Dak Nong tightens tax management of online business

Online business booms and challenges for the tax industry

In recent years, online shopping via Facebook, Tiktok, Zalo... has flourished. Many livestream sales activities have achieved very high revenue.

Officers of the Tax Department of Cu Jut - Krong No area (Dak Nong) review the activities of business households in the area.

In Dak Nong, online business has also developed strongly recently. Items sold directly online are often cheaper. Many attractive promotions have attracted a large number of customers to participate in shopping.

It is a good thing that people doing online business have high revenue. However, many social network accounts have "forgotten" to declare and pay taxes according to regulations.

According to the Dak Nong Provincial Tax Department, although the tax sector has paid attention to tax management of online business activities, management work has encountered many difficulties.

First of all, the number of individuals doing online business is quite large, but they have not registered their business or tax. This makes it difficult for tax authorities to manage taxpayers.

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The mechanism and policies for managing e-commerce activities are not yet complete. Identifying entities participating in business activities on this platform is difficult because the information is anonymous.

Many cases do not have warehouses or stores, only accept online orders, sell through intermediaries... so it is very difficult to control.

Not to mention, determining the basis for calculating taxes for these subjects is still difficult due to the lack of database. Meanwhile, regulations and rules for coordination with banking and delivery organizations to have full data to serve tax management are still inadequate.

According to the provincial Tax Department, Dak Nong has about 2,000 individuals doing business online. The main business items are: cosmetics, clothes, food, etc.

Verify cash flow for tax collection

Recently, the General Department of Taxation issued Official Dispatch No. 01 on effective implementation of tax management for e-commerce activities and electronic invoices generated from cash registers.

The General Department of Taxation requests local tax departments to urgently conduct comprehensive inspections of organizations, households, and individuals doing online business and e-commerce.

Immediately after receiving the telegram, the Provincial Tax Department focused on reviewing and synthesizing individuals who have income from online sales activities.

Tax authorities actively encourage people subject to taxation to voluntarily register, declare and pay taxes to the State budget.

Many businesses and individuals fulfill their tax obligations to the State.

Regional tax departments coordinate with relevant departments and offices to exchange information about online traders to exploit data for tax management.

In cases where the information on the database has a high discrepancy compared to the self-declared number, the tax authority requires an explanation with legal invoices and documents.

According to the Tax Law, individuals with an income of 100 million VND/year or more are required to declare and pay this tax. In fact, there are many individuals with high income from online business activities.

However, very few of these cases voluntarily register and declare taxes. The rest operate carelessly and "forget" their obligations. According to the Provincial Tax Department, the entire industry continues to promote non-cash payments according to the Government's policy. For typical cases, with large tax revenues but deliberately not complying with tax payment according to regulations, they will be severely punished.

The Provincial Tax Department will coordinate with banks to verify cash flow and income to notify taxpayers, in order to create fair and healthy competition.

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