Upgrading the market management apparatus to reduce online trading violations

Increasing the penalty rate comes with concerns regarding counterfeit goods and tax evasion of online purchases

The e-commerce situation in 2024 will continue to have changes in business and purchasing methods. Previously, many experts in retail and e-commerce said that this industry has developed “hotly” in recent years, creating opportunities for networks of trading fake, counterfeit goods, and tax evasion goods to proliferate. . Therefore, it is necessary to “cool down” and put e-commerce into stable operation.

Because of the practical requirements mentioned above, in recent times the General Department of Market Management has played a leading role, implementing many solutions such as Plan 888 or Project 319 in controlling goods through online trading. gland.

Through synthesizing reports across industries and assessing shortcomings in market management in the past year, the Department of Operations – General Department of Market Management has made many proposals to improve the effectiveness of market control. Unscheduled inspection of new products, development of specialized inspection plans for fertilizer and mineral production and trading products, etc.

On the other hand, strengthen supervision and properly implement functions and tasks. Plan 888 is both scientific and has specific plans in terms of content and implementation methods; Focus on inspection in the field of e-commerce; Periodically check to avoid overlap with localities and focus on gas, petroleum, and fertilizer products; Improve expertise in identifying counterfeit goods.

In 2023, one of the central agencies directly handling cases, the Department of Professional Affairs, inspected 59 cases, received documents from other agencies and transferred them to 4 cases, handled 33 cases with 54 subjects prosecuted. fine, 2 cases are being handled, 21 cases are not being handled. Total fines and illegal profits collected from the state budget were 3.2 billion VND. The value of destroyed goods is nearly 5 billion VND.

Notably, the Department of Operations’ own violation handling rate has increased by 764% compared to the same period in 2022, and reached 158.5% of the planned target assigned in 2023.

Across the industry, Market Management forces have conducted inspections and tests in a total of nearly 72,000 cases. Detected and handled over 52,000 violations, an increase of 19%. Transferred to investigating agencies 174 cases showing signs of crime, an increase of 37%. Collection and payment to the budget of over 501 billion VND.

This shows that in parallel with the efforts of the authorities, forms of violations also have many unpredictable developments to avoid the investigation of the authorities.

Outstanding violations in 2023 are mainly smuggled goods and goods of unknown origin for sugar, cigarettes, cosmetics, food, electrical equipment… focusing on the commercial sector. e-commerce, quality of petroleum, fertilizer, business conditions for conditional goods.

General Director Tran Huu Linh directed the Department of Operations in the coming time to focus on cultivating experience and skills, promoting internal and external relationships; Assign specific tasks to each individual and department, assign specific targets, which routes, which items, without violating work ethics; Continue to effectively implement Plan 888, focus on examining the field of e-commerce, and necessary establish an e-commerce department.

General Director of the General Department of Market Management Tran Huu Linh.

Upgrade the apparatus structure

Also according to e-commerce experts, currently online buying and selling is gradually shortening the intermediary stages. Instead of going through trading floors and channels, online buying and selling has been reduced from seller to buyer, and only through the intermediary stage of transportation. This means that the management work is fragmented, the authorities must take control of both small and micro-scale online consumption areas. It will be impossible if there is not enough human resources and operational tools.

A violation by a foreign transport vehicle was discovered.

It should be emphasized that from 2024, the General Market Manager sets very high goals in each stage of inspection and handling with targets many times higher than previous years. As for the Department of Operations, General Director Tran Huu Linh requested the Department to focus on unexpected inspections for cases of 200 million VND or more and less than 200 million VND for new items. And especially raising this year’s target 5 times higher than last year’s. Besides, the Director General also mentioned the need to establish an E-Commerce Department for more effective management.

Giving recommendations to meet practical requirements, Deputy Director Nguyen Duc Le proposed changes in the organizational structure. It is necessary to establish a specialized department to synthesize reports. Thereby, the Operations Department will only specialize in inspecting and handling administrative violations, instead of previously, civil servants both compiled reports and reports for each industry sector (17 product sectors) and also did advisory work. documents, advising on media handling, conducting market inspection and control, and accessing deeper INS data.