Strengthen financial inspection to tackle pretty corruption

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The Inspectorate of the Ministry of Finance and relevant authorities conducted 28,385 inspections. Photo: Thuy Linh.

Making more than 28,000 further inspections

In the first half of 2021, units under the Ministry of Finance strengthened internal inspections to prevent and handle violations in the work of officials.

As a result, the finance sector has carried out 502 internal inspections and imposed fines worth VND133 billion, proposed fines for 43 organisations and 172 individuals.

The Ministry of Finance has made 28,385 audits and checked 281,209 tax dossiers, tackled 5,329 smuggling cases and proposed to give fines worth VND25,863 billion.

Tax authorities at all levels have made 26,721 inspections and checked 281,209 tax dossiers at tax office, thereby, fined VND19,137 billion and collected VND2,177 billion. The sector has performed internal inspections and imposed fines of VND2 billion.

Customs authorities have proposed to collect VND44.4 billion of fines from inspections and VND17.2 billion from fines of administrative violations and late payment.

Prevent causing trouble for residents

The anti-corruption work of the Ministry of Finance has achieved positive results, and prevented corruption as well as negative and wasteful acts.

However, there remain shortcomings and problems in this work. The payment in cash in the society is widely made, and the e-transaction is still few, leading to difficulties in controlling and preventing corruption.

In the near future, the Ministry of Finance will propose authorities amend and supplement legal documents related to the State management of the ministry, especially in areas such as management and use of land, natural resources and minerals; equitisation of State-owned enterprises; bank; capital construction investment; education and medical.

The Ministry of Finance has requested its subordinate units take measures to internal inspection and management to remove the shortcomings in handling administrative procedures by officials.

Strengthen inspections of the performance of public services by officials and strictly handle “pretty corruption”.

The Ministry of Finance’s Inspectorate continues to develop mechanisms, polices and tackle loopholes in policies and abolish the “ask-give” mechanisms, “benefit group” and complex procedures; increase the inspection power in the public authorities.