Many enterprises violate on tax policy

Enterprises made transactions at the HCM City Tax Department. Photo: Thu Hòa

According to HCM City Tax Department, implementing the inspection plan in 2020, in September, the Tax Department conducted on-site inspections at 2,064 enterprises with the amount of tax arrears totaling VND391 billion.

Generally, in the first nine months of 2020, Ho Chi Minh City Tax Department conducted on-site inspections at 14,973 enterprises with the amount of tax arrears reaching more than VND2,868 billion.

In addition, through the inspection at the tax authority for over 29,500 tax dossiers, the Ho Chi Minh City Tax Department discovered that 332 dossiers of the business were incorrect, they had to make additional declarations and 530 dossiers implemented tax assessment and nearly 9,500 violated dossiers that were proposed to conduct on-site inspections at the business.

Ho Chi Minh City Tax Department conducted tax inspections at 14,153 enterprises, with the amount of tax arrears reaching over VND1,820 billion; decreasing in VAT deduction was VND383.9 billion; reducing losses of VND14,091.3 billion, no refund was VND206.5 billion.

Thus, the total amount of additional tax declarations after inspection at the tax authorities and the amount of tax arrears collected through on-site inspection in the first nine months of 2020 was VND1,836.3 billion, reaching 79% over the same period in 2019, VAT deduction was VND389 billion, reducing loss was VND14,119 billion.

In the first nine months of this year, 820 sets of dossiers had been inspected with the amount of tax arrears totalling VND1,032 billion, an increase of 67% in the number of inspected dossiers and an increase of 67% in the amount of tax arrears compared to the same period in 2019.