Expanding online tax declaration service for individuals

The tax sector will continue to implement the online tax payment and registration fee for cars and motorbikes in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in the first quarter of 2020.

According to the latest statistics of General Department of Taxation, as of November 2019, there were 61,000 individual accounts registering to use online transactions with tax authorities. This result has marked initial success in the online tax declaration service as well as attests to the response of people to the online public services provided by tax authorities.

Before, at the time of declaration, the house lenders must go to Tax Department where the house for rent is located to submit the application, or send it by post, then they have to go to the bank, or the treasury in order to pay taxes which took a lot of time and cost.

With the application of online tax declaration, individuals who have houses for rent can declare tax anywhere and anytime without spending lots of time, cost of travelling and waiting time. The tax declaration is implemented easily on desktops, tablets, and even on mobile phones. As a result, the number of accounts and declarations increased steadily over time.

From November 2019, the tax sector will continue to implement the online tax declaration and tax payment for individuals who run businesses, individuals running businesses as lottery agents, multi-level sales insurance and individuals who earned income from salaries and wages. This is a tax solution that tax sector provided for online public services at level 3-4.

For the tax sector, the electronic applications have created a lot of savings in management costs and resources, contributed to modernizing tax collection management, minimizing direct contact between tax officials and taxpayers, avoiding negative impacts. Besides that, the implementation of online public services has contributed to the overall cost savings of the whole society through making use of information technology systems, infrastructure, available resources of banks, companies providing electronic payment solutions.

According to the plan, the tax sector will continue to implement the online tax payment and registration fee for cars and motorbikes in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in the first quarter of 2020. For tax procedures of other revenues, the tax sector will continue to implement them in the future.