What are 19 prohibited acts for CPV members in 2025? How much CPV membership fee for Vietnamese tax officials?

Vietnam: What are 19 prohibited acts for CPV members in 2025?

Pursuant to Section 1 of Regulation 37-QD/TW of 2021 issued by the Central Executive Committee on the prohibitions for CPV members, specifically including 19 acts CPV members are not allowed to engage in:

Article 1: Speaking, writing, or acting contrary to or failing to implement the Communist Party of Vietnam's Political Platform, Charter, resolutions, directives, conclusions, regulations, procedures, and decisions; performing acts not permitted by law.

Article 2: Not adhering to the organizational principles and activities of the Communist Communist Party of Vietnam; self-nominating, accepting nominations, and nominating positions within state organizations, the Vietnam Fatherland Front, political-social organizations, and mass organizations assigned by the Communist Party of Vietnam and State without permission from the competent party organization.

Article 3: Opposing, denying, distorting Marxism-Leninism, and Ho Chi Minh Thought; failing to fulfill the role model responsibility; displaying selfishness, opportunism, personal gain; "term thinking", going along with the majority, formal democracy, not defending the right, not opposing the wrong; being authoritarian, bureaucratic, detached from the masses.

Article 4: Disclosing, losing, or writing articles, and publishing secret information and documents of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the State or matters not allowed for publication; storing, disseminating, spreading or inciting others to spread information and documents in any form to propagate information and views contrary to the Communist Party of Vietnam's guidelines and State policies and laws.

Article 5: Writing articles or providing materials for others to write, speak, or publish false information, not publishing feedback, or corrections as required. Creating, producing, storing, and disseminating unhealthy works, literary and artistic works not conforming to Vietnamese customs and traditions, with inciting content causing negative impacts in society; disseminating writings, interviews, memoirs, films, images that do not conform.

Article 6: Filing accusations based on fabrications; writing or signing joint complaints; submitting anonymous complaints. Sending or disseminating complaints and accusations in any form to unauthorized parties.

Threatening, suppressing, retaliating against complainants; not adhering to the Communist Party of Vietnam and State's regulations on protecting whistleblowers, criticism, and suggestions; inciting, persuading, bribing, or coercing others to file complaints.

Article 7: Organizing or participating in organizations and associations not conforming to Communist Party of Vietnam and State laws; organizing, participating in demonstrations, gatherings causing disorder and security issues.

Article 8: Organizing, inciting, participating in factional, local activities causing internal disunity. Exploiting feedback, criticism towards the Communist Party of Vietnam and State to attack, slander, offend, or make arbitrary comments and evaluations of organizations and individuals.

Article 9: Making false reports, compiling, declaring false personal history, assets, and income. Using fake, unauthorized certifications and diplomas; acquiring foreign nationality, transferring money, assets abroad, opening accounts and trading assets abroad against regulations.

Article 10: Presiding over or advising on the issuance of documents containing content contrary to the Communist Party of Vietnam and State laws. Acting non-conformatively in the management of investment, construction, use of houses, land, resources, finances, and assets of the Communist Party of Vietnam and State.

Article 11: Violating public service ethics, covering up, reporting falsely while performing tasks; showing negligence allowing the agency, unit, locality, individual under direct management to experience disunity, corruption, wastefulness, negative phenomena, and other violations. Failing to report, failing to handle acts of corruption, wastefulness, negative phenomena. Intervening, influencing or allowing spouses, children, parents, siblings, either side and others to exploit their position for personal gain. Exploiting policies encouraging and protecting dynamic, creative officials for the common interest to commit or conceal acts of personal gain, corruption, negative phenomena, violating the Communist Party of Vietnam's rules and State laws.

Article 12: Engaging in acts to buy positions, buy power, covering, aiding, intervening or influencing individuals and organizations to benefit oneself or others in acceptance, recruitment, planning, rotation, appointment, nomination, election, commendation, conferring titles, studying, traveling abroad, handling policies contrary to regulations.

Article 13: Intervening, influencing inspections, audits, investigations, prosecution, trial, sentence execution, special amnesty, and complaint resolution to conceal or assist in breaches of Communist Party of Vietnam's and State’s laws. Influencing, coercing, bribing organizations and individuals to reduce responsibility and penalty for others.

Article 14: Embezzling, giving, receiving, or brokering bribes, leveraging work positions for brokering, bribing in any form; organizing or participating in activities facilitating money laundering, borrowing, and lending contrary to the law.

Article 15: Giving or receiving gifts in any form to influence decision-making beneficial for oneself or a particular individual, organization, agency, enterprise.

Article 16: Failing to practice thrift, causing loss, waste in managing, using public finances and assets; purchasing, managing, and using public assets contrary to regulations.

Article 17: Influencing, allowing spouses, children, parents, siblings, oneself and others to travel, study, receive medical treatment funded by organizations and individuals related to the field under follow-up and management.

Article 18: Organizing, participating in gambling activities in any form; using drugs; consuming alcohol and beer non-conformatively or excessively, participating in other social vices. Organizing, conducting personal, family weddings, funerals, and other events lavishly or for personal gain. Indifferent, insensitive to wrongful acts in society; committing domestic violence; violating population policy; living with another like husband and wife, violating regulations on marriage with foreigners.

Article 19: Superstitious, engaging in superstitious activities; supporting or participating in illegal religions or exploiting religious and belief activities for personal gain.

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What rights do CPV members have?

According to Article 3 of the Communist Communist Party of Vietnam of Vietnam Charter 2011, CPV members have the following rights:

- To be informed and discuss matters of the Political Platform, Communist Party of Vietnam Charter, the Communist Party of Vietnam's strategies, guidelines, policies and vote on Communist Party of Vietnam affairs.

- Candidacy, nomination, and election to the Communist Party of Vietnam's leadership bodies at all levels as stipulated by the Central Executive Committee.

- Criticism and questioning about the activities of party organizations and members at all levels within the organizational scope; report, recommend to responsible bodies and request a response.

- Voicing opinions when the party organization makes evaluations, decisions on work, or applies disciplinary measures to themselves.

Probationary CPV members have the above rights, except the right to vote, stand for election, and nominate candidates for the Communist Party of Vietnam's leadership bodies.

How much CPV membership fee for Vietnamese tax officials?

Based on sub-section 1, Section 1, Part B of the Regulation on CPV membership fee policies issued with Decision 342/QD-TW of 2010 regulating subjects and monthly CPV membership fee rates, specifically:

Subjects and monthly CPV membership fee rates for CPV members

Monthly income of CPV members for calculating CPV membership fees includes: salary, certain allowances, wages; living expenses; other incomes. CPV members with stable income will pay CPV membership fees at a percentage (%) of their monthly income (before personal income tax deductions); CPV members with unstable income are prescribed specific monthly fees for each subject.

1- CPV members in administrative agencies, political organizations, political-social organizations, armed forces units: pay monthly CPV membership fees equivalent to 1% of salary, allowances; wages; living expenses.

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Thus, CPV members who are tax officials pay monthly CPV membership fees equivalent to 1% of salary, allowances; wages; living expenses.