524 businesses discovered selling illegal invoices and fake invoices

On July 11, the General Department of Taxation issued information on the recent situation of buying and selling invoices.

Accordingly, the Tax Department has coordinated with competent authorities to review and detect a number of subjects using fake ID cards/citizen identification cards to establish new or acquire inactive businesses in order to sell illegal invoices to businesses, reducing tax obligations to the State budget.

Through coordination with competent authorities, 524 enterprises were discovered selling illegal invoices and fake invoices (one of the prohibited acts stipulated in Clause 7, Article 6 of the Law on Tax Administration).

Lang Son Provincial Police prosecuted a business for illegally buying and selling thousands of invoices.

"The case of 524 businesses selling these invoices is different from the case of businesses selling goods and then abandoning the business address registered with the tax authority because the invoice-selling units mainly falsely declare invoices for purchased goods," said the General Department of Taxation.

The General Department of Taxation has issued a document recommending that businesses with input invoices from 524 businesses proactively review and eliminate illegal invoices without accompanying goods to adjust declarations and properly account for tax obligations to the state.

The General Department of Taxation requests the local Tax Department to notify and invite representatives related to the above 524 high-risk enterprises to prove that the use of invoices is legal. The enterprise can choose to explain directly to the Tax authority or in writing.

Enterprises with sales invoices consistent with actual transactions must declare and pay taxes according to current regulations.

Lang Son Provincial Police identified 13 subjects who are directors and accountants of enterprises who illegally bought and sold thousands of invoices, worth hundreds of billions of VND.

Source: https://vietnamnet.vn/phat-hien-524-doanh-nghiep-ban-hoa-don-khong-hop-phap-hoa-don-khong-2164278.html