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Đặt hàng doanh nghiệp nội địa tham gia các dự án trọng điểm quốc gia

Dantri | Local Language | News | Jan. 23, 2026 | Regulation

Acting Minister of Industry and Trade Lê Mạnh Hùng highlighted significant economic achievements during the 2021-2025 term, with the Industry and Trade sector playing a strategic role in national development. Industrial production saw strong recovery and growth, particularly in processing and manufacturing industries, driving industrialization, modernization, and progress towards autonomy, connectivity, green transition, digital transformation, and international integration.

However, challenges remain, including low technological autonomy, limited development of foundational industries and source technologies, lagging labor productivity, and slow adoption of green and smart production methods. The country faces a new era emphasizing science, technology, innovation, green transition, digital transformation, and deep international integration.

To advance industrial and commercial development, the Ministry aims to focus on completing institutions and policies, promoting a dual transition combining green initiatives with energy security, developing autonomous supply chains, linking domestic and foreign-invested enterprises, increasing localization, and involving domestic enterprises in key national projects. The sector will also enhance trade remedy capacity, leverage free trade agreements, and accelerate administrative and public service reforms by simplifying procedures and lowering compliance costs.

Development solutions proposed include leading major policy improvements toward autonomy, modernization, green transition, and digital transformation, innovating legal frameworks to support development, mobilizing resources for infrastructure development, and strengthening domestic enterprises comprehensively. The Ministry emphasizes proactive, effective international economic integration linked to enhancing economic autonomy and sustainable growth. The sector commits to shifting from a management mindset to one of creation, supporting enterprises to turn challenges posed by greening and digitization into opportunities for national development.

Cục Thuế: Không căn cứ doanh thu 2026 để truy thu thuế khoán các năm trước

VN Express | Local Language | News | Jan. 23, 2026 | Regulation

Starting in 2026, millions of households under the lump-sum tax regime will transition to declaring and paying taxes based on actual revenues. Despite concerns over potential retroactive tax assessments if declared 2026 revenues exceed previous lump-sum amounts, the Tax Department clarified in Official Dispatch 307 dated January 19 that it will not use 2026 declared revenues to retroactively assess or recover tax obligations from prior years. This applies to taxpayers assigned revenues and payment levels by the tax authority through 2025 and earlier, and to those whose taxable revenues changed by 50% or more due to shifts in operational scale.

Deputy Director General Mai Sơn emphasized that administrative sanctions regarding invoices for business households have been designed to be simpler and more appropriate to their scale, confirming that declared revenues in 2026 will not be used to recover lump-sum taxes for past years. The tax authority will also enhance support channels and provide step-by-step guidance to facilitate the declaration process for business households.

However, if fraud or revenue concealment causing tax shortfalls is detected, households or individual businesses will face sanctions under Decree 125/2020. Penalties can include warnings, fines up to 200 million VND for organizations and 100 million VND for individuals, fines on false declarations equaling 20% of the missing tax, and tax evasion fines from one to three times the evaded amount. Additional measures include suspension of invoice printing, full payment of taxes and penalties, and potential criminal prosecution for serious offenses.

By the end of 2024, Vietnam had approximately 3.6 million business households and individuals, with 2.2 million stably operating under lump-sum or declared regimes. These contributed around 26 trillion VND to the budget in 2024, with 17 trillion VND collected in the first half of that year.

Vietnam Net - E | English | News | Jan. 23, 2026 | Corporate Corruption or Fraud

Le Minh Tri, Secretary of the Party Central Committee and Standing Deputy Head of the Central Internal Affairs Commission, revealed that during the 13th Party Congress term, many large-scale, highly organized corruption cases resembling interconnected "ecosystems" were uncovered and addressed. These corruption networks involved banks, securities firms, valuation agencies, and notary offices, with hundreds of affiliated companies manipulating stocks, rigging auctions, distorting public investment, and exploiting crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. The anti-corruption campaign was comprehensive, consistent, and led directly by the Party, significantly strengthening Party discipline, enhancing public trust, and reducing corruption, waste, and misconduct across government levels.

The campaign's success included improved asset recovery and tighter coordination between Party inspection bodies and judicial agencies. Moving forward under the 14th Party Congress, Le Minh Tri emphasized the need to reinforce Party leadership, uphold discipline, and implement a stricter yet humane legal framework that supports economic growth. He stressed the importance of legal and institutional reforms to close loopholes exploited by corrupt actors, eliminate regulatory deadlocks, and align with recent Politburo resolutions focused on legislative innovation and private sector development.

Prevention efforts will focus on strengthening transparency, expanding asset monitoring, and promoting cashless transactions. Empowering prosecutors to initiate lawsuits protecting public interests and encouraging voluntary cooperation for damage recovery are also priorities. The anti-corruption institutions must be efficient, with clear mandates from central to local levels, and policies should protect innovation while sanctioning irresponsibility. Le Minh Tri highlighted the need to foster a culture of integrity through education and to ensure anti-corruption bodies themselves maintain the highest ethical standards to effectively serve as guardians against corruption.