Vietnam: Environmental protection fees on domestic wastewater from July 01, 2020

Specifically, according to Clause 1 Article 6 of Decree No. 53/2020/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government: “Environmental protection fees on wastewater are 10% of the VAT-excluded selling price of 1 m3 of clean water. If it is necessary to charge higher fees, the People's Council of the province or central-affiliated city shall charge specific higher fees upon wastewater.”

Besides, Decree No. 53/2020/NĐ-CP also specifies environmental protection fees on industrial wastewater as follows:

- If the total average volume of wastewater discharged by a facility in a year is less than 20 m3/day (24 hours), charge a fixed fee per unit of wastewater volume (variable fee is not charged) as follows:

- If the total average volume of wastewater discharged by a manufacturing/processing facility in a year is more than 20 m3/day: the fee is calculated according to the following formula: F = f + C.

Where:

- F is the amount of fee payable.

- f is the fixed fee: VND 1,500,000/year (VND 4,000,000/year from 01 January, 2021 onwards); if the facility commenced its operation after the first quarter, the fee payable will be determined from the quarter in which the facility commenced its operation until the end of the year. The fee for every quarter = f/4.

- C is the variable fee per unit of discharged wastewater volume, content of each contaminant in wastewater and the fee applied to each contaminant below:

- The contaminants (which are required to have their content measured, to be declared and upon which fees are charged) shall be determined according to applicable national technical regulation on wastewater). If a national technical regulation on wastewater is not available, determine them according to the contaminants specified in the environmental dossier (which has been approved by an environmental authority).

- The volume of wastewater/day shall be determined according to the measuring data or inspection results given by an environmental authority.

View details at Decree No. 53/2020/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from July 01, 2020.

Thu Ba

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