Vinh City Tax Department: A year of efforts to overcome difficulties

Vinh City is a dynamic, developing urban area with many construction projects, but tax collection faces many difficulties due to decentralization. In addition, 3 outbreaks of Covid-19 have caused severe stagnation in the trade, service and tourism sectors, with many factories and companies having to close down to fight the pandemic. In addition, many policies to reduce taxes and fees have reduced revenue.

However, with many efforts, the total state budget revenue in 2021 ofVinh cityreached 2,554.5 billion VND, equal to 130% of the Law estimate, 102% of the People's Council estimate, down 10% over the same period.

View of Vinh city. Photo: Sach Nguyen

Head of Vinh Tax Department, Mr. Bach Sy Tuong, said: In 2021, Vinh Tax Department focuses on administrative reform and supporting taxpayers. Each year, the Department processes about 25,000 records of all kinds, most of which are on time, collects fees for 16,500 cars in the province, collects and appraises land records. The Department has actively applied information technology to tax management and combats tax fraud. Each month, the Department issues 300 tax enforcement decisions. Regarding tax debt, although there are difficulties, it has reduced by 15 billion VND compared to 2020, completing debt collection targets.

Tax work tasks in 2022, forecast of socio-economic situation in 2022 of the whole country in general, of Vinh province and city in particular, still have to face many difficulties and challenges: The negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic may be prolonged, with many potential risks of financial crisis.

Mr. Bach Sy Tuong - Head of Vinh City Tax Department spoke at the 2021 Nghe An Tax Industry Summary. Photo: Nguyen Hai

To strive to excellently complete the tax work tasks in 2022, Vinh City Tax Department identifies key tasks and groups of solutions to implement as follows:

-Focus on fully, synchronously and effectively implementing tax management functions, processes and solutions; at the same time, launch an emulation movement to strive to exceed the assigned state budget revenue estimate from the beginning of 2022, striving to exceed at least 5% of the assigned estimate.

-Implement tasks and solutions to support small and medium enterprises, contributing to maintaining and restoring production and business, and enhancing socio-economic stability in the city.

-Resolutely and effectively implement the Tax System Reform Strategy for the 2021-2030 period; promote the application of information technology in tax management.

-Strengthening discipline and internal discipline, rectifying and improving the sense of responsibility of civil servants in performing public duties.

-Closely following the direction of the Tax Department and local Party committees and authorities, strengthen inspection work to combat tax losses and tax evasion and promote debt management and tax debt enforcement, strive to exceed the 2022 state budget revenue estimate assigned by the Tax Department and the City People's Council; complete the debt collection targets and approved inspection plans.

-Resolutely and synchronously deploy revenue management solutions, striving to complete the targets.

-Continue to reform and modernize the tax system, simplify tax administrative procedures, improve the quality of tax declaration, payment, electronic tax refund and electronic invoice services.

-Strengthen propaganda, support and urge enterprises to carry out production and business activities to properly and fully fulfill their tax obligations to the State budget in a timely manner. Continue to implement policies to support enterprises and business households to overcome difficulties, stabilize production and develop the economy.

-Strengthen inspection and supervision of tax management and declaration for taxpayers, ensuring that organizations and individuals with production and business activities in the area are included in the management and tax declaration.

Officers of Vinh Tax Department process registration documents for people. Photo: Van Hai

- Fully and resolutely implement debt collection and tax debt enforcement measures; Strengthen internal inspection work within the industry. Enhance discipline and order in performing public duties.

- Strengthen measures to manage debt collection of land use fees of projects and infrastructure, organize successful auctions to promptly collect land use fees into the State budget.

-Regularly pay attention to the material and spiritual life, thoughts and aspirations of civil servants and employees in the agency or unit; together with organizations and unions, promptly encourage, assist and create a favorable working environment to maximize the strengths and capacities of civil servants and have plans for training, fostering and improving professional qualifications, planning and promoting appropriately.