Business trip allowance for officials, civil servants and public employees in Nghe An

(Baonghean.vn) - At the 5th session, term XVII, the Provincial People's Council voted to pass a Resolution on regulating a number of levels of business trip expenses and conference expenses in Nghe An province.

Delegates passed the Resolution. Photo: Duc Anh

The Resolution stipulates that for cadres, civil servants and public employees who do not meet the criteria for being arranged a car when going on business trips, but if they go on business trips 10 km or more from the agency headquarters (for communes in areas with difficult or especially difficult socio-economic conditions according to the Prime Minister's Decisions) and 15 km or more (for the remaining communes) and use their own personal vehicles, they will be paid a fixed amount of money for self-sufficient transportation equal to 0.2 liters of gasoline/km calculated according to the administrative boundary distance and gasoline price at the time of the business trip.

The accommodation allowance for business trips is 200,000 VND/person/day. In case of a one-day business trip (departing and returning within the same day), the accommodation allowance is 150,000 VND/person/day.

Officials, civil servants, public employees and workers sent on business trips to perform duties at sea and on islands are entitled to a residence allowance of VND 250,000/person/actual day at sea and on islands (applicable to both working days at sea and on islands and days of travel to/from sea and on islands).

The resolution also specifically stipulates the level of room rental expenses for work-related activities in two forms: lump sum and actual invoice. Depending on the subject and destination, the highest level of room rental expenses for the lock-in form is 1 million VND/person/day and the lowest level is 300,000 VND/person/day.

In case of business trips that do not receive payment in the form of a lump sum, payment will be made according to the actual room rental price (with invoices and legal documents according to the provisions of law) approved by the head of the agency or unit according to the room rental standard with the highest level being 1.2 million VND/room/day and the lowest being 700 thousand VND/room/day.

Room rental payment levels include taxes and fees (if any) as prescribed by law.

The Resolution also stipulates a monthly fixed working allowance for commune-level cadres who regularly have to go on mobile business trips for more than 10 days/month; cadres of other agencies and units who regularly have to go on mobile business trips for more than 10 days/month (clerical, transaction planning, forest rangers who go to inspect forests; cadres of prosecution agencies who go to investigate, inspect, verify and other tasks that require regular mobile business trips).

Accordingly, depending on the subject, characteristics of the work and financial capacity, the head of the agency or unit shall prescribe a monthly fixed allowance for mobile business travelers, not exceeding VND 500,000/person/month and must be stipulated in the internal spending regulations of the unit.

Subjects subject to business trip fees are cadres, civil servants, public employees, and contract workers as prescribed by law working at state agencies, public service units, political organizations, socio-political organizations, and associations using state budget support; and People's Council delegates at all levels when participating in People's Council activities.

The level of business trip expenses in the Resolution is the maximum level. Heads of agencies and units shall base on the level of expenses in this Resolution and the assigned budget estimates to specify the level of business trip expenses and shall be stipulated in the internal spending regulations of their agencies and units./.

Thanh Duy