Vantai24h - On March 5, 1818, Ministry of Finance recently sent a letter to ministries, sectors and localities and proposed to contribute comments to the draft resolution of the National Assembly on debt handling, debt freezing , late payments, fines irrecoverable, amounting to more than 26,500 billion.
According to the statistics, as of 31/12/2017, the total amount of tax arrears, late payments, fines is 78,619 billion. Of which, the total amount of tax arrears, late payments and fines managed by the tax branch was VND 73,145 billion; The amount of tax debts managed by the Customs is VND 5,474 billion.
The draft of the Ministry of Finance has the following remarkable contents:
Firstly, the remittance of late payment for taxpayers who supply goods and services is financed with the State budget or from the state budget, but has not yet been paid, amounting to VND 542.525 billion.
Second, write off tax arrears of taxpayers incurred before 1 January 2015 by taxpayers in the event of natural calamities, fires, unexpected accidents or unforeseen circumstances, Up to 31/12/2017, estimated at 1.700 billion.
Thirdly, the Ministry of Finance proposes to remove tax arrears, late payments and fines for cases where it is no longer feasible to collect tax amounts due to the fact that the taxpayers actually dissolved, went bankrupt or terminated their production or business activities. , actually no longer operating production and business before January 1, 1977 but no longer able to remit the budget and have been revoked business registration certificate business registration.
Notably, households and individuals who have stopped trading before January 1, 2017 are also proposed to remove the tax arrears, late payments and fines, amounting to VND 24,302 billion.
Thus, the total amount of tax debts proposed for removal is about 26,500 billion.
In the total of VND 73,145 billion of tax debts managed by the tax branch, VND 31,469 billion is the tax debt owed by taxpayers who died, lost, lost their capacity for civil acts, related to criminal liability. , has automatically dissolved, went bankrupt, stopped, took leave of business address, can not afford to withdraw.
With customs, of VND5,474 billion of total debt, up to VND3,878 billion is irrecoverable. Accordingly, the amount of tax, late payments and fines as of 31/12/2017 of irrecoverable tax liabilities arising due to objective reasons is 35,347 billion, equaling 44.9% of total debt. tax, late payment, fine.
According to the assessment, in the past time, the implementation of the provisions of the Law on Tax Administration, the Ministry of Finance has guided the remission of tax arrears and fines for late payment to taxpayers in time and in accordance with the provisions of law. However, if the regulations are in accordance with the regulations, the results of handling tax debts are very low for cases of debt can not collect. As a result, from 1 July 2007 to 31/7/2017, the total amount of tax paid and fines paid by the tax authorities is VND1,122 billion, accounting for 3.3% of the total non-recoverable debts. recovery.
According to the review, the Ministry of Finance found that the solution to remove tax arrears in four cases according to regulations "not cover all current business situation, not yet existed about the tax debt can not be collected This is due to objective reasons, as well as not fully reflect the management of tax debts assigned by the tax and customs departments”.
By THAO TRANG
