The
state budget was a hot topic at October 24's group meetings during the second
session of the 13th National Assembly.
Most National Assembly (NA) deputies said some
criteria in the state budget estimates were not practical.
Deputy Dinh Xuan Thao said that if the State
Budget Law is not amended, it will be very difficult to build a suitable budget
based on the country's real needs.
Deputy Nguyen Ngoc Hoa said that this year's
total budget spending exceeded the target which proved that fiscal policy
tightening had not been well implemented. Next year, revenue could fall from
the impact of crude oil prices and land use fees.
Deputy Tran Du Lich said that the method used
to allocate the budget should be amended soon as it is currently equal between
localities which makes it difficult to minimise budget spending.
A dramatic change to the budget allocation
method will require insight into government revenues at both the central and
local levels, he said. In poor provinces, public services could be subsidised
by the state while wealthy provinces could use their own revenue to pay for
public services. Any funds from the state budget used to finance public
services must be monitored.
However, experts believe the situation of
advertisements negatively impacting consumers could be dealt with the law on
protecting consumer rights that took effect on the first of July this year.
Due to a limited budget, the government should
identify specific areas for reasonable budget allocation, said deputy Pham
Quang Nghi, adding that it should determine the most urgent issues and conduct
in-depth analyses on specific areas in order to determine which provinces or
sectors needed an increase or decrease in their budget allocation.
Trinh The Khiet said state budget allocation
should be focused on the development of key transport systems, infrastructure
facilities and sciences which were vital to developing the economy.
According to the 2011 state budget report, the
year's total spending was estimated to exceed the target by 9.7 per cent, or
VND70.4 trillion ($3.3 billion).
VIR/VNA
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