Nghe An State Treasury automatically pays for phone, internet, electricity and water bills
(Baonghean.vn) - On April 21, the General Director of the State Treasury issued the Automatic Payment Procedure for Electricity, Water, and Telecommunications Services according to the authorization document of the budget spending unit. At the State Treasury of Nghe An, the widespread implementation in all units has initially brought about effectiveness.
Implementing the State Treasury Development Strategy to 2030 according to Decision No. 455/QD-TTg dated April 13, 2022 of the Prime Minister, Decree No. 11/2020/ND-CP dated January 20, 2020 of the Government regulating administrative procedures in the field of State Treasury and Circular No. 62/2020/TT-BTC dated June 22, 2020 of the Ministry of Finance guiding the control and payment of regular expenditures from the State budget through the State Treasury, the State Treasury of Vietnam has had specific and practical action programs.
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| Nghe An State Treasury promotes administrative procedure reform, improves service quality, and creates favorable conditions for public service providers. Photo: Sang Vinh |
The General Director of the State Treasury signed two agreements: Between the State Treasury and the Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade (Vietinbank) on automatic payment of electricity and water expenses of budget-using units; between the State Treasury and the Telecommunication Services Corporation (VNPT Vinaphone) on automatic payment of telecommunication service fees of budget-using units.
Along with that, the State Treasury has upgraded and supplemented the Data Exchange Portal on the online public service system (DVCTT) to improve service quality, add more utilities for budget spending units and meet the Automatic Payment Process for Electricity, Water, and Telecommunications. Mr. Nguyen Van Khanh - Head of State Accounting Department, Nghe An State Treasury said: "On May 10, 2023, Nghe An State Treasury issued Official Dispatch No. 262/KBNT-KTNN on the widespread implementation of automatic payment of electricity, water, and telecommunications services according to the authorization document of the budget spending unit.
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Authorization file processing interface on the State Treasury's public service. Photo: Sang Vinh |
Accordingly, from May 10, 2023, budget spending units in the province can authorize the State Treasury at the transaction location to automatically deduct accounts for payment contents such as: Electricity and water expenses with electricity and water service providers that have implemented electricity and water bill collection services with Vietinbank; Telecommunications service expenses including postpaid fixed-line telephone services, postpaid monthly fixed-line internet access services and postpaid mobile phone services under the name of the budget spending unit with telecommunications services provided by VNPT Vinaphone".
At the same time, Nghe An State Treasury has provided documents to budget spending units at the State Treasury Electronic Information Portal (address: https://vst.mof.gov.vn) State Treasury Public Services section/General information on public services/Data Exchange Portal-User Manual-List of suppliers), including: Electronic process of authorizing the State Treasury to pay for electricity, water, telecommunications expenses and Form 01A - Document authorizing automatic payment of electricity, water, telecommunications service expenses, Form 01B - Document changing automatic authorization to pay for electricity, water, telecommunications service expenses and Form 01C - Document terminating automatic authorization to pay for electricity, water, telecommunications service expenses; Program user manual; List of electricity and water service providers that coordinate to collect electricity and water bills via Vietinbank; List of service providers under VNPT Vinaphone.
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| The teller checks the Authorization document of the Service Provider. Photo: Sang Vinh |
After the budget-using unit authorizes automatic payment of electricity, water, and telecommunication services to the State Treasury where the transaction takes place, the units do not have to send monthly payment requests for electricity, water, and telecommunication expenses through the State Treasury's public service system. Based on the service provider's service usage list(Electricity Company and VNPT Vinaphone)sent on regular days according to the signed agreement, the State Treasury will receive the statement and automatically deduct the account of the budget using unit (if there is enough balance) to pay the service provider and send a debt notice to the unit according to the prescribed procedure.
In case the unit's account does not have enough balance or has expired, the State Treasury will send an automatic payment result notification to notify the unit. Therefore, with more than 3,000 units using the budget, when implementing automatic payment for telephone, internet, electricity and water bills on a large scale, it will not only create favorable conditions for customers when making payments, but also save time and costs for the units...
With the timely attention and support of the Central Treasury, relevant levels and sectors, Nghe An Treasury has encountered many advantages in the implementation process. Along with that, Nghe An Treasury has synchronously deployed solutions such as: Organizing to thoroughly educate cadres and civil servants to study and learn Procedure 2286/QD-KBNN; Promoting extensive propaganda to budget spending units about the implementation of automatic payment of electricity, water, telecommunications services; Installing the Data Exchange Portal utility of the Treasury Online Public Service System, providing functions for budget spending units to authorize service payments to the Treasury and the function of exchanging data with commercial banks, electricity, water, telecommunications service providers via the internet... Every month, on average, each budget spending unit must prepare 3 documents to send to the Treasury to pay for telephone, internet, electricity, and water services. Thus, after implementing automatic payment, it will reduce over 10,000 documents/month. Thereby, it will contribute to promoting administrative procedure reform, improving service quality, creating favorable conditions for budget users, aiming to soon complete the contents of promoting digital transformation and completing the goals of the State Treasury development strategy to 2030.
Objectives of the State Treasury Development Strategy to 2030
The State Treasury Development Strategy to 2030 sets out the following goals: Building a streamlined State Treasury that operates effectively and efficiently; synchronously innovating mechanisms, policies, and professional processes for managing the State budget fund and State treasury; improving the efficiency of capital mobilization for the State budget; performing well the function of the State general accountant; perfecting the organizational apparatus associated with enhancing the application of modern information technology platforms, with connections and interconnections with other database systems of the Finance sector and national databases, best serving people, businesses, and State agencies, contributing to building a safe and sustainable national financial system.
