Ninh Binh tax sector strives to complete budget collection task

After the merger, Ninh Binh province is entering a new stage of development with a larger scale but also posing many challenges in management, operation and budget collection. In that context, the Tax sector plays a key role, making efforts to carry out the collection task, ensuring a solid financial resource for the locality.

Motorcycle production line at Honda Vietnam Company Branch (Dong Van II Industrial Park).

New scale - New mission

After the merger of the provinces, the budget collection work of the new Ninh Binh province has also changed significantly, focusing on exploiting revenue sources according to local characteristics based on 3 dynamic areas: Hoa Lu administrative center - urban area: Strongly developing the automobile, electronics, and tourism industries; Phu Ly urban area (North): developing high-tech industry, logistics, education - healthcare; Nam Dinh coastal urban area (East): focusing on electronics, textile, marine services, and deep-water ports.

However, the expansion of administrative areas leads to the dispersion of tax revenue due to the emergence of many production and business establishments far from the central areas, with different scales and types. At the same time, the structure of revenue sources is more diverse, not only focusing on large industrial and manufacturing enterprises but also expanding to real estate, tourism - services, e-commerce, education - health and specific industries in each old locality. This dispersion causes difficulties in management, monitoring and budget collection, especially for revenues from land, investment projects and newly arising business activities.

Comrade Nguyen Dinh Duc, Head of Ninh Binh Tax Department, said: After the merger, the task of collecting budget revenue becomes especially important because this is the key factor to ensure financial resources for the new provincial government apparatus to operate stably, maintain public services and social security policies. Stable revenue not only helps invest in infrastructure development and promote socio-economic equality between the old and newly merged areas, but also contributes to narrowing the development gap, creating cohesion and consensus in the community.

To meet the new requirements, the Tax sector has synchronously deployed solutions such as: organizing a review of all taxpayers in the new area, updating and standardizing data from merged units, and analyzing the production and business situation of each sector and enterprise. At the same time, conducting an assessment of revenue potential from key sectors and fields, identifying areas with potential for exploitation and building a revenue source map to serve management, forecasting and planning for realistic budget collection. Strengthening the implementation of propaganda and dissemination of new tax policy and law documents, while strengthening support and resolving difficulties and dialogue with taxpayers. Reforming administrative procedures, promoting digital transformation to create favorable conditions for taxpayers.

As a result, the budget revenue in the first 7 months of the year reached VND37,647 billion, equal to 82.7% of the ordinance estimate, up 185.9% over the same period. Some revenue items exceeded the ordinance estimate such as personal income tax reaching VND1,830 billion (112%), fees and registration fees reaching VND894 billion (102.2%). Land use fee collection reached VND18,684.7 billion (92.3%), demonstrating efforts to effectively manage and exploit revenue sources.

Synchronous, modern and transparent solution

In 2025, Ninh Binh was assigned by the Prime Minister to estimate the budget revenue of 45,501.8 billion VND, equal to 93.1% of the actual amount in 2024. However, the Provincial People's Council set a higher target when assigning the domestic revenue estimate for 2025 of 69,218.8 billion VND, equal to 141.6% of the actual amount in 2024. This is a high estimate, but the Tax sector clearly identified the advantages and difficulties to strive to complete it. According to Ninh Binh Tax Head Nguyen Dinh Duc, the advantages come from the close direction of the Ministry of Finance, the Provincial People's Committee, increasingly diverse revenue sources, a modern electronic tax management system, and a team of experienced staff. However, the challenges are not small: scattered revenue sources, the real estate, tourism, and e-commerce sectors have potential revenue losses, while technology infrastructure and human resources between regions are still disparate.

With the motto of action: "Strictly manage revenue - collect correctly and fully - facilitate taxpayers - modernize the Tax sector", the whole sector is determined to complete its tasks, ensure financial resources to serve socio-economic development, narrow the gap and create consensus in the community.

To effectively exploit revenue sources and strive to complete the 2025 revenue estimate, the Ninh Binh Tax Department has identified the fight against revenue loss as a key task. Accordingly, specialized inspection and examination teams will monitor areas prone to loss; electronic invoices and non-cash payments are encouraged to limit revenue concealment. Particularly for private construction, the Tax Department coordinates with local authorities to review projects and accurately determine taxable values. Along with that, digital technology is applied, risk analysis is applied to detect fraud early, and close coordination is done with the Public Security, Agriculture and Environment, Treasury, and Customs in revenue management.

The Tax Department also focuses on strictly managing areas with large potential such as real estate, tourism - services, e-commerce, private construction and resource exploitation; at the same time, applying risk analysis combined with digital technology to early detect acts of under-declaration, tax evasion or fraud. At the same time, a plan to zoning and classifying enterprises in the whole province will be implemented systematically. All enterprises, business households and organizations with tax obligations will be surveyed, a complete database will be established and zoning for management according to socio-economic characteristics: urban areas, industrial parks; key tourism - service areas and rural areas, craft villages.

In particular, digital transformation is considered a "strategic lever". The application of Big Data, artificial intelligence, and 24/7 electronic services not only helps tax authorities monitor and forecast revenue sources accurately, but also facilitates taxpayers. At the same time, the plan to integrate data from old provinces is being implemented synchronously, ensuring a unified, transparent and effective management system. On the provincial electronic tax management platform, all data is consolidated and stored uniformly. This process combines automatic data conversion and consolidation tools with manual checking to ensure the highest accuracy. At the same time, information is cross-checked with data from the State Treasury, Department of Finance, Department of Agriculture and Environment and credit institutions to eliminate duplication and supplement deficiencies.

Not only striving to complete the budget revenue target, in terms of long-term tasks, the Tax sector determined that it needs the companionship and support of the entire political system, the business community and the people. Along with that, in the new period, the tireless efforts of the Tax sector will be an important foundation for Ninh Binh to develop sustainably, worthy of its position as a large province, the driving force of the Red River Delta region after the merger.

Nguyen Thom-Tien Doan

Source: https://baoninhbinh.org.vn/nganh-thue-ninh-binh-no-luc-hoan-thanh-nhiem-vu-thu-ngan-012485.htm