The General Department of Taxation of Vietnam has announced to kick off a pilot program on electronic taxation in 2015 to help ease the burden of administrative procedures on local taxpayers.

Under the program, taxpayers can carry out many kinds of tax obligations, from tax registration, tax filing, tax payment, to tax information lookup, on the Portal of General Department of Taxation of Vietnam.

Initially, the program will be performed in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s two biggest cities where there is a centralized tax collection system running. The program will then be expanded to other provinces and cities across the country in the coming years.

Up to the present time, electronic tax filing service has been launched by the department at 300 municipal tax departments in 63 provinces and cities nationwide.

Accordingly, the e-tax filing system has provided services to more than 397,130 taxpayers, while receiving and processing more than 17.6 million tax returns electronically.

Meanwhile, the electronic tax payment services have been deployed in 18 provinces and cities across the country, with nearly 4,000 participating companies. The total state budget revenues reached over VND2 trillion (US$94 million).

Last month, the General Department of Taxation of Vietnam has deployed the centralized tax management systems (TMS), an integrated and centralized tax information management system nationwide, at its municipal arms to be prepared for the pilot program in the near future.

When fully deployed at all the municipal arms, the TMS system will replace the entire 16 operating applications that support tax administration.

At the same time, the tax service TMS enables easy adoption of standardized management systems across the country, avoiding unnecessary errors during data exchange between the lower and higher tax agencies and reducing operating costs.

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