Law on Charges and Fees, Law No. 97/2015/QH13

From 2017, 17 products and services with their charges changed into prices

In accordance with the Law on Charges and Fees No. 97/2015/QH13 passed by the National Assembly November 25, 2015, 17 products and services with their charges changed into prices set by the State from January 01, 2017; within that, they are irrigation charge; charge for testing drugs used for animals and plants; charge for topography and drawing of cadastral maps; charge for marketplaces; road toll; ferry charge; charge for port or terminal use; pilotage due; charge for inspection of means of transport; vehicle-keeping charge; charge for epidemic prevention and control; charge for medical quarantine; charge for testing medicine samples; environmental protection charge for solid waste; sanitation charge; charge for securities operation…

Another important contents of this Law prescribes Subjects eligible for exemption or reduction of charges and fees include children, poor households, the elderly, people with disabilities, people with meritorious service to the revolution, ethnic minority people living in communes facing extremely difficult socio-economic conditions, and a number of special subjects as prescribed by law.

Besides, the Law also prohibits that State agencies, public non-business units, organizations or individuals imposing and collecting on their own will any charge or fee; or collecting, remitting, managing and using charges and fees in contravention of law. At the same time, to publicly post up at the charge and fee collection places and on their websites the names and rates of charges and fees, charge and fee collection methods, charge and fee payers, charge and fee exemption and reduction, and documents on charges and fees.