Ministry of Finance will review and handle fraudulent personal income tax refunds

Deputy Director of Tax Department Mai Son informed at the Press Conference

Deputy Director of the Tax Department Mai Son said that in order to comprehensively and synchronously transform the digitalization in tax management with the goal of "Taxpayers as the center of service", and at the same time continue to accelerate the process of maximally simplifying tax administrative procedures, thereby maximally saving time and effort in performing procedures on tax obligations of taxpayers, in the past time, the Tax sector has applied information technology, digitizing the work of handling personal income tax (PIT) refund dossiers.

Currently, the Tax Department has built and completed the process and application for automatic personal income tax refund for taxpayers. Therefore, taxpayers can carry out the entire procedure for requesting personal income tax refund via mobile devices with the eTax Mobile application installed. Taxpayers only need to perform very simple operations with the function "Suggested Personal Income Tax Finalization Declaration" which is compiled from the database of income-paying organizations and the annual declaration data of individuals, taxpayers check the information on the declaration, confirm and send it to the tax authority. The entire process of resolving personal income tax refund at the tax authority will be performed automatically and information will be transmitted to the State Treasury to make refunds to taxpayers in the fastest time.

To ensure the implementation of automatic personal income tax refund, the tax authority recommends that taxpayers install and use the eTaxMobile application to promptly update information on their tax obligations (information on sources of income, deducted tax, personal income tax declaration and settlement obligations, tax obligations for non-agricultural land use tax; information on land financial obligations, etc.)

In addition, taxpayers fully update personal identification information, including information of dependents. This update helps the Tax sector's data system synchronize data with the National Population Database, thereby minimizing errors in data synthesis and optimizing automatic tax refund processing efficiency.

“In case the taxpayer changes the information on the “Suggested Personal Income Tax Finalization Declaration”, the system will automatically check and compare the difference between the self-declared data of the taxpayer and the data compiled by the tax authority to support the review, inspection and quick processing of the records in this case, thereby ensuring the time to process the personal income tax refund records according to the law”, said the leader of the Tax Department.

Based on the available data provided by the tax system, the tax authority also hopes that taxpayers will proactively control information and request honest tax refunds to ensure their own rights and avoid tax law violations (if any). The tax sector's IT system will monitor and support tax authorities in conducting post-audits, recovering refunded tax amounts and handling violations according to regulations for taxpayers who commit fraud to get personal income tax refunds, Mr. Mai Son affirmed.

The representative of the Tax Department also shared that the tax sector has a 24/7 support system for taxpayers. If there are any problems, taxpayers should immediately contact the tax authority for timely support. Tax authorities at all levels have established and organized hotlines and assigned staff to be ready to receive information and answer taxpayers' questions.

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