The Viet Nam Gold Traders Association has called on the Ministry of Finance to discard its plans to tax export of gold of less than 95 per cent purity, claiming it would badly affect the industry.
Export taxes on gold jewellery and fine works are to be eliminated,
while the tax on material gold will be set at 2 per cent beginning
January 1 next year, reports www.thesaigontimes.vn.