of abandoning business addresses, coordinating to transfer files of cases of intentional tax debt delay to the police agency to have strong sanctions for these cases to increase deterrence for tax debtors.

Directors of Tax Departments of provinces and centrally-run cities must pay attention to improving the quality of the debt management team, and at the same time direct departments within the tax agency (legal, declaration, inspection - examination, household management, land management, etc.) to closely coordinate with the debt management department to ensure the implementation of debt management and tax debt enforcement is highly effective.

In addition, after receiving comments from tax departments, Deputy General Director Dang Ngoc Minh requested the Department of Debt Management and Tax Debt Enforcement to take the lead in receiving and synthesizing recommendations, especially those related to the functions of investigation, asset seizure, etc., to soon submit to the General Department to submit to the Ministry of Finance to continue perfecting the policy mechanism in the coming time.

For the contents that need to be amended and supplemented in the Law on Tax Administration, it is necessary to comprehensively evaluate them to propose amendments and supplements to ensure they are suitable to the actual situation.

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