Condo buildings in Thu Duc District. HCMC residents can complete procedures for obtaining home ownership certificates in less time. (Photo: Le Anh)
At a conference on administrative reforms in HCMC in the first six months of the year, a representative of the municipal Department of Natural Resources and Environment stated that the department’s land registration office has received nearly 23,600 applications for home ownership certificates from district-level land registration offices in the first six months.
Under the prevailing regulations, it takes residents a long time to be granted the certificates.
To address the problem, the department has empowered directors of land registration offices in districts to grant home ownership certificates. The solution will help reduce the time needed to obtain a certificate by 10 days and will save some VND2 billion per year for the city.
Also, the department’s cooperation with the Tax Department will help reduce the number of tax declaration and payment steps to two from the current nine steps. The time to complete tax declaration and payment procedures should now take no longer than five days.
The solution will help reduce the number of staff needed for the task, from three leaders and 12 officials to one leader and one official.
Local residents can save on traveling time and costs to make tax payments.
Links with tax agencies have been made by District 12’s land registration office and will be expanded to other districts.
