Land use conversion fees will be exempted and reduced.

Regarding the land price list and land use fee collection, speaking at the conference, Mr. Dao Trung Chinh, Director of the Department of Planning and Land Resources Development, said that according to the regulations, the price list will increasingly approach the market.

Ho Chi Minh City is implementing a roadmap to adjust the land price list upward. This requires a solution for land rent and land use conversion fees beyond the limit.

According to Mr. Chinh, the land rent unit price is calculated by percentage (from 0.25% to 3%) x land price list. And the law allows the Provincial People's Committee (Ho Chi Minh City) to base on local reality to prescribe the percentage (%) to calculate the corresponding land rent unit price in the range of 0.25% - 3%.

"Note that in a land lease project, there can be many land use purposes. We determine each coefficient for each specific purpose. Therefore, a project can have many coefficients, many percentages to determine the land rent...", Mr. Chinh explained.

In addition, Mr. Chinh also mentioned another difficulty for people when land prices are adjusted to increase, which is to solve the problem of land use conversion fees beyond the limit.

"The law stipulates that the land use conversion fee is calculated by the difference in land value after the conversion and the land value before the conversion. The Ministry has proposed a plan to exempt or reduce the land use conversion fee. The Prime Minister will decide on this after consulting the National Assembly Standing Committee.

Currently, the Ministry of Finance continues to develop and amend this content in the decree. We propose that Ho Chi Minh City continue to study and give comments on this decree of the Ministry of Finance. Only then can we solve the overall problem after we put up the price list, so that the land use fee and land rent that people and businesses have to pay do not increase too much, causing them to react," Mr. Chinh stated.

Many problems with the leasing and licensing process

Reporting to the conference, Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Ho Chi Minh City Nguyen Toan Thang said that the 2024 Land Law will take effect from August 1. With the decision taking effect earlier than the initial vote, Mr. Thang said that this is an opportunity but also many difficulties for localities in implementing, developing and promulgating legal documents under the authority of the province and city.

To date, there have been 16 documents guiding the implementation of the 2024 Land Law issued according to the Prime Minister's plan, including 9 decrees. The Department of Natural Resources and Environment alone is presiding over and advising the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee to consider promulgating 10 legal documents.

At the same time, the Department of Planning and Investment, Department of Construction, Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs are also advising on 5 legal documents.

Mr. Thang acknowledged that although the Land Law regulations, decrees, circulars, and guiding documents have been issued, there are still many problems in their implementation.

At the conference, units and districts also raised concerns and asked the ministry's representatives for guidance and answers related to land procedures.

Typical problems include problems with calculating land use fees for residential land transferred by project investors; handling land used by state-owned enterprises after equitization; calculating land use fees for enterprises that have changed their names; problems with the authority to issue certificates in cases of land use purpose change, etc.

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