Binh Duong Tax Department to curtail the number of hours for finishing tax procedures

Performing the Prime Minister’s request and the goal set out by the Ministry of Finance to decrease hour number for tax procedures, Binh Duong Tax Department has implemented seriously and initially achieved some positive results... 

Recently, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung met with leaders of several ministries to review and evaluate the implementation of administrative procedure reform in tax sector. Emphasizing administrative procedure reform as a breakthrough, central executive duties of the Cabinet, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung asked the Ministry of Finance and other relevant agencies to devise plans, solutions to implement comprehensively; coordinate closely with other ministries to remove obstacles in the implementation process.

In Binh Duong province, implementing institutions and procedures of tax, provincial Tax Department has implemented administrative procedure reform since 2010 and electronic tax payment since September 2014.

Provincial Tax Department gave training of Circular 26/2015/TT-BTC of the Ministry of Finance to provincial businesses.

Ms. Le Thi Ngoc Khoa, Head of Tax accountant division under provincial Tax Department, said, in 2014, the General Department of Taxation assigned provincial Tax Department to fulfill the target of 903 businesses to pay tax via electronic system. Up to March 31^st 2015, Binh Duong has had 632 businesses implementing electronic tax payment and 1,135 businesses registering for electronic tax payment.

Ms. Khoa added, in 2014, the State applied electronic tax payment in 18 provinces and cities, and 45 provinces and cities in 2015. In addition to 5 banks associated with tax authorities (VietinBank, Vietcombank, BIDV, MBBank, Agribank), in 2015, the General Department of Taxation will continue to link with 15 more banks to facilitate electronic tax payment of businesses.

Vo Long Hai, Head of Propaganda division under provincial Tax Department, said, electronic tax payment helps businesses to save traveling and waiting time. Provincial Tax Department will continue to popularize payment methods among businesses. According to Mr. Hai, in March, Tax Department provided training of Circular 26/2015/TT-BTC dated Feb 27^th 2015 of the Ministry of Finance regarding value added tax, tax administration and invoices, simultaneously dependant’s tax code, and electronic tax payment. Additionally, Tax Department organized training courses of electronic tax payment methods through website, dialogues, direct answers…

Tax Department published all tax administrative procedures on its official website, categories of currently applied tax administrative procedures, such as: general guidelines on tax policies, guidance on tax declaration via Internet, ISO documents, in order to ensure timely procedures finishing under the supervision of taxpayers... In addition, provincial Tax Department joined a law TV program, published new tax policies on mass media…. 

Binh Duong province has many industrial parks, attracted many domestic and foreign businesses to invest. Thus, the implementation of reducing the number of hours performing tax payment procedures will create favorable conditions for enterprises to develop production, contributing to economic development.

Reported by P.Le – Translated by Ngoc Huynh