Nghe An leads in implementing electronic tax payment

(Baonghean) - On March 12, 2015, the Government issued Resolution 19/NQ-CP on key tasks and solutions to continue improving the business environment and enhancing national competitiveness in 2015 - 2016. Accordingly, the direction for the Tax sector in 2015 is to implement electronic tax payment in 63/63 provinces and cities with the goal of having 90% of enterprises pay electronic tax by the end of 2015. After only 5 months of the year, Nghe An Tax Department has successfully passed the "gate", becoming the first unit to gradually "reach the finish line" nationwide.

Talking to a group of reporters from central and local press agencies, Mr. Vo Duy Duc, Deputy Head of Vinh City Tax Department, said that Vinh City manages 4,000 enterprises, but they are all small enterprises, 90% of which have real transactions, in addition, there are many inactive enterprises. We have implemented online tax declaration early, so right after Circular 156 regulated online tax declaration and payment, with favorable local conditions, Vinh City implemented it early even before Circular 156 took effect. To do this, Vinh City Tax Department has set a specific roadmap, in which it set a target to complete by July. All 3 inspection teams followed the roadmap, with regular actual reports. On the Tax Department's side, direction is also often focused on, especially in removing difficulties and obstacles. There are newly established commercial bank branches, newly deployed services so we guide them slowly, but for highly professional banks like Vietinbank, BIDV, MB, it is quite easy. Therefore, we have 70% of enterprises registered at 5 large banks, the remaining 30% recently the Information Technology Department helped connect with 7 more banks. When enterprises pay taxes, but the money transfer service to the budget is slow, so it becomes late payment. If the tax authority handles it objectively, it is not the fault of the enterprise, the enterprise will react, causing a significant impact on the psychology when implementing this service. Therefore, submitting a proposal to not fine late payment has also resolved both the psychology and actual operations - Deputy Head of the Department Vo Duy Duc said.

Instructions for electronic tax payment for businesses.

Promotetransparency

According to Deputy Director of Nghe An Tax Department Nguyen Hong Hai, electronic tax payment is not only beneficial for businesses but also an important step in modernizing tax collection and payment, contributing to the goal of administrative reform of the tax sector. Tax authorities can support the processing of tax collection and payment information quickly and accurately, enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of tax management, help save human resources for banks or the State Treasury, and reduce the pressure of direct tax payment transactions at the counter - Deputy Director Nguyen Hong Hai commented.

Not only that, the application connection program between credit institutions (especially large banks such as BIDV and VietinBank) and the Tax sector is a modern program, regularly improved and upgraded, creating favorable conditions for taxpayers. In Nghe An, the leaders of the Provincial People's Committee have given strong direction, in which banks must actively participate in coordinating the implementation of electronic tax payment. Deputy Director of BIDV Nghe An Tran Minh Tinh said: In reality, for the operation of a bank, service fees or tax amounts circulating through the banking system do not bring too great benefits in terms of immediate numbers. However, in the long term, participating in the electronic tax collection system helps banks have the opportunity to expand their customer base (through opening accounts). In addition, BIDV also takes advantage of cross-selling opportunities for banking products and services such as Business Online, payment, credit, deposits, etc. From that awareness, to implement the electronic tax payment service, BIDV Nghe An leaders have issued written guidance documents, organized training for staff, and directed BIDV branches with BIDV's network throughout the province with a team of professional staff ready to meet the requirements of taxpayers. BIDV completely exempts electronic tax payment service fees with other policies such as free account opening, free minimum balance maintenance policy on accounts, etc. BIDV also charges fees at a more preferential rate than regular money transfer transactions. With the above efforts, after more than 9 months of coordinating to implement electronic tax payment, BIDV Nghe An has had 670 businesses successfully registered, and in the first 5 months of 2015 alone, they paid taxes in the new form with the amount of 215 billion VND (this is the bank with the highest electronic tax payment turnover in the area).

Sharing the same view, Director of VietinBank Nghe An Bui Xuan Dong affirmed that the implementation of electronic tax payment via banks is not only aimed at reducing time and costs for procedures but also increasing transparency. The electronic tax declaration system makes it more difficult for businesses to falsify documents. Regular reconciliation between tax authorities, State Treasury, banks, businesses, etc. helps increase information transparency and increase the tax management capacity of authorities. Not only large and medium enterprises, VietinBank also pays great attention to the customer segment of small and micro enterprises. Customers implementing electronic tax payment at VietinBank will enjoy many preferential policies such as service product packages, reduced money transfer fees, loan interest rates, etc. On the contrary, through this service, the bank also attracts a large number of participants in transactions and uses various services of the bank. Through businesses paying taxes electronically, the bank also has an additional channel to evaluate the financial capacity of businesses to implement credit relations or other transactions.

Importantis the way to do it

Sharing successful experiences, Deputy Director of Nghe An Tax Department Nguyen Hong Hai said that it is clear that one of the important points for Nghe An to achieve high results is the strong direction of the leaders of the Provincial People's Committee and related departments and branches in implementing Resolution 19 of the Government in general and improving the Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI) of the locality in particular. Tax branches with low results must have an explanatory report and propose remedial measures, and Nghe An Tax Department has established a steering group led by a Deputy Director to resolutely implement electronic tax payment and closely monitor progress. In addition, other functional agencies such as banks and information technology agencies also have synchronous and smooth coordination. Currently, Nghe An Tax Department has coordinated with BIDV, VietinBank, Military Commercial Joint Stock Bank (MB), Agribank, Asia Commercial Joint Stock Bank (ACB), HDBank, Vietnam International Commercial Joint Stock Bank (VIB), Sacombank, Saigon Thuong Tin Commercial Joint Stock Bank... Deputy Director Nguyen Hong Hai said.

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