January 31, The financial implementation instructions information Circular 04/2023/TT-BTC on management, financial revenue and expenditure for festival organization and merit money, funding for monuments and festival activities will officially take effect on March 19.
Accordingly, the regulations tighten the management of festival organization and merit money with subjects being state and non-state agencies, aiming to ensure safety and transparency of the received festival funds.
Specifically, festivals organized by state agencies and organizations must have an account at the State Treasury or a commercial bank to reflect the receipt, management and use of funds for organizing activities. festival in the form of bank transfer, electronic payment method.
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For the case of cash receipt, the units must appoint a receiver and simultaneously open a full logbook of the received amount. In case the cash amount is temporarily unused, the units must deposit it into an account opened at the State Treasury or a commercial bank to ensure the safe and transparent management of funds for the ceremony. Society received.
About the festival Not organized by a state agency, individuals and units must also open books to record all revenues and expenditures for the organization of the festival.
The circular also emphasizes that these subjects can make their own decisions and are responsible for the receipt, management and use of funds for the organization of the festival, ensuring it is consistent with the organization’s principles and purposes. festivals and regulations.
In addition, the content in the Circular also affirms that the State will not manage merit money, sponsor relics and festival activities for belief establishments and religious organizations. These establishments make their own decisions and are responsible for receiving, managing and using merit money, funding the protection and promotion of the value of relics and festival activities, ensuring compliance with regulations. under the law.
The Circular also details 5 subjects who are owners or are assigned to manage and use relics, including representatives of belief establishments, representatives of religious establishments, owners of private relics. individuals, public non-business units, and part-time relic management boards.
This Circular does not apply to belief establishments, religious establishments that have not been granted a certificate of relic rating by a competent state agency or included in the list of local inventory of relics and money for merits and resources. support religious activities of religious organizations and affiliated religious organizations./.
Hanh Nguyen (Vietnam+)
