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In an effort to avoid gatherings amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the Buddhist Sangha of Vietnam (BSV) has told some pagodas to accept online donations and offerings via e-wallet. Most Venerable Thich Duc Thien, BSA’s Vice President and General Secretary. Most Venerable Thich Duc Thien, BSA’s Vice President and General Secretary, on February 23 met with the press to explain the plan to allow people to offer donations and make offerings via e-wallet, which began during the Tet holiday. In recent days, some pagodas have begun doing so. This has raised concern among Buddhists that this might be a scam in the 4.0 era. What do you think about this? The Vietnam Buddhist Sangha has released documents guiding Buddhists and pagodas to have the anti-epidemic spirit at the highest level and ensure that spiritual needs are satisfied during the spring festival, which is a long standing traditional culture of Vietnamese people. The Vietnam Buddhist Sangha implemented online Lunar New Year peace praying ceremony and many pagodas organized online prayers well. Many pagodas plan to organize peace praying programs on the 15th day of the Lunar New Year. The Vietnam Buddhist Sangha, via its social network, has opened a portal to take registrations for online peace praying. The Vietnam Buddhist Sangha believes that praying for peace is what everyone wishes for. Together with praying for peace, people may want to offer donations. This is voluntary. In an effort to avoid gatherings, the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha decided to create conditions for Buddhists to offer donations via e-wallet. This has been piloted at some pagodas. To date, 12 pagodas have accepted online donations and offerings. Some scammers could counterfeit pagodas’ websites to get donations. What should be done to prevent this? Accepting donations via an app is a method to prevent scams. E-wallet service providers will serve as the filter. We plan to release a document to inform the executive …

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Several companies in District 1, HCMC complained that their business codes got revoked by tax authorities because their temporarily closed facilities were deemed “abandoned” during the pandemic. According to an official from District 1’s Tax Department, companies that leave their business locations are considered “high risk” in terms of tax evasion. However, companies applying for legal re-opening must agree to use physical invoices issued by tax authorities for one year, which goes against policies encouraging the use of electronic invoices by the Ministry of Finance and the General Department of Taxation. “E-billing with a tax authentic code would be a much better option to monitor legally liable companies in this case”, argued the public. The government have encouraged complete e-billing and online tax return to shorten procedures and minimize direct contact between citizens and tax officials to avoid bribery. Additionally, companies based in District 1 when applying for re-opening must prove their business locations with a site lease contract, while this form had been made redundant decades ago to shorten the administrative process. Meanwhile, a company established at the end of March 2020 was fined for not declaring their first quarter taxes, even though they did not start operations until April due to a pandemic delay. Business insiders agree that municipal authorities should be more lenient during difficult times, and offer advice to newly established companies instead of straight up fining them for minor errors. Han Ni - Translated by Tan Nghia …

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