Personal identification numbers issued to individuals under the law on citizen identification could be used as a substitute for tax identification numbers, according to a draft circular designed by the Ministry of Finance to amend Circular 105 of 2020 on tax registration and Circular 19 of 2021 guiding e-tax transactions.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade is working on a draft decree to replace Government Decree 124 of 2017, aiming to further facilitate offshore investment in the oil and gas industry.

A proposal and a verification report on the National Assembly’s draft resolution on some specific mechanisms and policies for the development of Ho Chi Minh City were scrutinized during the ongoing fifth meeting of the 15th legislature on May 26 morning.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang on May 12 presided over the first quarter meeting of the National Steering Committee against Smuggling, Counterfeit Goods and Trade Fraud (National Steering Committee 389), discussing solutions for bottlenecks in dealing with recent violations.

The standing board of the Central Steering Committee on Prevention and Control of Corruption and Negative Phenomena has been asked to direct Party committees, organizations and relevant agencies to persist in strengthening the fight against corruption and negative phenomena without any forbidden zone or exception.

The index of industrial production in April was estimated to increase by 3.6 percent month on month and by 0.5 percent over the same period last year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

This article is an excerpt from the 2022 PAPI Report and presents key findings from the 2022 PAPI citizen surveys regarding issues of citizens’ greatest concern and citizens’ assessment of governance and public administration performance at the national level in 2022. The Report records the voices of 16,117 respondents from across Vietnam, who shared their experiences of local government performance in governance, public administration and public service delivery during 2022.

Effective on July 1 this year, the 2022 Law Revising a Number of Articles of the 2009 Law on Radio Frequencies (the Revised Law) aims to strictly manage and rationally and effectively allocate the radio frequency use right in order to create a healthy competitive environment in the telecoms field.

On November 30, 2022, the Government issued Decree 99 in replacement of Decree 102 of 2017 on registration of security interests, adding 12 new articles and amending 61 articles based on codification of relevant circulars of the Ministry of Justice.

In an attempt to remove obstacles facing the people and enterprises involved in real estate business for years, the Government on April 3 issued Decree 10, revising a number of articles of the Decrees guiding the implementation of the Land Law, pending the comprehensive revision of this Law.