Maintain budget collection speed during administrative unit arrangement

By the end of April 2025, the total state budget revenue in the province basically reached the average collection progress, with the estimated implementation amount reaching 18,484 billion VND. This is an impressive figure in the context that the whole province is focusing on implementing the revolution of streamlining the organization and apparatus in accordance with the direction of the Central Government.

Import-export activities through Bac Luan II bridge (Mong Cai city).

By the end of April 2025, the total state budget revenue in the province basically achieved the average collection progress, with the estimated implementation amount reaching 18,484 billion VND, of which the revenue from import-export activities in the area reached 5,697 billion VND, equal to 69% of the 6-month scenario, equal to 32% of the Central's annual estimate, equal to 32% of the provincial's annual estimate; estimated domestic revenue reached 12,784 billion VND, equal to 65% of the 6-month scenario, up 2% over the same period, equal to 34% of the Central's annual estimate, equal to 32% of the provincial's annual estimate. In particular, sustainable budget revenue from taxes and fees is guaranteed on schedule, with 12,066 billion VND, equal to 35% of the estimate, up 3% over the same period in 2024; The Tax Department and localities all ensure the progress of tax and fee collection. Of the 16 revenue items, only 2 did not reach the average collection rate, which were environmental protection tax and other budget revenues.

To achieve that result, from the beginning of the year, the Provincial Tax Department (now the Tax Department of Region III) has closely coordinated with departments, branches and localities of the province to deploy support measures, remove bottlenecks in promoting production and business development for enterprises, cooperatives, individual business households, especially supporting groups of industries that create high added value and large state budget revenues, such as industrial production, service sector, agriculture - forestry..., thereby creating large sources of revenue in the first months of 2025.

In the industrial sector alone (coal, electricity, cement, processing, manufacturing), tax and fee revenue from this group is dominant compared to other sectors in the province. The industrial production index in the first 4 months is estimated to increase by 14.01%, in which the processing and manufacturing industry plays a key role in industrial growth with an index of 28.03% over the same period; the mining production index is estimated to increase by 5.4% over the same period; the production index of electricity, gas, hot water, steam and air conditioning distribution increases by 3.33% over the same period; electricity production output is estimated to increase by 3.5% over the same period in 2024.

Skoda Kushaq car launch ceremony at Thanh Cong Viet Hung Automobile Factory (Ha Long City), March 26, 2025.

According to analysis by professional agencies, around the end of the second quarter and the beginning of the third quarter of 2025, when the whole province terminates the operation of district-level administrative units and rearranges commune-level administrative units according to the 2-level local government model, there will be impacts on the implementation of measures to increase state budget revenue. Therefore, all levels and sectors must immediately have plans to adjust, supplement and manage budget revenue and expenditure in accordance with the new model.

In the immediate future, localities, based on the guidance of the Ministry of Finance , the Provincial People's Committee, and the Department of Finance, urgently carry out the work of finalizing commune and district-level budgets as a basis for finalizing provincial budgets (before June 30). At the same time, localities shall compare the management and use of the 2025 State budget estimates to adjust the estimates when merging communes and implementing 2-level local government; immediately hand over and receive public assets, working offices, review and rebuild standards, norms, areas, specialized equipment and cars according to the guidance of the Ministry of Finance and the Department of Finance.

In the long term, relevant departments and branches need to proactively and promptly advise competent authorities to approve plans and projects, assign revenue targets to communes and wards, and then implement the arrangement, contributing to maintaining and stabilizing the revenue situation in each specific locality, absolutely not allowing interruptions, congestion, or difficulties in implementation, contributing to ensuring that revenue in 2025 must reach over 57,300 billion VND.

In addition to the task of implementing the State budget collection, departments, branches and localities must urgently synthesize and review projects invested by district and commune levels. For completed but unsettled projects, promptly carry out project settlement and complete payment of capital sources, avoid outstanding debts, and close accounts according to regulations before May 31, 2025. For projects and works that cannot be completed before the end of district-level operations (expected June 30, 2025), it is necessary to make a list, determine the completed volume of each project, compare debts, advances, and capital sources; ensure the completion of the handover of district-level investment project management boards to provincial-level project management boards.

Manh Truong

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