Abolition of tax returns, etc. Government tax system investigation committee, which is mostly in favor of tax returns October 21, 17:09
With the digitalization of administrative procedures, the movement to consider abolishing stamps is spreading, and at the government tax system investigation committee held on the 21st, the Ministry of Finance will abolish stamps in tax procedures such as tax returns in principle. The majority of the opinions were in favor of the proposal.
The Prime Minister's advisory body, the Government Tax Review Board, held an online meeting of experts, including university professors and tax accountants, to discuss the revision of tax procedures.
In this, the Ministry of Finance has proposed to abolish the obligation to seal tax procedures, such as final tax returns, which can be done with so-called "approval seals" in principle.
On the other hand, it is necessary to consider how to deal with procedures that require the attachment of a registered seal or seal certificate.
On the other hand, the attendees said, "I agree with the direction of abolishing the seal in principle from the viewpoint of improving the convenience of taxpayers," and "There are procedures that require more identity verification, so what is that? It is necessary to determine whether it is a seal and carefully consider whether it should be a seal. ”The majority of the opinions were in favor of the Ministry of Finance's proposal.
Until now, the government tax system investigation committee has also discussed the relaxation of requirements to make it easier to replace books that companies are obliged to keep for a certain period of time with electronic data instead of paper.
The Ministry of Finance would like to consider details such as system design based on the discussions so far and reflect them in the tax reform from next year onward.