On May 22, the Government issued Resolution No. 135/NQ-CP on the scope, subjects and principles of implementing state budget (NSNN) expenditure savings in 2026.
Regarding recurrent expenditure savings, the Resolution clearly states saving 10% of the state budget's recurrent expenditure and fee revenues deducted according to the regime assigned at the beginning of 2026 for recurrent expenditures of budget units under Ministries, central agencies, and People's Committees of provinces and cities after excluding expenditures specified in the Appendix issued with this Resolution.
Based on the state budget recurrent expenditure estimate and fee revenue deducted according to the remaining regime after the above regulations have been implemented, ministries, central agencies, and People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities shall thoroughly save recurrent expenditures, especially conference, seminar, and business trip expenses at home and abroad, to strive to save an additional 5% to implement Conclusion No. 18-KL/TW dated April 2, 2026 of the 14th Party Central Committee.
The implementation of savings according to the above regulations does not apply to: Non-saving expenditures specified in the Appendix attached to this Resolution.
Funds for the implementation of tasks that have been completed or legal payment obligations have arisen before the Government issues this Resolution;
The cost of implementing bidding packages that have issued bidding invitation notices or issued request dossiers, and sent contract drafts before the Government issues this Resolution in accordance with legal regulations, cannot update the bidding package price to save costs and will continue to be implemented in 2026.
Regarding saving development investment expenditures, the Resolution clearly states to save 5% of the estimated development investment expenditure from the local budget assigned by the Prime Minister in 2026 right from the estimate allocation stage to supplement investment capital for the Lao Cai - Hanoi - Hai Phong railway project.
Not implementing savings for: Investment capital from local budget deficit sources; investment expenditures in science, technology, innovation and digital transformation.
The Government requests Heads of level I budgeting units to decide the amount of savings of affiliated agencies and units, detailed by field of expenditure, and send it to the State Treasury for budget control during budget expenditure implementation.
Based on the contents specified in this Resolution, on the basis of ensuring the requirements for performing national defense, security, foreign affairs tasks and specialized management characteristics, the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Public Security proactively decide on plans to save regular state budget expenditures and fee revenues to be deducted and retained according to the regime assigned at the beginning of 2026.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs proactively decides on a plan to save regular state budget expenditures for operating expenses of Vietnamese representative agencies abroad, support and protection expenses for Vietnamese citizens and legal entities abroad according to Conclusion No. 18-KL/TW dated April 2, 2026 of the 14th Party Central Committee.
