Customs Exceeds Many e-Government Targets

The General Department of Vietnam Customs reported outdoing many e-government targets specified in Resolution 17/2019/NQ-CP of the government.

According to a report on e-government construction results recently released by the General Department, most e-government results surpassed the targets set for the 2019-2020 period.

An example is the target of “20% of people and enterprises participating in the e-government information system have an electronically verified identity across all information systems from all central to local government levels.”

Up to now, 99.9% of companies have declared electronic customs procedures through the VACCCS system. As for exports, imports and vehicles on entry and on exit performed on the National Single Window, 100% of companies can access and authenticate on the National Single Window.

The customs offices have currently reached 95% of the target of “20% onward of administrative procedures provide by each ministry, branch and locality are handled online”; 100% of the target of “integrating 30% of online public services of Level 3 and Level 4 provided by ministries, branches and localities on the National Public Service Portal”.

For other criteria like online public services handled with electronic records (target: 50%), autofill personal information form (20%) and online public services using the business registration database (50%), the customs sector has already excellently achieved 100%.

For the target of document management and administration software of ministries, branches and localities connected and linked through the National Document Exchange Platform for sending and receiving electronic documents”, the General Department’s document management software has been connected to the system of the Ministry of Finance.

By Le Hien, Vietnam Business Forum