Why Kê Khai
For the 2026 wave of household businesses formalizing into companies — people filing their own tax for the first time, without (and not yet wanting) an accountant.
Who it is for
You crossed the threshold or chose to convert from a household business (hộ kinh doanh) in 2026, revenue roughly 1–5 tỷ/năm, and you are not an accountant. Today you either wrestle with HTKK — and fear the numbers are wrong — or pay a few million a month for a service you cannot verify. You do not want full accounting software; you want to know “how much do I owe, why, and did I get it right?” in language you trust, without hiring anyone.
Compared
The tax authority’s official, mandatory-grade tools — free, the canonical submission path.
A form-filler, not a calculator: you still have to total the figures yourself, work out the tax, and carry the risk of a mistake. No law behind the numbers, no self-audit, no amendment help.
Full accounting suites, roughly 1–20 million đ/year — for a business that has (or employs) an accountant.
They record transactions and produce reports, but assume the operator is an accountant — chart of accounts, journal entries, statements. Steep for a non-specialist owner; they never explain the law behind a figure, nor audit a return you already filed.
An external accountant — about 3 million đ/month, or 1.5–4 million đ/quarter for a small business.
A recurring cost with zero transparency: you get back a filed return and a bill, learn nothing, and cannot verify it or catch an error yourself. The path of least resistance, not a good one.
Not your general ledger — a correctness-and-trust copilot: it drafts quarterly and annual VAT & CIT, cites the article of law behind every figure, and self-audits the returns you already filed. Web-first, $0 to the user at v1, your records stay on your device.
The difference
Each number carries the article of law in force, on an official government host — so you trust the number, not just see it. HTKK shows no law; accounting software shows a report, not the “why”.
Compare a return you already submitted against your real data, surface the discrepancies with the late-payment interest and the adjustment, then pre-fill the bổ sung amendment package (Mẫu 01/KHBS) to fix it. No competitor catches errors on a return you already filed.
It computes the result and the reliefs a newly-formalized company needs — the 2-year exemption, preferential rates, the micro thresholds — instead of assuming you already know them.