NA debates revisions to Penal Code, agricultural land use tax exemption

Revisions to the Penal Code and agricultural land use tax exemption were the focus of discussion during the second working day of the fourteenth National Assembly (NA)’s second session.

Later, Minister of Finance Dinh Tien Dung submitted a draft resolution revising and supplementing some articles of Resolution No. 55/2010/QH12 on exempting and reducing the agricultural land use tax.

 

Chairman of the NA’s Committee for Financial and Budgetary Affairs Nguyen Duc Hai presented a report verifying the draft resolution.

 

After that, the NA deputies spent the remainder of the day discussing the two drafts in groups.

 

On October 22, the deputies will hold group discussions on the economic restructuring plan for 2016-2020, the implementation of the socioeconomic development plan for 2016, and the socioeconomic development plan for next year.

 

Issues up for group discussion during the day will also include the five-year financial plan; the targets and orientations for mobilising and using loans and public debt management between 2016 and 2020; the mid-term public investment plan for 2016-2020, the results of the implementation of the State budget plan for 2016; and State budget estimates and State budget allocation proposals for 2017.