News from the People's Committee of Thanh Hoa province on November 4 said that the Chairman of the People's Committee assigned the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to preside over and coordinate with the Department of Finance, the Provincial Tax Department, the People's Committees of districts, towns, cities and related units to urgently inspect and review all land plots and constructions originating from cooperatives, public service units that have been dissolved, after mergers and state-owned enterprises before equitization but the enterprises have not yet included in the report on the current status of land management and use of the enterprises that are managing and using them up to the time of determining the value of the enterprise or intentionally omitted them, left them out of the books and reports.
The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee noted the transfer of ownership and "secret privatization" of public land through the conversion from a business cooperation contract based on capital contribution ratio and profit and loss sharing, to a direct transfer of the land to the private sector through a "shortcut process", not publicly and without auction.
The Chairman of Thanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee requested to strictly handle according to authority, ensure compliance with legal regulations, not cause loss of state budget or advise, propose and report to the Provincial People's Committee and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee on handling measures.
Inspect and review carefully to promptly detect the situation of "leasing" or "lending" public land in violation of regulations (if any); handle according to authority or advise and propose, report to competent authorities on handling measures, ensuring compliance with legal regulations; review land areas leased to enterprises after equitization to pay annual land rent, provide cadastral information to tax authorities to adjust land rental prices, ensure compliance with legal regulations, and avoid loss of state budget.
Strengthen supervision and inspection of land use by enterprises after equitization, ensuring compliance with the approved land use plan in the enterprise equitization plan.
In case of detecting that an enterprise uses land for a purpose other than the approved plan, or has been permitted by a competent authority to change the land use purpose, proactively handle it according to authority, ensure compliance with legal regulations or promptly advise and propose to the Provincial People's Committee measures to handle it according to legal regulations; at the same time, strictly implement the provisions of the land law on land recovery for cases of violations of land law.
