Government pays special attention to taxes and fees for enterprises

	Customs will not collect public fees in border gate area
	Maximum of 80,000 VND for certification of eligibility for import of discarded materials for production
	Exemption from nationality fees, civil status fees, and residence registration fees

Minister, Chairman of Government’s Office Mai Tien Dung stated at the press conference. Photo: H. Diu

Accordingly, Minister, Chairman of Government’s Office Mai Tien Dung stated that the socio-economic development in August 2017 made positive changes. The inflation continued to be controlled. Export turnover increased 18%, the index of industrial production in August 2017 was estimated at an increase of 8.4% (same period last year of 7.5%). Business and tourism were exciting.

However, Mr. Dung also frankly acknowledged that some shortcomings and weaknesses needed to be recovered such as the industry was being recovered but the index of industrial production (IIP) was still lower than previous years and the disbursement of public investment capital and product consumption of many enterprises still met difficulties and especially requirements for removing obstacles for business and production and improving business environment,

Therefore, Mr. Dung said that the Prime Minister has proposed the Government’s members to continue to remove obstacles and closely follow targets for commodities and services to achieve the growth target. In particular, the Prime Minister noted the administrative reform, the especially process of 2,000 sub-licenses.

In addition, the Government’s leader also realized that the burdens of taxes and fees on enterprises were still heavy, some fees such as BOT fee was high, toll plaza was located unreasonably, annoying people. According to the statistics, total transportation fees that enterprises have to pay were up to 70 types. The Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Transportation to review the current regulations on BOT fee in order to find solutions and create conditions for the development of enterprises.

Furthermore, the cost of specialized inspection for imported-exported goods was still high and the proportion of shipments subject to specialized inspection was up to 30%. It was targeted to reduce the proportion to 15%, but some ministries and sectors still carried out slowly. Regulations on Customs procedures, VAT refund, time and expenses for social insurance are still are complicated.

Regarding the results of the implementation of the tasks assigned by the Government and the Prime Minister to ministries, agencies, localities, Mr. Mai Tien Dung stated that from the beginning of the year to August 29, 2017, the Government and Prime Minister have assigned 13,672 tasks to ministries, agencies, and localities. Among them, 7,455 tasks have been completed and 6,217 tasks have not been completed (including the 5996 tasks time limit and overdue 221 tasks - accounting for 2.8%, down 0.4% from the previous month).

Responding to a press’s question on that Mr. Trinh Vinh Binh, a Vietnamese Dutch who claim for damages for an allowance of US$ 1.25 billion at the international court, Minister, Chairman of the Government’s Office Mai Tien Dung said that the view of the Government and the Prime Minister is to create an equal and transparent business environment for both domestic and oversea enterprises.

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"Under the principles of protection, when there is a dispute on violations of the agreement between a locality and a foreign investor, the investor does not sue the locality but sue the government. Therefore, the case is being considered by the international court, so we also have to wait. But the view of Prime Minister is to create a transparent and trustful business environment for foreign investors” Mr. Dung noted.