Helping businesses passionate about digital transformation

Nearly a month after implementing Decree 70 on electronic invoices and documents, many businesses are still hesitant.

Grocery store owner uses sales software - Photo: KV

Electronic invoices printed from cash registers - small pieces of paper containing the expectations of the new policy - a big step forward in management, transparency, and a premise for the "post-tax" period that is still hesitantly entering life.

Starting a new business is difficult, so we must find the bottlenecks soon to quickly eliminate concerns about electronic invoices in particular and digital transformation in general.

However, reality shows that this transformation is not easy, especially for small businesses that are used to notebooks and debt records.

According to the Tax Department of Region 2, in May 2025, more than 3,700 business households applied to stop operations or close.

Of these, only about 440 households are required to use electronic invoices, or less than 4%. This number shows that most people who have temporarily stopped trading are not bound by policy, but rather because they are afraid of being bound.

Anxiety leads to "fear" which is real but also has many ways: fear due to lack of information, fear due to misunderstanding of policy and above all, fear of change.

Ms. H., a household goods retailer in Ho Chi Minh City, installed the sales software she received as a gift, but when it came to printing it out, she didn't know what to do with it. Would she be fined when the origin of the goods is still managed in the old way? And many people still hesitate with "the old thing, the old way".

How to handle imported goods before June 1, 2025 without invoices? Will inventory without sufficient documents be subject to tax collection?

Will the debt sales from last year be "detected" if they are recorded in the software now? These questions seem small but are a big barrier for a good policy to come into life.

And to bring electronic invoices into real life for business households, we should remove the "old things, old ways" bottleneck by considering them as "transitional goods", not placing too much emphasis on handling goods without complete invoices before the transition period.

If anything, focus on being strong and uncompromising with goods of illegal origin, counterfeit goods, smuggled goods, and stolen goods.

This will create encouragement and peace of mind for businesses that are still hesitant to enter digital transformation in business with management software and electronic invoices.

Once managers are committed to facilitating compliance, technology solution providers must step in, reach out, and even provide hands-on training so that every business can quickly become proficient in operating new technology.

That is a great opportunity to compete, whichever unit has good solutions and dedicated guidance, that unit will have many customers not only in the short term but also in the long term.

With the right and timely approach, technology businesses will be the bridge between businesses and management agencies, between traditional markets and modern management, to help businesses confidently enter the new game.

Proving that digitalization is not about control, but about empowering autonomy, governance, and transparent growth.

Applying electronic invoices from cash registers is not only a tax management tool but also a "right-hand man" to help businesses manage sales, inventory, debts, and books more transparently, things that they previously did not have enough tools or skills to control.

Once businesses overcome their fear of using electronic cash registers to generate invoices and see the benefits of applying technology, the digital transformation process will accelerate.

Lessons from the development of the Internet, smartphones... show that if businesses overcome their fears, they will soon fall in love with digital transformation.

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Source: https://tuoitre.vn/giup-ho-kinh-doanh-me-chuyen-doi-so-20250620085943129.htm