Ministry of Finance explains why many people do not know they are being suspended from leaving the country due to tax debts

ANTD.VN - The Ministry of Finance affirmed that before issuing a notice to temporarily suspend exit for tax debtors, the tax authority notified taxpayers through many channels.

The Ministry of Finance said that according to the provisions of the Tax Administration Law No. 38/2019/QH14, cases of temporary suspension of exit are specified in Clause 1, Article 66 and Clause 7, Article 124.

For taxpayers who are about to be temporarily suspended from leaving the country by the tax authority, the tax authority has reviewed, compared, and accurately determined the taxpayer's tax payment obligations; before issuing a notice of temporary suspension from leaving the country, the tax authority has also taken a number of measures to urge taxpayers such as calling, sending emails, inviting taxpayers to work, sending debt notices, and sending enforcement decisions (if any) to taxpayers.

Tax authorities send notices of temporary suspension of exit to tax debtors through many channels (Illustration photo)

According to regulations, tax authorities shall send debt notices; provide information on tax arrears monitored and managed by tax authorities; send and publicize enforcement decisions and temporary exit suspension notices through many channels for taxpayers to know and look up.

Specifically: eTax Mobile application, electronic transaction account (thuedientu.gdt.gov.vn), taxpayer's email registered to exchange information with tax authorities, correspondence via the tax notice receiving address registered by taxpayer with tax authorities, electronic information page of the Tax Department and General Department of Taxation. Accordingly, taxpayers can know, look up their tax obligations and fulfill their tax obligations before leaving the country, avoiding the case of arriving at the airport or border gate and only knowing that they owe taxes and being temporarily suspended from leaving the country by tax authorities.

The Ministry of Finance believes that in cases where taxpayers report not knowing they owe taxes or not receiving notices from tax authorities, there may be a number of main reasons as follows: Taxpayers do not know how and where to look up information, and do not look up information regularly;

Taxpayers have not promptly updated the tax authority with changes in tax registration information such as information on tax notice receiving address, email, phone number;

Taxpayer abandons business address and does not operate at the registered business address.

“Therefore, to avoid the situation where you only find out you owe taxes at the airport or border gate and are temporarily suspended from leaving the country by the tax authority, the tax authority recommends that taxpayers regularly look up their tax obligations to have a plan to pay taxes on time, not to let the tax debt situation drag on and drag on; proactively look up debt notices, enforcement decisions, and temporary suspension of exit notices sent by the tax authority to taxpayers.

At the same time, taxpayers need to proactively update any changes in notification address, email address, and phone number so that the tax authority can contact them or the taxpayer can receive timely and complete notifications from the tax authority, so that the taxpayer can process and fulfill their tax obligations before leaving the country" - the Ministry of Finance recommends.

In case the taxpayer has fulfilled his/her tax payment obligation, the taxpayer must immediately contact the tax authority that issued the notice of temporary suspension of exit to receive support and cancel the temporary suspension of exit according to regulations.

Regarding the consideration of adding regulations on a reasonable minimum tax debt threshold to apply the measure of temporary suspension of exit, the Ministry of Finance said that the General Department of Taxation will base on the actual situation and implementation practices in the past time, refer to international experience in threshold regulations of countries around the world to absorb, focus on research, and report to competent authorities to consider regulating an appropriate debt threshold to both ensure the effectiveness of tax debt collection and create conditions for enterprises to continue production and business activities.

Source: https://www.anninhthudo.vn/bo-tai-chinh-ly-giai-vi-sao-nhieu-nguoi-khong-biet-bi-tam-hoan-xuat-canh-do-no-thue-post594977.antd