This afternoon (November 18), the National Assembly will discuss in the hall the draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Anti-Corruption.
Previously, giving opinions in the group, many delegates agreed with the regulation on property value and income levels that must be declared and supplementally declared.
Some opinions suggested clarifying the basis for increasing the declared value from 50 million to 150 million VND and the value of assets and additional income fluctuated during the year from 300 million to 1 billion VND.
Regarding this issue, the Government Inspectorate said that the regulation to increase the declaration value from 50 million to 150 million VND and the value of assets and additional income fluctuated in the year from 300 million to 1 billion VND is based on 2 main factors.
First, from 2018 to now, there have been 3 salary increases. Second, due to the socio-economic development conditions nearly 3 times, especially the market price has increased significantly compared to 2018.
The Government Inspectorate determined that the value of assets and income must be declared from 150 million VND applied to 3 methods of declaration (first time, every year, serving personnel work), while the value of assets and fluctuating income of 1 billion VND/year is only applied to additional declarations, monitoring of changes and as a basis for verification when the explanation is unreasonable.
Therefore, the provisions in the draft are consistent and in line with the goal of controlling changes in assets and income with high value.
The Government Inspectorate also said that assets owned by the declarant, wife, husband, and minor children (including land use rights, houses and assets attached to land or under common name) must be declared. The list of assets and models will be specified in detail by the Government in the decree guiding the implementation of the law.
In addition to the above issue, the report said that some delegates suggested only verifying assets and income when there were signs of dishonest declaration or denunciation.
Another opinion is to replace the random verification method with verification each year to ensure that everyone who declares is verified when it is their turn.
Explaining the above content, the Government Inspectorate said that in order to meet the goal of enhancing transparency and preventing corruption, the current law stipulates the combination of 2 mechanisms.
One is to verify based on signs of violations (untrue declaration or reporting; there is increased fluctuation in assets from 1 billion VND but the person under the obligation to declare and explain unreasonably the origin).
Two is random verification for a certain ratio. The drafting agency proposes to keep it as the current regulations.
Regarding the random verification method, the Government Inspectorate assessed that this helps increase objectivity and transparency, while optimizing resources when the number of declarers is very large.
Current regulations still ensure rotation, because each year, at least 20% of agencies and units and at least 10% of people are required to declare at each unit are verified, with the criterion of priority for those who have not been verified in the last 4 years.
Therefore, maintaining the random verification method is appropriate - the Government Inspectorate assessed.
