Vinh Long tightens revenue and expenditure discipline, focuses on increasing budget revenue, ensures growth target of over 8%

(Chinhphu.vn) - By the end of September 30, 2025, the state budget revenue in Vinh Long province had only reached 77.40% of the estimate, significantly lower than the average progress of the whole country when the revenue in the first 9 months of the year was nearly 100% of the estimate. In that context, the People's Committee of Vinh Long province issued a document directing the entire political system to take action, resolutely implement solutions to increase revenue, save expenditure, accelerate disbursement of public investment, strive to increase state budget revenue by at least 25% compared to the estimate, contributing to ensuring the target of economic growth for the whole year of over 8%.

Mr. Pham Quoc Dung, Head of Taxation of Vinh Long province, presented the decision to appoint leading civil servants to the Heads of Departments and Heads of Taxation at the grassroots level - Photo: VGP/LS

Budget revenue reached 77.40% of the estimate, lower than the national average.

According to the direction in Document No. 4577/UBND-TH dated October 10, 2025 of Vice Chairman of Vinh Long Provincial People's Committee Dang Van Chinh on the implementation of Official Dispatch No. 184/CD-TTg of the Prime Minister , by September 30, 2025, the total state budget revenue in the province reached 16,557,233 million VND, equivalent to 77.40% of the 2025 estimate. Of which, domestic revenue was 15,319,057 million VND, reaching 77.71% of the estimate.

Meanwhile, the state budget revenue in the first 9 months of 2025 of the whole country reached approximately 100% of the estimate, showing that the budget collection progress of Vinh Long is still far from the general average. The pressure to complete socio -economic development goals, ensure resources for social security and development investment in this context is assessed to be very large.

Vinh Long Provincial People's Committee assessed that in the last months of 2025, the world political, economic, trade and investment situation continues to be unpredictable, directly affecting the local economy. Along with that, natural disasters and epidemics may develop complicatedly, affecting production, life and budget revenue and expenditure results in the area.

In that context, the requirement is to maintain macroeconomic stability, ensure social security, strengthen financial and budgetary discipline, avoid revenue loss and waste, and mobilize and effectively use all resources for development.

Dual goal: Increase budget revenue, maintain growth momentum above 8%

To improve the efficiency of budget management and operation in the last months of 2025, the People's Committee of Vinh Long province sets a target of striving for the state budget revenue to increase by at least 25% compared to the estimate, thereby contributing to achieving the target of economic growth of over 8% for the whole year.

In that spirit, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested heads of departments, branches, agencies, relevant units and Chairmen of People's Committees of communes and wards to focus on directing a series of key tasks decisively, promptly and effectively.

First of all, agencies and units must continue to effectively implement solutions to reform administrative procedures, improve the investment and business environment, enhance competitiveness, remove difficulties for production, enterprises and business households, thereby expanding the budget collection base. The implementation of the Resolutions and Conclusions of the Party and 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 the Prime Minister's instructions are required to be closely followed and implemented synchronously.

On the local side, Vinh Long has identified the goal of proactively finding solutions to increase revenue, striving to increase the province's state budget revenue by 10% or more compared to the estimate in 2025, while contributing to the national target of increasing revenue by at least 25% compared to the estimate. This is a big challenge, requiring drastic and synchronous participation of all levels and sectors, from tax management, finance, planning - investment to local authorities.

Propaganda and support work for taxpayers has been promoted, becoming a solid bridge between tax authorities and people and businesses - Photo: VGP/LS

Expanding the tax base, tightening tax discipline and fighting revenue loss

One of the key points emphasized in the direction of the Provincial People's Committee is to strengthen the management of state budget collection, prevent revenue loss, ensure correct, full and timely collection, and at the same time expand the collection base.

Tax, financial and local government agencies must pay special attention to areas with large revenue potential but prone to revenue loss, such as: e-commerce, food services, retail stores, digital business activities, real estate transfers, etc. The strong implementation of digital transformation in tax management, especially electronic invoices generated from cash registers at service, food and beverage, retail establishments, etc. is considered a solution to both modernize management and contribute to revenue transparency and prevent fraud.

The Provincial People's Committee requested the tax sector to closely follow the domestic revenue target according to Resolution No. 205/NQ-CP dated July 6, 2025 of the Government; focus on implementing Decree No. 117/2025/ND-CP dated June 9, 2025 on tax management for business on e-commerce and digital platforms.

Along with that is the requirement to strengthen the inspection and supervision of compliance with the law on prices, taxes, and fees; strictly handle cases of tax evasion, transfer pricing, e-commerce fraud, smuggling, etc. Not only stopping at large enterprises, the Provincial People's Committee assigned the task of "modernizing tax work for business households and individuals", strictly implementing Project 420 on tax management of business households, reviewing and standardizing tax registration information, personal tax codes according to Project 06, serving the connection of national databases on population and taxes.

Regarding tax debt management, the target is to collect at least 80% of the recoverable debt by December 31, 2024, while striving to reduce the tax debt by the end of 2025 to below 8% of the actual domestic revenue. This is a target that requires the tax sector to strengthen debt management measures, enforce tax debt collection in accordance with regulations, in parallel with supporting and removing difficulties for businesses that actually encounter objective obstacles.

Save regular expenses, speed up public investment disbursement

Along with the task of increasing revenue is the requirement to proactively, strictly and thoroughly save on State budget expenditures, especially regular expenditures. The province requires tightening financial discipline and order; reviewing, arranging and adjusting expenditure estimates according to regulations; cutting down on unnecessary expenditures, ensuring economical and effective spending.

The Provincial People's Committee also clearly assigned responsibilities to departments, branches, units and localities in accelerating the progress of implementation and disbursement of public investment capital. The province's key and important projects and works must be focused on, quickly removing bottlenecks in land, site clearance, investment procedures, and contents related to handover and project implementation after rearranging the organization of the 2-level government apparatus.

The goal is to strive to complete 100% of the public investment capital plan by 2025. Disbursement of public investment capital is identified as one of the key political tasks, associated with the responsibility of heads of departments, branches, agencies, units and localities.

Regarding the management and use of public assets, the province requires that investment in construction and procurement of public assets must comply with the regime, standards and norms; minimizing occurrence and waste. Units must review and rearrange public assets, handle surplus assets after rearranging the organizational apparatus and administrative units at all levels, ensuring effective use of public assets, avoiding loss.

Notably, departments, branches, units, People's Committees of communes and wards must report the 10% savings in regular expenditures assigned at the beginning of 2025, increasing compared to the estimate assigned at the beginning of 2024, and at the same time saving an additional 10% of regular expenditures of the State budget in the last months of 2025. This amount of savings will be compiled by the Department of Finance, advised by the Provincial People's Committee to report to the Ministry of Finance, and submitted 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.

The industrial production index in Vinh Long continues to grow, making an important contribution to the province's budget revenue - Photo: VGP/LS

Ensuring budget balance, enhancing responsibility of leaders

Another important point in the directive document is the requirement that state budget expenditures must closely follow the assigned estimates and revenue capacity according to decentralization, while proactively using budget reserves, financial reserve funds, budget surpluses and other legal resources of the locality to handle spending tasks for prevention, combat and overcoming consequences of natural disasters, epidemics and other urgent and unexpected tasks that arise.

In case the local budget revenue is expected to fall short of the estimate, the Department of Finance, the Economic Department or the Economic - Infrastructure and Urban Department shall be responsible for developing a plan to advise the People's Committee to report to the People's Council at the same level, propose solutions to handle, review, cut, and postpone spending tasks that are not really necessary to ensure budget balance.

The People's Committee of Vinh Long province also requested departments, branches, units and localities to urgently overcome limitations and fully implement recommendations of the State Audit and inspection agencies related to budget management. This is the content to strengthen financial discipline, prevent violations and improve the efficiency of using the State budget.

The Department of Finance is assigned to coordinate with the Tax and Customs agencies to drastically implement revenue management solutions; promote the application of information technology and digital transformation; guide and monitor units to overcome existing problems and implement cost savings; synthesize the 10% savings in regular spending to advise the Provincial People's Committee to report to the Ministry of Finance.

The People's Committee of Vinh Long province requests heads of departments, branches, agencies, units; Chairmen of People's Committees of communes and wards to seriously grasp and organize the implementation of the above tasks and solutions. During the implementation process, if difficulties or problems arise beyond their authority, the units must promptly report to the Department of Finance for synthesis and advise the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee for consideration and direction.

With drastic and synchronous solutions from increasing revenue, preventing revenue loss, saving expenditure, promoting public investment to tightening financial discipline, Vinh Long expects to make a breakthrough in the last months of the year, completing and striving to exceed the State budget revenue targets for 2025, creating a foundation for sustainable socio-economic development in the following years.

Le Son

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