Accompanying Hai Duong enterprises to overcome tax settlement peak

Businesses ask...

Nguyen Thi Thanh Binh Company Limited in Nguyen Giap Commune (Tu Ky) is a business specializing in providing daily industrial meals. The business has some issues when settling taxes in 2024 such as: When should the business issue invoices when providing daily industrial meals? When buying Tet gifts for 800 employees, can the invoice be combined and accompanied by a fully signed list or must the invoice be issued for each employee? As a 2-member LLC currently with 10 trucks running goods, what procedures does the business need to do to calculate depreciation and reasonable fuel costs?

A representative of Dai Ngan VS Company Limited, also in Tu Ky district, raised the question: The director of Company A owns 50% of the company's charter capital and is also a member of the board of directors of Company B. The two companies are two legal entities operating and accounting independently. Is the purchase and sale of finished products and goods at market prices between the two companies considered an affiliated transaction? If there is an affiliated transaction, how will it affect deductible expenses when calculating corporate income tax?

Representative of Shenghong Vietnam Textile Technology Co., Ltd. in Quoc Tuan commune (Nam Sach) would like to know whether the land price for calculating registration fee and non-agricultural tax is determined according to the land price list issued by the Provincial People's Committee or determined according to the specific land price determined at the time of land allocation, land lease...?

During the “Peak Month” of tax settlement, not only businesses and business households declaring taxes, but also households implementing lump-sum tax, personal income taxpayers… all have many questions and concerns that need to be answered and guided.

...tax industry replied

According to the leader of the Tax Department of Region V, in order to provide practical support to businesses and business households, on February 21, 2025, the Hai Duong Tax Department (now merged with the Tax Departments of Bac Ninh and Thai Binh provinces to form the Tax Department of Region V) organized an online conference to guide, support, and accompany taxpayers in making tax finalization in 2024 on the unit's website. Taxpayers access the website:http://haiduong.gdt.gov.vnAsk questions to get immediate support from tax authorities

Thanks to that, many specific problems of businesses in the 2024 tax settlement process have been thoroughly resolved.

According to the summary, the above dialogue conference attracted over 11,000 interactions, including over 4,000 online interactions, receiving 127 questions. The questions focused on contents related to invoices, documents, declaration of value added tax, corporate income tax, personal income tax; tax policies for export processing enterprises; reasonable costs when calculating corporate income tax...

“Online dialogue is very convenient for businesses. Any problems we encounter are promptly answered and supported by tax officials,” said Ms. Vuong Thi Len, Chief Accountant of Thanh Dong Gift Company Limited (Hai Duong City).

Through the installation and instructions on using Etax Mobile, representatives of hundreds of businesses in Tu Ky and Gia Loc districts have been informed of a number of new tax policies; instructions on tax calculation methods, deductions, and corporate income tax settlement... Since the beginning of the year, the Tu Loc - Ninh Giang Inter-district Tax Team has also supported over 150 tax settlements via phone, via the Ultraviewer application...

Since January 16, 2025, Hai Duong City Tax Department has established a team to support taxpayers in making tax finalization in 2024. All 17 members have been assigned specific tasks. The phone numbers of the department, individuals in the team, emails, and Etax Mobile support accounts are all made public. Although this year's tax finalization peak coincides with the time when the tax sector focuses on implementing the organizational structure according to the new decision, Hai Duong City Tax Department, now Hai Duong City Tax Team, always maintains a force to ensure timely support for over 4,900 enterprises, 6,997 business households, and individual taxpayers.

No interruption to work

The Tax Department of Region V, based on the merger of the Tax Departments of Hai Duong, Bac Ninh and Thai Binh provinces, officially came into operation in March, with its headquarters located in Hai Duong. In Hai Duong province, there are 6 tax teams including: Hai Duong city, Chi Linh city; Kim Mon inter-district (Kinh Mon town and Kim Thanh district); Nam Thanh inter-district (Nam Sach and Thanh Ha); Cam Binh - Thanh Mien inter-district (including Cam Giang, Binh Giang and Thanh Mien) and Tu Loc - Ninh Giang inter-district (Gia Loc, Tu Ky and Ninh Giang).

Recently, the Tax Department of Region V has been very busy handing over work according to the merger decision; settling taxes for many reorganized units. The process of restructuring the organizational structure also easily gives rise to sensitive and complicated issues such as staff reduction, team reorganization, leadership redundancy, geographical distance, changing working environment... Those things also directly affect the psychology and interests of civil servants, public employees, and workers, requiring high consensus in perception and action. Head of the Tax Department of Region V, Do Cong Tien, said: "We identify this as an important milestone for the tax industry, not only simply changing the organizational structure but also strongly transforming towards a streamlined apparatus, improving operational efficiency, meeting the requirements of socio-economic development and best serving the people and businesses".

The Tu Loc - Ninh Giang inter-district tax team has just been established on the basis of merging the tax management of Ninh Giang district into the old Tu Loc area Tax Department, organized into 5 professional teams, 3 management teams to support individual business households in 3 districts: Tu Ky, Gia Loc and Ninh Giang. Having just officially operated under the new organizational model since March 18, the team's first plan is to spend the whole day of March 25 directly propagating, guiding, and dialogue with taxpayers about tax policies and laws, supporting tax settlement in 2024.

“We are focusing on supporting businesses to complete tax settlement in 2024. This is one of the foundations to strive to complete the 2025 collection task at the highest level,” said a leader of the Tax Department of Region V.