The National Assembly assigned the Government to proactively use accumulated resources to implement salary regimes.

On the afternoon of November 13, National Assembly deputies voted to pass the Resolution on the state budget estimate for 2026.

Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long presented the draft Resolution on the state budget estimate for 2026 on the afternoon of November 13. Photo: QUANG PHUC

Accordingly, the state budget revenue is 2,529,467 billion VND. Of which, the central budget revenue is 1,225,356 billion VND, the local budget revenue is 1,304,111 billion VND.

Use 23,839 billion VND of the local budget's salary reform fund by the end of 2025, with the remaining balance transferred to the local budget for 2026, to implement the basic salary of 2.34 million VND/month.

Total state budget expenditure is 3,159,106 billion VND, of which central budget expenditure is 1,809,056 billion VND, including an estimate of 238,421 billion VND to supplement local budget balance, an estimate of 187,175 billion VND to supplement local budget targets, and an estimate of 53,554 billion VND to supplement localities to ensure the implementation of the basic salary level of 2.34 million VND/month.

National Assembly session on the afternoon of November 13. Photo: QUANG PHUC

Local budget expenditure is 1,350,050 billion VND, excluding expenditure from targeted supplementary sources, balanced supplementary sources, and supplementary sources to ensure basic salary of 2.34 million VND/month.

The state budget deficit is 605,800 billion VND, equivalent to 4.2% of gross domestic product (GDP), including: central budget deficit is 583,700 billion VND, equivalent to 4% of GDP; local budget deficit is 22,100 billion VND, equivalent to 0.2% of GDP.

The total mobilization demand of the state budget is 985,784 billion VND.

Regarding the management of the state budget in 2025, the National Assembly assigned the Government to direct the review of the use of central budget funds allocated to ministries, branches and localities to implement policies and regimes for cadres, civil servants, public employees, workers and armed forces in the implementation of the organizational arrangement of the political system, and by the end of 2025, if not fully used, to recover and return the accumulated salary reform funds of the central budget.

The National Assembly allows the use of savings from regular state budget expenditures in 2025 (including: saving 10% of regular state budget expenditures assigned in early 2025, increasing compared to the estimate assigned in early 2024; saving an additional 10% of regular state budget expenditures in the last 7 months of 2025) to build inter-level primary and secondary boarding schools in land border communes.

At the same time, the National Assembly allowed the transfer of the 2024 central budget revenue increase and the 2025 state budget regular expenditure savings to build primary and secondary boarding schools in land border communes that have not been fully used in 2025 to 2026 for continued implementation.

The National Assembly voted to pass the Resolution on the state budget estimate for 2026 on the afternoon of November 13. Photo: QUANG PHUC

Regarding the implementation of wage and social policies, the National Assembly assigned ministries, central and local agencies to continue implementing solutions to create sources for wage policy reform according to regulations. In 2026, continue to exclude a number of revenue items when calculating the increase in local budget revenue compared to the estimate for wage policy reform (such as one-time land rent collected in advance by investors for compensation, support and resettlement; revenue from handling public assets at agencies, organizations and units decided by competent authorities to be used for investment only according to regulations; fees for visiting relic sites, world heritage sites...).

The National Assembly also allows the expansion of the scope of using the central budget's salary reform accumulation fund to adjust pensions, social insurance benefits, monthly allowances, preferential allowances for meritorious people and streamlining the payroll; allows the use of local budget's salary reform fund to implement social security policies issued by the Central Government and streamline the payroll...

Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long presented the draft Resolution on the state budget estimate for 2026 on the afternoon of November 13. Photo: QUANG PHUC

The National Assembly assigned the Government to review the budget for savings in regular operating expenses (salary payments and operations only in accordance with the law) due to streamlining the payroll and reorganizing the apparatus to implement the 2-level local government model; allowing localities to use this savings to supplement the local budget's salary reform resources.

From 2026, the National Assembly assigned the Government to proactively use accumulated resources for salary reform to ensure the implementation of salary, allowance and income regimes according to regulations.

The Resolution also clearly states that, in management, the state budget revenue in 2026 will strive to increase by at least 10% compared to the estimated implementation in 2025.

PHAN THAO

Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/quoc-hoi-giao-chinh-phu-chu-dong-su-dung-nguon-tich-luy-de-thuc-hien-cac-che-do-tien-luong-post823263.html