Minister of Finance: Tax sector must be ready for the new apparatus to operate smoothly after streamlining

ANTD.VN - The Minister of Finance said that regarding the arrangement and streamlining of the Tax sector, the Ministry is submitting a 3-level model: State tax, regional tax and district-level tax.

On the morning of December 19, the General Department of Taxation held a conference to review tax work in 2024 and deploy tax work tasks in 2025.

Reporting at the Conference, the General Department of Taxation said that in 2024, the total budget revenue managed by the Tax authority as of December 18, 2024 is estimated to reach VND 1,732,000 billion, reaching 116.5% of the estimate, of which domestic revenue reached VND 1,440,413 billion; 60/63 localities have exceeded the annual revenue estimate.

It is estimated that in 2024, the total revenue managed by tax authorities will exceed the estimate by about VND 245,588 billion, equal to 113.7% compared to the implementation in 2023.

19/20 regions, revenue items, and taxes have exceeded the estimate. 16/20 regions, revenue items, and taxes have increased compared to the same period. 61/64 Tax Departments have completed and exceeded the estimate of state budget revenue in 2024.

Minister of Finance Nguyen Van Thang

Speaking at the conference, Minister of Finance Nguyen Van Thang acknowledged and highly appreciated the efforts of the General Department of Taxation's staff in implementing the tasks in 2024 with many remarkable results.

Regarding the arrangement and streamlining of the apparatus, the Minister of Finance emphasized that this is a policy that has been put forward by the Politburo, the Party Central Committee and General Secretary To Lam, and has many extremely important messages.

According to the head of the Finance sector, streamlining the apparatus is a timely decision of the Party. “If the country wants to develop, development investment spending must be large, must be high and must be higher than regular spending. But currently we still keep the regular spending ratio accounting for 70% of the budget, with only 30% left for development investment, security and defense, so where is the money left for development investment?”, Mr. Thang emphasized.

Regarding the Ministry of Finance, Minister Nguyen Van Thang said that in the direction of summarizing Resolution 18/2017 of the Central Committee and directing the streamlining of the apparatus, the Ministry of Finance is the agency that has arranged and streamlined the most when merging the Ministry of Planning and Investment, receiving a number of other agencies, and the Ministry itself has also arranged 5 General Departments.

"Up to now, the Ministry of Finance has basically submitted to the Government policies on restructuring and streamlining the apparatus for approval and implementation," said the Minister of Finance.

Regarding the General Department of Taxation, the Finance sector commander said that the Ministry is submitting a 3-level model: State Tax, Regional Tax and below that is the district level.

Vietnam's tax model is similar to that of countries like China, South Korea, Japan and Thailand. "We must streamline the apparatus to achieve the goals set by the Central Government, which are to be effective and efficient, and definitely not a formality... Arrangement and streamlining must have results. We must show how this can be done in numbers, such as how many agencies and people can be reduced, and ultimately how much money can be saved for the budget," the Minister of Finance emphasized.

According to Mr. Thang, the arrangement and streamlining of the apparatus may initially require us to spend money to arrange and encourage affected cases, but it will certainly have a positive impact on society.

The Minister requested that the Tax sector urgently complete its functions and tasks and prepare necessary conditions for the new organizational apparatus to operate smoothly after streamlining.

At the Conference, the Minister of Finance also said that despite efforts, the tax policy system still has shortcomings and is not consistent, causing certain difficulties in implementation.

There is still corruption, some cases have lasted for many years, discipline and order are not strict. Debts and procrastination are still large, transfer pricing still occurs, reducing fairness and aggressiveness. Understanding and compliance with tax policies of a part are still procrastinate.

At the Closing Ceremony, the Department of Personnel Organization, General Department of Taxation said that implementing Resolution 18/2017 on restructuring and streamlining the apparatus in recent years, the General Department of Taxation cut 27 department-level units, a reduction of 44%; tax departments reduced 62 department-level units; branches reduced from 711 to 413 branches; cut 290 units, reducing more than 4,957 teams to more than 2,100 teams.

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