Hanoi (VNA), Oct. 23 -- Vietnam's outstanding tax payments had reached 88.25 trillion VND (3.8 billion USD) as of September, up 8.2 percent from the end of 2018, Finance Minister Dinh Tien Dung said.

The figure included nearly 43 trillion VND worth of uncollectable tax , or 48.7 percent of the total, he told the 14th National Assembly 's eighth meeting on October 22.

Uncollectable tax liability is caused by people - who either die, are declared missing or lose their civil act capacity - and businesses that are dissolved, go bankrupt or suffer from unexpected disasters.

More than 771,400 taxpayers registered with the tax agency owed more than 24 trillion VND to the State. Of the figure, late taxes and penalties were worth 10 trillion VN...