On the morning of June 9, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Dang Quoc Khanh reported on the explanation, acceptance and revision of the draft Land Law (amended).

Session view.

According to Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Dang Quoc Khanh, the draft law has clarified the principles of land valuation, market land prices, basis for land valuation, input information for determining land prices, land valuation methods; and added regulations on land valuation consultancy.

Accordingly, land valuation must ensure the following principles: Land valuation method according to market principles; strictly comply with land valuation methods, procedures; ensure objectivity, publicity, transparency; ensure independence in the stages of land valuation, land valuation, and land price decision.

Input information to determine land prices according to the methods must ensure: Land prices are recorded in notarized and certified land use rights transfer contracts; land prices winning land use rights auctions without being affected by factors causing sudden price increases or decreases, transactions involving blood relations or other incentives recorded in the national land database.

In cases where there is no land price information in the land database, collect land price information through investigation, survey, information on revenue, costs, and income from land use according to the market.

In particular, continue to stipulate that the land price list is issued annually to ensure that land prices are consistent with market principles. However, supplement the provision on transition to continue using the current land price list until December 31, 2025 so that localities have enough time to develop and issue new land price lists in accordance with the new provisions of the Land Law.

In addition, according to Minister Dang Quoc Khanh, the draft law also stipulates an extension of the time limit for land use to consider granting certificates, resolve existing problems, ensure the legitimate rights and interests of the people but does not legalize violations in land use. Supplementing regulations on handling cases of land allocation and land lease without proper authority where households and individuals have paid money to use the land to ensure the rights of the people.

The draft law has reviewed and supplemented the land use term of Vietnamese people residing abroad who are allowed to own houses in Vietnam according to the provisions of the law on housing, for land used for mineral activities.

According to Minister Dang Quoc Khanh, the review process shows that there are still some related contents and policies that have not been institutionalized in the draft Land Law because they are not within the scope of regulation, such as: Regulations on higher tax rates for people using large areas of land, many houses, land speculation, slow land use, and abandoning abandoned land in tax laws; Regulations on a reasonable and effective mechanism for regulating revenue from land use fees and land rents between the Central and local levels in the law on the state budget; regulations on building a real estate market information system associated with land information;...

According to Minister Dang Quoc Khanh, these contents need to be institutionalized in relevant laws. He proposed that the National Assembly direct agencies to plan to develop laws to promptly and fully institutionalize the Party's policies in Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW to create consistency and unity in the implementation process.

NGUYEN THAO