With the current process, people spend a lot of time and effort to complete tax refund procedures, while tax officials also suffer when having to review a stack of tax refund documents.

The General Department of Taxation (Ministry of Finance) said that this unit is researching and will soon deploy a number of products and tools for tax management, including an automatic personal income tax (PIT) refund application.

Speaking at the launching ceremony of the virtual assistant product to support taxpayers at the Hanoi Tax Department this morning (November 21), Director General of the General Department of Taxation Mai Xuan Thanh said that the General Department of Taxation is building the function "Suggested personal income tax finalization declaration" on applications to support individuals in electronic tax declaration.

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Automatic personal income tax refund from the beginning of 2025. Photo: Nam Khanh

This application will support the creation of suggested declarations for individuals based on the tax system database compiled from income-paying organizations instead of taxpayers having to compile information themselves to declare. After that, the tax authority will upgrade the application, automatically supporting all tax settlement and personal income tax refunds for taxpayers.

This is expected to be implemented in early 2025 (before the 2024 personal income tax settlement period).

The General Director of the General Department of Taxation assessed that automatic personal income tax refund will shorten and simplify the steps for processing personal income tax refund dossiers and reduce the amount of manual processing.

"With a very large number of individual taxpayers that the tax authority is managing every year and having to carry out administrative procedures such as tax settlement and personal income tax refund, the implementation of the application will be a breakthrough to simplify administrative procedures, support taxpayers to carry out tax settlement easily, and at the same time reduce the workload for the tax authority," said Mr. Thanh.

The General Department of Taxation also informed that the tax sector is building an electronic information portal for individuals with e-commerce business activities to register, declare and pay taxes. The General Department of Taxation has basically completed the functions of the portal and will soon be launched to taxpayers.

Mr. Thanh also mentioned a number of other products and tools serving tax management such as using artificial intelligence (AI) in analyzing electronic invoice information to identify unusual sales and business values; applying AI in analyzing big data collected from e-commerce business activities to identify acts of non-declaration, tax payment, and tax evasion; applying AI in checking tax declaration records...

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