According to the plan of the Government Steering Committee on the orientation of streamlining the Government apparatus, the agencies will merge the Ministry of Finance with the Ministry of Planning and Investment.
The proposed name of the Ministry after the reorganization is the Ministry of Finance and Development Investment or the Ministry of Economic Development. The Ministry performs the state management function in the sectors and fields currently assigned to the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Planning and Investment.
The Government assigned the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Planning and Investment to develop a project to merge, reorganize, restructure and drastically reduce the internal organization to perform functions, tasks and powers after the merger.
The Ministry of Finance proactively develops a project to merge Vietnam Social Security into the Ministry of Finance and Development Investment or the Ministry of Economic Development.
The General Department of Customs has issued Decision No. 2798/QD-TCHQ on the establishment of the Steering Committee and the Steering Committee's Working Group on the reorganization of the General Department of Customs.
In addition, the General Department of Customs is currently amending and supplementing appropriate legal documents, as well as ensuring conditions for the information technology system so that after the official implementation of the organizational model, it can be implemented immediately, without affecting the import and export activities of enterprises.
In Directive No. 03/CT-BTC on innovation and organizational restructuring, Minister of Finance Nguyen Van Thang affirmed that this is an important and urgent task that needs to be implemented immediately.
The Minister of Finance assigned the General Directors and equivalents under the Ministry to review, research, propose innovation, and streamline the organization and staffing of the General Departments towards streamlining, effective and efficient operations, and promoting decentralization and delegation of authority.
The Minister assigned the Department of Personnel Organization to be the focal point, preside over and coordinate with units to review the functions, tasks and organization of units, and at the same time review related tasks of units at the Ministry of Planning and Investment... to propose plans to organize departments, bureaus and equivalent units under the Ministry after arrangement to promptly report to the Ministry before December 12, 2024.
Timely grasp the thoughts of party members, civil servants, public employees and workers in the unit when implementing the arrangement and have timely solutions and measures; avoid disruption, causing congestion and affecting the implementation of assigned tasks.
Temporarily suspend recruitment of civil servants, appointment, nomination of candidates for higher positions or approval of policies to consolidate leadership and management positions of agencies and units that are expected to be reorganized and streamlined.
According to delegate Pham Van Hoa (Dong Thap delegation), currently the two ministries have many units with similar and overlapping functions such as finance, legal affairs, personnel organization, inspection, and office departments. Therefore, when merging these two ministries, the internal organization will be drastically reduced to streamline the apparatus.
According to Decree 14/2023/ND-CP dated April 20, 2023 of the Government, the organizational structure of the Ministry of Finance includes 28 units: State Budget Department; Investment Department; Department of Administrative and Career Finance; Legal Department; Department of Organization and Personnel; Inspectorate; Office; Department of Insurance Management and Supervision; Department of Accounting and Auditing Management and Supervision; Department of Price Management; Department of Informatics and Financial Statistics; Department of Corporate Finance; General Department of Taxation; General Department of Customs; General Department of State Reserves; State Treasury; State Securities Commission...
According to Decree 89/2022/ND-CP dated October 28, 2022 of the Government, the organizational structure of the Ministry of Planning and Investment has 28 units including: Department of National Economic Synthesis; Department of Local and Territorial Economy; Department of Finance and Currency; Department of Industrial and Service Economy; Department of Agricultural Economy; Department of Infrastructure and Urban Development; Department of Economic Zone Management; Department of Investment Supervision and Appraisal; Department of Foreign Economic Relations; Department of Labor, Culture and Society...
