Coordinate effectively to handle overlaps and duplications in inspection and audit work.

(Chinhphu.vn) - In recent years, the coordination between the Government Inspectorate and the State Audit has become increasingly in-depth, substantive, and effective, contributing significantly to improving the quality and effectiveness of public financial supervision and preventing and detecting violations.

Deputy State Auditor General Tran Minh Khuong - Photo: KTNN

Coordinate effectively to handle overlapping and overlapping issues in inspection and audit work.

According to Deputy State Auditor General Tran Minh Khuong, in recent years, the State Audit and the Government Inspectorate have had close coordination on an increasingly solid legal foundation. Specifically, these are the State Audit Law 2015, the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the State Audit Law 2019, Coordination Regulation No. 1618/QCPH:KTNN-TTCP 2021, up to the Inspection Law 2022.

Notably, the 2025 Inspection Law (effective from July 1, 2025) is an important step forward in perfecting the institution, streamlining the organization and apparatus of the Inspection sector. The 2025 Inspection Law continues to perfect the legal framework on coordination, with the emphasis being on: Streamlining the inspection system, strengthening power control and specifying overlapping handling responsibilities at all levels (from planning to implementing activities) to improve the efficiency and professionalism of both inspection and audit activities.

This is a breakthrough in creating a more synchronous, transparent and feasible legal framework for the Government Inspectorate and the State Audit to effectively promote their roles, functions and tasks.

This not only helps effectively handle overlapping and duplication, but also contributes to improving the effectiveness of supervision, preventing violations, and strengthening discipline in the management and use of public finance and public assets.

The annual audit plans of the State Audit are discussed and agreed upon with the Government Inspectorate right from the construction stage, thanks to which the overlap rate between the two agencies has significantly reduced over the years.

In addition, the Government Inspectorate and the State Audit Office also regularly coordinate to promptly handle overlapping cases arising during the implementation process, ensuring that each content is only inspected and supervised by one competent agency. Each agency performs its functions correctly, without overlapping but still supports and complements each other in detecting and handling violations, and making recommendations for policy improvement.

At the strategic level, this coordination is not only a technical and professional requirement but also demonstrates the political responsibility of the two high-level inspection and supervision agencies of the State - together towards the common goal of improving the effectiveness of public administration, ensuring financial discipline and order and serving the sustainable development of the country.

"This is the fundamental factor to build a streamlined, strong, transparent public financial monitoring system without duplication or overlapping tasks," Mr. Tran Minh Khuong affirmed.

Along with that, through the coordination process, the State Audit has the conditions to receive and refer to information, data and inspection results of the Government Inspectorate, thereby improving the quality of analysis and risk assessment, helping to select topics and audit scope to ensure they are closer, more accurate, and more focused, contributing to improving predictability and efficiency in the use of audit resources. Thereby, helping the annual audit plan to be both comprehensive and avoid spreading, meeting the increasingly high requirements in the control of public finance and public assets.

Government Inspectorate - Photo: VGP/Toan Thang

Bring many practical benefits

Assessing the benefits of coordination between the two agencies, the Deputy State Auditor General said that minimizing overlaps and duplications between inspection and audit activities not only brings practical benefits to the units and organizations being inspected and audited, but also contributes to significantly improving the effectiveness of financial-budgetary supervision, strengthening discipline and order in public financial management, towards the goal of building a streamlined, effective and honest State inspection and supervision system.

First of all, from the perspective of the subjects of inspection and audit, reducing overlap helps reduce administrative pressure, saving time and resources for agencies and units, especially localities and state-owned enterprises.

In reality, in the past, for the same financial content, in the same budget year, we had to receive many different delegations - inspection delegations, audit delegations, specialized inspection delegations... That not only wasted resources but also reduced concentration, caused fear, and affected the regular operations of the unit.

When coordination is enhanced, inspection and audit results, when used and shared, will help reduce the situation of "re-evaluating" the same content, creating a transparent and professional working environment, while strengthening the trust of people and businesses in State inspection and supervision agencies.

From the perspective of budget management and monitoring efficiency, reducing overlap means increasing the efficiency of using State monitoring resources. When avoiding duplication in scope, subjects and content, both agencies can focus more deeply on key, high-risk areas, contributing to the timely detection of violations, losses and waste in the management and use of the budget and public assets.

This is also an important basis for the conclusions and recommendations of the inspectorate and audit to be complementary and mutually supportive, instead of overlapping or contradictory. Thanks to that, the quality of public financial supervision is improved, helping the National Assembly, the Government and local authorities at all levels have more objective and reliable information to make decisions on budget management and operation in a more effective and transparent manner.

However, according to the Deputy State Auditor General, the coordination between the Government Inspectorate and the State Audit still has a number of challenges that need to be overcome, especially after the organizational structure of the inspection system operates according to a more compact model.

First of all, coordination in annual planning work does not stop at the general list of inspection and audit tasks, but needs to be coordinated to review each list and specific focal points in each task to avoid overlap and duplication.

On the other hand, the database system and shared information between the Government Inspectorate and the State Audit are still inadequate. Data exchange is still mainly done manually and has not been digitized, leading to a lot of time spent on reviewing and comparing.

In addition, during the implementation process at the ministerial level, central and local agencies still have a lack of proactive information exchange and coordination, so there are still some cases where overlaps and duplications are discovered during implementation.

In the coming time, along with the completion of the legal framework according to the 2025 Inspection Law and the State Audit Law, the Government Inspectorate and the State Audit can strengthen connections, exchange information, train unified coordination skills and enhance the responsibility of leaders in handling overlaps. When these solutions are implemented synchronously, inspection and audit activities will become increasingly effective, transparent, non-overlapping, meeting the increasingly high supervision requirements of the Party, State and people, the Deputy State Auditor General affirmed.

Toan Thang

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