{"id":5246,"date":"2021-11-18T20:24:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T11:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/suzuki-global.com\/?p=5246"},"modified":"2021-12-13T14:02:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T05:02:43","slug":"audit-and-tax-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suzuki-global.com\/en\/audit-and-tax-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam&#039;s financial audit, tax audit | Points to note for companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vietnam&#039;s accounting audit, response to tax audits, points that companies should be aware of<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2021 is approaching the end of the year, and foreign-affiliated companies are approaching audit seeds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many foreign-affiliated companies, including Japan, set a fiscal year with the end of December as the end of the fiscal year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Foreign-affiliated companies to which accounting audits are compulsorily applied will proceed with accounting audits and tax filing within 90 days from that date.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2021, Vietnam was also greatly affected by the plague.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2020, Vietnam was said to be an honor student in the world with a cumulative total of hundreds of infected people, but by the middle of 2021, thousands of people will be infected every year, mainly in Ho Chi Minh, the largest city in southern Vietnam. It has spread.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First, bars, taverns, massages, and other industries where people could come into contact with each other closed their stores, and even then many factories were forced to shut down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That&#039;s why we&#039;ll outline how auditing should be viewed by companies in such a year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vietnam&#039;s accounting audit, response to tax audits, precautions<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vietnam&#039;s tax authorities reduce tax revenue<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sales are expected to decline this year in many industries and companies. That means a big reduction in tax revenues for the Vietnamese tax authorities as well, and the tax authorities may scrutinize the company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, various incentives, tax cuts and tax exemptions have been implemented this year due to the influence of the pandemic. As a result, it leads to a decrease in tax revenues of tax authorities. Companies need to pay more attention to compliance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Areas of risk pointed out in tax audits<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some common areas that tax authorities are likely to point out are:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eligibility if corporate tax incentives are applied<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Handling of loss carryforwards<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interest with related parties<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inconsistency in inventory list and physical inventory quantity<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bad debt processing and evaluation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Employee salary<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Personal Income Tax (PIT) Residents&#039; domestic and foreign income in Vietnam<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Appropriate housing allowance<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Appropriate withholding tax on foreign contractor tax (FCT) technology and service use<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Permanent establishment (PE)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transfer pricing documentation<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Penalties<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additional tax (underreported) 20%<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heavy additional tax (tax evasion, fraud) 100% -300%<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Late interest 0.05% per day<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Accounting audit, response to tax audit, summary<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The response of the tax authorities is expected to be stricter than before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Accounting audits are extremely important for foreign-affiliated companies in order to fully respond to tax audits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also important for companies to communicate with accounting firms who have a firm grasp of their management methods and characteristics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At AACS, we would like to inform you of points to be aware of from the aspect of accounting audit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you have any questions, please contact us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/suzuki-global.com\/en\/vietnam-audits-compliance-guide-for-foreign-companies-investors-and-representative-offices\/\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Related: Vietnam Audit | Compliance Guide for Foreign Companies \/ Investors<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accounting audits in Vietnam, how to respond to tax investigations, and points that companies should be aware of As 2021 draws to an end, the foreign [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,71,73],"tags":[65,66,67,107],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/suzuki-global.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/suzuki-global.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/suzuki-global.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suzuki-global.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suzuki-global.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5246"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/suzuki-global.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6563,"href":"https:\/\/suzuki-global.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5246\/revisions\/6563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suzuki-global.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/suzuki-global.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suzuki-global.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suzuki-global.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}