What are the latest procedures for declaring environmental protection tax in Vietnam in 2023? What does the declaration include?
How many methods are there for taxpayers to declare environmental protection tax in Vietnam?
Pursuant to Subsection 21 of Section II Administrative Procedures issued with Decision 1462/QD-BTC in 2022, taxpayers can declare environmental protection tax through the following three methods:
- Submitting directly at the tax authority's headquarters.
- Or sending through the postal system.
- Or submitting the electronic dossier to the tax authority via electronic transactions (the e-portal of the General Department of Taxation/e-portal of the competent state authority or the T-VAN service provider).
What are the latest procedures for declaring environmental protection tax in Vietnam in 2023? What does the declaration include?
What is the declaration for environmental protection tax in Vietnam?
Pursuant to Subsection 21 of Section II Administrative Procedures issued with Decision 1462/QD-BTC in 2022, the declaration for environmental protection tax includes:
- Tax declaration form for environmental protection tax (Form 01/TBVMT) as specified in Appendix 1 - Tax Declaration Document List of Decree 126/2020/ND-CP and Circular 80/2021/TT-BTC.
- Appendix: Determination table of environmental protection tax payable to localities receiving revenue from coal (Form 01-1/TBVMT) as specified in Appendix 1 - Tax Declaration Document List of Decree 126/2020/ND-CP and Circular 80/2021/TT-BTC (in case the taxpayer allocates environmental protection tax for petroleum products to each locality where dependent units are located as regulated).
- Appendix: Allocation table of environmental protection tax payable to localities receiving revenue from petroleum products (Form 01-2/TBVMT) as specified in Appendix 1 - Tax Declaration Document List of Decree 126/2020/ND-CP and Circular 80/2021/TT-BTC (in case the taxpayer determines the tax amount payable to each locality where coal mining companies are located as regulated).
Number of sets of documents: 01 set.
What are the latest procedures for declaring environmental protection tax in Vietnam in 2023?
Pursuant to Subsection 21 of Section II Administrative Procedures issued with Decision 1462/QD-BTC in 2022, the instructions for declaring environmental protection tax are as follows:
Step 1: The taxpayer prepares the data, completes the tax declaration form, and submits it to the tax authority no later than the 20th day of the month following the month of occurrence, specifically as follows:
- The taxpayer submits the environmental protection tax declaration documents at the place where the taxable goods are produced, including the environmental protection tax for coal mining and the environmental protection tax for domestic coal consumption.
- For petroleum business activities:
+ The main traders who directly import, produce, blend petroleum products submit the tax declaration documents to the tax authority directly managing the quantity of petroleum products exported and sold by the main traders, including exports for internal consumption, exports for exchange of other goods, exports of imported goods under consignment, sales to other organizations and individuals that are not dependent units or subsidiary companies according to the provisions of the Enterprise Law of the main traders; excluding the quantity of petroleum products exported and imported under consignment for other main traders.
+ Subsidiary companies according to the provisions of the Enterprise Law of the main traders or dependent units of subsidiary companies, dependent units of main traders submit the tax declaration documents to the tax authority directly managing the quantity of petroleum products exported and sold to other organizations and individuals that are not subsidiary companies according to the provisions of the Enterprise Law of the main traders and the dependent units of subsidiary companies.
+ The main traders or subsidiary companies according to the provisions of the Enterprise Law of the main traders with dependent units conducting business in other provinces or centrally-run cities different from the place of the main traders, the subsidiary companies of the main traders establish headquarters where the dependent units do not account for separate accounting to declare and pay environmental protection tax to the tax authority directly managing; calculate the tax, allocate the tax obligation to each locality where the dependent units establish headquarters according to the regulations of the Minister of Finance.
- For domestic coal mining and consumption:
+ Enterprises engaged in domestic coal mining and consumption through the management and delivery to subsidiary companies or dependent units for mining, processing, and consumption, the unit performing the coal consumption task declares and pays the entire amount of environmental protection tax generated from taxable coal mining and submits the tax declaration documents to the tax authority directly managing along with the determination table of the tax amount to be paid to each locality where the coal mining companies establish headquarters according to the regulations of the Minister of Finance.
Step 2: Tax authority receiving:
- The tax management authority receives the tax declaration documents, notifies the receipt of the tax declaration documents; in case the documents are illegal, incomplete, or not in the prescribed form, notify the taxpayer within 03 working days from the date of receipt of the documents.
- In case the documents are received through the Electronic Portal of the General Department of Taxation, the tax authority receives, inspects, and handles the documents through the electronic data processing system of the tax authority:
+ The Electronic Portal of the General Department of Taxation sends notification of the receipt of the taxpayer's submitted documents or notification of the reasons for not accepting the documents to the taxpayer through the Electronic Portal chosen by the taxpayer to prepare and submit the documents (Electronic Portal of the General Department of Taxation/Electronic Portal of the competent state agency or service provider T-VAN) no later than 15 minutes from the receipt of the taxpayer's electronic tax declaration documents.
+ The tax authority performs inspection and handling of the taxpayer's tax declaration documents according to the provisions of the Tax Administration Law and the guiding documents, and sends the acceptance/non-acceptance notification of the documents to the Electronic Portal chosen by the taxpayer to prepare and submit the documents no later than 01 working day from the date stated on the notification of receipt of the electronic tax declaration documents.
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