Tax watchdog wants to develop a portal to manage individuals and households doing e-commerce business

A farmer in Bến Tre Province is livestreaming to sell bonsai. The General Department of Taxation is working on developing an e-portal to manage individuals and business households which run e-commerce businesses. — VNA/VNS Photo Huỳnh Phúc Hậu

HÀ NỘI — The General Department of Taxation is working on developing an e-portal to manage individuals and business households which run e-commerce businesses.

It wants to create favourable conditions for them in terms of tax registration, declaration and payments.

Deputy Director Mai Sơn said that the tax management of e-commerce is currently applied along the same lines as the methods as for traditional business, leading to a number of problems.

He said that the e-portal must be developed with the spirit of supporting tax-payers to fulfil all their tax obligations in the most convenient way.

Amendments to the existing regulations will be raised to enhance the efficiency of tax management on e-commerce business.

The tax watchdog has put e-commerce business under scrutiny.

In the first six months of this year, a sum worth nearly VNĐ10 trillion (US$394 million) in tax was collected from businesses and individuals doing e-commerce business, up VNĐ3.5 trillion over the same period last year.

More than 4,560 cases were fined, collecting a total of VNĐ297 billion.

The General Department of Taxation was sharing details with the Ministry of Industry and Trade about 929 e-commerce platforms, with 53,000 sellers.

In another move, the Ministry of Finance has proposed that individuals and businesses households with tax debts might be banned from leaving the country. — VNS