Issuance of the Administrative Reform Plan for 2024 of the General Department of Taxation of Vietnam

Issuance of the Administrative Reform Plan for 2024 of the General Department of Taxation of Vietnam

In accordance with Decision 101/QD-TCT of 2024, the 2024 Administrative Reform Plan of the General Department of Taxation has been issued with several objectives, including:

- Continuously promote tax administrative reform, ensuring effective implementation of the Comprehensive State Administrative Reform Program for the period 2021-2030, the Prime Minister's Directive on enhancing the implementation of the Comprehensive State Administrative Reform Program for the period 2021-2030, and the Administrative Reform Plan for the period 2021-2025 of the Ministry of Finance and the General Department of Taxation.

- Implement comprehensive and synchronized reforms, from institutional reform and administrative procedure reform to the development of e-Government and digital government and digital finance within the tax sector, to contribute to promoting socioeconomic development and meeting the demands of citizens and businesses.

- Affirm the position and role of the General Department of Taxation in leading and advising the Government and the Ministry of Finance in implementing tax management reforms, aiming to build a strong national financial system, ensuring financial security, macroeconomic stability, and finance and monetary stability; mobilizing, managing, distributing, and utilizing financial resources. Strengthen the construction and improvement of the legal system through tax management innovation.

- Continue to build and improve the tax legislation system; enhance the quality of the socialist-oriented market economy institutional framework, making it consistent, modern, and integrated; rigorously and effectively enforce the law; and enhance the legal compliance awareness of citizens, businesses, and society as a whole.

- Promote tax administrative procedure reform, especially procedures directly related to citizens and businesses; administrative procedure reform must be based on practicality, starting from reality, using reality as the yardstick; words must be accompanied by actions and must produce specific, substantial results, not just for show.

- Continue to review, streamline organizational structures, and complete the functions and tasks of tax authorities at all levels, ensuring a lean, transparent, clean, strong, modern, and efficient system; enhance state management decentralization in the field of taxation; and build a team of tax officials and public employees with a rational structure, meeting the standards of job titles, positions, and capacity framework as prescribed.

- Build the General Department of Taxation to serve and prioritize citizens and businesses, improve the effectiveness of the entire industry through digital tools, contribute to the innovation of working methods; identify the application of information technology as an effective tool to support and promote administrative reform in the tax field, improve the productivity and efficiency of tax authorities at all levels, and improve the quality of public services provided to citizens and businesses...

More details can be found in Decision 101/QD-TCT, taking effect on January 29, 2024.

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