Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung requested the General Department of
Taxation slash the tax payment time to 171 hours in 2015 at any cost
while chairing a meeting in Hanoi on March 31.
He
pointed to tax and social insurance reform as a key task of the
Government’s master plan on administrative reform, saying a transparent
mechanism and institution is significant to curb inflation.
He asked the General Department of Taxation and the Vietnam Social
Insurance to review legal documents and remove unnecessary procedures
and regulations.
The two sides need to promote the
application of science and technology and strictly address violations
while increasing the role of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) and its
members in investigation efforts.
According to
Minister of Finance Dinh Tien Dung, the time required to pay taxes was
cut by 370 hours as of January 1 this year, thanks to the ministry’s
coordination with commercial banks to implement e-tax payment services.
As of March 25 this year, more than 97.5 percent of
active businesses had filed their taxes with e-services and as many as
40,490 businesses from 18 of 63 cities and provinces nationwide
registered to pay through e-taxes.
Meanwhile, the
Vietnam Social Insurance strives to cut the time required to complete
social insurance paperwork to 49.5 hours from 335 hours, in line with
time required in the ASEAN-6 countries: Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia,
Indonesia, the Philippines and Brunei.
It will
fine-tune a database on social insurance and health insurance involving
individuals and organisations and connecting cities and provinces in
management.
The Ministry of Finance coordinated with
the Ministry of Planning and Investment to build an automatic
information connection system between the planning-investment and tax
agencies while publishing information addressing tax formalities
according to the one-stop-shop model used in the tax agency’s portal.-VNA