Nghe An State Treasury: Good management of budget collection

Movement at the base

With the characteristics of a unit located in a mountainous area, the State Treasury of Tuong Duong district faces many difficulties in applying information technology in the process of managing budget collection and payment. However, with the efforts of the staff, workers and employees, the determination to innovate according to the motto of taking customers as the center, improving the quality of online public services, in the first 8 months of 2022, Tuong Duong district had more than 1,000 transaction records via online public services, reaching a rate of 100%.

The unit also regularly coordinates with financial agencies, tax agencies, and commercial banks in the area to control revenues for the state budget, improve the quality of expenditure control, and accelerate the disbursement of public investment capital. Thanks to that, the budget revenue in the area in the first 8 months reached 31 billion VND, and the disbursement of public investment capital reached 60.6%.

The Tax and Treasury sectors coordinate well with commercial banks in collecting and paying revenues to the State budget. Photo: Tran Chau

Similarly, the Treasury of the mountainous district of Que Phong has also issued and implemented plans to quickly, fully and promptly collect revenues into the state budget; Strengthen the control of budget expenditures, ensure strict compliance with regulations and procedures. At the same time, advise local authorities on controlling expenditures in the field of basic construction, increasing the disbursement rate of public investment capital, and preventing risks...

Actively transform digitally, coordinate with banks to collect correctly and fully

Not only the two mountainous districts above, in 2022, Nghe An State Treasury has directed units and affiliated treasuries to actively coordinate closely with revenue agencies to focus on collecting enough, quickly and promptly collecting revenues into the state budget; Strengthening the control of expenditures through the treasury; Regularly providing information, data and timely advice to local Party committees and authorities in revenue and expenditure management through daily reports, periodic and ad hoc reports... ensuring accurate and timely data, meeting the requirements of budget management and operation of authorities at all levels.

In particular, to accelerate digital transformation, the Provincial State Treasury has directed departments, units and district treasuries to actively improve the quality of receiving and processing records via Online Public Services; Directing the implementation of solutions for remote monitoring; promoting administrative reform; Assigning civil servants to remotely monitor the cash balance of the district and town state treasuries; regularly implementing professional measures to scan and detect viruses and malware on users' workstations to ensure system safety...

Construction of Hung Duc Bridge across Lam River on the North-South Expressway connecting Nghe An and Ha Tinh provinces. Photo: Tran Chau

The State Treasury has also coordinated with units to successfully deploy the electronic bilateral payment system and the TCS system (software on the budget collection process) to ensure timely accounting of budget revenues in accordance with the prescribed ratio of the Provincial People's Council on the promulgation of regulations on decentralization of revenue sources and the percentage of revenue sharing between budget levels of Nghe An province in the period of 2022-2025.

The upgrading of the TCS program has met the requirements of the Ministry of Finance's circulars on tax administrative reform and better served taxpayers.

Nghe An State Treasury also implemented the opening of specialized collection accounts at Lienvietpostbank at district and town treasuries and provincial treasuries. Coordinated with Commercial Banks to implement the collection of administrative fines by electronic receipts; controlled investment capital payments, urged the recovery of advanced capital for basic construction investment, guided enterprises on procedures to contribute to the early implementation of works and projects, increasing revenue for the state budget....

Mr. Nguyen Dinh Hoa, Director of Nghe An State Treasury said: In the coming time, the unit will continue to closely coordinate with the Tax, Customs and Commercial Banks to effectively implement the contents of budget collection coordination and authorization of administrative fine collection through Commercial Banks; accurately and in accordance with regulations on budget regulation. In addition, strengthen the work of checking and comparing daily collection and payment data with Commercial Banks to ensure that the collected amount must be fully, promptly and accurately recorded in the State Treasury's account and transmit data to the State Treasury during the day...

Proper management of land revenues is a task of the Tax and Treasury sectors. Photo: Tran Chau