The General Department of Taxation ( Ministry of Finance ) informed that on May 26, the working delegation of the General Department of Taxation at a working session with the Hanoi Tax Department on removing existing obstacles in value-added tax (VAT) refunds, ensuring the rights of businesses and taxpayers.
At the meeting, Director of the Declaration Department Le Thi Duyen Hai, head of the working group, said that recently, information has appeared about difficulties in VAT refund work. In this situation, Acting Director General of the General Department of Taxation Mai Xuan Thanh has directed the functional units of the General Department of Taxation to establish a working group to survey and remove existing obstacles in VAT refund, ensuring the rights of businesses and taxpayers.
Deputy Director of Hanoi Tax Department Vien Viet Hung reported on the contents and issues related to VAT refund work at Hanoi Tax Department, and provided relevant documents for the Working Group to inspect samples and make specific and accurate assessments of VAT refund settlement work at the unit.
According to Mr. Hung, in recent years, implementing the direction of the General Department of Taxation, 100% of tax refund work at the Hanoi Tax Department has been carried out electronically.
Enterprises only need to send tax refund documents, receive feedback from tax authorities, and tax refunds are also made on the electronic information system, helping taxpayers save time, reduce costs for printing documents and limit direct contact between enterprises and tax officials.
Hanoi Tax Department continues to strengthen tax refund management, strictly control VAT refund expenditures, ensure tax refunds are made to the right subjects, in accordance with the State's legal policies. The quick and timely settlement of VAT refunds in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Tax Administration on tax refunds will create conditions to help businesses quickly turn over capital, improving efficiency in capital use.
At the same time, the Tax Department also strictly controls signs of tax evasion and VAT refund fraud, coordinates with competent authorities in tax management, especially customs and market management agencies, to verify the origin of goods, grasp and exchange information on fraudulent tricks for exported and imported goods with signs of tax evasion..., ensuring tax refunds are made to the right subjects, in accordance with the state's legal policies.
At the working session, the Working Group analyzed the actual records to clearly identify the records that met/did not meet the conditions and exchanged experiences with the Hanoi Tax Department to clarify signs of tax evasion, VAT refund fraud and closely coordinated with competent authorities in tax management, especially customs and market management agencies to verify the origin of goods, thereby grasping and exchanging information on fraudulent tricks for exported and imported goods with signs of tax evasion...,
According to Ms. Le Thi Duyen Hai, based on the results of the work, the working group has more analytical basis to refer to the overall plan and criteria for determination, thereby completing the set of criteria to prepare for strict inspection of signs of tax evasion and VAT refund fraud so that the Tax Departments can promptly eliminate questions and the system can best perform the tax refund work on time, in accordance with regulations, ensuring that tax refunds are made to the right subjects, in accordance with the law and policies of the state.
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