Last updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009
A new environment tax on fuel products is necessary but it will drive up transport costs and hence consumer prices, experts say, suggesting the rate be low.
Fuel is one of eight products that will be taxed under the Environmental Tax Law, according to a finance ministry’s proposal.Thai Van Chung, general secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City...
Last updated: Saturday, November 14, 2009
Many retailers in Ho Chi Minh City have been breaking the law for a long time by not writing invoices and evading value added tax.
Laptops are displayed at an electronics retail outlet in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1.Nguyen Kim Shopping Center, an electronics chain appearing in the top ten list of biggest retailers in Vietnam last year,...
Last updated: Wednesday, October 21, 2009
VnnNews – National Assembly deputies on October 21, discussed the draft laws on natural resources tax and elderly people.
Elderly people in Phong Tho district in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau receive health treatment. Law on the elderly is under discussion by the Assembly.Deputy Nguyen Dinh Quyen from Ha Noi said the law...
Last updated: Wednesday, September 16, 2009
VnnNews – The Ministry of Finance has affirmed that the housing tax is a kind of asset tax rather than an anti-speculation tax.
Deputy Director of the Tax Policy Department under the Ministry of Finance Pham Dinh Thi
Thi, who is also a member of the compilation committee of the draft housing tax, in an interview with Thoi bao...