The latest expenditure on compensation and relocation

On October 05, 2022, the Ministry of Finance issues Circular No. 61/2022/TT-BTC providing guidance on estimates, use, and final payment of budget for compensation, support, and resettlement due to the State’s land expropriation

Accordingly, the expenditure on compensation, resettlement, and coercive expropriation as follows:

Payments whose amount, standard, and unit have been regulated by a competent agency: Implement in accordance with current regulations.

- With respect to working places, machines, and equipment for serving operations of authorized organizations and appraising agencies: These agencies shall take responsibility for allocating and arranging in the working office buildings and machinery to serve their operations.

If those agencies cannot arrange the space in their working places, they are allowed to rent working places and machines for compensation, support, and relocation.

The rental of working places, the rental and procurement of machines and equipment shall implement in accordance with law provisions on management and use of public assets, and bidding laws as well as relevant law provisions.

- Expenses for printing, photocopying documents, stationery, communications (post, telephone), fuel and transportation: Depending on the actual demands for each project and sub-project.

- Payments for service providers for compensation, support, and relocation Shall conform to contracts between authorized organizations and service providers.

Service providers are obliged to adequately implement the contract and relevant law provisions. Service providers shall be selected in accordance with legal regulations on bidding.

- With respect to contents not mentioned in above scope, People’s Committees of provinces shall base on local situations, report to the specific and suitable payment amounts.

This Circular takes effect on November 20, 2022.