Enhance electronic tax services to support taxpayers

Strengthen the electronic tax service supporting taxpayers, thereby promoting the development of cross-border e-commerce activities and increasing revenue for the State Budget.

From 2018 until now, nearly 5,000 billion VND has been taxed by foreign suppliers through organizations in Vietnam. In which, Facebook paid nearly 1,700 billion VND, Google paid over 1,600 billion VND and Microsoft paid 576 billion VND.

This is the result of a long time tax industry continuously develop mechanisms and policies and coordinate with relevant ministries and branches to prevent tax loss in cross-border e-commerce.

Mr. Cao Anh Tuan – General Director of the General Department of Taxation said: “There have been many solutions and initiatives in tax management practice. Especially the dissemination of legal policies to foreign suppliers to foreign suppliers. Vietnam’s tax law, thereby promoting the voluntary compliance of domestic organizations and individuals in withholding and paying tax on behalf of foreign suppliers”.

Circular 80, effective from the beginning of this year, stipulates that overseas suppliers with income from Vietnam can register and declare tax directly at the website of the General Department of Taxation.

The Minister of Finance has directed the General Department of Taxation to urgently build an electronic portal for foreign suppliers to facilitate overseas businesses when selling goods across borders to directly declare tax at this port.

“Foreign e-commerce service providers are responsible for finding out their tax obligations in Vietnam and conducting tax registration on the electronic portal for foreign suppliers, thereby implementing declare and pay taxes to ensure compliance with tax laws in Vietnam,” said Mr. Roert King – Head of Tax Department, E&Y Vietnam Company.

Tomorrow morning (March 21), the General Department of Taxation will hold a ceremony to announce the operation of the electronic portal for foreign suppliers and the e-tax application on mobile devices Etax-Mobile to operate smoothly 24/24. 7.

The promotion of modernization, digital transformation and more user-friendliness of the tax industry aims to partially realize the process of national digital transformation.

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