Nghe An Tax Department seeks opinions on supplementing and amending the Law on Tax Administration

The workshop was chaired by Mr. Nguyen Dinh Duc - Director of the Tax Department and attended by leaders of the Department; leaders and civil servants of departments and offices, and representatives of Tax Branches in the province.

The workshop aims to review, summarize and evaluate the results of implementing the Law on Tax Administration according to the direction of the General Department of Taxation in Official Dispatch No. 655/TCT-CS dated February 23, 2024. At the same time, it will collect opinions, receive difficulties, problems and propose amendments and supplements to the provisions of the Law on Tax Administration.

Tax Administration Law No. 38/2019/QH14 was passed by the 14th National Assembly on June 13, 2019, consisting of 17 chapters and 152 articles, and took effect from July 1, 2020. During the implementation process, to guide the Tax Administration Law No. 38/2019/QH14, the Government issued 6 decrees. In addition, the Ministry of Finance submitted to the Government for timely and complete promulgation of 11 circulars detailing and guiding the implementation of the Tax Administration Law.

In recent times, Nghe An Provincial Tax Department has urgently and seriously implemented collecting opinions on the application of the Tax Administration Law in many forms.

For taxpayers in the province: Carry out propaganda, dissemination as well as collect opinions, receive difficulties, problems and proposed amendments and supplements to the provisions of the Tax Administration Law No. 38/2019/QH14 through many channels: Send documents directly to taxpayers; Collect opinions online via publicly posted links on social networks, the Tax Department's website, send links to the Opinion Collection Form to taxpayers via Zalo groups of businesses, households, and individual businesses; Publicize hotline phone numbers, email addresses, addresses for receiving written opinions... Thereby, the contributions of individuals, organizations, and businesses to the Tax Administration Law have been recorded.

For officials and civil servants in the Tax sector, a meeting was held to collect opinions from all tax officials on difficulties and inadequacies and to propose amendments and supplements to the Law on Tax Administration; at the same time, an internal conference of the Tax Department was organized.

As of March 28,Nghe An Provincial Tax Departmentreceived 215 comments, including 127 comments on the Law on Tax Administration, 53 comments on decrees and 35 comments on issued circulars.

At the workshop, representatives of departments, offices, and Tax Departments gave many comments and suggestions for the Tax Administration Law for appropriate application in practice. They focused on issues such as: Taxpayer information system; Issuance of tax codes; regulations on deadlines for submitting tax declarations; Regulations on handling tax amounts, late payment fees, and overpaid fines; Regulations on tax exemption and reduction records during implementation; Debt management measures and tax debt enforcement measures; Handling of tax complaints and denunciations...

Concluding the meeting, Mr. Nguyen Dinh Duc - Director of Nghe An Provincial Tax Department emphasized the importance of evaluating and studying the provisions of the Law on Tax Administration after more than 3 years of implementing the law in practice. The opinions and proposals in the workshop, if reasonable, will be compiled by the unit and proposed to competent authorities for consideration and adjustment in the coming time.

The Director of the Tax Department also requested departments and branches to continue researching, discussing, raising issues, and proposing amendments and supplements to the Law on Tax Administration to increase the strictness, legality, and effectiveness of implementation when applied.