Continue to reduce 37 types of fees and charges
According to a circular recently issued by the Ministry of Finance, people will continue to receive a reduction in a number of fees and charges from January 1, 2022 to the end of June 2022.
December 24,Ministry of Financeissued Circular No. 120/2021/TT-BTC regulating the collection rates of a number of fees and charges to support and remove difficulties for subjects affected by the Covid-19 epidemic. This Circular takes effect from January 1, 2022 to June 30, 2022.
Accordingly, from January 1, 2022, the Ministry of Finance continues to add 3 more fees and charges to the list of reduced fees and charges, increasing the total number of reduced fees and charges from 34 to 37. The three fees and charges that will be reduced in the first 6 months of 2022 are: 50% reduction in fees for issuing technical safety inspection certificates andenvironmental protectionfor motor vehicles and specialized motorbikes; 50% reduction in inland waterway reporting fees; 20% reduction in radio frequency usage fees for land mobile services (private land mobile telecommunications networks for messaging and private telecommunications networks using frequencies belonging to mobile services, trunked land mobile telecommunications networks).
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| Continue to reduce 50% of the fee for issuing technical safety and environmental protection inspection certificates for motor vehicles. Illustrative photo |
Thus, in the first 6 months of 2022, there were 37 fees,feesare reduced by 10 - 50% compared to current regulations, including areas such as banking, aviation, securities, construction investment, labor safety, citizen identification card fees, road fees...
Regarding road use fees, Circular 120 stipulates that they are calculated on a case-by-case basis. Specifically, passenger transport vehicles, including passenger cars and public passenger buses, only have to pay 70% of the current road use fee; trucks, specialized vehicles, and tractors pay 90%; and driving practice vehicles and testing vehicles pay 70%.
Currently, the road fee schedule has 8 fee levels, corresponding to each group of vehicles, from 130,000 VND to the highest 1,430,000 VND/month. When the vehicle is inspected for the last time, the reduced amount will be deducted from the next road fee payment period.
In addition, Circular No. 20 also stipulates a reduction in airport and airfield exploitation franchise fees; reduction in airport and airfield entry and exit fees for foreign flights to Vietnamese airports; reduction in customs fees for foreign flights to Vietnamese airports..., with a reduction of 10% compared to current regulations.
For the issuance feecitizen identification cardCircular 120 stipulates that people only have to pay 50% of the current fee. According to the current regulations, if a citizen changes from a 9-digit or 12-digit ID card to a Citizen ID card, they will pay 30,000 VND/time; if they change their Citizen ID card, they will pay 50,000 VND/time; if they reissue a lost ID card, they will pay 70,000 VND/time.
From July 1, 2022 onwards, the collection of fees and charges prescribed in Circular 120/2021/TT-BTC will be implemented according to current regulations./.
