A government taskforce has ordered ministries and agencies to reduce their administrative costs by 30 percent.
The taskforce has reviewed 256 administrative procedures for simplification or abolition, said taskforce leader Nguyen Xuan Phuc, who doubles as the Government Office chief.
Once approved by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, the streamlined procedures would help save more than VND6 trillion (US$314 million), he said.
The taskforce identified the procedures required for building houses, paying taxes, clearing goods, arranging medical check-ups and registering residency as the most troublesome.
Phuc said the taskforce had invited experts from Europe and South Korea to compare Vietnam’s bureaucratic red tape with that of other countries.
The first phase of the government’s Plan 30 for administrative reform was complete with the establishment of a national database of administrative procedures last October.
It is the first time Vietnam has put administrative procedures online and provided public access to 5,700 procedures and 100,000 forms.
The database enabled people to know clearly what administrative formalities they had to complete and at which agency, said Phuc.
According to the Finance Ministry, it has revised 145 procedures and abolished 32 ones, a task that could save the nation VND2.1 trillion ($110 million).
The ministry plans to revise 840 procedures by the end of this year.
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