Tax sector strengthens tax debt management

In 2024, it is forecasted that the domestic economy will face many difficulties due to fluctuations in the world political and economic situation. The representative of the General Department of Taxation said that there will be businesses leaving the market and losing their ability to pay, which will lead to more difficulties in tax debt enforcement.

At the conference, Mr. Dang Ngoc Minh - Deputy General Director of the General Department of Taxation requested the Department of Debt Management and Tax Enforcement to direct tax authorities on a number of task groups:

Firstly, resolutely apply full measures to enforce tax debt collection for taxpayers who are subject to enforcement measures.

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

Third, publicly disclose information about tax payers who are procrastinating and owing tax on newspapers, radio, and tax authority websites.

Fourth, continue to closely coordinate with local Party committees, authorities, relevant ministries and branches such as: police agencies, State Bank, courts, market management, departments and branches... in collecting tax arrears; especially handling and recovering arrears related to land, mineral exploitation rights fees...

Fifth, focus on reviewing cases of abandoning business addresses, coordinate in transferring files of cases of intentional tax debt arrears to the police to have strong sanctions against these cases.

Sixth, the Directors of the Tax Departments of provinces and cities must pay attention to improving the quality of the team working in debt management; 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.

Discussing at the conference, Ms. Nguyen Thu Tra - Director of the Department of Debt Management and Tax Debt Enforcement and representatives of local tax departments affirmed that they have implemented debt collection work according to regulations, ensuring that tax debt collection is feasible and highly effective.

However, tax department representatives also shared that the application of debt collection measures and coordination with relevant agencies and sectors in the area also encountered difficulties, while sanctions in tax debt collection were not strong enough. Therefore, tax departments recommended early research to complete the legal framework to ensure feasibility in implementing tax debt management.

Proactively proposing plans and solutions for effective tax debt management, based on the opinions of the units, Mr. Dang Ngoc Minh requested the Department of Debt Management and Tax Debt Enforcement to preside over receiving and synthesizing recommendations, especially those related to the functions of investigation, asset seizure, etc. to soon submit to the General Department of Taxation and the Ministry of Finance to continue perfecting the policy mechanism in the coming time.

The Deputy General Director also noted that for the contents that need to be amended and supplemented in the Law on Tax Administration, the Department must make a comprehensive assessment to propose amendments and supplements to ensure they are consistent with the actual situation.

Quoc Tuan

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