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Vietnam eTax Mobile digital updates and identity theft

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The Vietnamese General Department of Taxation has implemented digital updates to the eTax Mobile application to enhance security and simplify tax compliance. Initial updates focused on combating identity theft, where criminals use stolen citizen data to illegally register businesses. The app now allows users to verify if their personal information is linked to unauthorized organizations through the ‘Personal Information’ section and provides a ‘Send Feedback’ feature to report suspicious activity directly to authorities. Subsequent developments introduced an AI Chatbot designed to assist business households with tax declarations. This feature uses a question-and-answer format to guide users through details like revenue and business type to suggest complete tax returns. Currently, the chatbot supports the 01/CNKD tax form for households with annual revenue exceeding 1 billion VND. In response to ongoing fraud, tax authorities have launched a nationwide campaign to clean up tax identification number data. ~~This initiative urges taxpayers~~ Authorities have issued urgent advisories for citizens to ~~verify their information via~~ use eTax Mobile ~~or hotlines~~ to review their tax identification numbers, following reports of ~~individuals being~~ widespread identity theft used ~~as legal representatives~~ to register ‘ghost’ businesses for tax evasion, smuggling, invoice trading, and illegal credit applications. In Hanoi, authorities disclosed over 150,000 businesses ~~without their knowledge. The Ministry of Finance has~~ violating tax obligations, many established using stolen identities. Some taxpayers have also reported ~~approximately 4,000 cases of identity theft used~~ receiving unexpected land tax debt notifications via the app for ~~fraudulent business registrations.~~ properties they do not own. Victims face severe consequences, including ~~being held liable for~~ travel restrictions and massive tax ~~debts, facing criminal liability, and encountering travel restrictions. For example, a resident in~~ debts. In Ho Chi Minh ~~City was prevented from traveling to Australia due to tax debts linked to four unauthorized companies. Specific cases, such as~~ City, a resident ~~in Dong Nai being registered as~~ named Nguyen Hong Chien has filed a ~~director for~~ lawsuit against the Business Registration Office seeking to revoke a ~~high-revenue transport company~~ fraudulent registration and claim damages exceeding 870 million VND. Chien discovered the theft after being informed at Tan Son Nhat International Airport that ~~has no physical presence, highlight~~ his exit from the ~~scale of ‘ghost’ businesses used for~~ country was suspended due to tax ~~evasion and illegal invoice trading.~~ enforcement measures related to a company he never established.

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