What is the fee for viewing land use plans?

(Dan Tri Newspaper) - Circular 56/2024 of the Ministry of Finance specifies the rates, collection methods, management, and use of fees for accessing and using land documents from the National Land Information System.

Clause 36, Article 3 of the 2024 Land Law stipulates: "Land use planning is the allocation and zoning of land according to spatial use for socio-economic development, national defense, security, environmental protection and climate change adaptation purposes, based on land potential and land use needs of sectors and fields for each socio-economic region and administrative unit within a defined period."

Planned land can be understood as land area included in a plan or scheme for the implementation of projects, roads, other public works, or for reclamation for national defense and security purposes. Land parcels falling under this category will primarily be reclaimed according to legal regulations.

Land located within a planned development area will have certain rights restricted for the land user. Therefore, checking whether the land is within a planned development area before purchasing is very important.

Currently, one way to find out if a plot of land is included in a planning scheme is to request information from the Land Registration Office. Citizens can access the land information system provided by the State through request forms and by paying a fee. Another way is to look up planning information online from the soon-to-be-launched national land information system.

Land plots auctioned off in Hanoi (Photo: Duong Tam).

According to the 2024 Land Law, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment is responsible for managing, operating, maintaining, and upgrading the software of the national land information system.

This agency focuses on directing, urging, and guiding localities to accelerate the completion of land databases to ensure that by 2025, local land databases will be completed in order to integrate data into the upcoming national land database.

Regarding the cost of viewing land use planning maps, Section III of Appendix I attached to Circular 56/2024 issued by the Ministry of Finance stipulates the following fees for viewing the documents.

To look up the initial or final land use planning map at the district level, the fee is 1 million VND; at the provincial level, it is 2 million VND; and at the national level or for socio-economic region maps, the fee is 4 million VND.

This fee is charged when viewing digital vector maps (without reducing image quality). For raster images (geoPDF, PDF, geoTIFF, TIFF, EPS, ECW, JPG), the fee is 50% of the fee for vector maps of the same scale.

For annual land use planning maps at the district level, the fee for searching is 1 million VND.

For land use planning spatial data (initial/final period) at the district level, the fee is 200,000 VND; at the provincial level, it is 400,000 VND; and at the national level and for socio-economic region data, the fee is 800,000 VND.

For searching spatial data of the annual land use plan with district-level data layers, the fee is 200,000 VND.

If citizens need to look up documents or data on the initial land use plan; the final land use plan; the final land use plan approval; the adjusted land use plan; or the annual land use plan (by period), the fee for scanned or digitally scanned pages is 8,200 VND per page. The fee applies to the first five pages at 8,200 VND, and from the sixth page onwards, it is 900 VND.

Source: https://dantri.com.vn/bat-dong-san/muc-phi-de-xem-quy-hoach-su-dung-dat-la-bao-nhieu-20241126135718202.htm