Guidance on inspecting the management of merit and sponsorship money at historical-cultural relics in Vietnam

Guidance on inspecting the management of merit and sponsorship money at historical-cultural relics in Vietnam

The Ministry of Finance guides the inspection of the management of merit money and sponsorship at historical and cultural relics as follows:

- For Provincial People's Committees (except Quang Ninh province

People's Committee of provinces and centrally run cities (Provincial People's Committee) issued a decision on the overall inspection of the management of merit money and sponsorship at historical-cultural relics in the province, clearly stating the following contents:

+ Inspection purpose: synthesize and evaluate the management of merit money and sponsorship at historical and cultural relics; Through inspection work, it helps organizations and individuals who are owners or assigned to manage and use relics to self-manage merit and sponsorship money in a transparent and clear manner to create trust and bring common benefits to the community, contributing to local cultural, economic, and social development.

+ Subjects of inspection: historical and cultural relics that have been granted relic classification certificates by competent state agencies or included in the local relic inventory list according to the provisions of the Law on Cultural Heritage.

+ Inspection content: reception, management, use of merit money, sponsorship of monuments and festival activities; consideration of opening accounts and opening books to record revenues and expenditures of charity money; sponsorship; content of use of charity money and sponsorship; and supervision of the reception, counting, and use of donation and sponsorship money at monuments.

+ Inspection period: 2023.

+ Assigning responsibilities:

- The Department of Finance presides and coordinates with the Department of Culture, Sports, and Tourism and the Department of Home Affairs to advise and assist the Provincial People's Committee in directing and guiding the implementation of an overall inspection of the management of merit and sponsorship money at relics in the province; Summarize inspection results in the province (Form No. 03 and 04 attached), submit them to the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee for approval, and send them to the Ministry of Finance before March 31, 2024...

More details can be found in Official Dispatch 11752/BTC-HCSN, issued on October 30, 2023.

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