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Enterprises give questions at the seminar.

Speaking at the seminar, Ms. Phung Thi Bich Huong, Director of Dong Nai Customs Department, said that Dong Nai had 32 industrial parks with 1,335 foreign investment projects. There are 279 investment projects of Taiwanese enterprises with the investment capital of more than $US 5.2 billion.

In recent years, the Government, the Ministry of Finance, the People's Committee of Dong Nai Province and the General Department of Vietnam Customs have always paid attention to directing and creating favorable conditions for the Dong Nai Customs Department to make strong reforms in foreign trade.

In order to meet the target, in addition to the efforts of the Dong Nai Customs Department, Ms. Huong said that there should be the cooperation of the business community, including Taiwanese enterprises in the area.

Over the past time, the Dong Nai Customs Department regularly organizes partnerships with business associations, including the Taiwan Business Association in various forms, attracting the attention of the business community. Beside the activities of serving the business community, the Dong Nai Customs Department also encouraged the business community to cooperate with the Customs.

Mr. Ngo Minh Dinh, the Chairman of Trade Association of Taiwan, Dong Nai Branch highly appreciated the support of Dong Nai Customs Department for foreign investors as well as modernization efforts of Customs in the past. Mr. Dinh also expressed his wish to continue cooperating with the Customs authorities to further facilitate the Taiwanese business community in investment, production, import and export.

At the seminar, the Dong Nai Customs Department informed about the contents of new laws and regulations in the field of Customs and at the same time noted the ideas of the Association and enterprises to improve operations, in order to support enterprises as well as revise the customs legislation in the coming time.

At a press conference, Pousung Company wondered whether outsourced production was offeredtax exemption as a form of outsourcing or not.

In response to Pousung Company, Mr. Le Van Tho, Head of Import-Export Duty Department under the Dong Nai Customs Department said that Decree 134/2016 / ND-CP stipulated the basis for identifying duty-free goods of organizations and individuals having establishments producing goods for export in the Vietnamese territory, and having the right to own or use machinery and equipment in production establishments suitable to raw materials, supplies and components to import goods for the production of exported goods.

Thus, Pousung Company delivering raw materials for processing is not exempt from tax.

Pousung also said that the mandatory entrustment under the provisions of Circular 39/2018 / TT-BTC was only applicable to imported goods, not for exported goods, which cause difficulties for enterprises.

In this regard, Ms. Do Thi Huong Sen, Head of the Management Supervision Division of the Dong Nai Customs Department, said that the Circular No. 39 regulated that the inspection of goods only applied to bulk goods and imported goods. Therefore, exports are not bulk goods, which are not applied to the above Circular. However, Ms. Sen said that she would note the opinion of the Pousung Company to report to the General Department of Vietnam Customs to find a way to remove those problems in the coming time.

Advance Multitech Vietnam Co. Ltd., had problems with the registration and use of digital signature when making e-Customs declaration, but in practice, all documents must be signed and sealed. If the company has its own management department and the manager of the seal is absent, the official letter or voucher will be delayed, affecting the time to complete procedures for import and export declaration.

Answering the question of Advance Multitech Co., the representative of the Dong Nai Customs Department said that Circular 38/2015 / TT-BTC amending and supplementing Circular 39/2018 / TT-BTC, stipulates that all Customs documents are made in the form of electronic data via digital signatures, which are registered by the company with the customs office. Thus, the company does not have to register and stamp these documents. In the case where the customs declaration is made on the Customs declaration paper, the Customs declarant or taxpayers may file the originals or copies of the documents.

Another enterprise said that according to the Government's Decree No. 08/2015 / ND-CP, the Customs office did not perform the certification and stamp the e-Customs declaration printed from the system. The concerned State management agencies shall have to exchange information on the Customs declarations and request the customs declarants to present the Customs declarations. However, when the enterprise pays through the bank, the bank still requests the declaration and the declaration must be stamped by the Customs.

The Dong Nai Customs Department said that on the implementation of the Government's Decree No. 08/2015 / ND-CP stipulating the use of e-Customs declaration, on 19 August 2016, the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 33/2016 / QD-TTg, promulgating the regulations on the provision and use of information on electronic Customs declarations.

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Accordingly, enterprises may request banks to use Customs information portals to look up and use e-Customs to make declarations via-bank payment according to regulations.