As a new revenue source to protect the environment, the emission fee is expected to help the budget earn an additional VND1,200 billion a year, according to the Ministry of Finance .
The draft Decree regulating environmental protection fees for emissions is being consulted by the Ministry of Finance with ministries, branches, localities and enterprises.
This agency said that along with economic development, air quality in big cities, industrial zones, and craft villages in Vietnam is increasingly declining, seriously affecting public health, damaging the economy, and threatening the environment.
One of the causes of this situation is exhaust emissions from facilities and vehicles.
Vietnam currently has about 5.1 million cars and a large number of motorbikes in circulation; dozens of complexes, including many projects, types of bauxite production, iron and steel, petrochemical refineries, and power centers in operation. In addition, there are nearly 120,000 industrial production facilities, of which 138 units cause serious pollution; about 110,000 construction enterprises. These facilities generate large amounts of industrial emissions and dust, negatively affecting the environment.
According to the Ministry of Finance, most organizations and individuals that discharge waste causing air pollution are not fully aware of their responsibilities. Therefore, it is necessary to research and develop a Decree on environmental protection fees for emissions.
Since this is a new policy, in order to have a basis for calculating the fee, the source of the waste that pays the fee must determine the volume of pollutants. For now, the Ministry proposes that the Government only stipulate that units such as those producing iron and steel, metallurgy, coke, basic inorganic chemicals, inorganic fertilizers and nitrogen compounds, petrochemical refining, thermal power, and cement must pay this fee.
From surveys and working with localities, the Ministry of Finance believes that for convenience and to avoid other costs, the fee level and collection unit should be similar to the industrial wastewater fee (regulated in Decree 53).
Accordingly, the fee is built in two parts: Fixed fee collected for all facilities discharging emissions, to ensure the cost of treating substances other than the four substances (total dust, NOx, SOx, CO). And additional variable fee collected for facilities that must monitor emissions (collected for the four substances: total dust, NOx, SOx, CO).
The fixed fee is 3 million VND per year, regulated annually, and can also be paid quarterly. For the variable fee, based on the proposal of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the Ministry of Finance proposed about 500-800 VND per ton of emissions. The fee collection agency is the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
Regarding the impact on the budget, the Ministry of Finance calculated that if implemented, the new revenue would help increase revenue by VND1,200 billion a year. This amount of money would contribute to overcoming the air pollution situation in the locality where the emission source is located.
Duc Minh
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