Tax sector focuses on exploiting revenue growth potential

Since the beginning of the year, although having to carry out many tasks at the same time, such as organizing a new apparatus, ensuring modernity, streamlining, improving operational efficiency; organizing budget collection to ensure financial resources for the province; serving taxpayers better according to the reform and innovation policy of the Party, State, Government... but the Tax Department of Region XVI (including 3 provinces of Binh Duong, Tay Ninh, Binh Phuoc) has urgently stabilized the operating apparatus, tax collection to the State budget has grown quite well compared to the same period in 2024.

Officers of the Regional Tax Department XVI guide taxpayers in tax declaration

Tax revenue increased by nearly 26%

Mr. Nguyen Minh Hai, Deputy Head of the Regional Tax Department XVI, said that immediately after completing the merger and organizational consolidation, the department focused on building and directing its affiliated units to seriously deploy plans to implement the Government's Resolutions and Circulars of the Ministry of Finance related to tax collection and payment to the State budget in 2025; implement documents on policies and tax collection regimes in the locality, resolutions of the People's Council, decisions of the People's Committees of provinces related to budget collection... Thanks to that, the results of tax collection and payment to the State budget in the first 6 months of the year of the department have grown quite well and stably.

Accordingly, in 2025, the estimated domestic tax revenue to be paid to the State budget assigned by the National Assembly to Binh Duong province is 53,930 billion VND, Binh Phuoc province is 8,799 billion VND, Tay Ninh province is 11,458 billion VND. The results of the first 6 months of 2025 show that the Tax Department of Region XVI collected tax to pay to the State budget is estimated at 46,511.4 billion VND, equal to 62.7% of the year's estimate, an increase of 25.8% over the same period in 2024. Of which, the tax sector of Binh Duong province is estimated to collect 34,361 billion VND, equal to 63.7% of the year's estimate, an increase of 27.6%; the tax sector of Binh Phuoc province is estimated to collect 5,916 billion VND, equal to 67.2% of the year's estimate, an increase of 30.2%; Tay Ninh province's tax sector estimated revenue at 6,234 billion VND, equal to 54.4% of the year's estimate, up 13.5% over the same period in 2024.

Particularly in Binh Duong, there are revenue items and taxes that have increased significantly compared to the same period in 2024, typically corporate income tax (equal to 83.2% of the annual estimate, up 40.1% compared to the same period in 2024). The reason for the increased tax revenue is determined by the tax sector to be due to key enterprises increasing sales revenue; the tax sector effectively implementing the work of monitoring profit margins for inspection and examination records, leading to increased corporate income tax declarations...

Strengthening the fight against tax losses

Ms. Vo Ngoc Hien, a business owner in Dau Tieng district, commented that the tax sector has pioneered the application of information technology and modernization in the management field, including the "Lucky Invoice" program, a new activity that creates a catalyst to encourage people to get used to receiving invoices when purchasing goods. This helps to increase efficiency and transparency in financial and budgetary management, towards a modern digital financial system, effectively serving the development of e -Government and digital Government.

Reality shows that the positive results in digital transformation of the tax sector are highly appreciated by businesses, organizations and people. In Binh Duong province, up to now, 123,027 households have publicly announced on the map the number of business households (of which the number of households subject to tax is 66.17%, the number of households not subject to tax is 33.83%); there have been 174,077 downloads, installations and uses of the eTax Mobile electronic application. The number of transactions via commercial banks reached 265,986 transactions, with the total amount successfully paid nearly 225,433 billion VND. For e-commerce business activities, the tax sector of Binh Duong province is managing about 26,186 billion VND, the amount of tax paid is about 8.4 billion VND.

The tax industry is focusing on post-tax refund inspections combined with tax settlement inspections and checks to promptly detect and handle violations...

Currently, the tax sector of Binh Duong province has completed the implementation of electronic tax declaration for property leasing activities (including house leasing activities) with a total of 7,682 declarations sent to the tax authorities. In addition, the tax sector of Binh Duong province has been drastically implementing solutions on management, handling and recovery of tax arrears, minimizing the occurrence of new tax debts...

In addition to the positive results, the tax sector leaders also pointed out some shortcomings and limitations, specifically: The situation of tax arrears is still large, tax payment is slow, tax evasion; there are still cases of buying and selling invoices, tax refund fraud, transfer pricing; there are cases where there has not been a clear change in compliance, voluntariness, increased legal responsibility for tax and tax payment obligations to the State. Meanwhile, entering June, the economic growth of the whole country in general, and the three provinces of Binh Duong, Binh Phuoc, and Tay Ninh in particular, are under a lot of pressure from the slowdown of the world economy, the risk of trade war, and inflation in the world, which pose risks to the domestic economy...

To complete the tax collection estimate for the State budget in 2025, in the coming time, the Regional Tax Department XVI will continue to implement many solutions such as specialized inspections and examinations to prevent revenue loss in areas with high tax risks such as related-party transactions, capital transfers, e-commerce, digital platform business, value-added tax refunds, fraudulent use of electronic invoices, resource and mineral exploitation. Along with that, the department focuses on improving the quality of tax management for business households, ensuring correct, full and timely collection; promoting digital transformation in tax management, creating a transparent and equal business environment for business households and individual businesses... The department also promotes inspection and supervision of tax declarations of taxpayers (inspections at tax authority headquarters), value-added tax refund management, application of information technology, risk management in tax refund management.

THANH HONG

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