Enhancing anti-corruption in the Finance

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A specific scheme should be introduced to assign the leaders of Tax agencies, Customs agencies and State Treasuries in provinces and cities. Photo: H. V

The Directive showed that: over the past time, anti-corruption measures in Finance have made positive changes in both perception and action, and achieved important results that contribute to the tasks of finance – budget, administrative reform and modernization of the sector.

However, the results of anti-corruption in Finance still had many shortcomings and limitations. Therefore, the Party Civil Affairs of the Ministry of Finance requested the Heads of commissions, Party organizations under the Ministry of Finance and Directors of subordinate agencies, organizations and units to take charge of directly guiding and completing anti-corruption measures in their agencies and units; and building and issuing an effective implementation plan of decrees, directives, programs on anti- corruption measures of the Party Civil Affairs of the Ministry of Finance in a timely fashion; and enhancing the guidance, direction and investigation for Party organizations and Party members on anti-corruption

In addition, the units need to boost and renew the forms to improve the quality and efficiency of the propagation of the Party’s guidelines and State’s policies and laws on anti-corruption.

The Party Civil Affairs of the Ministry of Finance also asked to speed up the research, establishment and improvement of mechanisms, policies and laws on finance and public properties in order to promptly detect and propose the relevant authorities to review, amend and supplement the loopholes and shortcomings in provisions which caused difficulties in detecting and handling negative acts and corruption.

Moreover, the Ministry of Finance needs to implement synchronously and effectively solutions to prevent, detect and handle corruption; speed up administrative reform especially in Taxation and Customs and enhance the publicity and transparency in the performance of the agencies and units; and review, amend, supplement and strictly follow the regulations, norms and standards.

The units strictly abide by the provisions of the law on declarations of properties and revenue; verify, clarify and handle in a timely fashion for cadres and public officials who had corruption and negative acts.

In the personnel organization, Party Civil Affairs requested to perform regularly and comprehensively the regulations and process of reception, transfer, rotation, appointment and dismissal for officials; ensure the equality, democracy and publicity; and review and issue a specific plan to assign the Directors of the Tax agencies, Customs agencies and State Treasuries in provinces and cities, besides, strengthen the collaboration with the inspection authorities, audit agencies and market management agencies, public security, procuracy, courts and other competent authorities in detecting and dealing with corruption in the State management, especially in Tax and Customs management; and actively cooperate with law enforcement agencies in investigation, verification and settlement of corruption cases which are detected, and the recovery of corrupted properties.

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In particular, continue to innovate and enhance the operational capacity of the Steering Committee for Anti-Corruption that contributes to the detection, prevention of corruption and extravagances as well manifestations of "self-performance" , "self-transformation" inside the units; and promote the training and retraining for public officials working as advisers for commissions, party organizations, Heads of agencies and units on anti-corruption and directly perform the tasks of detection and handling of corruption cases.