Cut 200 branches, reduce 10% of tax officers
The General Department of Taxation is finalizing a project on administrative reform and staff streamlining, with the expectation of cutting up to 200 tax branches.
The above information was just reported by Minister of Finance Dinh Tien Dung to the Prime Minister at the recent annual conference summary of the tax sector.
Minister Dinh Tien Dung emphasized: “The financial sector is big, the General Department of Taxation is a big General Department. We commit to the Prime Minister to strictly implement Resolution 39 of the Politburo.”
Specifically, according to him, the personnel restructuring still follows the principle of "2 out, 1 in", aiming to cut 10% of the payroll from now until 2020.
In particular, regarding the restructuring of the apparatus, "The Party Committee of the Ministry of Finance has met and agreed on the policy of assigning the general departments, including the General Department of Taxation, to develop a project to reorganize the apparatus, first of all, to reorganize the branch system, and to set out criteria and standards. Preliminary calculations suggest that 200 tax branches could be reduced," said Minister Dung.
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| Resolutely cut 200 tax branches to streamline the apparatus and make it more effective (photo: according to tapchitaichinh) |
According to the minister, the reorganization of the apparatus will be carried out thoroughly and drastically from the department, division to team levels, combined with promoting the application of information technology, innovating management methods from pre-control to post-control, ensuring that the apparatus is streamlined and operates effectively. This work is carried out in accordance with the spirit of Resolutions 17 and 18 of the 6th Central Conference.
Sharing more about this issue, Mr. Bui Van Nam, General Director of the General Department of Taxation said: "It is expected that tax branches with a revenue of less than 50 billion VND/year, excluding land use revenue, branches with close distances, for example about 10-20km apart, will merge to reduce the management apparatus. These are usually branches in remote areas, with few businesses and sparse taxpayers."
Currently, the tax sector has 63 tax departments with 711 branches, a staff of up to 44,000 people, the general department with the largest number of employees in the country. The current tax branches are established on the basis of corresponding administrative units at the district, town level... of provinces and large cities under the Central Government. Therefore, when districts and towns are separated or merged, the number of tax branches also increases or decreases accordingly.
Mr. Bui Van Nam said: "The goal is set like that, but the implementation will not be easy or simple, because it is related to the issue of personnel work and the division of administrative units in the Constitution."
Currently, the General Department of Taxation and the Ministry of Finance are completing this project to submit to the Politburo in the near future.
"Ministries, branches, and government agencies proactively review, arrange, and streamline internal focal points, fundamentally reduce the number of general departments, bureaus, divisions, and offices; do not establish new organizations, do not establish offices within departments, and in special cases decided by competent authorities... Resolutely merge, arrange, and reorganize public service units to reduce focal points and staff....". "For some fields organized vertically, such as tax, customs, state treasury, social insurance... continue to reorganize according to inter-provincial or inter-district areas to reduce focal points and streamline staff. Continue to research and build an organizational structure suitable for decentralization of the state budget, promote the leading role of the central budget and the initiative of local budgets". According to Resolution 18, the 6th Central Conference issued on October 25, 2017 |