In order to promptly rectify and overcome limitations, create strong changes in the use and management of the state budget, contributing to the socio-economic development of the province and localities, the People's Committee of Thanh Hoa province has issued a document on increasing savings in state budget expenditures in 2024.
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In recent times, provincial departments, branches, sectors, units, People's Committees of districts, towns and cities have made many efforts, tried to carry out well the work of practicing thrift and combating waste in the management and use of the state budget, initially achieving many positive results. However, the implementation of policies and laws on thrift and combating waste, the conclusions of state inspection and audit agencies and the synthesis of annual state budget settlement reports show that there are still limitations and waste in the management and use of the state budget, public assets..., affecting administrative discipline and the efficiency of using state budget resources.
Therefore, the Provincial People's Committee requests provincial departments, branches, sectors, units, People's Committees of districts, towns and cities to increase savings in regular expenditures; ensure expenditures for people, social security, health, environment, national defense, security and the fields of education - training, science - technology... according to the provisions of law.
Organize the implementation of state budget expenditures according to assigned estimates, ensure allocation and assignment of estimates to budget-using units and subordinates within the time limit and regulations of the State Budget Law and guiding documents.
Review, arrange and adjust the expenditure estimates according to regulations; proactively cut unnecessary expenditures; reduce expenditures for organizing conferences, seminars, festivals, and business trips at home and abroad, especially for foreign research and surveys; in 2024, cut and save 5% of the regular expenditure estimate from the beginning of the year compared to the assigned estimate to increase investment in strategic infrastructure, health, education, climate change and social security.
Thoroughly grasp the requirement to thoroughly save state budget expenditures, especially regular expenditures, right from the task determination stage; ensure the implementation of unified tasks from the budget preparation stage to the allocation, management and use of the state budget. Proactively review policies and tasks, prioritize expenditures according to the level of urgency, importance and feasibility of implementation in the current year to build a budget close to the feasibility of implementation. Ensure the completion of tasks, programs, projects and proposals approved by competent authorities on the basis of allocated state budget sources; proactively arrange and handle to implement assigned tasks arising in the budget year; minimize additional additions outside the assigned budget, cancel the budget or transfer the source to the following year.
Departments, branches, sectors and units that are in charge of national target programs, supplementary central target programs and unallocated local programs and policies; investors of projects and schemes must urgently review and develop detailed allocation plans, report to the Provincial People's Committee, submit to the Provincial People's Council (if any) for decision on allocation in accordance with regulations on the allocation of state budget revenue estimates in the area; local budget revenue and expenditure and allocation of local budget expenditure estimates in 2024, Thanh Hoa province. Only submit to competent authorities to issue new policies, projects and tasks when really necessary and with guaranteed sources; fully estimate the funding needs to implement new policies, regimes and tasks that have been decided by competent authorities.
In addition, promote the arrangement of the apparatus, streamline the payroll, and implement the autonomy mechanism of public service units based on the practical situation of each sector and unit to reduce regular expenditures and restructure the state budget. Develop a plan to increase the level of financial autonomy of public service units according to regulations; promote the participation of social components in the provision of public service, contributing to improving the quality of public service, while reducing pressure on the state budget.
Invest in construction and purchase of public assets in accordance with the regime, standards, and norms, ensuring savings. Organize the review and rearrangement of public assets to ensure their proper use, standards, and norms according to the prescribed regime and in accordance with the requirements of the task; promote the handling of assets no longer in need of use in accordance with the provisions of law, publicly and transparently; resolutely recover assets used for the wrong purposes, for the wrong purposes, or exceeding standards and norms; do not let public assets be wasted or lost.
The Department of Finance and the People's Committees of districts, towns and cities continue to promote the restructuring of state budget expenditures towards sustainability, gradually reducing the proportion of regular expenditures associated with innovation in the mechanism of allocating regular expenditures; increasing the proportion of development investment expenditures, debt repayment in total state budget expenditures and reducing state budget deficit. Proactively and thoroughly manage state budget expenditure estimates to save regular expenditures, review and cut tasks that are not really necessary, slow to implement,... to allocate resources for socio-economic recovery and development, prevention and overcoming of consequences of natural disasters, epidemics, climate change, implementation of social security expenditure tasks, ensuring security, national defense and reforming salary and social insurance policies...
The Department of Finance shall preside over and coordinate with relevant departments, branches and units to review work contents, tasks, programs and projects that do not ensure records, procedures and conditions for funding allocation; on that basis, advise and propose, report to the Provincial People's Committee for consideration, submit to the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council to arrange, reduce or extend the implementation progress to adjust work contents, tasks, programs, projects and other key tasks to serve the socio-economic development goals of the province.
The Departments of Planning and Investment, Construction, Transport, Agriculture and Rural Development, and Industry and Trade, according to their assigned functions, authority, and tasks, strictly manage public investment and save costs right from the stages of project establishment, appraisal, approval, and construction design and estimates.
The Provincial Inspectorate and the Department of Finance shall closely coordinate with provincial and local departments, branches, and units to strengthen inspection, examination, supervision, and transparency in the use of the state budget, tighten discipline, and enhance the responsibility of leaders in the management and use of the state budget, ensure that the state budget is spent according to the estimate, in accordance with the regime, standards, spending norms, and legal regulations; strengthen inspection and examination of the implementation of legal regulations on practicing thrift and combating waste; strictly handle violations in the management and use of the budget that have been discovered and recommended by audit and inspection agencies.
Provincial departments, branches, sectors, People's Committees of districts, towns and cities urgently and proactively implement assigned tasks; propose and report to the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee on matters beyond their authority according to regulations.
TS (Source: Provincial People's Committee)
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