Accordingly, Article 16 of Decree 123/2024/ND-CP stipulates the penalty for failure to register land. Specifically:
- A fine of 1 - 2 million VND for the act of not performing the first land registration as prescribed in points a, b and c, Clause 1, Article 132 of the 2024 Land Law, including:
+ Land plot in use but not registered.
+ Land plots allocated or leased by the State for use.
+ Land plots are assigned for management but not registered.
- A fine of 2 - 3 million VND for the act of not registering land changes as prescribed in points a, b, i, k, l, m and q, Clause 1, Article 133 of the Land Law, including:
+ Land users and owners of assets attached to land exercise the rights to convert, transfer, inherit, donate land use rights and assets attached to land; contribute capital using land use rights and assets attached to land;...
+ Land users and owners of assets attached to land are allowed to change their names.
+ Change of land use rights, ownership of assets attached to land due to division, separation, consolidation, merger, conversion of organizational model or agreement of household members or of husband and wife or of a group of common land users, a group of common property owners attached to land.
+ Change of land use rights, ownership of assets attached to land according to the results of successful conciliation of land disputes recognized by the People's Committee of competent authority; agreement in mortgage contract to settle debt; decision of competent state agency on settlement of land disputes, complaints and denunciations about land;...
+ Establish, change or terminate rights to adjacent land plots.
+ Changes in land user rights restrictions;
+ Selling assets, transferring, assigning land use rights that are public assets according to the provisions of law on management and use of public assets.
The remedy is to force land registration according to regulations.
