The 2024 Land Law officially takes effect, bringing many changes in the policy of granting Land Use Rights Certificates. A noteworthy point is the regulation on exemption from paying land use fees for some specific cases when making red books, contributing to reducing the financial burden on people, especially in disadvantaged areas.
According to Article 157 of the 2024 Land Law and the draft Decree guiding its implementation, people with revolutionary contributions, poor households, ethnic minorities living in areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions, border areas, and islands will be exempted from land use fees when being allocated residential land or granted a red book for the first time.
In addition, stable land users with valid documents established before October 15, 1993 are also exempted from financial obligations if they make a red book according to the new model from the time the law takes effect.
In case people separate households or change the purpose of using agricultural land to residential land in mountainous areas or ethnic minority areas, if they are poor households, they will still be exempted from paying land use fees for the area within the prescribed limit.
Projects to build social housing, housing for the armed forces, renovate old apartment buildings and worker accommodation facilities in industrial parks are also exempted from land use fees, in order to encourage the development of social security infrastructure.
In addition, public service units that are not financially autonomous and are allocated land by the State for public purposes are also exempted under the new regulations.
The land use fee exemption policy will not apply to the entire land area but will only be limited to the part within the residential land allocation limit in each locality. For the area exceeding the limit, land users must still fulfill financial obligations according to current law.
