(HNMO) - From January 1, 2022 to May 17, 2023, 4,760 dossiers of wood and wood products were refunded, with the corresponding amount of VND 19,100 billion.
On May 27, the General Department of Taxation said that after receiving comments from the Vietnam Timber and Forest Products Association and a number of businesses about difficulties in handling VAT refund dossiers for exported wood and wood products, the General Department of Taxation quickly summarized the results of handling VAT refund dossiers in this field in 63 provinces and cities.
From January 1, 2022 to May 17, 2023, the tax authority has processed 4,760 tax refund applications, equivalent to a refund of VND 19,100 billion. Enterprises canceled tax refund requests with 215 applications, equivalent to a request of VND 1,514 billion, because the enterprises themselves reviewed and compared with regulations and found that the applications were missing, declared incorrectly, and needed to adjust the data...
The tax authority rejected 44 applications, equivalent to the requested refund of 310 billion VND, due to missing documents, incorrect forms, and insufficient procedures...
The number of refund requests that have not been resolved by the tax authority is 199, equivalent to the refund request of VND 1,119 billion, accounting for 4.18% of the total number of refund requests that the tax authority has resolved (199/4,760 requests). The reasons are that the requests are being processed according to regulations; the requests have been transferred to the police for investigation and verification; the enterprises have requested to temporarily suspend or postpone the inspection; the enterprises have not provided enough documents or are waiting for verification results...
During the process of processing tax refund dossiers, the tax authority mainly verifies the intermediary enterprises that sell goods to tax refund enterprises. Through verification, the tax authority discovered that 264 intermediary enterprises had abandoned their business addresses and temporarily suspended operations.
Through reviewing the tax sector's data on businesses trading in wood and wood products, 6,712 businesses have abandoned their business addresses and 897 businesses have temporarily suspended operations. In particular, 24 businesses involved in the case have been prosecuted and investigated for the crime of illegal invoice trading.
In 2022 and the first 5 months of 2023, the tax authority transferred the files of 9 enterprises directly requesting VAT refunds for wood and wood products to the police agency for coordination in investigation and verification (excluding intermediary enterprises selling goods to tax refund enterprises). The reason is that enterprises show signs of using fake invoices for tax refunds, enterprises purchasing goods from enterprises with high tax risks...
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