Law on amendments to a number of articles of the Law on Land Use Right Transfer Tax (no. 17/1999/QH10)

14 OFFICIAL GAZETTE No. 6 (15-2-2000) LAW ON AMENDMENTS AND SUPPLE MENTS TO A NUMBER OF ARTICLES OF THE LAW ON LAND USE RIGHT TRANSFER TAX (No. 1711999/QHJ 0) Pursuant to the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Pursuant to the Land Law passed by the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on July 14, 1993; and the Law Amending No. 6 05-2-2000) OFFICIAL GAZETTE 15 and Supplementing a Number of Articles of the Land Law passed by the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on December 2, 1998; This Law amend, and supplements a number of articles of the Law on Land Use Right l}·ansfer Tax, which was passed by the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on June 22, 1994. Article 1.- To amend and supplement a number of articles of the Law on Land Use Right Transfer Tax: 1. Article 2 is amended and supplemented as follows: "Article 2.- The follovving cases shall not be subject to land use right transfer tax: 1. The State allots land to organizations, family households and/or individuals for use under the provisions of law: 2. Organizations, family households and/or individuals return land to the State or the State recovers land under the provisions of law; 3. The land use right is transferred in case of divorce or inheritance under the provisions of law; 4. The land use right is transferred between: wife and husband; father or mother, foster-father or mother and their offspring or adopted children; paternal or maternal grandparents and their grand children; and between siblings; 5. Economic organizations leased land by the State which transfer the leased land use right; 6. Organizations, family households and/or individuals donate their land use right to the State or organizations for the construction of cultural, educational, medical, physical training and sport establishments; or charity establishments, for non business purposes under projects already approved by the competent State agencies." 2. Article 7 is amended as follows: aquaculture and salt making, the rate shall be 2% (two percent); 2. For residential land, land for project construc tion and land of other types, the tax rate shall be 4% (four percent)." 3. Article 11 is amended and supplemented as follows: "Article 11. 1. T~ ·eland use right transfer tax shall be paid by the L nd use right transferor and in lump sum accorJing to the tax agency's notice. 2. In cases where the land use right transferee voluntarily pays the land use right transfer tax for the land use right transferor, such transferee shall have to declare and pay tax according to the provisions of Article 10 of the Law on Land Use Right Transfer Tax. 3. The competent State agency shall issue the land use right certificate to the land use right transferee only when the land use , ght transfer tax has been fully paid." 4. Article 14 is amended and supplem"~ted as follows: "Article 14. The following cases shall be exempt from land use right transfer tax: 1. Family households or individuals transfer the land use right to move to new economic zones, mountainous regions or islands under decisions of the competent State agencies; 2. The land use right is transferred by people who arc conferred the title "heroic Vietnamese mother" by the State; 3. The right to use land of various types in rural communes in mountainous and island areas as stipulated by the Government is transferred: 4. The land used for agricultural production, "Article 7. - The land use right transfer tax rates forestry, aquaculture or salt making is exchanged for are stipulated as follows: each other in order to meet the farming conditions. 1. For land for agricultural production, forestry, 5. Economic organizations allotted land by the lG OFFICIAL GAZETTE No. G (15-2-20(10) State with the land use levies being collected for Law on Land Use Right Transfer Tax to make them investment in the construction of dwelling houses conform to this Law. for sale or construction of infrastructure for assignment with the transfer of the right to use This Law was passed by the X 1h National the land attached to such dwelling houses or Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on infrastructure." December 21. 1999 at its 61h session. 5. Article 15 is amended and supplemented as follows: "Article I 5. To reduce by 50% (fifty percent) ofland use right transfer tax for the following subjects: 1. Disabled armymen of l /4 and 2/4 grades, and diseased armymen of 1/3 and 2/3 grades; 2. Members of family of the fallen combatants, who are entitled to the State's subsidies; 3. Disabled people who have no more the working capacity, the minors and lonely aged people having no one to support." 6. Article 16 is amended as follows: "Article 16. Each of the subjects entitled to the exemption or reduction of land use right transfer tax stipulated in the revised Articles 14 and 15 shall be considered for exemption or reduction only once, except for the subjects stipulated in Clause 5 of the revised Article 14". Article 2. To annul Articles 8 and 9 of the Law on Land Use Right Transfer Tax. Article 3. This Law takes effect as from January 1, 2000. Cases of land use right transfer before January 1, 2000, where the land use right transfer tax has not been paid, shall be subject to the tax rates stipulated in this Law. Article 4. The Government shall amend and/or supplement legal documents detailing the imple-mentation of the Chairman of the National Assembly NONG DUC MANH