Vinh City: Recovering nearly 180 billion VND in tax debt

(Baonghean.vn)- Thanks to strengthening tax debt collection measures through tax debt enforcement, debt management, and coordination with the interdisciplinary team, Vinh City Tax Department has collected nearly 180 billion VND in tax debt.

From tax debt enforcement measures, the tax authority has collected a large amount of debt. Specifically, money was withdrawn from the accounts of 5,798 enterprises (with a tax amount of nearly 1,104 billion VND), collecting more than 38 billion VND in tax; Informing 135 enterprises that invoices are no longer valid, collecting 5.6 billion VND; Deciding to temporarily detain goods and assets of 95 households, collecting 42 households with a tax amount of 273 million VND...

Propaganda to encourage people to comply with tax laws in Hung Dung ward, Vinh city. Photo: Document

In addition, the City Tax Department coordinated with the Interdisciplinary Team to urge 216 enterprises with large tax debts, with the ability to collect, to make records and urge the tax payment units and collected 79 billion VND. Of which, the basic construction debt of 104 enterprises alone collected 11.7 billion VND; collected tax debts from land-related items from 13 enterprises with the tax debt collected 48.4 billion VND.

Although tax debt management has achieved some positive results, tax debt is still high, the total amount of tax debt has increased slightly compared to the beginning of 2016. According to the Vinh City Tax Department, the area currently owes nearly 218 billion VND in tax, of which 82 billion VND is bad debt. Thus, compared to the beginning of the year, total tax debt increased by 14 billion VND, bad debt increased by 22 billion VND.

Strengthening propaganda to help households and businesses understand and properly implement regulations on budget payment. In photo: Cranes stacking goods at Nam Long Company Limited, Vinh City.

Mr. Nguyen Viet Hung - Deputy Head of Vinh City Tax Department said, Recently, the Tax Department has increased coordination with Nghe An Tax Department to send text messages to more than 2,500 businesses with tax debts of over 50 million VND to urge tax debt. We also strengthen the propaganda and education of tax law policies, guide and promptly implement policies to remove difficulties for businesses.

Debt management is always one of the key tasks, contributing to the completion of the annual state budget collection task in the area. Therefore, in the coming time, we will continue to classify tax debts, develop debt collection plans, urge and apply tax enforcement measures; link debt collection targets with quarterly emulation rankings. Strengthen the unified and widespread dissemination of the content of policy documents on business registration, tax declaration, and tax payment to households and businesses, helping them know, understand and comply with regulations...

Thu Huyen