Content of the law popularization and education plan for 2024 of the Ministry of Finance in Vietnam

Content of the law popularization and education plan for 2024 of the Ministry of Finance in Vietnam (Internet image)

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On January 23, 2024, the Minister of Finance issued Decision 156/QD-BTC on Law popularization and education plan for 2024 of the Ministry of Finance.

Content of law popularization and education plan for 2024 of the Ministry of Finance in Vietnam

The content of the Law Popularization and Education Plan for 2024 in Vietnam includes:

(1) Continue to promote propaganda and widespread dissemination to audiences about the situation and results of building and perfecting the financial legal system in 2023, 2024 and orientation to 2025, contributing to perfecting socialist-oriented market economic institutions.

- The Legal Department presides over and coordinates with newspapers, magazines in the industry, and relevant units under the Ministry to implement.

- Form: responding to interviews, writing news and articles in newspapers and magazines.

- Time: throughout 2024.

(2) Continue to disseminate and propagate laws, the ordinance was approved by the 15th National Assembly at its 5th and 6th sessions (May and October 2023) and was approved at its 7th session (May 2024), legislative documents that are drafted by the Ministry of Finance and submitted to the Government and Prime Minister for promulgation according to authority in 2023 and 2024.

2.1. Group of financial legal documents disseminated to relevant audiences

(i) Price Law 2023 and guiding documents:

- Subjects: agencies, organizations, individuals.

- Format: organize a training conference on Price Law 2023; organize seminars, workshops, and trainings to propagate and disseminate the basic content of the Law and documents guiding its implementation; Organize propaganda articles and introductions in newspapers and magazines inside and outside the Finance industry.

- Price Management Department presides over and coordinates with units under the Ministry to organize implementation.

- Time: throughout 2024.

(ii) Law on Value Added Tax (amended), Law on Special Consumption Tax (amended), Law on Corporate Income Tax (amended):

- Subjects: agencies, organizations, individuals.

- Form: Develop and post media documents to provide information on draft new policies; organize conferences, seminars, interviews, face-to-face and online dialogues, and press conferences to exchange and inform about draft policies; organize policy review conferences; Organize communication through the press, mass media, electronic information portals/pages and social networks.

- The Department of Tax, Fee and Charge Policy Supervision Management shall preside over and coordinate with units under the Ministry to organize the implementation.

- Time: throughout 2024.

2.2. Organize legal training on the Decree amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decree 34/2016/ND-CP and Decree 154/2020/ND-CP

- The Department of Legal Affairs presides over and coordinates with units under the Ministry to organize implementation.

- Time: Quarter III and Quarter IV of 2024 (after the Decree is issued by the Government).

2.3. Propagate and widely disseminate on the Ministry of Finance's electronic information portal https://mof.gov.vn and newspapers, magazines, through conferences, seminars, dialogues... of the Finance sector the content of policies that have a major impact on society in the process of developing legal documents according to the provisions of Decision No. 407/QD-TTg dated March 30, 2022, of the Prime Minister approving the Scheme "Organizing policy communication that has a major impact on society in the process of developing legal documents for the period 2022-2025".

The units assigned presiding responsibility are responsible for coordinating with press agencies inside and outside the Finance sector and relevant units under the Ministry to organize implementation.

2.4. The group of legal documents posts outlines on the financial law information page

- Target audience: officials and public employees in the financial sector .

- Format: Upload the outline (List of documents attached to the Plan).

- The Legal Department is responsible for basing its decisions on the outline of the Ministry of Justice, editing and promptly posting it on the financial law information page (belonging to the Ministry of Finance's Electronic Information Portal), and instructing units to implement it. . Units under the Ministry are responsible for, based on the posted outline, disseminating and propagating information to officials and civil servants in the unit and to the entire system (if any) in appropriate forms.

- Implementation time: throughout 2024.

2.5. For legal documents not mentioned in this Plan, units under the Ministry, based on their functions, tasks, and actual situation at their units, proactively organize dissemination in appropriate forms that are guaranteed to be suitable for the target audience. In there, focusing on legal documents with a wide scope of regulation, the subjects of enforcement are people and businesses to meet the need for understanding and create conditions for compliance with the law for the subjects of enforcement. Based on each specific document, dissemination and propaganda are carried out during the process of drafting the document, after the document is issued, or during the implementation process when many problems arise.

2.6. Update and post newly issued legal documents on the National Legal Database.

The Legal Department presides over and coordinates with units under the Ministry to post immediately after new legal documents are promulgated.

Units under the Ministry assigned to preside over the drafting of legal documents are responsible for sending documents to the Department of Legal Affairs for timely posting on the National Legal Database in accordance with the provisions of Decree 52/2015/ND-CP regulating the national database on law and Regulations on providing legal information and posting documents on the national legal database issued together with Decision 2524/QD-BTC dated December 2, 2015 of the Minister of Finance.

(3) Organize activities to deploy "Financial Law Day" and "Law Day of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam" in 2024 according to the provisions of the Law on law Popularization and Education 2012 and documents detailing and guiding implementation with appropriate forms and content.

- The Legal Department is responsible for submitting to the Ministry for promulgation a Plan to organize the implementation of Law Day of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and Financial Law Day 2024 and organize the implementation of the Plan; chair the organization and implementation of general activities at the Ministry of Finance.

- Units under the Ministry, based on the instructions in the Plan to organize and implement Law Day of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and Financial Law Day 2024, shall choose specific activities appropriate to the unit's reality. General Departments and equivalents under the Ministry (General Department of Taxation, General Department of Customs, State Treasury, General Department of State Reserve, State Securities Commission) are responsible for guiding implementation throughout the system.

- Time: Quarter III, IV/2024.

(4) Strengthen information and propaganda work to disseminate laws on mass media, in which the core force is press and media agencies with a large number of readers and newspapers and magazines in the industry; At the same time, strengthen the application of information technology in propaganda and dissemination of legal education, thereby creating an important information channel for gathering widespread opinions on legal documents right in the drafting process. especially propagating and disseminating policies that have a great impact on society. Actively coordinate with media agencies to inform and propagate the Ministry of Finance's state management areas according to thematic topics.

The Ministry's Office presides over and coordinates with newspapers, magazines in the industry, and units under the Ministry assigned to preside over the drafting of legal documents to promptly post information on the activities of developing and implementing financial laws, creating an information channel to collect widespread comments on legal documents that are in the process of being drafted.

(5) Organize the compilation and printing of documents, publications, leaflets, books systematizing legal documents, books consolidating financial legal documents, and codes of financial law regulations.

- The Legal Department presides and coordinates with the Finance Publishing House to compile and print documents, publications, leaflets, books to systematize legal documents, consolidated books of financial legal documents, legal books of financial legal codes, etc.

- Units under the Ministry, based on their functions and tasks, compile and print documents, publications, and leaflets to disseminate to subjects under their management.

Time: throughout 2024.

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