No policies affecting revenue collection will be issued.

On July 16th, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung issued document No. 1025/TTg-KTTH to ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government agencies; and People's Committees of provinces and centrally-administered cities regarding the implementation of the 2013 state budget.

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The Prime Minister requested that ministries, sectors, and localities continue to thoroughly understand and decisively implement Directive 09/CT-TTg on strengthening the direction and management of the implementation of state financial and budget tasks in 2013, striving to achieve the highest possible completion rate of the 2013 state budget estimates approved by the National Assembly; and urgently review state budget revenue and expenditure tasks at the central and local levels, focusing on the following tasks:

Regarding state budget revenue collection, the People's Committees of provinces and centrally-administered cities should proactively review each revenue item carefully, striving to achieve the highest possible completion of the assigned state budget revenue target for 2013; inspect and audit value-added tax refunds, ensuring compliance with regulations; strengthen measures to combat transfer pricing, handle tax arrears, tax evasion, and dishonest declarations of revenue payable to the state budget, and strictly handle cases of violations.

The Ministry of Finance proactively works with localities and businesses, especially those with large revenue sources, to develop specific plans and measures to strive for the highest possible achievement of budget revenue targets for each locality and business.

The Prime Minister requested that, for the time being, no mechanisms or policies that would negatively impact state budget revenue should be issued.

Regarding state budget expenditures, the Ministry of Finance will preside over and guide ministries, agencies, and localities in reviewing each regular expenditure item, resolutely cutting or postponing the implementation of non-urgent expenditure tasks in accordance with the Prime Minister's directive in Directive 09, especially expenditures on domestic and international business trips, conferences, seminars, procurement of equipment, automobiles, office supplies, etc.; reviewing budget reserves in areas decided by the National Assembly but not yet allocated, identifying tasks that lack sufficient procedures or are not urgently necessary, and temporarily suspending their implementation in 2013 to reduce budget expenditures.

The Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Planning and Investment to take the lead in guiding ministries, agencies, and localities to review each investment project using state budget funds and government bond funds; review national target program funds and other funds originating from the state budget; and, based on that, resolutely recover expenditures that are not in accordance with regulations or for improper purposes...

Regarding the use of central and local budget reserves: only allocate funds for important, urgent, and unavoidable tasks; reserve at least 50% to reduce expenditures and ensure a balanced state budget. The Prime Minister requested that, for the time being, no mechanisms or policies that would increase state budget expenditures be issued.../.

According to (Chinhphu.vn) - LT