Enterprises, which have had a lot of difficulties when struggling to turn capital and recover production after COVID-19, now have to bear a series of seaport fees. Seven associations proposed to expand and reduce the tax rate, and publicize the plan to use the budget.
Recently, 7 business associations have sent petitions to the Government Office on the extension of time and fee for using infrastructure works, public utility works in the border gate area, seaport in Ho Chi Minh City.
Associations include the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP), the Food Transparency Association (AFT), the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS), and the Vietnam Leather, Footwear and Handbag Association (LEFASO). ), Vietnam Dairy Association (VDA), Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts and Woodworking Association (HAWA) and Vietnam Plastics Association (VPA)
The associations said that the fee for using infrastructure works and public utility services in the border gate and seaport areas in Ho Chi Minh City, which is expected to start from April 1, has not yet been collected. reasonable.
Because, at the beginning of 2022, businesses have just started to restore production, again under pressure of gasoline prices, leading to high sea freight and input material prices. Not to mention, many businesses are facing many difficulties because of lack of capital, lack of labor, broken supply chain…
The collection of seaport infrastructure fees at this time will increase the burden and reduce the competitiveness of enterprises.
In addition, the applied fee is not fair and appropriate, administrative procedures are cumbersome, making it difficult for businesses.
Specifically, import and export shipments with customs declarations opened outside Ho Chi Minh City are subject to double the fee for shipments with customs declarations opened in Ho Chi Minh City.
Fees applied to goods stored in bonded warehouses, temporarily imported for re-export, goods in transit and goods transshipped are also very high compared to those of import and export goods. Typically, the fee charged for containers is 8.8 times higher and liquid and bulk cargo is 3.3 times higher than the corresponding fee for shipments opening declarations in Ho Chi Minh City.
The new fee level is not appropriate because the business has not recovered its internal production capacity after a prolonged freeze because of the epidemic.
Businesses also said that the use of the collected budget was not public, transparent and led to “charges and fees”. Many businesses have to pay fees twice for export shipments using imported materials. In which, one time fee for import and one time for export.
Faced with these inadequacies, 7 business associations proposed Ho Chi Minh City consider delaying the collection of the above fees until the end of December 31, 2022.
At the same time, the general fee is adjusted to be 250,000 VND/cont for 20ft container; 500,000 VND/cont for 40ft container and 15,000 VND/ton for liquid cargo, non-container bulk cargo for all import and export shipments as well as the location where the declaration is registered.
And Ho Chi Minh City needs to officially announce the start and end time, as well as the plan to use the revenue from the above fees in accordance with the law.
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