What vehicles do Deputy Ministers of Finance use to get to work?

Instead of getting out of their blue-plate cars, on the morning of October 3, many Deputy Ministers used personal cars, taxis or rented service cars to get to work after the Ministry of Finance implemented the policy of allocating public cars.

The policy of allocating transportation costs from home to work for Deputy Ministers was officially applied by the Ministry of Finance from the beginning of October. On the morning of October 3, instead of having a blue-plate car to pick them up,Deputy Minister Nguyen Huu Chi goes to work by taxi. He proactively gets off the car at the Ministry gate at 28 Tran Hung Dao (Hanoi) and carries his briefcase and walks inside.

Similarly, Deputy MinisterHuynh Quang Hai,Vu Thi Mai, Do Hoang Anh Tuan, Tran Xuan Ha, and Tran Van Hieu also walked down to the Ministry's lobby in white-plate cars, including cars they drove themselves and cars rented monthly from transportation service providers...

The Ministry of Finance has pioneered the pilot project of allocating public vehicle usage expenses to 6 Deputy Ministers and leaders with a position allowance coefficient of 1.25 (Directors General and equivalent). Accordingly, the monthly expenses for transporting these officials from their residence to their workplace are calculated based on the number of kilometers and the unit price according to popular 4-seat taxi companies on the market. Each individual is allocated a budget for two round trips during the working day.

A Deputy Minister said that he and his colleagues strongly supported this policy and that he had personally purchased two prepaid taxi cards (each worth VND5 million) through a company that specializes in providing transportation services. With his title and the distance from home to work, he was covered for transportation costs of about VND7 million.

A Deputy Minister of Finance proactively signed a contract to rent a shuttle bus with a private transport company in the form of purchasing a prepaid card. Photo: Thanh Lan.

A representative of the Ministry of Finance’s Department of Public Asset Management said that the allocation of public vehicles will be done cautiously, not massively, to ensure efficiency. Initially, only travel expenses for leaders from home to work will be allocated. However, according to experts, this policy needs to be expanded to solve the biggest problem with the budget, which requires limiting the number of vehicles and fleets of vehicles.

According to a recent report from the Ministry of Finance, the cost of paying drivers' salaries, depreciation, repairs, gasoline, etc. in a year to "feed" each public car is equivalent to about 320 million VND.

According to VNE