THE GOVERNMENT
------- SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No. 85/2007/ND-CP Hanoi, May 25, 2007
DECREE
DETAILING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A NUMBER OF ARTICLES OF THE LAW ON TAX ADMINISTRATION
THE GOVERNMENT
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on Organization of the Government;
Pursuant to November 29, 2006 Law No. 78/2006/QH11 on Tax Administration;
At the proposal of the Minister of Finance,
DECREES:
Chapter I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1.- Scope of regulation
1. This Decree details the implementation of a number of articles of the Law on Tax Administration applicable to the management of taxes, charges, fees, land and water surface rents, land use levy, revenue collected from the exploitation of mineral resources and other revenues of the state budget, the collection of which is managed by tax administration agencies according to law.
2. Policies on modernization of tax administration, building of the tax administration force, handling of tax law violations and coercive enforcement of tax administrative decisions are provided for in other legal documents.
Article 2.- Taxpayers
Taxpayers referred to in this Decree include:
1. Organizations, households and individuals that pay taxes, charges, fees or other revenues of the state budget according to law.
2. Organizations that are tasked to collect charges and fees belonging to the state budget.
3. Organizations and individuals that withhold tax; organizations and individuals that carry out tax procedures on behalf of taxpayers, including:
a/ Organizations and individuals being Vietnamese parties to contracts with foreign organizations and individuals that conduct business in Vietnam not under the investment law and do not practice the Vietnamese accounting regime;
b/ Organizations and individuals withholding tax when paying incomes to persons who have incomes liable to income tax on high income-earners;
c/ Organizations acting as shipping agents or agents for foreign carriers and responsible for withholding enterprise income tax on activities of shipping cargoes from Vietnamese seaports to overseas seaports or between Vietnamese seaports;
d/ Organizations providing services of carrying out tax procedures;
e/ Agents for carrying out customs procedures for imported goods and exported goods;
f/ Organizations and individuals providing postal and international express mail services in case they pay taxes on behalf of tax-paying organizations and individuals;
g/ Credit institutions or other organizations operating under the Law on Credit Institutions in case of guaranteeing tax payment for tax-paying organizations and individuals.
Article 3.- Tax collection mandate
1. Tax administration agencies may mandate other agencies, organizations and individuals to collect some taxes according to the regulations of the Ministry of Finance.
2. Tax collection mandate must be effected through contracts between heads of tax administration agencies and agencies, organizations or individuals mandated to collect taxes.
3. Parties mandated to collect taxes shall notify and urge taxpayers to pay taxes under tax collection mandate contracts; issue tax receipts to taxpayers upon collecting taxes; remit collected tax amounts into State Treasury accounts of tax administration agencies; finalize collected tax amounts and tax receipts with tax administration agencies; monitor and report to tax administration agencies on new taxpayers or changes in the business scale and lines of taxpayers in localities where they are mandated to collect taxes.
4. Tax administration agencies shall publicly notify cases of mandated tax collection to taxpayers for information and implementation; supply tax receipts to agencies, organizations and individuals mandated to collect taxes, guide, inspect and supervise their collection and remittance of collected tax amounts.
5. Agencies, organizations and individuals mandated to collect taxes defined in this Article enjoy mandated tax collection funds deducted from operating funds of tax administration agencies. The Ministry of Finance shall guide the deduction and use of mandated tax collection funds mentioned in this Clause.
Chapter II
SPECIFIC PROVISIONS
Article 4.- Principles for tax calculation, declaration and payment
1. Except for the cases in which tax administration agencies make tax assessment or calculation under Articles 37, 38 and 39 of the Law on Tax Administration, taxpayers shall calculate tax amounts payable into the state budget they have declared.
2. Taxpayers shall accurately, honestly and fully fill in their tax returns and fully submit vouchers and documents required in tax declaration dossiers to tax administration agencies.
3. If making tax calculation by themselves, taxpayers shall fully pay tax amounts already calculated and declared to tax administration agencies within the time limit for submitting tax declaration dossiers specified in Articles 32 and 33 of the Law on Tax Administration.
4. If tax administration agencies make tax calculation or tax assessment, the tax payment time limit is the time limit stated in tax payment notices or tax collection decisions of tax administration agencies.
Article 5.- Changes in tax registration information
1. In case of a change in information in a submitted tax registration dossier, the taxpayer shall notify it to the direct managing tax agency (stated in the tax registration certificate) within 10 (ten) working days from the date such change occurs.
2. A taxpayer that relocates its office, which leads to the change of the direct managing tax agency, shall fully pay the tax amount declared before relocating its office and is not required to make tax finalization with the tax agency (except for cases in which the time of office relocation coincides with the time of annual tax finalization.
3. In case of changes in information in tax registration certificates, direct managing tax agencies shall withdraw granted tax registration certificates and grant new ones to taxpayers.
Article 6.- Tax declaration dossiers
1. A tax declaration dossier comprises a tax return made according to a form set by the Ministry of Finance and relevant documents used by a taxpayer for making tax declaration and calculation.
2. A tax return must have the following principal contents:
a/ Its type name and code;
b/ Tax period or time of arising of tax liability;
c/ Information on the taxpayer: name, tax identification number and transaction address;
d/ Information on the bases for calculation of the payable tax amount;
e/ Signature of the taxpayer or his/her lawful representative.
Article 7.- Declaration of value-added tax
1. Declaration of value-added tax is specified as follows:
a/ Declaration on a monthly basis, except for cases of declaration upon each time of arising of tax liability specified at Point b of this Clause and tax declaration by the presumption method specified in Article 18 of this Decree.
b/ Declaration upon each time of arising of tax liability is applicable to:
- Exported goods, imported goods;
- Goods and services sold or provided by taxpayers that are engaged in itinerary construction, installation or sale without setting up affiliated units in provincial-level localities other than localities where they are headquartered (hereinafter referred to as extra-provincial business). If making tax declaration several times in a month, taxpayers may register with tax administration agencies to make value-added tax declaration on a monthly basis.
c/ Declaration for annual tax finalization for cases where value-added tax is directly calculated on the basis of added value.
2. Value-added tax declaration dossiers:
a/ A value-added tax declaration dossier comprises:
- Monthly value-added tax declaration;
- List of goods or service sale invoices;
- List of goods and service purchase invoices.
b/ Dossiers of value-added tax declaration upon each time of arising of tax liability are value-added tax declarations for extra-provincial business or customs dossiers for exported goods and imported goods.
c/ Dossiers of declaration for value-added tax finalization are value-added tax finalization declarations and relevant documents.
Article 8.- Declaration of enterprise income tax
1. Declaration of enterprise income tax is specified as follows:
a/ Declaration for temporary calculation on a quarterly basis, except for cases of tax declaration by the presumption method specified in Article 18 of this Decree;
b/ Declaration upon each time of arising of tax liability for enterprise income from the transfer of land use or land lease rights;
c/ Declaration for annual finalization or declaration for tax finalization up to the date of termination of operation of enterprises or expiration of contracts, enterprise ownership transformation or reorganization.
2. Enterprise income tax declaration dossiers:
a/ Dossiers of enterprise income tax declaration for temporary calculation on a quarterly basis are quarterly enterprise income tax declarations.
b/ Dossiers of declaration of enterprise income tax on incomes from the transfer of land use or land lease rights are enterprise income tax declarations for incomes from transfer of land use or land lease rights and relevant documents.
c/ A dossier of declaration for enterprise income tax finalization comprises:
- Declaration for enterprise income tax finalization;
- Annual financial statement or financial statement up to the date of termination of operation or contract, enterprise ownership transformation or reorganization;
- Other documents related to tax finalization.
3. The declaration of withheld enterprise income tax on incomes from securities, agency commission or capital transfer shall be specified by the Ministry of Finance.
Article 9.- Declaration of special consumption tax
1. Declaration of special consumption tax is specified as follows:
a/ Monthly tax declaration is applied to goods (except for imported goods specified at Point b of this