Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh said that by the end of the year, the MoIT would remove ten administrative procedures imposed by central Government. Another 19 procedures imposed by local governments at the provincial level and two procedures imposed by the central Government would be simplified.
These procedures are related to heavy industry, business competition management, issuance of licences for the liquor trade, liquor production, trade of tobacco and materials, tobacco production, industrial explosives and materials for explosive production.
Mr. Vu Ba Phu, head of the MoIT’s Department of Planning, said that 32 new legal normative documents relating to administration were proposed last year. These new documents led to the addition of 82 new administrative procedures, the amendment of 32 procedures and the removal of 51 relating to the industry and trade sector.
These changes of the MoIT also helped in compliance with new laws such as Law on Investment and Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents. All the changes would be public by the end of this month.
Meanwhile, the action plan to implement the Government’s Resolution 19 on improving the business climate of MoF has been approved by the Minister of Finance Dinh Tien Dung. This plan focus on reforming administrative particularly in taxation and customs, information and technology; and increase in transparency and accountability.
The MoF targeted to reduce the total time for tax payment to 110 hours per year by 2020, time for customs clearance on exported goods to less than 36 hours and imported goods to less than 41 hours. Last year, the total time for tax payment was 117 hours or 50 hours lower than that of 2014.
Minister Tran Tuan Anh also urged relevant agencies to establish a system to receive feedback from citizens and businesses on issues of administration via the Internet. The ministry would also speed up receiving and delivering administrative documents through online channels or by post rather than time consuming face-to-face transactions.
