Tax debt collection efforts

Along with good revenue management, the provincial Tax Department has been proactively coordinating with units and localities to resolutely and synchronously implement many solutions to urge and collect overdue debts, striving to successfully complete the task of collecting the state budget.

Every month, tax officials monitor and issue notices of tax debt and late payment fees to each tax-indebted business - Photo: LC

Tax debt remains high

According to information from Quang Tri Provincial Tax Department, as of June 30, 2025, the total tax debt of the whole province is 2,306.8 billion VND, down 27.3% compared to the same period in 2024. Of which: Tax debt with the potential to be collected is 2,165.3 billion VND, down 29.6% compared to the same period in 2024; tax debt difficult to collect is 118.8 billion VND, up 21.9% compared to the same period in 2024.

Deputy Head of Business Support Management Department 1, Quang Tri Province Tax Department said that in recent times, although the Tax Department has applied many measures to urge tax debt collection, debt collection still faces many difficulties. The reason is that many enterprises have encountered difficulties in the production, business, debt collection process, and low payment capacity leading to tax debts, such as: Cosevco I Construction Materials Production Joint Stock Company owes 88.2 billion VND; Hung Phat Production - Trading Company Limited owes 41.6 billion VND; Quang Binh Shipbuilding Industry Company Limited owes 41.7 billion VND; Dai Phuc Quang Binh Construction Joint Stock Company owes 19.7 billion VND; Viet Ha Company Limited owes 10.7 billion VND...

Some enterprises investing in the field of mineral exploitation and resort projects are slow to implement, causing large debts for land rent, KTKS licensing fees, and late payment fees.

Many enterprises owe large amounts of money for granting KTKS licenses and late payment fees, such as: Linh Thanh High-Quality Stone Powder Mining and Production Joint Stock Company 168.6 billion VND; Da Viet Minerals Joint Stock Company 17.2 billion VND; Cosevco 6 Joint Stock Company 22.5 billion VND.

Many companies investing in resorts owe large amounts of land rent and late payment fees, such as: Saigon Quang Binh Tourism Joint Stock Company 38.3 billion VND; Hanoi - Quang Binh Tourism Joint Stock Company 26.6 billion VND; Indochina Central Joint Stock Company 25.5 billion VND; Viet Thien Binh Joint Stock Company 13.6 billion VND...

Some enterprises incurred one-time land rent collection for the entire lease term in 2022, causing a sudden increase in tax debt, such as: FLC Group Joint Stock Company 225.8 billion VND; Son Hai Riverside Company Limited 41.9 billion VND; Viet Group Central Joint Stock Company 26.6 billion VND; Truong Son Investment Group Joint Stock Company 16.5 billion VND.

Many enterprises implementing commercial housing projects incurred large land use fees but did not fully fulfill their tax obligations, leading to increased land use fee debt and large late payments, such as: Son Hai Riverside Company Limited VND 314.7 billion; Viet Group Central Joint Stock Company VND 76.6 billion; Viet Tien Construction Company Limited VND 73.3 billion...

In addition, the awareness of tax law compliance of some enterprises and taxpayers is not high, there is still procrastination and misappropriation of tax money. Coordination between levels and sectors in removing difficulties for enterprises, in collecting and enforcing tax debts is still limited and not very effective.

Since the beginning of the year, Quang Tri Provincial Tax has issued 649,013 notices to urge tax debt collection; 1,354 enforcement decisions, with a total enforcement amount of 1,782.3 billion VND to recover tax arrears. Of which, enforcement by account deduction was 939 cases, enforcement by notification of invalid invoices was 415 cases. Accumulated to June 30, 2025, the total amount of tax arrears collected was 1,543 billion VND.

Resolutely handle tax debt

According to the Provincial Tax Department Head Ha Van Khoa, in order to effectively manage and collect tax debts, the Provincial Tax Department has actively and proactively disseminated and guided taxpayers to understand tax laws and policies, especially tax debt settlement policies.

Every month, the tax industry publicly announces the list of enterprises that still owe taxes, especially those that are dragging their feet and have large tax debts, on the mass media.

In addition, the provincial Tax Department has also closely coordinated with local People's Committees and relevant departments and branches to strengthen tax debt collection for economic and land lease activities in the area.

The provincial Tax Department coordinates with the Department of Agriculture and Environment to collect tax debts through granting and extending mineral exploitation rights - Photo: LC

In order to effectively collect tax debts, in the coming time, the provincial tax sector will continue to assign monthly and quarterly debt collection targets to promptly collect tax arrears into the state budget and not let new tax debts arise; focus on analyzing and processing data, grasping units with sudden increases in debt, thereby proposing timely debt collection measures; strengthening management measures and urging tax debt payment; resolutely applying coercive measures according to the law to collect tax debts from units that are slow and lack a sense of responsibility in fulfilling their obligations to the state budget. In particular, resolutely implementing coercive measures to temporarily suspend exit from the country for taxpayers.

The Tax sector continues to implement documents of the sector and the Ministry of Finance on strengthening debt management and tax debt enforcement to reduce outstanding debts managed by the Tax sector; continues to coordinate with the State Treasury of Region XII to deduct at source the tax arrears of capital construction units using budget capital; collects tax arrears through tax refunds; coordinates with the Department of Agriculture and Environment to collect tax arrears through granting and extending the right to KTKS and land rent; coordinates with the Department of Finance to collect tax arrears through granting investment certificates for projects of enterprises.

In addition, the Tax sector will advise on the reorganization of the Steering Committee for preventing budget revenue loss, and at the same time advise on solutions to improve the effectiveness of management and collection of tax arrears; deploy anti-revenue loss, tax arrears handling and collection teams to work directly at large tax-debt enterprises to urge the collection of tax arrears; publicly announce the list of enterprises currently in tax arrears on mass media; especially for enterprises that are dragging their feet and delaying tax arrears according to the provisions of the Law on Tax Administration.

In order for tax debt management and collection to be effective, in addition to the efforts of the tax sector, the entire political system needs to participate, especially in propaganda and mobilization work to raise people's awareness in fulfilling tax obligations.

Lan Chi

Source: https://baoquangtri.vn/no-luc-thu-hoi-no-thue-196291.htm