Chỉ thị 15/2001/CT-TTg

The Prime Minister requests the ministries, agencies and provincial/municipal People�s Committees to concentrate efforts on directing and efficiently implementing the following tasks:

To direct production and business activities, promptly work out measures to remove difficulties and troubles obstructing the production and business activities of people and enterprises; strictly implement the Government�s resolutions on solutions to the administration of the 2001 economic plans, striving to overfulfill the plans on the 2001 State budget revenues already approved by the National Assembly.

The Minister of Finance shall assign norms on the increase of the 2001 State budget revenues to the ministries, branches, localities and units, so as to ensure that the to be-assigned 2001 State budget revenue estimates be higher than the results achieved in 2000. The presidents of provincial/municipal People�s Committees, the General Director of Customs and the General Director of Tax shall assign norms on the increase of the 2001 State budget revenues to their attached units; and at the same time, to work out measures to efficiently direct and coordinate in managing the collection of tax and fighting the reduction of budget revenues.

Regarding the work of enhancing the management of collection and fight against the reduction of budget revenues, efforts must be concentrated on directing and implementing the following:

To continue considering and settling tax problems which affect on production and/or business activities of enterprises; fully and timely collect assorted taxes, charges and other budget revenues, thus avoiding the appropriation of tax amounts to be remitted into the State budget.

To closely monitor and timely predict the fluctuation of prices on international and domestic markets so as to promptly adjust the import tax and export tax rates.

To accelerate the tempo of land allotment, land lease, granting of land use right certificates and residential house ownership certificates so as to boost the tempo of collection of budget revenues related to land. To well implement the coordination among agencies in fighting the reduction of personal income tax.

To attach high importance on tax payers� responsibility for calculating, declaring and paying tax to treasuries by themselves; to accelerate the inspection and examination of the performance of the obligation to collect and pay tax, severely handle cases of violation, and at the same tine, consolidate and overcome overlapping examinations and inspections, which are conducted not according to assigned functions and competence and cause difficulties to enterprises.

To raise responsibility of and coordination among tax, customs, police and market control bodies in the work of fighting speculation, smuggling and trade frauds in each locality, especially where exist border-gates or large trading centers.-(Summary)