Comments on a number of draft documents on decentralization and delegation of authority in the financial sector

BAC GIANG - On the afternoon of May 26, the Ministry of Finance held a national in-person and online conference to collect opinions on legal documents to implement the Party and State's policy on promoting decentralization, delegation of power and reorganization of two-level local government in the financial sector. Comrade Nguyen Van Thang, Minister of Finance chaired the conference.

At the Bac Giang province bridge, comrade Phan The Tuan, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired the conference. Also attending were representatives of leaders of a number of relevant departments and branches.

Comrade Phan The Tuan chaired the conference at the Bac Giang province bridge.

Accordingly, at the conference, the Ministry of Finance organized to collect opinions on 5 draft Decrees and 7 draft Circulars to implement decentralization, delegation of power, and division of authority according to the 2-level local government model.

Specifically, the draft Decrees include: Regulations on the division of authority of local governments according to the two-level local government organization model; decentralization and delegation of authority in the field of public assets; adjustment of decentralization and delegation of authority in the field of national reserves; adjustment of decentralization and delegation of authority in the field of statistics; adjustment of decentralization and delegation of authority in the field of taxes.

The draft Circulars include: Amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Circulars on agricultural land use tax issued by the Minister of Finance; amending, supplementing and abolishing a number of Circulars to promote decentralization, delegation of authority, and organization of two-level local governments in the fields of accounting and auditing; amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Circulars in the field of management and use of public assets of the Minister of Finance; decentralizing and decentralizing state management, and defining the authority of local governments according to the model of organizing two-level local governments in the field of tax; amending and supplementing a number of articles of Circular No. 123/2014/TT-BTC dated August 27, 2014 of the Ministry of Finance guiding the organization, operation and exploitation of the budget and Treasury management information system; regulations on the regime and forms for reporting on the implementation and disbursement of public investment capital; Prescribe codes, professional standards, skills and salary scales for civil servant ranks, accounting, tax, customs, reserves and statistics majors.

Giving opinions on the above draft Resolutions and Circulars, delegates focused on proposing a number of contents related to handling surplus public assets after restructuring the administrative apparatus, preventing waste of assets; decentralizing the implementation of public investment tasks to commune and provincial levels; decentralizing and delegating powers in the tax sector...

Specifically, the provincial People's Committee is responsible for performing the tasks, powers and competence of the level deciding on project investment policies for public investment projects that have been decided on investment policies by the district-level People's Council or district-level People's Committee according to the provisions of the Law on Public Investment before the effective date of this Decree (except for projects that have been transferred by the district level to the commune level before June 30 of this year).

For the medium-term public investment plan for the period 2021 - 2025, the public investment plan for 2025 and the public investment plan using state budget capital for 2024, which is permitted by competent authorities to extend the implementation period and disbursement to the 2025 plan of the commune-level budget, the People's Committee of the commune after the merger shall receive all medium-term and annual public investment plans of the communes before the merger.

To serve the transfer of district-level projects to commune-level projects, it is proposed to add a transitional provision that the District People's Committee is allowed to assign the Commune People's Committee to perform the tasks, powers, and authority of the level that decides on project investment policies for public investment projects according to the provisions of the Law on Public Investment.

Regarding the adjustment of excess public investment capital of the higher budget when organizing 2-level local government, it is proposed that there is no need to adjust information in the investment policy decision and project investment decision to ensure flexibility and rationality...

Proposals to decentralize authority from the Ministry of Finance to the People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities for the task of developing and promulgating the price list for calculating registration fees and the adjusted and supplemented price list for calculating registration fees.

The Minister of Finance shall detail the documents that taxpayers are not required to submit in tax declaration, tax payment, tax refund dossiers and other tax dossiers that state management agencies already have...

Speaking here, comrade Nguyen Van Thang stated that the Ministry will synthesize and fully absorb the opinions of the delegates to make adjustments to ensure reasonableness, effectiveness and efficiency in practice. At the same time, he requested that localities continue to study the draft Resolutions and draft Circulars, and immediately send written comments to the drafting agency for timely consideration and supplementation.

After editing the above documents, the Ministry of Finance will coordinate with the Ministry of Justice to complete the draft Resolutions and draft Circulars to submit to the Government for signing and promulgation...

News and photos: Minh Linh

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