Circular No. 37/2022/TT-BTC amends and supplements Clause 9 of Article 3 and Model No. 01 attached to Circular No. 109/2016/TT-BTC dated June 30, 2016 of the Ministry of Finance on the preparation of budgets, management, use, and settlement of funds for conducting statistical surveys and national censuses.

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Amending and supplementing Clause 9 of Article 3 and Model No. 01 attached to Circular No. 109/2016/TT-BTC dated June 30, 2016 of the Ministry of Finance on the preparation of budgets, management, use, and settlement of funds for conducting statistical surveys and national comprehensive statistical censuses

Pursuant to the State Budget Law on June 25, 2015;

Pursuant to the Law on Statistics dated November 23, 2015;

Pursuant to the Law amending and supplementing certain articles and the National Statistical Indicators Catalogue of the Law on Statistics dated November 12, 2021;

Pursuant to Decree No. 87/2017/NĐ-CP dated July 26, 2017 of the Government stipulating the functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structure of the Ministry of Finance;

At the proposal of the Director of the Department of Administrative and Public Financial Affairs;

The Minister of Finance promulgates this Circular amending and supplementing Clause 9 of Article 3 and Model No. 01 attached to Circular No. 109/2016/TT-BTC dated June 30, 2016 of the Ministry of Finance on the preparation of budgets, management, use, and settlement of funds for conducting statistical surveys and national comprehensive statistical censuses.

Article 1. Amend and supplement Clause 9 of Article 3 and Model No. 01 attached to Circular No. 109/2016/TT-BTC dated June 30, 2016 of the Ministry of Finance on the preparation of budgets, management, use, and settlement of funds for conducting statistical surveys and national comprehensive statistical censuses

1. Amending and supplementing Clause 9 of Article 3 of Circular No. 109/2016/TT-BTC dated June 30, 2016 on the preparation of budgets, management, use, and settlement of funds for conducting statistical surveys and national comprehensive statistical censuses as follows:

“a) Acceptance, inspection, coding, cleaning, and completion of statistical survey forms: Implement a fixed fee based on the remuneration paid to statistical surveyors for data collection; the specific amount depends on the complexity of the statistical survey form during the statistical surveys, but shall not exceed 7% of the remuneration paid to statistical surveyors for data collection;

b) Costs for building, upgrading, and expanding software serving statistical survey work (if necessary); costs for entering data from paper survey forms; costs for checking, validating, and compiling data to establish databases; costs for maintaining electronic websites; costs for publishing electronic products about statistical survey results; Implemented according to regulations on managing investment in information technology applications using state budget funds; Circular No. 42/2020/TT-BTTTT dated December 31, 2020 of the Ministry of Information and Communications on economic and technical norms for publication activities; current regulations on information technology application costs and economic and technical norms in the field of information and communication. The head of the agency or unit responsible for the survey shall be responsible for determining the maximum specific cost not exceeding the provisions of the aforementioned documents, ensuring economy, efficiency, and suitability with the allocated funds for conducting statistical surveys.”

2. Amending and supplementing Model No. 01 on the List of Remuneration Payments to Surveyors attached to Circular No. 109/2016/TT-BTC dated June 30, 2016 of the Ministry of Finance on the preparation of budgets, management, use, and settlement of funds for conducting statistical surveys and national comprehensive statistical censuses attached to this Circular.

Article 2. Implementation clause

1. This Circular takes effect from August 8, 2022.

2. When the regulations and norms referred to in this Circular are amended, supplemented, or replaced by new documents, they shall be implemented according to the amended, supplemented, or replacing documents./.

LIST OF PAYMENTS FOR STATISTICIANS

Name of Statistical Survey/National General Census:

From the date of ... month ... year ... to the date of ... month ... year ...

Unit: dong

Amount requested for payment: ... Total amount (in words: ...)

(Attached to the Quantity and Quality Acceptance Report)

Note:This list applies to external supervisors as well.