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Reports must be sent to the Ministry of Finance before March 31, 2017 to summarize and report to the Government

In this dispatch, the Ministry of Finance stated that: Following the Prime Minister's direction on receiving cars presented by enterprises, the Ministry of Finance requested ministries, branches and localities to inspect and review the situation of agencies and units under their management, which have received and used cars donated by enterprises (as of March 10, 2017) and report to the Ministry of Finance before March 31, 2017 for summary and report to the Prime Minister.

Concerning the liquidation of public cars, the Ministry of Finance requested the ministries, Central agencies and people's committees of provinces and cities under the Central Government to inspect the liquidation of cars in recent times of the State agencies, public non-business units and organizations under their management. While inspection, if detecting any violations, they must be strictly handled in accordance with the provisions of law.

At the same time, the Ministry of Finance also required agencies to direct the liquidation of State property in general (including cars) in line with regulations. In which noting that: Assets must be eligible for liquidation, liquidation must be implemented on time, publicly and transparently; the auction of assets for liquidation, management and use of money earned from the liquidation must be in compliance with the Law on management and use of State assets, Law on assets auction and other relevant laws.

After completing the asset liquidation, agencies, units and organizations having liquidated assets have to account the assets in line with the provisions of Law on accounting; report on assets change declarations to update into the National Database on State assets according to the provisions of the Government's Decree No. 52/2009 / ND-CP.

The ministries, branches and localities shall sum up the situation on the management and use of State assets (including changes in car liquidation) and send them to the Finance Ministry to summarize and then report to the Government.

In the recent press conference of the Ministry of Finance, sharing these two contents, the Department of Public Asset Management confirmed that: State agencies are allowed to receive cars offered by enterprises in accordance with the standards and norms and regulations of the Law. This is stated in the Prime Minister's Decision No. 64/2007 / QD-TTg promulgating the Regulation on giving, receiving gifts and hand-over of gifts for State budget-funded agencies, organizations and units and cadres, public employees and servants.

In addition, all ministries, branches, units and localities must decide and take responsibility for deciding whether to receive gifts or not. Similar to the car liquidation, this content is subject to the decision of the ministries, branches and localities which directly use those cars.

Soon afterwards, on March 10, 2017, the Government Office issued Notice No. 127 / TB-VPCP to transmit the Prime Minister’s direction, in which clarifying that: To avoid negative occurrence through the receiving of gifts offered by enterprises and avoid the loss of State assets under the form of tax exemption for imported cars, the Prime Minister requested ministries, branches and People's Committees of provinces and cities under the Central Government to stop receiving cars offered by enterprises.

Prime Minister request to stop receiving cars as gift from business

At the same time, the Prime Minister also asked the Ministry of Finance to review all cars liquidated by the State agencies with the aim to ensure car liquidation in accordance with the law publicly and transparently.