Encourage production and business development, increase budget revenue

(Baonghean.vn) – On the afternoon of September 28, comrade Nguyen Dac Vinh - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee worked with the Nghe An Tax Department on budget collection in the area.

Also attending the meeting were members of the Provincial Party Committee: Le Xuan Dai - Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Nguyen Thi Thu Huong - Secretary of the Party Committee of provincial agencies and representatives of the Provincial Party Committee Office, a number of provincial departments and branches.

Overview of the working session of Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Dac Vinh with Nghe An Tax Department.

In performing the task of collecting the budget, Nghe An Tax Department assigns specific responsibilities to 21 branches and 13 specialized departments, strengthens tax administrative reform, and actively and effectively implements solutions to prevent tax losses. In recent years, Nghe An Tax Department has been assessed by the General Department of Taxation and the province as a leading unit in administrative reform; annual revenue exceeds the assigned estimate.

Currently, there are 53,960 taxpayers in the province, including 9,654 enterprises. By the end of August, Nghe An Tax Department had collected 6,043 billion VND/8,994 billion VND (plan), reaching 67% of the estimate, up 25% over the same period in 2015.

The Tax Department coordinates with relevant functions to review tax arrears.

In the past 8 months, the Tax Department has also actively supported taxpayers, monthly reviewing and notifying tax debts; at the same time, collecting 290 billion VND in tax debts in 2015; enforcing thousands of cases of late tax payment.

Nghe An Tax Department also recommended that the province increase the attraction of investment projects with large budget revenues; request the province to promptly handle investors who have been granted land and licenses but have not implemented them, causing difficulties in revenue sources; some companies that have been licensed to operate in Nghe An but have not established branches in Nghe An generate revenue but the provincial tax department cannot collect taxes.

Mr. Nguyen Dinh Hoa - Director of the Tax Department reported on the budget collection situation in the area and proposed a number of issues on increasing revenue sources.

Delegates attending the meeting.

Representatives of the Provincial People's Committee, departments and branches made comments suggesting that the tax sector strengthen coordination in advising the province in attracting investment, increasing budget revenue, and serving investment and development.

Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Dac Vinh acknowledged the contributions of the Tax sector in boosting the province's budget revenue; he suggested that the Tax sector should better grasp the situation of enterprises and taxpayers to advise the province, and at the same time implement solutions to increase budget revenue, serve reinvestment in infrastructure development in all fields, and take care of social security work. The recommendations of the Tax sector are appropriate, and the province will consider implementing them in the coming time.

Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Dac Vinh requested the tax sector to actively coordinate with functional sectors to encourage business development in the area and increase budget revenue.

In the context of the country's economy still facing many difficulties, increasing revenue is a pressure, therefore, the Provincial Party Secretary requested the tax sector to actively implement solutions to complete the budget revenue estimate; at the same time, advise the province on effective solutions in attracting investment, developing enterprises, production, management, nurturing revenue sources, aiming to complete the budget revenue task for the entire term set by the 18th Provincial Party Congress.

Nguyen Son