Prime Minister directs to improve the efficiency of state budget management and operation

The Prime Minister requested that in the last months of 2025, strive to increase state budget revenue by at least 25% compared to the estimate, contributing to achieving the annual economic growth target of over 8%.

This is one of the main contents of Official Dispatch No. 184/CD-TTg sent to ministries, branches and localities on state budget management in the last months of 2025, signed and issued by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on October 2, 2025.

The dispatch stated: By September 30, 2025, state budget revenue will reach approximately 100% of the 2025 estimate while still implementing reductions and extensions of taxes, fees, charges, and land rents of over VND 200 trillion to support businesses and people; state budget expenditures will be managed tightly and economically. This is a positive result in the context of many difficulties and challenges in the world and in the country.

However, in the last months of the year, it is forecasted that the world political, economic, trade and investment situation will continue to develop in a complicated and unpredictable manner, adversely affecting our country's economy; natural disasters, storms, floods and epidemics will develop in a very complicated manner, affecting the implementation of socio-economic development tasks and state budget revenue and expenditure.

To improve the effectiveness of state budget management and administration in the last months of 2025, striving to increase state budget revenue by at least 25% compared to the estimate, contributing to the implementation of the annual economic growth target of over 8%, the Prime Minister requested the Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, Government agencies; Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities to focus on leading, directing and organizing the drastic, timely and effective implementation of the following tasks and solutions:

Strive for state budget revenue in 2025 to increase by at least 25% compared to the estimate

1. Ministries, agencies and localities:

a) Continue to effectively implement key solutions and tasks to promote administrative procedure reform, improve the investment and business environment, enhance national competitiveness, remove difficulties for production and business, and socio-economic development according to the Resolutions and Conclusions of the Party, the National Assembly, Resolution No. 154/NQ-CP dated May 31, 2025, No. 226/NQ-CP dated August 5, 2025, No. 02/NQ-CP dated January 8, 2025, Resolutions of regular meetings of the Government and Official Dispatches, Directives, and directives of the Prime Minister.

b) Resolutely implement the state budget collection work, striving to increase the state budget collection nationwide by at least 25% compared to the estimate in 2025. Strengthen the management of state budget collection, prevent revenue loss, ensure correct, sufficient and timely collection; expand the collection base, especially from e-commerce, food services, and retail stores; further promote digital transformation in tax management; resolutely, persistently and firmly expand the implementation of electronic invoices generated from cash registers.

Quang Tri province's market management force discovered many batches of counterfeit goods and trade fraud. (Photo: Nguyen Linh/VNA)

Resolutely strengthen the prevention and fight against smuggling, trade fraud, transfer pricing, and tax evasion, especially in business activities on digital platforms and real estate transfers; focus on inspection and supervision of the implementation of legal regulations on prices, taxes, and fees; strictly handle violations according to the law.

c) Organize and manage state budget expenditures proactively and thoroughly to save state budget expenditures, especially regular expenditures, tighten discipline and order, and improve the efficiency of state budget use.

Focus on and drastically accelerate the progress of implementation and disbursement of public investment capital, especially key and important national projects and works; strive to complete the target of disbursing 100% of the public investment capital plan by 2025; identify this as one of the key political tasks associated with the responsibility of heads of ministries, central and local agencies.

Ministers, heads of sectors, and Chairmen of provincial People's Committees must be more determined in strengthening supervision, inspection, and timely removal of difficulties and obstacles in public investment disbursement (especially regarding land, site clearance, and matters related to handover and implementation of projects after the reorganization of the two-level local government apparatus).

Thoroughly save on regular expenses, review, arrange, and adjust spending estimates according to regulations; proactively cut down on unnecessary expenses, ensuring savings and efficiency.

Invest in construction and purchase public assets in accordance with the correct regime, standards and norms, ensuring savings and efficiency. Organize the review and rearrangement of public assets, and handle surplus assets after rearranging the organizational apparatus and administrative units at all levels according to regulations; avoid waste and loss of public assets.

d) Localities closely monitor and evaluate the market situation and developments to proactively implement solutions to increase budget revenue. Continue to urge the promotion of revenue from production and business and from land according to the direction of the Prime Minister in Official Dispatch No. 124/CD-TTg dated November 30, 2024.

Implement state budget expenditures according to assigned estimates and revenue collection capacity according to decentralization; proactively use budget reserves, financial reserve funds, budget surpluses and legal local resources to handle expenditure tasks for prevention, response to and overcoming consequences of natural disasters and epidemics and other urgent and extraordinary expenditure tasks arising according to regulations.

In case the local budget revenue is expected to fall short of the estimate, the Provincial People's Committee shall develop a plan to report to the People's Council on solutions to handle, review, reduce, and postpone spending tasks that are not really necessary to ensure the balance of the local budget. Absolutely do not let the revenue and expenditure imbalance in the locality, agency, or budget unit.

Before October 10, decide on a plan to handle the state budget capital that has been assigned to ministries, agencies, and localities but has not been allocated in detail to investment tasks and projects after the deadline.

2. The Ministry of Finance presides over and coordinates with ministries, agencies and localities to:

Continue to be more drastic in implementing a reasonable, focused, and effective expansionary fiscal policy, in close, synchronous, and harmonious coordination with monetary policy to promote growth, stabilize the macro-economy, control inflation, and ensure major balances of the economy. Control state budget deficit and public debt within the allowable range.

Directing tax and customs authorities at all levels to resolutely and synchronously deploy revenue management solutions, promote the strong application of information technology, digital transformation, improve the efficiency of tax management, prevent tax fraud, tax evasion, tax loss, ensure correct, full and timely collection. Continue to improve institutions, policies and laws on state budget collection.

Component 3 project of Bien Hoa-Vung Tau expressway. (Photo: Hoang Nhi/VNA)

Urgently urge ministries, central agencies and localities (for the Ministry of Finance to synthesize and report to competent authorities for consideration and decision before October 10, 2025): (i) Transfer of public investment capital from ministries, agencies and localities that do not need to use it to ministries, agencies and localities that need additional capital to speed up the progress of projects according to regulations; (ii) Plan to handle the central budget capital planned for 2025 that has been assigned to ministries, agencies and localities but has not been allocated in detail to investment tasks and projects according to regulations after the prescribed deadline; (iii) Be responsible before the regulations of the Party, laws of the State, the Government and the Prime Minister for non-compliance with the regulations, Resolutions and directions of the Prime Minister on budget expenditure tasks.

Synthesize the savings of 10% of regular expenditures assigned at the beginning of 2025, increasing compared to the estimate assigned at the beginning of 2024, and save an additional 10% of regular expenditures of the state budget in the last 7 months of 2025 to report to competent authorities to supplement investment resources for the construction of boarding and semi-boarding schools for high school students in remote, isolated, border and island areas.