Enhancing the Effectiveness of Support for MSMEs
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The Ministry of Planning and Investment shared that, in reality, the implementation of Circular No. 06/2022/TT-BKHDT over the past two years has revealed certain obstacles. Some of the issues include inconsistencies with Circular No. 52/2023/TT-BTC of the Ministry of Finance regarding the management of support for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs); regulations on the budget for recognizing or removing consultants from the network are inappropriate; the meaning of some support contents is unclear (consulting on digital transformation solutions; leasing or purchasing digital transformation solutions; participating in trade fairs,…); the application method is inconsistent in terms of the process of supporting MSMEs and the process of planning, approving estimates, and selecting service providers, etc.
Following the direction of the Government leaders, it is necessary to develop a draft amending and supplementing a number of articles of Circular No. 06/2022/TT-BKHDT to remove difficulties and obstacles, promote decentralization and delegation, and promote the implementation of support activities for MSMEs from the central to local levels.
Enhancing the Effectiveness of Support for MSMEs
According to the Ministry of Planning and Investment, regarding the guidance on implementing support for MSMEs (Article 3), the requirement for MSME support agencies and organizations to request MSMEs to submit and store documents and dossiers related to information and data of MSMEs is unnecessary and creates a compliance burden for both MSMEs and support staff. Therefore, the draft Circular has amended and supplemented the regulation in paragraph 3, Article 3, in the direction that the two parties (MSME support agencies and organizations and MSMEs) jointly make a minutes of comparison of documents and information related to the determination of the scale of MSMEs, MSMEs owned by women, and MSMEs employing many female workers according to the declaration of MSMEs, and MSMEs are responsible for the declared information.
At the same time, paragraph 4 of Article 3 of Circular No. 06/2022/TT-BKHDT was also amended and supplemented to clarify the case of supporting the head office, branches, and representative offices of MSMEs in different localities, as a basis for MSME support agencies and organizations to support these cases.
In addition, in order to unify with the norms and rates specified in Circular No. 52/2023/TT-BTC dated August 8, 2023, of the Ministry of Finance, paragraph 1 of Article 6 of Circular No. 06/2022/TT/BKHDT was amended and supplemented to remove the regulations related to the ratio of management expenses (1%) for the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the focal point of the Ministry, ministerial-level agencies, and the Department of Planning and Investment of the localities (2%). At the same time, paragraph 2 of Article 9 was also amended to remove the regulation on the budget for the activity of recognizing consultants.
Based on the practical needs of MSMEs in the process of implementing Circular 06/2022/TT-BKHDT for more than 2 years, the draft Circular has added paragraph 4 of Article 15 and Article 18 to guide specifically on supporting MSMEs to participate in trade fairs, trade promotion according to the provisions of Article 22 and Article 25 of Decree 80/2021/ND-CP. Accordingly, the draft Circular stipulates that the activities of participating in trade fairs and trade promotion include: participating in trade fairs, or participating in exhibitions, or organizing trade promotion delegations, or combined activities. The addition of these regulations aims to clarify the meaning of support activities, thereby facilitating the work of MSME support agencies and organizations in settling support activities funded by the state budget.
