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Prime Minister directs the management of state budget estimates

Việt NamViệt Nam03/09/2024

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has just signed and issued Official Dispatch No. 85/CD-TTg on managing the state budget estimates.

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The dispatch stated that in the first 8 months of 2024, under the leadership of the Party, the supervision of the National Assembly, the synchronous participation of the entire political system, the drastic, close and timely direction of the Government and the Prime Minister, the efforts, determination, close coordination, proactive and flexible management, and timely handling of arising issues of ministries, branches and localities, the socio-economic situation continued to be maintained stably and clearly demonstrated a positive recovery, the major balances of the economy were ensured, inflation was controlled, economic growth was promoted, national defense, security, social order and safety were maintained, social security and people's lives were ensured.

State budget revenue in the first 8 months of the year is estimated to reach 78.5% of the estimate under the condition that policies have been implemented to exempt, reduce, and extend many types of taxes, fees, charges, land rents, and other budget revenues; state budget expenditures are strictly and economically managed; state budget balance is ensured, state budget deficit, public debt, government debt, and foreign debt of the country are within the scope permitted by the National Assembly.

However, the production and business activities of a number of enterprises are still difficult, inflationary pressure is still high, natural disasters and floods are complicated. Overall, state budget revenue has achieved good progress and has grown compared to the same period, but there are still some revenue items with low collection progress, especially land use fees. The disbursement progress of development investment expenditure in the first 8 months of the year only reached 40.49% of the plan. Prime Minister assigned, lower than the same period; 19 ministries, central agencies and 31 localities have not yet allocated in detail the entire capital plan assigned in 2024.

Besides, through the results of the National Assembly's supervision and the conclusions of the Inspection agency, State Audit and the annual state budget settlement work shows that the implementation of financial discipline and order in some places is not strict, there are still violations of the law, fraud, tax evasion, management and use of the budget and public assets in violation of regulations, loss and waste in some ministries, branches, localities, agencies and units.

In the coming months, the world situation is forecast to continue to develop in a complex and unpredictable manner, adversely affecting our country's economy. Domestically, the economy faces many difficulties and challenges.

However, with the determination to strive to complete at the highest level the goals and tasks of the 2024 budget estimate according to the Central's Conclusion and the Resolutions of the National Assembly and the Government, to ensure the balance of the State budget at all levels in all situations, increase savings in regular State budget expenditures, focus resources on increasing investment spending on infrastructure development, prevention and overcoming of consequences of natural disasters, storms and floods, and response to climate change; tighten financial discipline and discipline - State budget, the Prime Minister requested Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, Government agencies; Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities to focus on directing, guiding and inspecting agencies, units and subordinate levels to continue to make efforts and resolutely implement the solutions and tasks of socio-economic development and the State budget that have been set out, strive to increase revenue, increase savings in expenditures, and proactively balance the State budget in the remaining months of 2024; In which, focus on implementing the following key tasks and solutions:

Ministries, agencies and localities: continue to effectively implement key solutions and tasks to promote administrative procedure reform, improve the investment and business environment, enhance national competitiveness, remove difficulties for production, business and socio-economic development according to Resolutions No. 01/NQ-CP, No. 02/NQ-CP dated January 5, 2024, Resolution No. 93/NQ-CP dated June 18, 2024 of the Government and Resolutions of regular meetings of the Government; Directives No. 12/CT-TTg dated April 21, 2024, 14/CT-TTg dated May 2, 2024, Official Dispatch No. 71/CD-TTg dated July 21, 2024 of the Prime Minister.

Focus on implementing fiscal and monetary policy solutions and other issued macroeconomic policies to remove difficulties for businesses and people, control inflation, maintain macroeconomic stability, maintain growth momentum and ensure major balances of the economy; strive for a GDP growth rate of about 7% for the whole year of 2024, exceeding the set target, creating the premise and momentum for 2025 and the 2026-2030 period.

Resolutely implement the work of collecting the State budget, strive to complete the assigned revenue estimate at the highest level: continue to improve the institutions, policies and laws on State budget collection, synchronously implement solutions and measures for revenue management, prevent revenue loss, ensure correct, full and timely collection of revenues arising according to regulations. Continue to study and improve tax regulations on houses and land; expand and prevent erosion of the tax base, exploit revenue sources with room for expansion, expand new revenue bases.

Promote and further effectively digital transformation, apply information technology, improve the effectiveness and efficiency of revenue management, especially revenue collection from e-commerce transactions, foreign suppliers, deploy information data portals on e-commerce platforms and expand the deployment of electronic invoices generated from cash registers for businesses and business households operating and providing goods and services directly to consumers, especially food and beverage services...

On that basis, strive to collect the state budget in 2024 exceeding 10% of the estimate assigned by the National Assembly, and collect the state budget in 2025 about 5% higher than the estimated implementation in 2024 to ensure resources to meet the spending tasks according to the estimate, increase spending to create sources for salary reform and handle unexpected tasks. Strengthen the prevention and combat of trade fraud, transfer pricing, import price fraud and cross-border smuggling, especially business activities on digital platforms and real estate transfers. Strengthen inspection and supervision of the implementation of regulations on price management, taxes, fees, and price stabilization of raw materials and essential goods for production and people's lives.

Proactively organize and manage state budget expenditures, save state budget expenditures, tighten discipline and order, and improve the efficiency of state budget use: thoroughly save regular expenditures, proactively review and arrange spending tasks; cut and save 5% of regular expenditure estimates assigned according to Directive No. 01/CT-TTg dated January 4, 2024 of the Prime Minister and Resolution No. 119/NQ-CP dated August 7, 2024 of the Government. For 2025, in addition to the 10% savings in regular expenditures to create a source for salary reform as prescribed, in the implementation organization, ministries, agencies and localities shall synchronously implement solutions to review, restructure and arrange spending tasks, striving to save an additional 10% of the increased regular expenditures of the 2025 budget estimate compared to the 2024 budget estimate (after excluding similar expenditures as in 2024 as stipulated in Resolution No. 119/NQ-CP dated August 7, 2024 of the Government) to reserve a source to reduce the state budget deficit or for urgent, arising tasks, implementing social security tasks of each ministry, agency and locality or supplementing development investment expenditures.

Implement budget expenditures in accordance with prescribed regimes, within the assigned budget, ensuring strictness, thrift and efficiency; focus resources on implementing salary reform policies, social security policies and regimes, hunger eradication and poverty reduction; cut down regular expenditure estimates assigned to ministries and central agencies but not yet allocated to budget spending units by June 30, 2024 (except in cases where the Prime Minister permits) according to Resolution No. 82/NQ-CP dated June 5, 2024 of the Government.

Focus on implementing key tasks and solutions according to Directive No. 26/CT-TTg dated August 8, 2024 of the Prime Minister, speeding up the implementation and disbursement of public investment capital, especially key national projects and works, national target programs; promptly transferring capital from tasks and projects that are not eligible for disbursement or disbursement is slow to supplement tasks and projects that are capable of disbursing quickly and need additional capital according to regulations. Strive to disburse over 95% of the assigned capital plan for 2024, contributing to promoting economic growth.

Invest in construction and purchase of public assets in accordance with the correct regime, standards and norms, ensuring savings. Organize the review and rearrangement of public assets, handle assets that are no longer needed in accordance with regulations; resolutely recover assets used for the wrong purposes, or exceeding standards and norms; do not let public assets be wasted or lost.

Urgently implement the provisions of Resolution No. 104/2023/QH15 and Resolution No. 142/2024/QH15 of the National Assembly, review the entire legal framework to submit to competent authorities for consideration and decision on amending or abolishing the specific financial and income mechanisms of agencies and units that are being implemented appropriately before December 31, 2024. In the process of amending and abolishing the specific financial and income mechanisms, ministries and central agencies are responsible for ensuring the maintenance of the operations of agencies and units according to the general regime prescribed by the State.

Localities shall spend the State budget according to the assigned estimates and the revenue capacity according to decentralization; proactively use the reserve, reserve, surplus budget and legal resources of the locality to handle the tasks of spending on prevention, combat and overcoming the consequences of natural disasters, epidemics and other urgent and unexpected spending tasks arising according to regulations. Review, arrange and adjust the spending estimates according to regulations; proactively cut down on unnecessary expenses; thoroughly save on regular expenses, especially expenses for conferences, seminars, festivals, domestic business trips, research and surveys abroad.

In case the estimated local budget revenue does not meet the estimate, the Provincial People's Committee shall develop a plan to report to the People's Council on solutions to ensure the balance of the local budget as follows: (i) proactively retain 50% of the local budget reserve estimate; (ii) balance local resources to proactively offset the reduction in local budget revenue (financial reserve fund, budget surplus, etc.). After using local resources but still not ensuring compensation for the reduction in revenue, it is necessary to review, cut down, and extend spending tasks, in which it is necessary to proactively restructure development investment spending, especially in cases where land use fee and lottery revenue fluctuate greatly.

In the process of budget management, in case of temporary shortage of budget funds at all levels, it is necessary to promptly report to the superior level for consideration and handling according to the provisions of Article 58 of the State Budget Law and Clause 1, Article 36 of Decree No. 163/2016/ND-CP of the Government.

The Ministry of Finance shall preside over and coordinate with ministries, agencies and localities to: continue to operate a reasonable, focused, key and effective expansionary fiscal policy, in a synchronous, close and harmonious coordination with monetary policy to promote growth, stabilize the macro-economy, control inflation, and ensure major balances of the economy. Control the state budget deficit and public debt within the permitted scope.

More drastically implement digital transformation, regulations on electronic invoices, especially promote the application of digital transformation in budget revenue and expenditure, improve the effectiveness and efficiency of state budget revenue and expenditure management; ensure correct, sufficient and timely collection, expand the collection base and prevent tax losses, especially from e-commerce to compensate for the reduction in revenue due to the implementation of support policies. Manage the budget to ensure reserve funds for expenditures on natural disaster prevention and control, epidemics, salary payment, social security policies and important and urgent political tasks that arise.

Incorporate the opinions of the National Assembly Standing Committee, complete and submit to the Government before September 15, 2024 the draft Decree regulating the preparation of estimates, management and use of regular state budget expenditures for the purchase of assets and equipment; renovation, upgrading, expansion and construction of new construction items in invested construction projects as a basis for submission to competent authorities to allocate the remaining regular expenditure estimates for 2024.

Synthesize the reduction and savings of 5% of the regular expenditure estimates of ministries, central and local agencies to report to the Government and competent authorities for consideration and decision according to Resolution No. 119/NQ-CP dated August 7, 2024 of the Government.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment shall preside over and coordinate with ministries, central and local agencies to urgently review and report to competent authorities to amend legal regulations on public investment to remove institutional difficulties and obstacles; urge and promptly guide the handling of arising issues to speed up the disbursement of public investment capital; promptly submit to competent authorities the adjustment of the central budget investment capital plan for 2024 among ministries, central and local agencies according to regulations and directions of the Government and Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister assigned Deputy Prime Minister Ho Duc Phoc to direct, supervise and organize the effective implementation of this Official Dispatch; report to the Prime Minister on issues beyond its authority. The Government Office shall monitor and supervise the implementation of this Official Dispatch according to its assigned functions and tasks.


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