Approval of Resolution on State budget estimate for 2026

Photo caption — The National Assembly voted to pass the Resolution on the state budget estimate for 2026. Photo: Doan Tan/VNA

The National Assembly resolved that the state budget revenue is 2,529,467 billion VND. Of which, the central budget revenue is 1,225,356 billion VND, and 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 the estimate of 238,421 billion VND to supplement local budget balance, the estimate of 187,175 billion VND to supplement local budget targets, and the estimate of 53,554 billion VND to supplement localities to ensure the implementation of the basic salary level of 2.34 million VND/month.

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 implementation of wage and social policies, ministries, central agencies and localities continue to implement 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, including: 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 expenditure according to regulations; revenue from protection and development of rice-growing land; fees for visiting relic sites and world heritage sites; fees for using infrastructure works, service works and public utilities in border gate areas; environmental protection fees for wastewater; revenue from public land funds, revenue from profits and public assets at communes and revenue from renting and selling state-owned houses.

In addition, it allows expanding the scope of using the central budget's salary reform accumulation source to adjust pensions, social insurance benefits, monthly allowances, preferential allowances for meritorious people and streamlining the payroll; allows using the local budget's salary reform source to implement social security policies issued by the central government and streamlining the payroll.

The National Assembly resolved to assign the Government to review the budget for saving on regular operating expenses (salary payments and only operating according to the provisions of law) due to streamlining the payroll and reorganizing the apparatus to implement the 2-level local government model; allowing localities to use this saved budget to supplement the salary reform source of the local budget.

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

Diep Truong

Source: https://baotintuc.vn/thoi-su/thong-qua-nghi-quyet-ve-du-toan-ngan-sach-nha-nuoc-nam-2026-20251113152402564.htm