Officials of Minh Tan ward, Yen Bai city (Yen Bai), serving the people before the merger. Photo: Dinh Thuy/VNA

Many changes in administrative procedures from July 1, 2025 will be applied according to 28 Decrees on decentralization.

From July 1, 2025, there will be 28 Decrees on decentralization and delegation of authority that will take effect. Among them, a series of new procedures will change the competent authority to resolve. These include:

The People's Committee at the commune level is granted the first Red Book to the people. This is the content stated in Article 18 of Decree 151/2025/ND-CP if all conditions for granting the Red Book are met, including no disputes, compliance with planning and no violation of land laws...

The People's Committee at the commune level is authorized to certify translations from foreign languages ​​into Vietnamese or vice versa under the authority of the People's Committee at the commune level...

Instead of being applied according to district level as before, from July 1, 2025, the official minimum wage will be divided according to commune level according to Decree 128/2025/ND-CP...

The application for household registration can be submitted to any commune-level People's Committee where the individual resides. The individual's place of residence is determined according to the provisions of the law on residence as prescribed in Clause 1, Article 5 of Decree 120/2025/ND-CP...

Amended Law on Health Insurance 2024 comes into effect

A series of benefits and regulations related to health insurance will be applied from July 1, 2025 according to the Law amending the Law on Health Insurance in 2024. Below are some notable contents:

Amend and update the subjects of participation, add more subjects to participate in compulsory health insurance: Village health workers, village midwives; People participating in the force to protect security and order at the grassroots level; People aged 75 and over who are receiving monthly pensions, people aged 70 to under 75 years old from near-poor households who are receiving monthly pensions.

Medical examination and treatment at home is still covered by health insurance because according to Clause 16, Article 1 of the Law amending and supplementing the Law on Health Insurance 2024, medical examination and treatment, including remote medical examination and treatment, support for remote medical examination and treatment, family medical examination and treatment, medical examination and treatment at home, rehabilitation, periodic pregnancy check-ups, childbirth...

More cases must pay social insurance according to Social Insurance Law 2024

One of the important Law projects related to millions of people across the country is the Social Insurance Law 2024, which will take effect from July 1, 2025.

Accordingly, some notable contents of this Law that cannot be ignored include:

Employees working under indefinite-term labor contracts; labor contracts with a term of one month or more... are also subject to compulsory health insurance (the old regulation was contracts of three months or more...).

When paying social insurance from July 1, 2025 onwards, you cannot withdraw social insurance at once if you do not fall into the following cases: Being old enough to receive pension but not having paid social insurance for 15 years; Going abroad to settle down.

People suffering from one of the following diseases: cancer, paralysis, decompensated cirrhosis, severe tuberculosis, AIDS...

Paying social insurance for 15 years will also entitle you to a pension according to Article 64 of the Law on Social Insurance if you reach retirement age...

Officially replace tax code with identification number

As one of the Law projects that has a great impact on consumer tax policy nationwide from July 1, 2025, the Law on Value Added Tax 2024 also takes effect from July 1, 2025.

Accordingly, from July 1, 2025, taxpayers... will use personal identification numbers instead of tax codes. In particular, the personal identification number of Vietnamese citizens issued by the Ministry of Public Security is a 12-digit natural number sequence used instead of the tax code of individual taxpayers, dependents...

At the same time, when purchasing goods and services under 20 million VND, there must be a non-cash payment document, except in some cases prescribed by the Government.

Previously, according to Clause 2, Article 12 of the 2008 Law on Value Added Tax, goods and services purchased at a time with a value of less than 20 million VND did not need non-cash payment documents to deduct value added tax...

New regulations of the Law on Fire Prevention and Fighting and Rescue 2024

The Law on Fire Prevention, Fighting and Rescue 2024, effective from July 1, 2025, has added a series of new regulations in fire prevention and fighting.

Accordingly, this Law supplements regulations on ensuring fire safety for houses combined with business: There must be signs and separation of production areas at risk of fire and explosion from residential areas. Do not arrange sleeping areas, equip fire alarms, ventilation, gas leak detection equipment, and block fire escape routes when there are flammable and explosive goods. Have fire prevention and fighting equipment suitable to the capacity and actual conditions to be ready to fight fires and escape. Arrange and maintain escape routes, emergency exits or paths to ensure escape...

VAT reduction policy from July 1, 2025 to December 31, 2026

On the morning of June 17, 2025, the National Assembly passed a Resolution of the National Assembly on reducing Value Added Tax. Accordingly, the National Assembly resolved:

Reduce the Value Added Tax rate by 2%, to 8%, applicable to groups of goods and services except for the following groups of goods and services: Telecommunications; Financial activities, banking, securities, insurance, real estate business; Metal products, mining products (except coal); Goods and services subject to special consumption tax (except gasoline).

The Resolution takes effect from July 1, 2025 to December 31, 2026.

According to baotintuc.vn

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