Recently, Dong Nai People’s Committee has sent an official dispatch to the Ministry of Finance regarding the collection of fees for using infrastructure works, service works and public utilities in the seaport border gate area in Ho Chi Minh City. .
Accordingly, this province has received many feedbacks from businesses and associations in the province, recommending this. According to Dong Nai People’s Committee, one of the regulations that causes many difficulties for businesses in Dong Nai is the registration of declarations in Ho Chi Minh City.
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Accordingly, in the case of opening a declaration, the Customs units outside the Ho Chi Minh City Customs Department will range from 500,000 VND to 1 million VND, depending on the vehicle tonnage. Meanwhile, if the declaration is opened in Ho Chi Minh City, this cost is only half, about 250,000 – 500,000 VND for vehicles of the same tonnage.
Businesses and associations said that the fees charged by Ho Chi Minh City are very high and discriminatory when they do not open declarations in Ho Chi Minh City, nor are they consistent with the policy of the State of Vietnam, increasing the costs for businesses, especially in disease conditions.
Mr. Vo Tan Duc, Vice Chairman of Dong Nai People’s Committee analyzed: According to the Customs Law and the Government’s Decree on customs procedures today, the customs fees are uniform at 20,000 VND/sheet, even though enterprises check in anywhere.
At the same time, businesses open declarations wherever they are, they still use the same construction work in the seaport border area of Ho Chi Minh City. Therefore, the difference in revenue levels is very unreasonable.
“If Ho Chi Minh City implements this regulation, businesses will flock to Ho Chi Minh City to open declarations to pay a lower fee, and HCMC will collect import and export tax from this. Therefore, the import and export tax collection in Dong Nai will be halved,” said Mr. Duc.
Vice Chairman of Dong Nai People’s Committee emphasized: The port of Ho Chi Minh City is a national asset, not only Ho Chi Minh City, serving the import and export of goods of the whole country. Therefore, the port of Ho Chi Minh City must be used equally on the principle of common national interests. It is impossible to collect fees, regardless of where the customs declaration is opened, and will cause fluctuations, which will have a great impact on related issues. to economic – political – social issues for other localities.
On these factors, Dong Nai People’s Committee has consulted with the Ministry of Finance to report to the Government, and at the same time recommended the People’s Council of Ho Chi Minh City to consider and make a decision in accordance with Vietnamese law.
On April 7, business associations related to inland waterways sent a document to National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue, proposing not to collect fees for using the seaport border gate area for goods transported. loading by inland waterway.
According to these associations, although the issuance of the Resolution and the collection of fees are in accordance with the authority of the People’s Council of Ho Chi Minh City. However, this fee collection is contrary to international treaties to which Vietnam is a signatory; negatively affect the production and business activities of inland waterway transport enterprises and national interests.
In addition, not encouraging goods to be transported by inland waterways to reduce pressure on road infrastructure, reduce traffic congestion, reduce road traffic accidents connecting to seaports, and reduce carbon emissions. into the environment as committed by the Prime Minister at COP26.
“We propose to completely stop the collection of inland waterway infrastructure fees. The reason, we use the seaport infrastructure by road under this project is to prevent congestion while water transport is not used, so this collection creates a cost burden.
In addition, this collection is collecting the wrong people and goes against the policy of encouraging inland waterway transport to reduce traffic congestion,” said Mr. Vietnam Logistics Service Enterprise Association commented.
It is known that in the face of the above shortcoming, the Associations representing the inland waterway transport business community have made many reports to Ho Chi Minh City; and send a written report to the Deputy Prime Minister and relevant ministries and branches. Despite receiving documents from associations, opinions from ministries, branches, the Finance and Budget Committee of the National Assembly and the direction of the Prime Minister in Directive No. 23/CT-TTg dated September 29 2020 but Hai Phong and TP. Ho Chi Minh City still continues to collect fees from the wrong people, has not replied to the Associations, has not held dialogues, and clarified the inadequacies when collecting fees from the wrong people.
Therefore, in order to support businesses related to inland waterway transport and ensure the common interests of the country, associations and businesses propose to the National Assembly Chairperson to direct the Finance and Budget Committee of the country. The National Assembly and relevant agencies supervise the promulgation of legal documents according to their functions and tasks prescribed by law.
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