Outstanding Achievements in E-Taxation

The electronic tax declaration system has been launched to all 63 provinces and cities and all tax offices and 99.4% of enterprises are using this service, said the General Department of Taxation (GDT). The system received 15,150,722 records from January 1, 2022 to October 15, 2022.

With the electronic tax payment service, GDT collaborated with 55 commercial banks and 63 tax departments to launch the electronic tax payment service and mobilized enterprises to use this service. 98.6% of companies registered to use the service as of October 15, 2022.

As many as 98.1% of enterprises completed registering the electronic tax payment service with banks. They conducted 2,963,603 electronic tax payment transactions worth over VND648,868 billion and US$48.7 million since January 1, 2022.

The General Department of Taxation integrated electronic tax payment on the eTax Mobile application with 15 banks (six more banks compared to the launching time) and will continue to expand with other banks in the future. As many as 223,306 downloads, installations and uses were counted as of October 31, 2022. Users performed 102,639 transactions with a total value of over VND375 billion.

GDT officially applied the electronic invoice system nationwide from July 1, 2022 and all business entities and individuals can use e-invoices from that time. Tax authorities received and processed more than 1.8 billion e-invoices as of October 31, 2022. GDT launched the "Lucky Invoice” program nationwide on October 7, 2022. As a result, 53 out of 63 tax departments registered to select lucky invoices and 46 departments successfully organized the program to pick up lucky invoices.

This very important content made a very important contribution to changing habits and forming the habit of buying goods and services that must be invoiced.

After more than seven months of official operation (from March 21, 2022), 37 foreign suppliers successfully registered, declared and paid a total tax of VND3,177 billion, including giant foreign suppliers like Meta (Facebook), Google, Microsoft, TikTok, Netflix and Apple.

By Le Hien, Vietnam Business Forum