The Ministry of Finance will study and consult with ministries and branches on installing compulsory cash registers with data connection to print e-invoices.
The above content was emphasized by Minister of Finance Ho Duc Phuc at the Conference on February 3 on deploying e-invoice solutions created from cash registers for a number of business activities providing goods and services. direct-to-consumer service.
Minister Ho Duc Phuc said that following the direction of the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Finance has coordinated with the Ministry of Public Security and other ministries and branches to organize the implementation of an electronic invoice solution created from cash registers.
805/3.943 registered business establishments
Previously, on July 1, 2022, the tax sector had implemented e-invoices nationwide. Up to now, 100% of businesses and business households operating in the field of direct-to-consumer have used this type of electronic invoice. this application.
Common forms of e-invoices (such as invoices with codes, invoices without codes) have been implemented, but have not yet met well for some specific business activities and have regular operating times, as well as prices. The value of each invoice is not much, but the number of bills is very large (such as catering business, restauranthotels, entertainment services, supermarketgold industry).
In order to better meet the use of e-invoices of these specific industries, the tax authority has built a solution and officially operated the system. electronic bill initialized from cash register from 15/12/2022.
Deputy General Director of the General Department of Taxation Dang Ngoc Minh, shared the results of implementing e-invoices generated from cash registers (after more than a month), 62/63 Departments of Taxation reported the implementation plan of phase 1 (to end of March 2023). As a result, there are 3,943 registered businesses that will deploy e-invoices. Particularly, the Tax Department of Bac Kan province has not yet established a list of taxpayers who will implement phase 1 due to difficulties in persuading taxpayers to convert to e-invoices (because this is not a mandatory regulation). ).
However, Mr. Minh said that in fact, out of 62 Tax Departments that have registered to implement phase 1, only 25 Tax Departments have officially received registration for using electronic invoices from cash registers.
Currently, only 805/3,943 business establishments have officially registered and are accepted to register to use e-invoices from cash registers on the tax authority’s system.
It is worth mentioning that out of a total of 85.4 million e-invoices of 3,943 businesses currently using, only 544 e-invoices are sent from cash registers to the tax authority’s system.
“805 businesses have registered to use e-invoices from cash registers but still use other forms of e-invoices, so the issue of e-invoices from cash registers is still not much,” said Mr. Minh said.
Ensure fairness in tax obligations
The above data shows that it is too low compared to the need to convert the form of ordinary e-invoices to electronic invoices from cash registers.
According to Mr. Minh, the current regulations still allow business establishments to use multiple forms of electronic invoices at the same time. On the other hand, businesses said that it takes time to upgrade and convert the application software of the cash registers at each point of sale to unify the invoice issuance from the cash register throughout the system. especially the chain model, supermarket.
At the conference, Deputy Minister of Public Security Nguyen Duy Ngoc said that there should be enough legality from circulars, decrees and laws to ensure that taxpayers must comply with the Law.
Regarding tools for subjects to fulfill their tax obligations, the tax industry needs to develop standards on circulation for payment machines (such as how to secure data).
Deputy Minister Nguyen Duy Ngoc emphasized the coordination and readiness to connect data between ministries and branches. Including management data of the Ministry of Planning and Investment on businesses, business households or tax data, population data.
“The General Department of Taxation will soon verify data, ensuring that each citizen has a correct and accurate tax code to manage, connect and share. This will help fulfill tax obligations and responsibilities,” said Deputy Minister Nguyen Duy Ngoc.
In addition, Deputy Minister Nguyen Duy Ngoc also asked the Ministry of Finance to coordinate with ministries and sectors to set a roadmap and select a pilot unit from which to draw lessons.
The tax sector will continue to focus on propaganda in accordance with the provisions of the Tax Law – requiring those who have sold goods to issue invoices and install cash registers to enter the connection port. (Photo: Vietnam+)Concluding the conference, Minister Ho Duc Phuc said that he would absorb the ideas at the conference to study and continue to collect opinions from ministries and branches to have an implementation plan.
In addition, the Minister of Finance said that the tax sector will choose 3 units in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Hai Phong for pilot implementation with the goal of 100% of connecting with cash registers to initiate crazy invoices. death. In which, the focus areas are restaurants, hotels, supermarkets and gold and silver trading.
Next, the tax industry will continue to focus on propaganda work in accordance with the provisions of the Tax Law – requiring those who have sold goods to issue invoices and install cash registers to enter the connection gate. Retailers who do not issue invoices will be definitively sanctioned and the tax sector will perform unscheduled checks with some points.
In addition, Minister Ho Duc Phuc emphasized that the lucky draw program has been tested very well in the past time, this work contributes to propaganda and encourages people to get invoices when buying goods and using different types of products. service form.
However, the Minister said that so far it is necessary to issue a Decree on regulations on electronic invoices for “lucky spins,” such as how to conduct prize draws and funding sources. Accordingly, the Ministry will assign specialized units in the industry to research, advise and submit to the Government.
“The most important issue is still the legality, the Ministry of Finance will study and get opinions from ministries and branches to implement the installation of data-connected cash registers to print e-invoices on the basis of electronic invoices. Sanctions are mandatory,” said the minister.
Regarding the coordination relationship, the Ministry of Finance said that it has assigned the General Department of Taxation to build a data center on electronic invoices and connect with the national data center. First of all, it will connect with residential data to perform finance and tax for business households and businesses. Accordingly, the implementation and regulation of cash register ensure a smooth connection will be studied.
“Currently, the number of business establishments implementing the implementation is very small, up to now, there are more than 800 establishments accepting cash registers to create e-invoices, but only 544 invoices are sent to the tax authorities, because The solution is to strengthen the inspection and coordination of propaganda work, in addition to implementing and perfecting the ‘mandatory’ sanctions,” the Minister emphasized.
Hanh Nguyen (Vietnam+)