The Prime Minister signed on May 31 Resolution No. 25/2010/NQ-CP informing that the second stage of Project 30 on administrative procedure simplification will be soon conducted focusing on reviewing and simplifying 258 administrative procedures currently applied in the domains of taxation, customs, notary public, medical examination and treatment, and construction. Once simpler, these procedures would help save some VND 5.7 trillion for related parties.
To achieve this objective, concerned ministries and sectors will be required to propose amendments to 14 laws, three ordinances, 41 decrees, eight Prime Minister decisions, 60 circulars and 40 decisions of ministries and ministers.
The Finance Ministry has the most administrative procedures to be simplified in this stage, a total of 61 including 41 customs and 20 tax procedures. After being simplified, some customs procedures will take less than eight hours to be completed such as border-gate (port) transfer procedures for goods consigned into or taken out of CFS warehouses. Regarding tax declaration by businesses paying value-added tax by the credit method, small- and medium-sized enterprises will make tax declaration thrice a month while larger ones will be required to declare the tax once a month.
Legal documents to implement the plan on simplification of the 258 administrative procedures will be elaborated using the omnibus law-making technique and through fast-track procedures specified in the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents.
Regarding the implementation schedule, concerned ministries and branches are required to revise, annul or supersede target administrative procedures not provided in laws or ordinances before July 31. Administrative procedure simplification plans related to revision of laws and ordinances will require concerned ministries and branches to draft laws or ordinances to amend, annul or supersede current ones prior to November 30, 2010, before sending them to the Justice Ministry for summarization and submission to the Government for decision on submission to the National Assembly before December 31. Amending laws or ordinances will take the form of omnibus laws or ordinances.-