Dien Chau Tax Department: Overcoming difficulties, striving to exceed budget estimates

(Baonghean) - Data compiled up to September 2016 shows that: Dien Chau Tax Department has collected 185.9 billion VND, equal to 85.5% of the province's estimate and 168.5% compared to the same period.

Every year, budget collection is under pressure because the plan for the following year is higher than the previous year. Every district sees this, but with responsibility, promoting the intellectual capacity of the team, improving management solutions, and finding new sources of revenue, Dien Chau District Tax Department has achieved budget collection progress and set high determination for the last months of the year.

The provincial budget revenue target for 2016 is 226 billion VND. The total budget revenue in the area for 9 months reached 185.9 billion VND, equal to 85.5% of the provincial estimate; 84.8% of the district People's Council estimate, up 118% over the same period. Excluding land use fees, the revenue reached 107.321 billion VND, equal to 78.11% of the estimate, equal to 168.5% over the same period in 2015. According to the estimated data for 10 months, Dien Chau Tax Department has collected 205 billion VND, so it is likely to reach the target ahead of schedule.

Customers come to transact at Dien Chau Tax Department.

Some revenue items achieved the estimated progress and were higher than the same period: Corporate income tax: VND 10,857 billion, reaching 108.6% of the estimate; Business license tax: VND 2,059 billion, equal to 106.6% of the estimate; Other budget revenue: VND 4,781 billion, equal to 106.2% of the estimate; Fees and charges: VND 3,454 billion, reaching 98.7% of the estimate, etc.

The revenue from non-state industrial, commercial and service taxes in the area depends largely on the revenue from local construction enterprises. Meanwhile, in the first 9 months of the year, the production and business situation of enterprises in the area faced many difficulties, construction enterprises had no new projects, new investment activities were limited, and enterprises mainly engaged in trade and services but had limited purchasing power.

In addition, the impact of the environmental incident in the central coastal region has made commercial and seafood business activities in the area very difficult. In the first 9 months of the year, there were 52 newly registered businesses in the area, but 25 businesses were dissolved or bankrupt, and 81 businesses did not generate taxes.

Dien Chau Tax Department inspects gas stations to prevent tax losses.

One of the reasons for Dien Chau's high tax revenue is the leadership and direction from the Tax Department, local authorities, and the good implementation of tax debt collection. The leader of the Tax Department said: The work of handling tax debt has been implemented drastically and tax debt has decreased significantly.

Mr. Nguyen Xuan Hue - Head of Dien Chau Tax Department said: The Department is drastically implementing measures and solutions to increase budget revenue in the last 3 months of the year, striving to exceed the year's target. Applying measures and solutions to urge debt collection and enforce tax debt to limit new debt arising.

In addition, the Department will closely monitor the progress of budget collection, evaluate and analyze each collection area, each collection area, each tax, and at the same time, specifically identify potential revenue sources, areas and types of taxes with revenue losses to promptly propose effective management solutions, and direct local sectors and levels to coordinate with tax authorities to implement.

The Department also focuses on directing the effective implementation of the Law on Amendments and Supplements to a number of articles of the Law on Value Added Tax, the Law on Special Consumption Tax and the Law on Tax Administration on the basis of strengthening information and propaganda work through mass media; organizing training and dialogues to provide information and remove difficulties for taxpayers; promptly transmitting new tax policies via the internet for taxpayers to know and implement.

Dien Chau Tax Department staff focus on year-end work.

Strengthen the inspection and supervision of tax declarations of taxpayers, focusing on inspecting business lines with signs of high risk; business fields with signs of incomplete and untimely declaration of arising taxes.

Strengthen debt collection and apply drastic measures to enforce tax debt. Widely announce on mass media, especially on commune broadcasting systems in cases of large and long-term tax debts; Direct sectors to coordinate measures in tax debt collection.

Continue to review and reform administrative procedures in the field of tax management comprehensively, reduce time and costs in implementing tax administrative procedures. Promote the application of information technology in tax management, widely deploy electronic tax declaration and payment, ensure 100% of enterprises perform electronic tax declaration and payment and regularly urge the timely and complete payment of fixed taxes at the commune level to the budget through the State Treasury.

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