Nghe An will manage business household taxes on digital platforms

Outstanding advantages of business household digital map

Previously, the disclosure of business household information was done manually and publicly on the Tax Department's website, which was only in the form of a list, not presented visually, and did not support easy lookup and search. In addition, the disclosure was organized by each locality, so the public information was not updated on the same centralized system, leading to inconvenient exploitation, lookup, and analysis of management data, and difficulty in sharing information with relevant State management agencies.

Faced with such shortcomings, to carry out the process of promoting digital transformation and digitizing tax management, the General Department of Taxation has deployed the function of Digital Map of Business Households applied throughout the Tax sector to improve the effectiveness of publicizing information on business households according to the provisions of the Law on Tax Administration.

Mr. Vo Van Hung - Deputy Director of the Provincial Tax Department assessed: "The digital map of business households will contribute significantly to supporting tax authorities in managing taxpayers in a visual way, grasping the area well, preventing missing households, and preventing budget losses. At the same time, it also better supports people, businesses, state management agencies and business households in providing feedback to tax authorities on tax management of business households by local tax authorities, enhancing publicity and transparency in tax management".

The province has more than 160,000 individual businesses. When operating, information about business households such as: Tax code, full name, signboard, street name, business line, invoice usage status, revenue, tax rate and tax payment time... will be encoded and stored in digital form on the business household digital map, the information is made public to business households.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Y Nhi, a clothing business owner in Ben Thuy Ward (Vinh City) said: “According to what the tax officials have propagated and what I have learned on tax websites, the business household number map will help us easily grasp information about new tax policies; at the same time, check and monitor the monthly tax rate of our business and refer to information from many other businesses in the same industry.

In addition, the application of digital maps of business households also helps us promote products and services, contributing to attracting more customers and increasing revenue. Therefore, personally, when the Tax Department requested the implementation, I was very sympathetic and responsive."

The digital map of business households is deployed on the eTax Mobile application to facilitate business households, people, enterprises, state management agencies and other organizations to look up and respond to information on handheld smart devices anytime, anywhere. The digital map of business households is installed, managed and operated centrally at the General Department of Taxation. Information is automatically, regularly and continuously updated from information approved by the tax authority and publicly posted on the Tax Department's website according to the tax management process for business households issued with Decision No. 2371/QD-TCT dated December 18, 2015 of the General Department of Taxation.

Strengthening propaganda to taxpayers

According to the roadmap assigned by the General Department of Taxation, the Nghe An Provincial Tax Department will deploy the function of digitalizing business households in phase 2 starting from February 1, 2024. From February 1, 2024 to February 28, 2024, the function of digitalizing business households will support tax authorities in searching, reviewing and correcting incorrect information (if any) of public information of business households in 2024. From March 1, 2024, it will continue to support the searching and responding to information of business households, people and enterprises, state management agencies and other organizations.

Up to this point, the departments of the Provincial Tax Department as well as the Vinh City and Regional Tax Departments have organized training on the function of digital business household mapping to all civil servants in the whole industry, ensuring that each tax official is proficient in using the function of digital business household mapping on the eTax mobile application.

At the same time, it is required that each tax official be an active propagandist and guide when organizations and individuals need it; direct tax officials in the process of performing their duties: Regularly look up and respond to information about business households on the digital map function of business households to promptly correct and process information to serve tax management in accordance with regulations and reality.

On August 26, 2023, Nghe An Tax Department issued a document requesting regional tax branches to report to the People's Committees of districts and cities to direct units to coordinate in organizing propaganda and dissemination to all business households, enterprises, people, state management agencies, and other organizations about the purpose, meaning and instructions for using the function of the Digital Map of Business Households in the area.

At the same time, the organization assigns teams to review all business household data on TMS against reality, update information on the TMS application according to regulations; continue to process and correct information to ensure that the information in the database on the TMS application is correct with reality.

Urgently detect and clarify the reasons why households and individuals actually have business activities but have not registered their business or declared taxes; households with tax rates that are not consistent with the actual business situation; households that have declared taxes but are not operating at the business address; households that have registered tax codes but are not actually doing business... At the same time, note that this information needs to be accurately updated from the January 2024 tax calculation period so that the Tax sector can apply it according to the roadmap of the General Department of Taxation on schedule.