Individuals with tax debts overdue for 90 days to face foreign travel bans

The department has written to them saying they must promptly publicize information about these individuals and enforce measures like travel bans to collect the owed taxes.

Authorities frequently review the debts to extend or lift the bans.

Dang Ngoc Minh, the tax department’s deputy director, said at a press conference last week that the temporary travel bans are just one of the measures enforced to make sure tax debts are collected and that authorities often carefully consider which measure to utilize for each case.

Data from the tax department shows that over 6,500 such bans have been imposed since the beginning of the year, triple the number from the same period last year.

Authorities then managed to collect VND1.341 trillion (US$54.3 million) from 2,116 individuals subjected to these bans.