The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has just announced the reduction of the gasoline import tax to 5.62 per cent while increasing the standard cost of the gasoline base price by VND30 per litre.
Many goods imported from the Republic of Korea (RoK) into Viet Nam will be exempted from import taxes in 2018, due to the Viet Nam-Korea Free Trade Agreement (VKFTA).
High import taxes on auto components and parts, packaging and logistics expenses are major reasons behind locally-assembled cars costing 10-20 per cent higher than imports from Thailand and Indonesia.
Viet Nam Business Forum (VBF) 2016 has proposed the Government remove import taxes on auto components and parts which are not yet produced in Viet Nam.
The Finance Ministry has submitted a proposal to the Government to allow Dung Quat Oil Refinery to contribute only 10 per cent in import taxes to the State budget and to calculate its own selling prices.
Ministries, sectors and localities need to commit to reducing import
taxes, as established in a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) for 2015 to 2018,
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh said.
Viet Nam Customs tax collections have reached VND117.5 trillion (US$5.57
billion) in the first six months of this year, a 24.4 per cent
year-on-year increase.