What is the Gregorian calendar date for the Full Moon of the 12th lunar month of 2024? Are Vietnamese tax officials entitled to a holiday on the Full Moon of the 12th lunar month of 2024?

What is the Gregorian calendar date for the Full Moon of the 12th lunar month of 2024? What is the significance of Full Moon of the 12th lunar month in Vietnam?

Based on the Perpetual Calendar for January 2025:

Thus, Full Moon of the 12th lunar month (the 15th day of the 12th lunar month) will occur on Tuesday, January 14, 2025 (meaning the 15th of the 12th lunar month in 2024 corresponds to January 14, 2025, in the Gregorian calendar).

For the Vietnamese, the month of Chạp is an important time of the year when everyone looks forward to the Tet reunion with family. Everyone hustles, striving to complete plans for the year so that when the new year arrives, they can look back on the old year with a sense of achievement.

The Full Moon of the 12th lunar month offering is also considered a year-end offering ceremony. Full Moon of the 12th lunar month offerings are made with the intent to pray for luck, peace, to remember ancestors, and to give thanks to the deities. Therefore, the Full Moon of the 12th lunar month offering is often meticulously and thoroughly prepared.

What is the date of Full Moon of the 12th lunar month 2024 in the Gregorian calendar? What is the significance of Full Moon of the 12th lunar month in Vietnam? (Image from the Internet)

Are Vietnamese tax officials entitled to a day off for Full Moon of the 12th lunar month 2024?

Based on Article 112 of the Labor Code 2019 which regulates holiday leave as follows:

Holiday, Tet leave

1. Employees are entitled to fully paid leave for the following holidays:

a) Gregorian New Year: 01 day (January 1);

b) Lunar New Year: 05 days;

c) Victory Day: 01 day (April 30);

d) International Workers' Day: 01 day (May 1);

đ) National Day: 02 days (September 2 and 01 adjacent day);

e) Hung Kings' Commemoration Day: 01 day (March 10 Lunar calendar).

2. Foreign employees working in Vietnam, in addition to the holidays stipulated in Clause 1 of this Article, are entitled to an additional 01 traditional new year day and 01 national day of their country.

3. Annually, based on practical conditions, the Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam decides on the specific leave days as stipulated in point b and point đ, Clause 1 of this Article.

Full Moon of the 12th lunar month is not stipulated as a paid public holiday for employees.

However, based on Article 115 of the Labor Code 2019 which regulates leave without pay as follows:

Personal leave, unpaid leave

1. Employees are allowed to take paid personal leave and must notify the employer in the following cases:

a) Marriage: 03 days leave;

b) Biological child, adopted child marriage: 01 day leave;

c) Death of biological parents, adoptive parents; biological parents, adoptive parents of the spouse; spouse; biological child, adopted child: 03 days leave.

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3. Apart from the stipulations in Clauses 1 and 2 of this Article, employees can negotiate with the employer to take unpaid leave.

Thus, tax officials can negotiate with their superiors for unpaid leave on Full Moon of the 12th lunar month 2024.

What is the 2025 Tet holiday's schedule for Vietnamese tax officials?

Recently, the Office of the Government of Vietnam issued Official Dispatch 8726/VPCP-KGVX in 2024...Download conveying the Prime Minister's directives regarding the Lunar New Year holiday and some public holidays in 2025.

The Prime Minister agreed to the proposal from the Ministry of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs regarding the Lunar New Year holiday for officials, cadres, and public employees as follows:

- For Lunar New Year 2025, officials and public employees will have a continuous 9-day break, including 5 Tet days and 4 weekend breaks.

- Specifically, officials and public employees will have 5 Tet days off from Monday, January 27, 2025, to the end of Friday, January 31, 2025 (from December 28 of the year of the Dragon to the 3rd day of the new lunar year of the Snake).

- However, since all 5 Tet days in 2025 fall on weekdays, employees will have an additional 2 weekend days before and 2 weekend days after Tet.

Agencies and units are to arrange staffing for continuity and proper service to organizations and citizens, with attention to appointing officials for standby status to handle sudden or unexpected issues during the Tet and holiday periods according to regulations.

Ministries, agencies, and localities should have specific plans, encouraging units, enterprises, organizations, and individuals to actively participate in production, business, economic, and social activities, ensuring the balance of supply and demand, services, pricing, and markets, contributing to economic growth, practicing thrift, combating wastefulness, striving to meet the targets and tasks of the plan for 2025, the breakthrough year of the 2021 - 2025 five-year plan, laying a firm foundation for rapid and sustainable development in the future.

Thus, the Lunar New Year 2025 holiday schedule for officials, cadres, and staff in the tax sector may entail a continuous 9-day break from January 25 to February 2, 2025 (from the 26th of the last lunar month to the 5th of the first lunar month).