'Exposing' 209 businesses that owe taxes

The Ho Chi Minh City Tax Department has just announced a list of 209 businesses with tax debts as of the end of May totaling over VND2,100 billion.

Hundreds of businesses in Ho Chi Minh City owe more than VND2,100 billion in taxes. Photo: PV.

In this list, the top company in terms of tax debt is Viet Hai Shipping and Real Estate Company, with a debt of more than 159 billion VND. Next is Hong Quang Construction and Real Estate Investment Company with more than 100 billion VND.

The following companies such as Cat Long Hai Company, Trang Thien Phat Construction Services Company Limited, Industrial Construction Company,... owe 52.6 billion VND, 44.4 billion VND and 43.9 billion VND respectively...

The City Tax Department said that although the agency has applied coercive measures such as requesting to revoke business registration certificates, notifying invoices that are no longer valid, enforcing bank accounts, notifying to abandon business addresses..., it has not yet collected tax debts.

Tax industry representatives said that after this list, other units that are not aware of paying taxes will also be "named and shamed".

Previously, at the end of April, the Ho Chi Minh City Tax Department publicly announced 182 tax-debt enterprises and implemented preventive measures such as temporarily suspending the exit of those who were slow to pay their debts, while strengthening measures to urge debt collection and enforce tax debt collection.

According to Hoai Thu/VNE