Businesses still struggle with administrative procedures
Vietnam has made some strides in administrative reform but local enterprises are still grappling with administrative procedures relating to taxes, sub-licenses and inspections, heard at a meeting between National Assembly deputies and businesses on October 3. Aside from capital, market and technology, the business community needs policy transparency for sustainable development, Nguyen Van Be, chairman of the association of enterprises in export processing zones and industrial parks in HCMC, said at the meeting with the delegation of NA deputies of HCMC. Vietnam has executed administrative reform for years but documents and procedures regulating business activity have remained complicated. For instance, the Ministry of Finance has more than 1,600 administrative procedures, the Ministry of Justice 678, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs 569, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development 569 and the Ministry of Industry and Trade 548.
