The Economic - Budget Committee of the Provincial People's Council reviews the contents for the 11th session.

Comrade Cao Tien Trung - Head of the Economic - Budget Committee of the Provincial People's Council chaired the review session of contents, programs and projects in the field of Economy - Budget in preparation for the 11th session of the 18th Provincial People's Council. Photo: Nguyen Hai

At the working session, the Economic - Budget Committee of the Provincial People's Council gave opinions on draft resolutions and reports to the Provincial People's Committee to submit to the Provincial People's Council in the next session such as: Resolution approving the State budget revenue estimates in the area, local budget expenditures and local budget allocation plan for 2023...

Regarding the above content, members of the Economic - Budget Committee of the Provincial People's Council discussed and proposed to clarify a number of contents such as: building the budget revenue target for 2023, it is necessary to clearly calculate the excess revenue, difficult revenue or newly arising expenditure;...

Comrade Nguyen Nam Dinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council spoke and requested the Department of Finance to clarify the sources of increased revenue and increased budget expenditure in 2023. Photo: Nguyen Hai

Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Nguyen Nam Dinh proposed analyzing and clarifying the expected source of increased revenue in the budget revenue target for 2023 compared to 2022; calculating the revenue shortfall and reduction due to reduction in environmental tax and special consumption tax on gasoline.

Along with that, in the budget expenditure, comrade Nguyen Nam Dinh also requested to clarify the expenditure for new teachers added to the payroll; the land use fee revenue left for site clearance of large projects;...

Explaining this content, a representative of the Department of Finance said: The provincial budget revenue in 2022 is likely to reach over 22,000 billion VND, of which revenue from land use is about 7,000 billion VND. However, it is forecasted that the budget revenue in 2023 will be more difficult due to the frozen real estate market.

Deputy Director of the Department of Finance Nguyen Thanh Tung spoke to clarify investment capital sources for a number of major projects in 2023. Photo: Nguyen Hai

The Department of Finance advised to only develop a budget collection plan at a level equal to or lower than the assigned level in 2022; at the same time, it also planned budget expenditures arising in 2023 such as: salary payment to increase teacher staff, expenditure for cultural projects... It is known that the Provincial People's Committee will submit to the Provincial People's Council the State budget collection target in 2023 of 15,857 billion VND.

Also at the meeting, members of the Economic - Budget Committee gave their opinions on draft resolutions such as: Regulations on a specific mechanism for regulating 100% of land use fee revenue from projects with land use fee collection for the provincial budget to create capital for compensation, site clearance of the Vinh International Airport project and investment in the construction of an access bridge connecting National Highway 7C with Cua Lo Deepwater Port; on supplementing Article 6 of the regulations attached to Resolution No. 20/2021/NQ-HDND of the province promulgating regulations on decentralization of State budget revenue sources, local budget expenditure tasks...

Comrade Hoang Lan - Deputy Head of the Economic - Budget Committee of the Provincial People's Council spoke to request clarification on the recovery and conversion of agricultural land and forest land for other purposes. Photo: Nguyen Hai

At the same time, delegates also gave their opinions on the draft resolutions on: Approving the list of works and projects to recover land according to the provisions of Clause 3, Article 62 of the Land Law in Nghe An; changing the purpose of using rice-growing land, protective forest land, and special-use forest land according to the provisions of Clause 1, Article 58 of the Land Law to implement works and investment projects in the province; the policy of changing the purpose of using forest land to other purposes to implement works and projects in the area; investment policy, adjusting investment policy of a number of public investment projects and a number of reports of the Provincial People's Committee submitted to the meeting on implementing the national target program on new rural construction in 2022 and tasks in 2023; the work of practicing thrift and combating waste in 2022, tasks in 2023;...

Deputy Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment Pham Van Toan reported the list of works and projects submitted to the Provincial People's Council for consideration of land use conversion; notably, among them, there are 61 works and projects that have not been implemented in the third year and must be resubmitted. Photo: Nguyen Hai

Concluding the working session, Comrade Cao Tien Trung - Head of the Economic - Budget Committee of the Provincial People's Council basically agreed and approved the explanations of the departments and branches; thereby approving the reports and draft Resolutions to submit to the Provincial People's Council for consideration at the 11th session.

Nguyen Hai