From July 15, 2023, amendments to the collection, payment and use of environmental monitoring service appraisal fees
(Baonghean.vn) - The Ministry of Finance has just issued Circular No. 34/TT-BTC amending regulations on collection rates, collection, payment, management and use of fees for eligibility to operate environmental monitoring services.
Accordingly, this Circular applies to fee payers that are organizations requesting to issue or adjust the content of the Certificate of Eligibility.environmental monitoring service activities; fee collection organizations, other organizations and individuals related to the collection and payment of appraisal fees are qualified to operate environmental monitoring services.
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Workers manage and operate the wastewater sample testing station after treatment at Bac Vinh Industrial Park. Photo: Nguyen Hai |
Specifically as follows:
+ The fee for appraisal, issuance, and adjustment of the contents of the Certificate of eligibility for environmental monitoring services is determined by multiplying the appraisal cost by the coefficient K and by M, in which the minimum appraisal cost is 42 million VND and K is the geographic location coefficient according to the area of the organization requesting the issuance or adjustment of the contents of the Certificate and M is the adjustment coefficient according to the amount of environmental parameters requested for issuance or adjustment of the contents of the certificate.
The specific appraisal fee by region is as follows: The Red River Delta has a coefficient K of 1.0; the Northern Midlands and Mountains is 1.1; the North Central and Central Coast is 1.2; the Central Highlands is 1.3 and the South is 1.4. In the North Central and Central Coast region, including Nghe An, if there are less than 16 parameters corresponding to a coefficient M of 1.0, the fee is 50.4 million VND, followed by 16-30 parameters (M=1.2) is 60.48 million VND; from 31 to 45 parameters (M=1.4) is 70.65 million VND; from 46 to 60 parameters (M=1.6) is 80.16 million VND and over 60 parameters (M=1.8) is 90.72 million VND.
+ Declaration and payment of fees: Fee payers shall pay fees according to the fee appraisal notice of the fee collection organization, and pay fees in the form prescribed in Circular 74/2022/TT-BTC; no later than the 5th of each month, the collected fee amount of the previous month must be deposited into the fee account awaiting payment to the budget of the fee collection organization opened at the State Treasury.
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Staff of Nghe An Province Environmental Monitoring Center monitor environmental and wastewater indicators from automatic camera surveillance systems installed at factories. Photo: Nguyen Hai |
+ Fee management and use: Fee collection organizations must pay 100% of the collected fees to the state budget (fees are included in the central budget). The source of expenses for fee appraisal and collection activities is arranged by the state budget in the fee collection organization's estimate according to the state budget expenditure regime and norms as prescribed. In case the fee collection organization isState agencies eligible for operating expense contractsFrom the fee collection source as prescribed in Clause 1, Article 4, Decree 120/2016/ND-CP detailing the Law on Fees and Charges, 60% of the collected fee amount is left to cover the costs of appraisal and fee collection activities as prescribed.
This Circular takes effect from July 15, 2023 and simultaneously abolishes Circular No. 185/2016/TT-BTC dated November 8, 2016 of the Ministry of Finance regulating similar content on this content; abolishes Article 1 of Circular No. 55/2018/TT-BTC of the Ministry of Finance amending and supplementing a number of articles of 7 Circulars regulating fee collection in the field of environmental resources. Other contents related to collection, payment, management, use of collection documents, public disclosure of fee collection regime for assessing eligibility for environmental monitoring activities not mentioned in this Circular shall be implemented according to the provisions ofLaw on Fees and Charges, Decree 120/2016/ND-CP, Decree No. 126/2020/ND-CP detailing a number of articles of the Law on Tax Administration, Decree No. 91/2022/ND-CP amending Decree 126/2020/ND-CP.
