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Save 10% on regular expenses
The Resolution clearly states that 10% of regular state budget expenditures will be saved; deducted fee revenues will be retained, public service revenues and other revenues will be retained according to the regime assigned at the beginning of 2025 for regular expenditures of budget units under ministries, central agencies, and People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities to increase compared to the budget assigned at the beginning of 2024 after excluding the increase of some contents that do not implement savings.
At the same time, save 10% of regular state budget expenditures; deducted fee revenue, retained revenue, career revenue, other revenue retained according to the regime assigned at the beginning of the year for regular expenditures of budget units under ministries, central agencies, People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities in the last 7 months of 2025 after excluding some contents that do not implement savings and the amount that has implemented savings above.
The Government requests Heads of budget-using units to determine the amount of savings according to this Resolution and send it to the superior management agency for review and synthesis.
Ministers, Heads of central agencies, and Chairmen of People's Committees at all levels decide on the amount of savings of their affiliated agencies and units, detailed by each spending area, and send it to the State Treasury for spending control.
People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities shall submit to the central budget the amount of savings from regular state budget expenditures and deducted fee revenues.
Managing savings
Savings are managed as follows:
- Ministries, central agencies, People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities shall synthesize and report on savings to the Ministry of Finance before June 30, 2025 to synthesize the savings on regular state budget expenditures of ministries, central agencies (except the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Public Security ) and localities, and report to the Government for reporting to competent authorities for consideration and decision.
- The management cost savings of the Vietnam Social Security shall be paid to the respective Social Security Funds, Unemployment Insurance Funds, and Health Insurance Funds. The savings of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor from the 2% union fee revenue transferred to the following year shall be used according to regulations. For the lump sum budget of the State Bank of Vietnam as prescribed in Decision No. 07/2013/QD-TTg dated January 24, 2013 of the Prime Minister on the financial regime of the State Bank of Vietnam, savings shall be made when developing the lump sum budget plan for 2025.
- For the savings from the fee revenue source that is deducted and left according to the provisions of the law on fees and charges: Based on the savings decision of the competent authority, the agencies and units shall pay the savings into the state budget. By the end of the fiscal year, if the revenue fluctuates compared to the estimate assigned at the beginning of the year, the head of the agency or unit shall be responsible for reporting to the superior management agency to decide on adjusting the savings.
- For savings from career revenue and other retained revenue: Based on the savings decision of the governing body, agencies and units shall allocate to the unit's career development fund to increase investment in career development. By the end of the fiscal year, if the revenue fluctuates compared to the estimate assigned at the beginning of the year, the head of the agency or unit shall be responsible for reporting to the superior management agency to decide on adjusting the savings budget.
The Government assigned the Minister of Finance, authorized by the Prime Minister, on behalf of the Government, to submit to the National Assembly the following content to be included in the Resolution of the 9th session of the 15th National Assembly: "Save an additional 10% of regular expenditures in the last 7 months of 2025 to supplement investment for the Lao Cai - Hanoi - Hai Phong railway line; assign the Government to organize the implementation and report to the National Assembly at the nearest session"
CONTENT NOT SAVING
1. Salary expenses, of a salary nature and expenses for people:
a) The 10% savings for salary reform in the 2025 budget has been assigned by competent authorities according to regulations;
b) Salary expenses, of a salary nature, and expenses for people, bonuses according to Decree No. 73/2024/ND-CP dated June 30, 2024 of the Government stipulating basic salary levels and bonus regimes for cadres, civil servants, public employees and armed forces;
c) Funds for implementing social security policies decided by competent authorities; human expenses according to the regime (including: funds for streamlining payroll; scholarships, regimes, policies for students; support for disadvantaged scholars; food expenses, bonuses according to prescribed regimes, expert hiring fees, wages and other human expenses; wages and human expenses for statistical surveys, implementation of policies on forest protection and development; specific allowances for each sector, both in cash and in kind; funds for tuition fee exemption and reduction compensation according to prescribed regimes; royalties fund, literary and artistic awards, etc.);
2. Expenditures according to international commitments: Expenditures from foreign capital sources; counterpart funds to implement ODA projects; annual fee payments; funds to implement conciliation agreements, judgments, and decisions of international arbitration.
3. Funding for performing tasks completed before the date the Government issued this Resolution; funding for performing procurement and repair tasks, and bidding packages for which bidding documents were issued before the date the Government issued this Resolution and continued to be implemented in 2025.
4. Funding for implementing certain important, specific political and professional tasks will not be reduced:
a) Budget for National Assembly sessions, activities of the National Assembly Standing Committee and National Assembly delegations; budget for propaganda and press work serving the activities of the National Assembly; budget to support the development of laws and ordinances; budget to support religious organizations, dignitaries and religious officials in Vietnam; budget for production of reward objects; budget for People's Council sessions, activities of People's Councils at all levels; budget for organizing party congresses at all levels.
b) Operating expenses of Vietnamese representative agencies abroad and other Vietnamese agencies abroad; other national diplomatic activities of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; expenses to support and protect Vietnamese citizens and legal entities abroad; expenses to serve foreign affairs tasks of leaders of the Party, State, National Assembly, and Government;
c) Funds for training foreign students in Vietnam and training Vietnamese students abroad under the Agreement; funds for implementing overseas training and development projects according to projects approved by the Prime Minister; Funds for training and development of officials and civil servants;
d) Funding for implementing national science, technology, innovation and digital transformation tasks to implement Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW dated December 22, 2024 of the Politburo on breakthroughs in science, technology, innovation and national digital transformation development and Resolution No. 193/2025/QH15 of the National Assembly on piloting a number of special mechanisms and policies to create breakthroughs in science, technology, innovation and national digital transformation development and funding for implementing scientific and technical cooperation tasks with a number of countries under the Agreement or Protocol.
d) Funding for activities serving preventive medicine (epidemic prevention, infectious diseases, specialized tasks for preventive medicine, grassroots health, food safety, population work, tasks of purchasing vaccines, testing drugs, water, pharmaceuticals, etc.); funding for activities of directing the line, providing professional support, transferring techniques, rotating professional staff from upper-level hospitals to support lower-level hospitals to improve the quality of approved medical examination and treatment; funding for medical examination, treatment, and care for patients with mental illness, leprosy, and tuberculosis at medical facilities;
e) Operating expenses for court sessions; expenses for investigation activities, exercising the right to prosecute and supervising judicial activities of the People's Procuracy; appraisal expenses for activities of judicial, inspection and auditing agencies; operating expenses of the Jury, advance payment for compulsory execution of judgments, destruction of exhibits, bailiff expenses; expenses for conducting mediation and dialogue according to the Law on Mediation and Dialogue at Court; expenses for compensation for damages; expenses for implementing Ordinance No. 01/2022/UBTVQH15 on procedures for People's Courts to consider and decide on the transfer of people from 12 years old to under 18 years old to compulsory rehabilitation facilities; expenses for implementing Ordinance No. 03/2022/UBTVQH15 on procedures for considering and deciding on the application of administrative handling measures at People's Courts; Funds to support the work of meeting to consider conditional early release of prisoners by the Court according to the provisions of the amended Penal Code; funds to support the execution of death sentences;
g) Career funding for implementing national target programs;
h) Funding for purchasing rice for distribution according to the Prime Minister's Decisions.
Source: https://baodautu.vn/chinh-phu-ban-hanh-nghi-quyet-so-ve-pham-vi-doi-tuong-tiet-kiem-chi-thuong-xuyen-du-toan-nam-2025-d303843.html
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