Vietnam eyes amendments to e-commerce taxation

E-commerce platform owners must declare and pay tax on behalf of individual sellers for goods and services sold on their online platform. This is one of the amendments that the Ministry of Finance is seeking under the new draft decree covering e-commerce taxation. The ministry is seeking comments on the said draft amendments. The new draft also said that for goods and services not sold online, the owner must declare and pay tax on behalf of individual sellers, under their authorisation. The owner is also required to disclose information to tax authorities of traders, organisations and individuals, who have made transactions on their platform.