Announcement of 3 Resolutions of the National Assembly Standing Committee

NDO - On behalf of the National Assembly Standing Committee, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man has just signed and issued 3 Resolutions of the National Assembly Standing Committee on environmental protection tax rates for gasoline, oil, and grease; the allocation of operating budget estimates for National Assembly delegations in 2025 and targeted supplementation from the central budget in 2024 for localities.

Accordingly, in Resolution No. 60/2024/UBTVQH15 on environmental protection tax rates for gasoline, oil, and grease, the National Assembly Standing Committee resolved on environmental protection tax rates for gasoline, oil, and grease from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025. In particular, the tax rate for: gasoline (except ethanol) is VND 2,000/liter; jet fuel is VND 1,000/liter; diesel is VND 1,000/liter; kerosene is VND 600/liter; fuel oil is VND 1,000/liter; lubricants is VND 1,000/liter; grease is VND 1,000/kg.

The Resolution also stipulates: the environmental protection tax rate on gasoline, oil, and grease from January 1, 2026 shall be implemented according to the provisions of Section I, Clause 1, Article 1 of Resolution No. 579/2018/UBTVQH14 dated September 26, 2018 of the National Assembly Standing Committee on environmental protection tax schedule.

Resolution No. 60/2024/UBTVQH15 takes effect from January 1, 2025, replacing Resolution No. 42/2023/UBTVQH15 dated December 18, 2023.

Environmental protection tax rate on gasoline, oil, and grease specified in Section I, Clause 1, Article 1 of Resolution No. 579/2018/UBTVQH14 shall not be applied from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025.

According to Resolution No. 1337/NQ-UBTVQH15 , the National Assembly Standing Committee resolved to allocate the estimated operating budget for 2025 for National Assembly delegations (operating expenses of state agencies, parties, and organizations - non-autonomous expenses) as: 189,964 million VND.

The Standing Committee of the National Assembly assigned the Head of the National Assembly Office to issue a Decision on allocating the 2025 budget estimates of the National Assembly Delegations to the Office of the National Assembly Delegations and the People's Councils of the provinces and centrally run cities; to consider and decide on adjusting the budget estimates for the National Assembly Delegations for tasks that have not yet been allocated budget estimates and tasks assigned to be supplemented and adjusted in 2025.

The National Assembly Standing Committee also assigned the National Assembly Office to review and ensure the accuracy of the content, information, and data in the plan for allocating the operating budget of the National Assembly delegations in 2025; comply with the standards, norms, spending regimes, and conditions for supplementing, adjusting, and allocating the budget in accordance with the provisions of law; manage, use, and settle the allocated budget in accordance with the provisions of the State Budget Law and relevant laws; ensure timely, effective, and appropriate implementation, and prevent loss, corruption, waste, and negativity.

National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man chaired the meeting of the National Assembly Standing Committee.

Pursuant to Resolution No. 1338/NQ-UBTVQH15, the Standing Committee of the National Assembly resolved to: supplement the central budget to localities with a targeted amount of VND 5,834,437 million to implement social security policies for the years 2023-2024 and support payment of benefits for the number of additional teacher positions for the school year 2022-2023 and the school year 2023-2024 in accordance with the content and data in Submission No. 845/TTr-CP dated December 10, 2024 of the Government. Targeted supplement from the central budget to localities the amount of 600,000 million VND to implement the Project to strengthen management of land with capital from state-owned farms and forestry farms for 19 localities in accordance with the content and data in Document No. 858/TTr-CP dated December 18, 2024 of the Government.

The Resolution clearly states that the Government is responsible for the legal basis of the proposed contents, the accuracy of the data, the completeness, compliance with standards, norms, spending regimes and conditions for supplementing the budget estimate, and assigning the budget estimate in accordance with the provisions of law; managing, using and settling the allocated funds in accordance with the provisions of the State Budget Law and relevant laws; ensuring timely, effective and appropriate implementation, avoiding loss, waste and negativity; reporting to the National Assembly on the implementation results at the 9th Session of the 15th National Assembly.

Along with that, the Government directs ministries, branches and localities to learn from experience in building budget estimates, minimizing unallocated budgets from the beginning of the year. In the process of operation, the Government needs to direct strongly to promptly assign unallocated budgets, avoid delays, prolongation, waste, inefficiency of state budget resources and the situation of assigning year-end budgets that cannot be used in time, and must transfer budget sources to the following year, especially budget sources related to social security and human policies.

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