Effective tax management through the Business Household Digital Map function

As one of the 5 provinces and cities selected to pilot the function of Business Household Digital Map (BĐSHKD) in phase 1, since August 2023, Thanh Hoa Provincial Tax Department has actively deployed the BĐHKD function integrated on the eTax Mobile application, thereby not only meeting the requirements of publicizing business household information according to the Law on Tax Administration, receiving feedback information about business households electronically but also helping tax management agencies in an intuitive way, preventing loss of State budget revenue.

Effective tax management through the Business Household Digital Map function Thanh Hoa Provincial Tax Department officials propagate and guide business households to use the Business Household Digital Map function on the eTax Mobile application.

According to the Thanh Hoa Provincial Tax Department, previously, the disclosure of business household information was done manually (posting paper copies at offices, markets, tax offices, posting on local information pages, etc.), and publicly on the tax industry's website. The disclosure of business household information on the tax industry's website was only in the form of a list, not presented visually, and did not support easy lookup and search. In addition, the disclosure was organized by each locality, so the public information was not updated on a centralized system, leading to inconvenient exploitation, lookup, and analysis of management data, and difficulty in sharing information with relevant State management agencies.

To address these shortcomings, the General Department of Taxation has deployed the BDS function to support an additional form of displaying information that must be publicly disclosed by business households according to regulations. Along with the currently applied forms of disclosure, the BDS function will support tax authorities in managing taxpayers in an intuitive manner, grasping the locality well, preventing missing households, and preventing budget losses. The BDS function also better supports business households, people, enterprises, state management agencies and other organizations in providing feedback to tax authorities on the tax management of business households by local tax authorities, enhancing publicity and transparency in tax management.

To effectively implement the function of BDS, the Thanh Hoa Provincial Tax Department advised the Provincial People's Committee to issue Official Letter No. 11839/UBND-KTTC directing departments, branches, provincial units, People's Committees of districts, towns and cities to participate in coordinating the implementation. The Tax Department has also established 2 working groups to perform the task of guiding, inspecting and urging the implementation of the BDS function... At the same time, to specify the work and achieve the required results, the Tax Department issued an official letter to deploy, upgrade the application, decentralize search,... for tax branches to organize the implementation to each tax officer directly monitoring and managing according to the assigned area.

Mr. Chu Viet Duc, Deputy Head of the Department of Management of Individual Business Households and Other Taxes, Thanh Hoa Provincial Tax Department, said: The province currently has 79,366 business households (of which 29,337 are tax-paying households). The implementation of the integrated BHD function on the eTax Mobile application is applied throughout the industry to improve the effectiveness of publicizing business household information; help tax authorities manage taxpayers in an intuitive and realistic way, prevent missing households, prevent loss of state budget revenue; better support business households, people, enterprises, state management agencies and other organizations to provide feedback to tax authorities on local business household tax management, enhance publicity and transparency in tax management.

The BDS function is a collection of information that has been encoded and stored in digital form. The information displayed on the BDS function is information that must be made public to business households according to the provisions of the Law on Tax Administration. BDS is installed, managed and operated centrally at the General Department of Taxation; the information displayed on BDS is automatically, regularly and continuously updated from information approved by the tax authority and made public on the Tax Department's website according to the tax management process for business households.

Local tax authorities, according to their functions and tasks, will review and correct information displayed on the BDS function (if there is any discrepancy); exploit and process information on the BDS function (including management information of the tax sector and feedback information from outside the tax sector) to serve the tax management of business households according to regulations.

Currently, the eTax Mobile electronic tax application is provided free of charge by the tax industry to facilitate individual taxpayers and business households to fulfill their obligations to the State budget conveniently, quickly and economically.

To ensure convenience and authenticity, the eTax Mobile application has been connected to the VNeID application (a mobile application developed by the National Population Data Center of the Ministry of Public Security ). In addition to using accounts issued by the tax authority, people can log in and use the eTax Mobile application to pay taxes using the account and password of the VNeID application (the number of VNeID accounts in Thanh Hoa province as of April 16, 2024 is 1,672,239). The number of successful tax payment transactions via eTax Mobile is 62,351, corresponding to the electronic tax payment amount of VND 111 billion out of the total VND 271 billion (including payment via eTax Mobile and other forms), accounting for 41% of the tax payment amount of individuals and ranking among the top in the country; eTax Mobile not only facilitates tax payment but also helps taxpayers look up arising or outstanding tax obligations so that tax payment is timely, thereby contributing to increasing State budget revenue.

In the coming time, the Provincial Tax Department will continue to promote and encourage people, business households, organizations, and State management agencies in the area to regularly look up and respond to information about business households (location, industry, revenue, tax rate, etc.) on the BDT function, helping tax authorities promptly correct and process information to serve tax management work with high efficiency.

Article and photos: Linh Huong

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