How to look up a dependent's tax identification number online
Discover the simple steps to look up a dependent’s tax identification number online, ensuring you have the necessary information for accurate tax filing and compliance. The tax code is a tool to help authorities manage tax payment activities nationwide, and at the same time control tax fraud, late tax payment and tax evasion. Accordingly, the current law stipulates that all dependents must register for a tax identification number to receive family circumstance deductions. In this article below, Viet An Tax Agent will guide you how to look up the latest online dependent tax code.
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What is Dependent?
Dependents are simply understood as people whom individuals pay personal income tax are responsible for raising, by blood or marital relations. Some specific cases can be mentioned as follows:
Children: Children can be natural children, adopted children (with full document authentication), children out of wedlock, stepchildren of spouses or spouses. In order for a dependent child to be eligible for family circumstance deduction, it must fall into the following cases:
Children must be under 18 years old (calculated by month)
Children aged 18 years or older but have disabilities or are unable to work
Children who are studying in Vietnam or abroad at university, college, vocational high school, vocational training, including children aged 18 years or older who are studying at the general education level (including while waiting for university exam results from June to September of grade 12) have no income or have an average monthly income in the year from all sources income not exceeding VND 1,000,000
Spouse: If they are of working age, they must also fully meet the following conditions:
Disabled, unable to work
Having no income or having an average monthly income in the year from all sources of income not exceeding VND 1,000,000. If they are outside the working age, they must have no income or have an average monthly income in the year from all sources of income not exceeding VND 1,000,000
Birth father, mother; father-in-law, mother-in-law; father-in-law, mother-in-law; stepfathers, stepmothers; legal adoptive father or adoptive mother
Other beneficiaries who are objects that personal income taxpayers must directly nurture include:
Siblings, siblings of taxpayers
Grandfathers, grandmothers; grandfathers and grandmothers; biological aunts, uncles, aunts, uncles and uncles of taxpayers
Children of siblings
Persons who must directly nurture other persons as prescribed by law
What is a dependent tax identification number?
A dependent number is a sequence of numbers consisting of 10 digits. It is issued by the tax office to the dependents of an individual, with the purpose of deduction from the family circumstances of an individual who has to pay tax according to obligations or jobs related to the state budget.
This code plays a particularly important role in making tax administration easier. At the same time, it helps taxpayers confirm their personal income status, ensuring that the tax deduction and deduction of family circumstances tax are convenient
What is the purpose of looking up a dependent tax code?
When registering a tax identification number for a dependent of an individual income tax payer, it will be partially deducted, helping to reduce the financial and psychological burden.
At the same time, looking up the tax code of dependents is also beneficial for individuals and businesses such as:
For individuals: help check and identify tax payment information, thereby completing tax declaration, finalization or refund of personal income tax accurately
For businesses: help check and determine tax payment information before completing tax declaration and finalization of personal income tax of employees
How to look up the dependent number
Look up dependents’ tax codes online on the electronic tax system
Perform online searches through web browsers such as: Google Chrome, Firefox,.. The search steps are as follows:
Step 2: Select Business, then the login screen will be displayed
Step 3: Enter information including: Username, Password, Confirmation Code, then select “Login”
Step 4: Select the item “Lookup” à “Tax declaration notice” à Select the type of notification “V/v: Send tax identification number results to the dependent” à Select “Lookup”
Step 5: Display the results of issuing tax identification numbers to dependents, select “Download” to get information
Look up dependent tax code via Etax Moblie App on mobile
Notes when looking up a dependent’s tax identification number
When looking up the personal tax identification number of dependents, it is necessary to note some points as follows:
It is prohibited to look up and use another person’s dependent’s tax code for personal purposes that are unclear or improper
To get the quickest results, please input all information correctly and completely
In cases where individuals do not pay taxes for a long period of time or have outstanding tax debts, their tax codes will be blocked, and no search results will be displayed
If the dependent’s tax code matches the ID number, it can still be used for tax deduction declarations. However, if the dependent’s tax code matches other identification documents, you should immediately contact the local tax department for resolution
Some questions related to the tax identification number of dependents
What is the purpose of registering a dependent tax identification number?
The purpose of registering a taxpayer’s dependent tax identification number is to deduct family circumstances and reduce the payable personal income tax amount of the taxpayer
What is the purpose of looking up a dependent tax code?
Lookup the tax identification number of dependents aims to:
Helping individual taxpayers determine their tax payment information and the situation of tax declaration, finalization or refund of personal income tax
Helping businesses – places that pay income to taxpayers complete personal income tax finalization dossiers for individuals
Can taxpayers look up their dependents’ tax identification numbers on the e-tax system?
To look up the dependent tax code on the electronic tax system, you need the account of the enterprise where the income is paid. Therefore, if an individual wants to look up the dependent tax code on the electronic tax, he must go through the opinion of the business owner or accountant.
If you have any difficulties or questions related to how to look up your dependent’s tax code online, please contact Viet An Tax Agent for the most specific advice.
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