Director Mai Xuan Thanh requested to focus on fighting VAT refund fraud, especially in the gold, silver and gemstone trading sectors. Photo: Thuy Linh/VNA
At the meeting to deploy three key topics on preventing tax losses, including: Topic on inspecting gold trading enterprises; Topic on inspecting enterprises with many years of losses; Topic on inspecting tax refunds recently organized by the Tax Department, Director of the Tax Department Mai Xuan Thanh requested the entire industry to concentrate maximum resources to complete the task in the remaining time of 2025.
The Director affirmed that tightening tax management on gold trading activities, businesses with many years of losses and value added tax refunds not only aims to ensure budget revenue but also contributes to strengthening trust and building a transparent and fair business environment for businesses.
The Director said that for localities suffering from natural disasters, tax authorities need to balance support for production recovery and tax administration tasks. Units must fully assess the level of impact, identify risks and choose appropriate measures for businesses and households trading in gold, silver and precious stones in the area.
At the same time, Director of the Tax Department Mai Xuan Thanh requested to strengthen inter-sectoral coordination between the Tax Department, the Police and relevant forces; proactively review existing problems and overcome delays; increase the use of digital data, risk analysis technology and AI solutions to improve the quality of supervision and inspection.
Along with that, Mr. Mai Xuan Thanh also emphasized the need to strengthen communication and support taxpayers to raise awareness of compliance, thereby contributing to creating a healthy and transparent business environment, in line with the reform and modernization goals of the tax sector.
Reporting at the meeting, the Inspection Board said that in the field of gold trading, the review work in the past time has recorded many signs of risks. Some establishments bought and sold gold through individuals but did not issue invoices, authorized wrongly or declared revenue that was not close to reality. In this situation, the Inspection Board proposed that localities continue to inspect according to the established risk list and at the same time expand the review of all enterprises, households and individuals trading in gold, silver and precious stones.
The goal is to tighten compliance with tax laws, check the preparation and use of invoices and documents to promptly detect and strictly handle violations. The leaders of the Inspection Board also recommended that units must fully implement tax management contents according to Official Dispatch 221/CT-KTr dated November 11, 2025, but must ensure that it does not affect the production and business recovery activities and overcome the consequences of business establishments affected by natural disasters.
According to the report, the number of enterprises declaring losses for many consecutive years accounts for a significant proportion, especially in the group of small and medium enterprises. A number of enterprises show signs of abnormality such as no revenue but still continuously declaring losses; expenses not serving production and business activities; improper provisioning; or having related-party transactions but not complying with the principle of independent comparison.
The Inspection Teams have inspected a number of high-risk enterprises, initially recording many shortcomings and violations. The Inspection Board recommends that units continue to review the tax declaration situation of enterprises, conduct risk assessments and direct the Provincial and Municipal Tax Departments in selecting and developing an inspection plan for 2026 for loss-making enterprises with high tax risks.
At the same time, the tax authority proactively reviewed the database of local businesses, researched and proposed appropriate selection criteria, assessed risks and increased inspections. Thereby, it synthesized violations, drew lessons, evaluated effectiveness, and difficulties in tax inspections for businesses with many years of losses and lower profit margins than the industry average; at the same time, enhanced professional training to improve the capacity to detect tax fraud in the model of businesses with many years of losses and promoted propaganda and support in many forms to help taxpayers grasp legal policies well, and increase voluntary compliance. The Inspection Board also reported on the progress of implementing the topic of combating value-added tax refund fraud.
In 2025, the Tax Department issued many documents requesting localities to focus resources on post-tax refund inspection, especially for high-risk groups of goods such as phones, non-ferrous metals, used cooking oil and high-value tax refund dossiers.
The inspection process in localities showed many non-compliance behaviors such as: businesses renting "virtual" headquarters, without actual production and business activities; payments not through banks; invoices issued at the wrong time; exported goods showing unusual signs of origin or usage status.
Based on the implementation results of the Tax Departments of provinces and cities, the Inspection Board proposed to implement a number of contents to strengthen the prevention of losses in value-added tax refunds, which is to continue to issue Official Dispatches directing Tax Departments of provinces and cities to focus resources and promptly complete the inspection of value-added tax refunds within the last 2 months of 2025; at the same time, strengthen the fight against fraud in the purchase and sale of invoices.
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