Tax Department plans an anti-invoice-fraud conference on October 1–2, 2026

The conference is planned over two days

VOV reported on September 30, 2026 that the Tax Department planned a national conference on preventing fraud and illegal invoice trading for October 1 and 2. VCCI previously published the plan on September 29.

Planned topics focus on local tax-management experience, difficulties in handling cases, and solutions suitable for wider application. This is pre-event information; the cited sources do not contain conference conclusions.

The focus is risk identification and transaction chains

According to VCCI’s article citing Thời báo Tài chính, the conference is expected to discuss data- and risk-based inspections instead of dispersing resources across isolated documents. Inspection of value-added-tax refund files is also among the discussion topics.

The stated direction is to strengthen identification and tracing of unusual transaction chains while reducing unnecessary inspections of compliant taxpayers. This is an objective communicated before the conference, not an assessment of implementation effectiveness.

Business perspective: Documents should tell the transaction’s story

For internal management, businesses can treat invoice review as part of purchasing, delivery, and payment controls. If each department holds only one piece of information, accounting will struggle to explain the complete transaction when reconciliation is needed.

For example, a materials buyer should be able to connect purchase orders to delivery records, quality confirmations, related documents, and payments. When quantities or values do not match, clarifying promptly with the owner is usually more useful than waiting until period-end to retrieve information.

Reconciliation does not mean assuming every discrepancy is fraud. A difference may arise from multiple deliveries, order adjustments, or data-entry errors. What matters is knowing who must explain it, using which records, and retaining the resolution.

Five questions for reviewing a transaction file

1. Which business need does the transaction serve, and who approved it?

2. Who actually delivered, accepted, and confirmed the goods or services?

3. Are partner information, quantities, and values consistent across records?

4. Has the payment been matched to its transaction, and have differences been explained?

5. Can the responsible department retrieve records and adjustment history when needed?

These questions are operational suggestions, not a list of mandatory legal documents. For specific declarations or invoice handling, check current guidance and consult an appropriately qualified professional.

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