Nghe An: Collected more than 969 billion VND in land use fees from real estate projects

(Baonghean.vn) - Implementing the Notice of Conclusion No. 225/TB-UBND dated April 20, 2016 of the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee on budget collection for urban real estate projects, mineral exploitation; Collection of tax arrears and handling of sale of state assets, relevant Departments, branches and units have paid attention to implementation and initially achieved positive results.

As of March 15, 2017, the total accumulated revenue from land use fees for real estate projects in the province was 969.3 billion VND.

As for the projects of Dong A Joint Stock Company Branch, BMC Construction Materials and Commercial Construction Company Limited, the Tax Department has taken many decisive measures to enforce such as: late payment penalties, posting on mass media, withdrawing money from bank accounts, and notifying that invoices are no longer valid, but so far they have not been collected.

BMC Construction and Trading Materials Company Limited, invested in a project in Quan Bau ward, Vinh city. Photo: Viet Phuong

Typically, BMC Construction Materials and Commercial Construction Company Limited, which invested in a project in Quan Bau Ward, Vinh City, still owes more than VND28 billion in land use fees and late payment fees. Although the tax authority has notified the company of the tax arrears and late payment fees every month in accordance with the debt management and tax debt enforcement procedures, the company still does not comply.

Next, the Vinh City Tax Department sent a dispatch requesting the company to provide accounts opened at banks, but the company did not provide them. Recently, the Department issued a decision on enforcing tax administrative decisions by withdrawing money from the accounts of the subject of enforcement at the State Treasury and credit institutions, but so far, the tax and late payment fees have not been collected.

Regarding the settlement of land use fees for the project of the Townhouse Area in Block 13, Truong Thi Ward of Vinaconex 16 Construction Company, according to the report of the Tax Department, the remaining area that must pay land use fees for the project has been determined to be 1,920.39m2.² and the Department of Natural Resources and Environment has transferred the file to the consulting unit to determine the land price of the above project. After having the price of the consulting unit, it is recommended that the Department of Natural Resources and Environment soon submit it to the Provincial Land Valuation Council for approval to submit to the Provincial People's Committee for consideration and approval of the land price.

Dong A Joint Stock Company Branch has a commercial and service housing project in Hung Binh Ward, Vinh City. Photo: Viet Phuong

The leader of Vinh City Tax Department said: Currently, in the city, there are 11 real estate investors who still owe land use fees with a total amount of nearly 187 billion VND.

Including: BMC Construction Materials and Trading Company Limited (28 billion VND); Branch of Dong A Joint Stock Company (over 21 billion VND); Tien Thanh Company Limited (nearly 12 billion VND), Thanh Vinh Production Investment Joint Stock Company (nearly 5 billion VND); Construction Joint Stock Company No. 9 (over 4 billion VND); Thanh Nghe Tinh Joint Stock Company (over 28 billion VND); Bao Son Group Joint Stock Company (over 28 billion VND), Son Ha Construction Joint Stock Company (nearly 19 billion VND).

In addition, enterprises: Lung Lo Construction Company, TECCO New Technology Application Joint Stock Company; Phuoc Tai Company Limited are implementing debt extension procedures.

To collect land use fees for real estate business projects in the province, the tax authority is continuing to review the remaining land use fees payable for each project and applying all measures according to regulations to collect money for the State budget./.

Viet Phuong