Due to poor health, my mother stopped working many years ago. Last year, when she reached retirement age, I registered her as a dependent.

The Ministry of Finance states there are insufficient grounds to apply personal income tax to gold bar transactions, despite the law now including this income type as taxable.

I need to travel abroad for a long-term business trip in two weeks and want to know how to verify that I have no outstanding tax debt before my departure.

During a tax inspection at a business, team leader Tran Minh Truong threatened "very large fines" and demanded the director pay 250 million VND for leniency.

Individuals with one dependent and a monthly income exceeding 28,63 million dong will only be required to pay tax after deducting up to 47 million dong annually for medical and education expenses, according to the Ministry of Finance's proposal.

The Ministry of Finance proposes that the government regulate the personal income tax and value-added tax exemption threshold for business households, replacing the current fixed 500 million dong.

Individual and household businesses are required to declare their bank account numbers to tax authorities by 21/4, according to recent reports.