• Prime Minister : Reduce regular expenditure to below 60% of total budget expenditure

The survey team of the Economic - Budget Committee, Provincial People's Council worked with the Department of Finance.

According to the report of the Department of Finance, immediately after operating the two-level local government model, based on the direction of the Ministry of Finance , the Provincial Party Committee, the People's Council and the Provincial People's Committee, the Department issued many documents implementing and providing professional guidance on budget management, financial management, transferring spending tasks between budget levels, ensuring continuous operation of communes and wards. The Department also provided guidance on the use of new chapter codes, temporarily allocating budgets during the transition period, building the 2026 budget estimate, and organizing accounting work and professional training for communes.

Mr. Nguyen Phuong Binh, Deputy Director of the Department of Finance, shared the difficulties and problems in allocating and assigning the 2025 regular expenditure budget estimates of communes and wards after the rearrangement.

Up to now, the situation of budget allocation and assignment to the People's Committees of communes and wards has basically ensured the full implementation of expenditure tasks arising when organizing the two-level local government model. Based on the revenue and expenditure estimates and resolutions of the People's Council of Ca Mau province on budget allocation for 2025, the Department of Finance has advised the Provincial People's Committee to assign the State budget revenue and expenditure estimates for 2025 after the rearrangement, in which the total amount of balanced and targeted additions from the provincial budget to the commune and ward budgets is 1,665.185 billion VND.

In addition to the achieved results, the implementation process still faces many difficulties. Many communes and wards have incurred additional expenditure tasks after the reorganization, while having to deal with backlogs related to policies, overspending on operating expenses or the need to repair, renovate, and purchase facilities for the new school year 2025-2026, especially the construction and repair of school toilets. These needs all exceed the ability to balance the local budget.

The handover of financial resources - State budget from district level at the end of operation is also limited. Although localities have sent handover minutes to the Department of Finance for synthesis, most of the files are incomplete and lack relevant documents, causing difficulties in checking, comparing and reallocating budget resources to communes and wards.

At the survey, the Department of Finance requested the Provincial People's Council to pay attention to opening training courses to improve the professional qualifications of the specialized committees of the People's Councils of communes and wards, meeting the requirements of the tasks in the new period. At the same time, the People's Committees of communes and wards need to continue to promote the sense of responsibility in budget management and operation, proactively use decentralized resources and additional provincial budget sources to effectively perform arising expenditure tasks, contributing to the stability and development of the local socio-economy.

Mr. Nguyen Minh Duong, Deputy Head of the Economic - Budget Committee, Provincial People's Council, spoke at the survey.

Speaking at the survey, Mr. Nguyen Minh Duong, Deputy Head of the Economic - Budget Committee, Provincial People's Council, emphasized: "In the work of financial - budget management, before officially promulgating, it is necessary to discuss and agree with the Provincial People's Council to ensure feasibility and closeness to the local situation. After completing the 2026 budget norms, functional branches need to organize direct work with communes and wards to review and evaluate the reality, ensuring that the norms are suitable to the scale and spending tasks of each unit."

Mr. Nguyen Minh Duong said that after this survey, the working group will synthesize reports and propose solutions to remove difficulties and obstacles for communes and wards, helping to improve the efficiency of budget management and use, contributing to the good implementation of financial and budgetary tasks in the new period.

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