The working group must operate with the highest responsibility to provide maximum support to taxpayers and e-commerce platforms in business activities to ensure transparency and fairness…

Deputy Director General of the General Department of Taxation Mai Son said that the tax sector needs to immediately establish a Working Group to support the provision of information from e-commerce platforms to directly support e-commerce platforms in implementing tax policies in the most favorable way.

The working group must operate with the highest responsibility to provide maximum support to taxpayers and e-commerce platforms in business activities to ensure transparency, fairness and compliance with tax laws; promptly report to the General Department’s leaders any problems arising during the coordination process for immediate solutions.

To support e-commerce platforms, on December 15, 2022, the General Department of Taxation officially operated the E-commerce Information Portal with the feature of receiving information from e-commerce platforms.

Up to now, after 8 periods of information provision (from the fourth quarter of 2022 to the third quarter of 2024), the General Department of Taxation has obtained a database of transactions provided by e-commerce trading floors, with information of sellers on the floors such as: identification information, contact information, business address, residential address, business service industry group, bank account.

However, through the process of analyzing data collected from e-commerce platforms, the General Department of Taxation found that there is still a phenomenon of incomplete and unreliable data that needs to be reviewed before it can be used for tax management.

At the same time, in order to carry out the task of proposing the development of legal documents in draft 1 of the Law amending 7 Laws, including amending and supplementing the Law on Tax Administration, in the draft Law regulating the responsibility of deducting and paying taxes on behalf of e-commerce platforms for individuals doing business on the platform, the General Department of Taxation is proposing to add responsibilities in deducting, paying taxes on behalf of, and declaring the deducted tax amount for business households and individuals.

“To facilitate tax deduction and payment, the Tax Department hopes to receive comments from e-commerce platforms and the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry to discuss and resolve difficulties and obstacles, thereby creating the most favorable conditions for all three parties (taxpayers, e-commerce platforms and tax authorities) in properly implementing tax policies and laws,” Deputy Director General of the General Department of Taxation Mai Son shared at a recent online meeting to discuss tax management for e-commerce activities.