On 03/05 2019, the Ministry of Transport issued Circular No. 17/2019/TT-BGTVT regarding the issuance of the passenger transport service price frame on domestic flights. This Circular takes effect from 01/07/2019.
According to Circular No. 17/2019/TT-BGTVT, the price of passenger transport service with a maximum basic universal dimension is as follows:
– For flight distance of less than 500 km:
+ Group of flight routes for socio-economic development: 1,600,000 VND / ticket.
+ Other flight routes are under 500 km: 1,700,000 VND / ticket.
– For distance from 500 km to less than 850 km: 2,200,000 VND / ticket.
– For flight distance from 850 km to less than 1,000 km: 2,790,000 VND / ticket.
– For distance of flight from 1,000 km to less than 1,280 km: 3,200,000 VND / ticket.
– For flight distance of 1,280 km or more: 3,750,000 VND / ticket.
The above fare is inclusive of all passenger charges payable for one ticket, except: VAT; passenger service rates at passenger terminals; price to ensure passenger and luggage security; service prices for additional items; Service prices for additional services are determined by airlines based on balancing the airline’s ability to provide services and market demand.
Implementing the above provisions, airlines are responsible for:
– Regulate specific fares on air routes or groups of flights according to diversified fare for each flight and regular discount policies for residents and soldiers residing permanently in remote areas , borders and islands;
– Declaring specific price levels with the Vietnam Aviation Administration and making public announcement of prices according to the provisions of law;
– In case of opening a new flight which has not been announced in the flight range announced by the Vietnam Aviation Administration, the airline is responsible for reporting to Vietnam Aviation Administration to consider and supplement the new flight route to other airlines of common flight distances before the time of price declaration with Vietnam Aviation Administration.
The Ministry of Transport issued Circular No. 17/2019 / TT-BGTVT regulating the official service price framework for passenger transport on domestic routes in the direction of maintaining the maximum price frame as in August / 2015 aims to implement the Government’s direction on price stabilization, ensuring consumers’ rights.
On 07/05/2019, the Government officially issued Decree 37/2019/ND-CP detailing the implementation of a number of articles of the Planning Law with the adjusted contents of Article 15 (task set up) planning), 17 (planning consultancy organization), 19 (planning comments), 22 (national master planning contents), 23 (national maritime space planning contents), 24 (national land use planning contents), 25 (national sector planning contents), 26 (regional planning contents), 27 (provincial planning contents), 30 (Planning evaluation council) ), 40 (form of planning announcement), 41 (national information system and database on planning) and 49 (responsibility for evaluating planning implementation) of the Planning Law.
Accordingly, the Government has specific regulations on time limits and planning time. The time limit for formulation of national master plans, national maritime space plannings, national land use plannings and regional plannings shall not exceed 30 months counting from the date the approved planning tasks are approved, of which the time limit make planning components for no more than 18 months for national master plans, national maritime spatial planning and regional planning. The time limit for elaborating the national and provincial planning branches shall not exceed 24 months counting from the date the approved planning tasks are approved.
In addition, through the promulgation of this Decree, the Government also stipulates the construction of a national information system and database for planning in the form of an electronic portal connecting ministries, ministerial-level agencies and provincial-level People’s Committees in the network environment in service of planning and gathering opinions on planning, announcing and providing information on planning; supervise and evaluate the planning implementation process.
Thus, with the promulgation of the above Decree 31/2019, the Government is gradually removing difficulties in implementing the Planning Law, creating conditions for localities to promote socio-economic development; completing the objectives, targets and tasks set out.
On 03/04/2019, the Ministry of Finance issued Circular No. 18/2019/TT-BTC regulating the abolishment of Circular No. 134/2014/TT-BTC dated September 12, 2014 of the Ministry of Finance guiding procedures extend the time limit for tax payment and value-added tax refund for imported machinery and equipment to create fixed assets of investment projects effective on 20/05/2019.
Accordingly, Circular No. 18/2019/TT-BTC has the following outstanding contents:
– Abolish all Circular No. 134/2014/TT-BTC dated 12/09/2014 of the Ministry of Finance guiding procedures for extending tax payment time limit and value-added tax refund for imported machinery and equipment password to create fixed assets of investment projects.
– For the application file for extension of value-added tax payment for importation according to the provisions of Circular No.134/2014/TT-BTC of 12/09/2014 of the Ministry of Finance, which the enterprise has submitted to the customs office Before the effective date of this Circular, customs offices shall continue to settle tax payment extension according to the provisions of Circular No. 134/2014/TT-BTC.
– For the application file for VAT refund in accordance with the Circular No. 134/2014/TT-BTC dated September 12, 2014 of the Ministry of Finance, the enterprise has submitted to the tax authority before this Circular enforceable, the tax authorities continue to resolve tax refunds in accordance with Circular 134/2014 / TT-BTC
Thus, Circular No. 18/2019/TT-BTC has abolished procedures for extending the time limit for payment of tax and value-added tax refund for imported machinery and equipment to create fixed assets of the first project.
On 18/03/2019, the Ministry of Finance issued Circular No. 16/2019/TT-BTC guiding the management and use of extracted funds to implement the priority regime for cadres, civil servants and employees of the State Audit. The Circular takes effect from 10/05/2019.
Accordingly, the State Auditor uses the extracted funds to cover the following contents:
Expenses for encouraging and rewarding officials, public servants, employees and laborers of the State Audit (in addition to the annual reward and reward amounts prescribed by the Law on Emulation and Commendation) shall not exceed 0.8 times the salary set by the State, including:
– Salary and rank, position;
– Allowances include:
• Position allowance;
• Extra-frame allowance;
• Job-based preferential allowance.
The remaining funding after encouraging and rewarding officials, public servants, employees and laborers of the State Audit is used to invest in facilities and enhance the operation capacity of the industry, including: Expenditure on enhancing the construction of the office of the State Audit; Supplementing training, retraining, training, conferences, seminars to improve professional skills, organizing delegations to study domestic and foreign experiences of auditors…
The new guidance of the Ministry of Finance has limited problems in the process of implementing regulations on the management and use of funds for priority regimes, ensuring legitimate interests for cadres, civil servants and employees of the State Audit.
On 11/04/2019, the Ministry of Finance issued Circular No. 21/2019/TT-BTC guiding the sale of initial shares and state capital transfers according to the method of book making (book building). This Circular takes effect from 03/06/ 2019.
Investors who buy shares sold for the first time by State-owned enterprises by the method of book construction must make deposits as follows:
– Public investors must pay a deposit equal to 10% of the value of shares registered to buy at the opening price.
– Strategic investors must pay deposits and deposits equal to 20% of the value of shares registered to buy, calculated at the reserve price in the approved equitization plan.
The deposit will be deducted from the total amount to be paid to buy shares. If the deposit is larger than the amount to be paid, the difference will be returned to the investor within 03 days after the end of the payment term.
The time limit for payment of the number of shares registered to buy is 10 days from the date of publication of the book-making result. If the investor fails to pay the full amount to buy the stock on time, the investor will not be returned the deposit.
Thus, Circular No. 21/2019/TT-BTC has contributed to building a specific and clear legal framework for conditions to deposit when buying shares of state-owned enterprises of investors.
On 12/03/2019, the General Department of Taxation issued Official Letter No.786/TCT-KK stipulating guidelines on transferring households to enterprises in accordance with Decree No. 108/2018/ND-CP.
Accordingly, Official Letter No. 786 / TCT-KK has specified the handling of converted business registration dossiers from business households received from the national information system, specifically as follows:
Firstly, when receiving the business registration transaction (transaction 01) of the National Information System on business registration (business registration system), there is information of a household business transformed into an enterprise: Information system tax to check the registration information of the enterprise, at the same time, to compare the information of the certificate of business registration before transforming it into an enterprise, comparing the information of the certification of the individual business households (people’s identity cards, citizenship or passport) transmitted by the business registration system with tax registration information of business households.
Secondly, after checking, the tax information system returns results for the system of business registration as follows:
– In case the business registration information changes from full business to proper: tax information system pays information about the enterprise code and the tax office directly managing the enterprise for the enterprise registration system.
– In case of incomplete business registration information converted from business households, it is not correct: tax information system returns results without issuing enterprise code and informs the registration system for error to the registration agency Business notices to complete businesses according to regulations.
From here, it can be seen that, from March 12, 2019, the General Department of Taxation has issued guidelines for Tax Departments of provinces and cities under central authority to implement the Law to support small and medium enterprises in the establishment of small and medium enterprises on the basis of conversion from business households.
This regulation has contributed to Minimize administrative procedures in the establishment of small and medium enterprises on the basis of conversion from business households, implementation of public and transparent guidelines of the State in enterprise management, especially small and medium enterprises.
On 20/032019, the Government issued Decree No. 29/2019/ND-CP detailing the implementation of Clause 3, Article 54 of the Labor Code on the licensing of labor sublease activities, the signing of Funds and job portfolios are performed for labor sublease. The Decree takes effect from 05/05/2019.
In particular, the Decree specifies the deposit of labor sublease enterprises. Accordingly, the deposit is used to pay salaries, allowances, social insurance, health insurance, unemployment insurance, labor accident insurance, occupational diseases or compensation for workers. sub-lease in case the leasing enterprise breaches the labor contract with the sublease employee or causes damage to the laborers due to the insecurity of the laborers’ legitimate rights and interests.
At the same time, the decree has specified two conditions for granting labor sublease licenses including:
For the legal representative of an enterprise, it is necessary to ensure that the enterprise manager does not have criminal records and has worked in the field of labor sublease or labor supply for at least 03 years. within 5 consecutive years before applying for a license;
The sublease of labor temporarily meets the sudden increase in labor demand in a certain period of time; replacing workers during maternity leave, labor accident, occupational disease or having to fulfill civic obligations. In addition, the sublease of labor is also to meet the demand for high-skilled workers.
On 10/04/2019, the Government issued Decree No. 32/2019/ND-CP stipulating the assignment, ordering or bidding to supply public products and services using the state budget from the source. regular expenditure
Accordingly, from the time of 01/06/2019, when the Decree takes effect: the Ministries; ministerial-level agencies; government agencies; competent units will perform the task of ordering and bidding to provide public products and services under the conditions specified in the Decree No. 32/2019 above.
The decree specifies funding sources for the supply of public products and services, including: state budget funding; the fee is left for service provision; sources of public non-business services and other sources of revenue, if any.
The Decree also stipulates public non-business services using state budget funds to implement the following methods: assigning tasks, placing orders or bidding. Also, public products and services are implemented in the following ways: Ordering or bidding (or assigning tasks in the case of specialized laws).
In addition, the Decree also specifies the conditions, competence, methods and contents of the task of assigning, ordering or bidding for the provision of public products and services using the state budget from the source. regular expenditure.
Thus, with the promulgation of Decree No. 32/2019/ND-CP, the Government has continued to show high determination in improving the transparency and efficiency in the use of state budget.
On 31/12 2018, the State Bank issued Circular No. 51/2018/TT-NHNN regulating conditions, dossiers, order and procedures for approving the capital contribution and purchase of shares of credit institutions. . This Circular takes effect from 01/03/2019.
Accordingly, Circular No. 51/2018/TT-NHNN stipulates the order and procedures for approving capital contribution, buying shares of credit institutions (Article 6), specifically as follows:
Within 14 days from the date of receiving comments from relevant agencies, Banking Inspection and Supervision Agency appraises dossiers and submits to the Governor of the State Bank;
In summary, the provisions on the order and procedures for approving the capital contribution, buying shares of credit institutions in Circular 51/2018/TT-NHNN are aimed at strengthening procedural clarity, at the same time, opening providing opportunities for organizations and individuals who are planning to invest in the finance and banking sector.
