Chapter VI
IMPLEMENTATION PROVISIONS
Article 20.- Implementation organization
1. The Finance Ministry shall guide the payment of land use levies, guide the procedures and dossiers and prescribe the competence to decide on land use levy exemption or reduction as provided for in this Decree.
2. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment shall guide the determination of land categories, land use acreages, lawful and valid papers on land use rights, which shall serve as bases for calculation of land use levies as provided for in this Decree.
3. The provincial/municipal People’s Committees shall have to direct the authorities of all levels and branches under their local management in managing and collecting land use levies according to the provisions of this Decree, inspect and handle violation cases of wrongly declaring, determining the actual land use duration, thus causing damage to the State as well as land use levy payers.
Article 21.- Implementation effect
1. This Decree takes implementation effect 15 days after its publication in the Official Gazette.
2. The land use levy collection upon the sale of State-owned houses to current tenants shall comply with the provisions of the Government’s Decree No. 61/CP of July 5, 1994 on dwelling house trading and business.
3. This Decree replaces the Government’s Decree No. 38/2000/ND-CP of August 23, 2000 on collection of land use levies, Clause 1, Article 13 of the Government’s Decree No. 71/2001/ND-CP of October 5, 2001 on preferential investment in construction of dwelling houses for sale and lease.
All previous regulations on land use levy collection, which are contrary to the provisions of this Decree, are hereby annulled.
Article 22.- Implementation responsibility
The Finance Minister shall have to guide the implementation of this Decree.
The ministers, the heads of the ministerial-level agencies, the heads of the Government-attached agencies, the presidents of the provincial/municipal People’s Committees, the land use levy-paying organizations, households and individuals shall have to implement this Decree.