During his meeting on Wednesday morning with representatives from Da Nang’s departments of Finance, Taxation and Customs, along with relevant agencies, the municipal Party Committee Secretary, Mr Tran Tho, stressed the need for the city to exceed its total budget collection targets by about 10% this year.

To reach this goal, the local taxation sector was asked to ensure its monthly tax collection is over 900 billion VND.   Meanwhile, the customs sector was required to collect 200 billion VND tax per month.

The meeting in progress

The Director of the city’s Taxation Department, Mr Tran Van Mien, said that the city’s total tax collection in January accounted for 11.3% of this year’s estimates.  He remarked that this was a positive sign for the local taxation sector.  In addition, the director pledged that his department would do its utmost to exceed this year’s tax collection target.