Vinh Tax Department: Well performing the task of budget collection

(Baonghean) - In the past 5 years, under the leadership of superiors and the Party Committee of the unit, Vinh Tax Department has made remarkable progress, tax management activities are increasingly professional and strict. That has actively contributed to increasing annual revenue in the first-class urban area, the economic and social center of the North Central region.

Tax management in a class 1 urban area with 4,170 enterprises and more than 8,000 business households is both a source of pride and a heavy responsibility for the staff of Vinh Tax Department. Especially in recent years, the global economic recession, along with tight investment policies and macro-inflation control, has significantly affected the city's economy. Meanwhile, the budget collection plan has not decreased, requiring the Vinh Tax Department to strive to find new solutions, strictly manage revenue sources, prevent tax losses, and still nurture small revenue sources.

The task of collecting the state budget is an important task that the Party Committee has placed at the top, throughout the term and has always received close attention and leadership from the Nghe An Tax Department, the City Party Committee, the People's Council, the People's Committee, the coordination and combination between departments, branches, and local Party committees and authorities with the Tax agency in strengthening tax collection management measures. Along with promptly resolving difficulties and obstacles, promoting administrative procedure reform, creating favorable conditions for promoting production and business development; at the same time, strengthening measures to prevent tax losses. In particular, the inspection work at taxpayers' headquarters has been focused on and strengthened by the branch. In the past term, the revenue collected through inspection and audit alone reached nearly 200 billion VND, accounting for a large proportion of the city's non-state revenue, with an average annual increase of 89% through tax inspection and audit. In particular, the revenue collected through inspection and audit compared in 2010 (beginning of term) with this year, the increase rate is up to 140%.

State budget revenue in August 2015 in Vinh City reached 73.6 billion VND, of which land use fee revenue reached 15 billion VND, regular revenue: 58.6 billion VND, accumulated state budget revenue of the first 8 months of the year reached 894.35 billion VND, reaching 82% of the assigned estimate, up 39% over the same period; of which land use fee revenue reached: 223.2 billion VND, regular revenue: 671.13 billion VND. Total revenue for 5 years (2010 - 2015) is estimated at: 6,603 billion VND (average annual revenue is 1,320 billion VND), nearly 200 times higher than in 1990, only in the last 5 years (2010 - 2015), the revenue exceeded the estimate assigned by the City People's Council by 17%, the average annual revenue growth rate reached 15.2%. In particular, regular revenue at the end of the term (2015) compared to the first year of the term (2010) increased by 2 times, this is a very remarkable result.

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To successfully carry out the task, the Party Committee has resolutely led the debt management work, directing the unit to implement many measures: Penalty for late payment, enforcement of tax debt, seizure of assets; Announcement on mass media, announcement on loudspeakers of wards and communes; Building reports on tax debt, issuing orders to collect budget, sending official dispatches to the State Bank in requesting direction to inspect commercial banks and credit institutions for enforcement of tax administrative decisions; Sending debt notices to directors of enterprises to urge tax debt payment and fine payment. Closely following the direction of the Tax Department and the City People's Committee on budget collection work to promptly and effectively implement.

The Department regularly monitors, analyzes, and closely evaluates budget revenue sources, reviews revenue items and taxes that can increase revenue in order to have specific and realistic management measures for each locality and each field. Assigns revenue targets and launches emulation and reward movements with high rewards to create a movement and motivation to strive, and at the same time advises the City People's Committee and the Tax Department to reward units and individuals who have excellently completed the annual budget revenue estimates.

The Party Committee of the unit has also led the administrative reform, improved working methods, and improved work efficiency. Innovated working methods, inspected and supervised the settlement of tax administrative procedures, and cut down on cumbersome procedures that caused inconvenience to taxpayers. Accordingly, the branch has promoted the unit's website well, implemented online tax declaration and payment to facilitate the increasingly strict implementation of the Law on Tax Administration, and connected information within the Tax sector, banks, City Party Committee, People's Committee, etc., thus promptly meeting the requirements of the task.

Annually provide professional guidance, organize dialogues and integrate training on new tax policies for businesses; deploy training for civil servants on new tax policies that have been amended and supplemented. Review and rectify working methods, improve professional ethics for cadres and civil servants, link professional work performance with emulation and rewards to encourage and motivate cadres to improve work quality and efficiency. Launch a widespread emulation movement throughout the unit with specific and practical content, build and replicate outstanding advanced models, create a vibrant atmosphere, high determination, and strive to excellently complete assigned tasks.

The Party Committee has led the work of organizing cadres in accordance with the procedures and regulations of public democracy. In general, the quality of cadres and party members has been gradually improved. The principles of Party activities are guaranteed throughout the Party Committee. Comrade Phan Van Viet, Party Committee Secretary, Head of Vinh City Tax Department said: Promoting the tradition of the unit, Vinh Tax Department has successfully built and maintained the effective operation of the quality management system according to ISO 9001: 2008 standard on "Performing the function of State management and handling tax administrative procedures in Vinh City". Deploying 38 applications in tax management, implementing well the application of tax declaration support and implementing electronic tax declaration and payment. Up to now, 100% of enterprises have made electronic tax declarations and over 80% of enterprises have registered to pay electronic taxes. The unit regularly improves leadership capacity and promotes the collective's ability and intelligence in performing tasks.

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