Decree No. 68/2011/ND-CP dated August 08, 2011 of the Government amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Government's Decree No. 37/2007/ND-CP of March 9, 2007, on property and income transparency

DISMISS CIVIL SERVANTS WHO ARE DISHONEST IN MAKING PROPERTY AND INCOME DECLARATIONS

On property and income transparency for managing civil servants and contributing to prevent and protect corruption behaviors. the Government issued the Decree No. 68/2011/ND-CP dated August 08, 2011 amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Government's Decree No. 37/2007/ND-CP of March 9, 2007, on property and income transparency.

Persons obliged to declare their property and incomes shall themselves fill in declaration forms and take responsibility for the accuracy, truthfulness and completeness of the declared information. The first-time annual declaration and the additional annual declaration upon changes in declared properly and incomes shall be made according to regulated form. The additional annual declaration shall be carried out only when persons obliged to declare have changes in the total incomes in the declaration period which are valued at VND 50 million or more or changes in to-be-declared properly and incomes as provided for.

New regulations also supplement grounds for verifying properly and incomes in the case of needing more information serving the election, appointment, dismissal, relief from office, or disciplining of persons obliged to declare their property and incomes;

Beside 04 forms of discipline such as reprimand, caution, salary degrading, demotion applied for untruthful property and income declarers, the Decree also supplements new more strict regulations. Accordingly, cadres and civil servants who have been concluded as dishonest in making property and income declarations, shall, depending on the nature and seriousness of their untruthful declaration, be handled in the highest forms of dismissal from office.

Within five days counting from the date of making the conclusion on the untruthful property and income declarations, heads of agencies, organizations or units with disciplining competence shall consider and discipline the untruthful declarers.