Quang Nam's tax department is strictly managing electronic invoices.

Quang Nam Tax Department awards prizes for the lucky invoice program. Photo: Q. VIET

Implement multiple tasks

Electronic invoices (e-invoices) make it easier for buyers to look up and compare them; help businesses reduce costs compared to using paper invoices; and help tax authorities build a database of invoices...

According to Mr. Nguyen Van Tiep, Director of the Quang Nam Tax Department, in recent times, the tax sector has organized campaigns to disseminate policies and laws on the use of electronic invoices, helping people and businesses understand the benefits, responsibilities, and effectiveness of using electronic invoices, and raising taxpayers' awareness of their obligations to comply with tax laws.

In the coming period, the tax sector will continue to coordinate with relevant departments and agencies in implementing e-invoices. Accordingly, e-invoices will be generated from cash registers linked to a lucky invoice program to control the revenue of business organizations and individuals.

The tax authorities, in coordination with relevant agencies, continue to focus resources on inspecting and monitoring retail gasoline stations, especially those still using POS machines with installed software to generate electronic invoices for each sale and connect data with the tax authorities.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Tran Nam Hung instructed the Department of Industry and Trade to implement comprehensive and effective solutions to support businesses and retail gasoline stations in digital transformation and the application of automated connection solutions when issuing electronic invoices for each sale. By March 2025 at the latest, the number of retail gasoline stations applying automated connection solutions will reach 100% of the total number of retail gasoline stations in the province.

The Provincial Police, the Provincial Market Management Department, and the State Bank of Vietnam's Quang Nam branch regularly coordinate to provide information and data related to the use of electronic invoices and e-commerce business by organizations and individuals to the Quang Nam Tax Department for tax management in accordance with regulations.

The People's Committee at the district level directs its subordinate departments to coordinate with the Tax Sub-departments to strengthen the management and use of electronic invoices, thereby improving the efficiency of tax management for e-commerce business activities in the area.

Identify and mitigate risks.

According to the General Department of Taxation, the use of electronic invoices in recent times has revealed many signs of fraud by organizations and individuals. The General Department of Taxation requires local tax departments to disseminate to all officials and employees the full and effective use of the functions of the electronic invoice system, manage invoice risks, and combine this with practical tax management to build a list of high-risk taxpayers. This will then be used for inspections to improve tax management efficiency and promptly prevent and handle violations in the use of electronic invoices.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Tran Nam Hung assigned the Department of Industry and Trade the task of supporting retail gasoline stations in automatically connecting to the system when issuing electronic invoices for each sale. (Illustrative image.)

Local tax authorities need to promptly announce and publicly disclose the list of businesses that are not operating at their registered business addresses, businesses involved in illegal invoice trading that have been discovered by investigators, and businesses with high-risk invoice issues, so that these businesses can review and promptly declare adjustments and additions to ensure that their invoices accurately reflect the actual goods traded.

According to Mr. Luong Dinh Duong, Deputy Director of the Quang Nam Tax Department, the implementation of electronic invoices from 2022 to the present has created profound reforms in tax management, fostering a healthy and equitable business environment for tax-paying organizations and individuals.

However, the alarming reality is that a significant number of taxpayers deliberately take advantage of the leniency of the mechanisms and policies, establishing businesses not for the purpose of production and business but to engage in the illegal buying, selling, and use of electronic invoices.

Many businesses engaged in production and trading activities have low awareness of tax law compliance, participating in illegal electronic invoice trading to claim tax deductions, VAT refunds, and inflated expenses to evade taxes, causing revenue losses for the state budget.

This reality places a task on the Quang Nam tax department to quickly and accurately detect the electronic invoice flow of businesses, identify output and input invoices, and identify any shortcomings of businesses in order to handle them according to regulations.

Mr. Luong Dinh Duong stated that the Quang Nam Tax Department will maximize the application of electronic invoice management, integrating data to ensure strict tax management. The tax sector will expedite inspections and audits of electronic invoices, fostering revenue sources and ensuring budget revenue.

The Quang Nam Tax Department stated that it is focusing on implementing the project "Combating revenue loss in Quang Nam province"; strengthening revenue management, exploiting revenue sources, and effectively combating revenue loss in several sectors and business activities in the province, contributing to increasing state budget revenue. The tax sector is focusing on key areas and business activities with high tax risks.

Source: https://baoquangnam.vn/nganh-thue-quang-nam-quan-ly-chat-hoa-don-dien-tu-3146866.html