Payment for Business Trip Expenses for Officials, Public Servants, and Employees: Regulations on Monthly Lump Sum Payment for Business Trip Expenses
Subjects regarding payment of business trip expenses for officials, public employees, and civil servants?
According to Article 1 of Circular 40/2017/TT-BTC, the provisions are as follows:
"Article 1. Scope of regulation and subjects to apply
1. Scope of regulation:
This Circular regulates the business trip policies and conference expense policies of state agencies, public service providers, political organizations, socio-political organizations, and associations using funds supported by the state budget (hereinafter referred to as agencies, units).
2. Subjects to apply:
a) For business trip policies:
- Officials and public employees, workers on contractual terms according to the legal provisions working at state agencies, public service providers, political organizations, socio-political organizations, and associations using funds supported by the state budget.
- Representatives of the People's Council at all levels when participating in the activities of the People's Council..."
Regulations on the payment of business trip expenses for officials, public employees, and civil servants?
According to Article 3 of Circular 40/2017/TT-BTC, the provisions are as follows:
"Article 3. General regulations on business trip expenses
1. Business trip expenses are the costs to pay for persons traveling on domestic business trips, including travel expenses, accommodation allowances, room rental fees at the destination, cargo fees for luggage and documents carried for work purposes (if any).
2. The time entitled to business trip expenses is the actual time according to the approval document of the person authorized to assign the business trip or the invitation document to join the business delegation (including holidays, Tet holidays according to the business trip schedule, travel time).
3. Conditions to be paid business trip expenses include:
a) Performing the assigned tasks correctly;
b) Assigned to travel on business by the head of the agency or unit or invited to join the business delegation;
c) Having sufficient documents for payment as prescribed by this Circular.
4. The following cases will not be entitled to business trip expenses:
a) Time of treatment, convalescence at medical facilities, convalescent homes, health recovery centers;
b) Training days at long-term or short-term concentrated training classes that have already received policies for students;
c) Personal working days during business trips;
d) Days assigned for long-term residence or secondment in another locality or agency by the competent authority's decision.
5. The head of the agency or unit must consider and contemplate when assigning persons to travel on business (about the number of people and time of the business trip) to ensure effective work results and economical use of funds.
6. The agency or unit assigning persons to travel on business is responsible for paying the business trip expenses, except for cases specifically provided for in Clause 4 of this Article.
7. During the days of the business trip, if due to work requirements requiring overtime, apart from the accommodation allowance policies, persons will also be paid night work wages, overtime wages for officials and public employees according to current regulations. The head of the agency or unit shall be responsible for specifically stipulating in the internal expense regulations: Procedure for confirming overtime work as a basis for payment; stipulating cases of business trips for which overtime wages are paid, ensuring the principle of only paying in cases approved for overtime by the person authorized to assign the business trip, and not paying for cases combining personal tasks during holidays, nor paying night work wages, overtime wages during the travel time on means such as trains, boats, airplanes, cars, and other vehicles.
8. For representatives of the People's Council at all levels and delegates invited by the Permanent Committee of the People's Council to attend meetings of the People's Council, meetings of the Committees of the People's Council, supervision, contact with voters, and travel to perform other tasks of the People's Council's representatives, the Permanent Committee of the People's Council at any level that invites shall be responsible for paying the business trip expenses from the operational funds of the People's Council at that level.
9. In cases where officials and public employees and workers are invited by judicial bodies to testify in trials related to their professional work, the judicial body shall pay travel expenses and other costs according to legal regulations from the funds of the judicial agency."
How are business trip expenses for officials, public employees, and civil servants regulated? Regulations on lump-sum payment of business trip expenses per month? (Image from the Internet)
How is the lump-sum payment of business trip expenses per month regulated?
According to Article 8 of Circular 40/2017/TT-BTC, the provisions are as follows:
"Article 8. Lump-sum payment of business trip expenses per month
1. For commune-level officials who frequently must travel on business trips for more than 10 days/month; officials from other agencies and units who frequently must travel on business trips for more than 10 days/month (e.g., clerks; transaction accountants; forest rangers conducting forest inspections; officials from judicial bodies conducting investigations, inspections, verifications, and service orders, and other tasks that frequently require travel); depending on the subject, the nature of the task, and the available funds, the head of the agency or unit shall stipulate the lump-sum payment amount for business trip expenses per month to support vehicle fees and fuel costs at the rate of 500,000 VND/person/month and must stipulate this in the internal spending regulations of the unit.
2. The subjects entitled to the lump-sum payment of business trip expenses per month, if assigned by the competent authority to undertake specific business trips, will be paid business trip expenses policies according to the provisions of this Circular; at the same time, they will still receive the monthly lump-sum business trip amount if they travel on business trips for more than 10 days/month."
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