Model of the General Department of Customs after streamlining

According to the Plan to streamline and organize the Government’s apparatus, the model of general departments belonging to ministries will no longer exist. In case of necessity, ministries must report to the Government Steering Committee for consideration and comments. In mid-month, Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra informed that the post-streamlined Government plans to reduce 12 general departments and 500 departments in various fields and branches.

At the press conference on the morning of December 24, Mr. Tran Duc Hung, Deputy Director General of Customs, said that according to the plan of the Ministry of Finance submitted to the Government, the General Department of Customs will be reorganized according to the Customs model. Vietnamese officials. This is aimed at centralized customs clearance.

In particular, Vietnam Customs is an equivalent department-level unit under the Ministry. Vietnam Customs will reorganize and rearrange, expected to reduce from 16 to 12 advisory focal points (equivalent to a reduction of 25%). Some units have established departments/teams to advise and directly carry out work within the scope of assigned functions. The expected number is about 55 rooms/team (a decrease of 21 focal points, equivalent to 27.6%).

At the regional/regional customs level, the industry is expected to reduce from the current 35 customs departments to 15 regional/regional customs departments. This level is equivalent to a reduction of 20 focal points, about 57%, to manage customs activities in 63 provinces and cities.

The border gate/off-border customs level is a unit directly under the regional customs that directly performs the tasks of inspection, supervision and control in border gate areas, industrial parks, export processing zones… This level There is no organization constituting the internal components.

At the conference to deploy the industry’s 2025 tasks last week, Minister of Finance Nguyen Van Thang requested that the new apparatus must be better than the old one and need to go into operation immediately so as not to affect the normal activities of society. Along with that, Vietnam Customs must be on par with customs of developed countries in the world.

Currently, the General Department of Customs has 17 affiliated agencies (including 8 specialized departments) and 35 branches in provinces and cities.

Another agency under the Ministry of Finance, the General Department of Taxation, after streamlining, is expected to also operate according to a 3-level model including State, regional and district taxes.

In 2024, the General Department of Customs is assigned a budget revenue target of 375,000 billion VND. By the end of mid-December, this unit had collected 402,680 billion VND, exceeding the estimate by 7.4% and increasing approximately 14% compared to the same period in 2023. It is expected that this year’s total revenue is estimated at 418,000-420,000 billion VND. copper.

In the past year, this force detected, arrested and handled 16,390 cases of customs law violations with goods worth more than VND 29,270 billion. The amount of revenue paid to the budget from this activity is more than 900 billion VND.