Under the proposal, the environmental protection tax on petrol (excluding ethanol), diesel, aviation fuel, kerosene and mazut will be reduced to zero Vietnamese đồng per litre.
The tax cut has been praised by economists and the business community as one of the more practical and most efficient support policies by the government for economic recovery post-COVID-19.
Environmental tax on fuel has been set to a fixed amount from now until the end of 2023 in an attempt to stabilise fuel prices in the domestic market and check inflation, according to a new decree issued by the...
Measures taken to bring down petrol prices could reduce State budget collection by VND32.5 trillion (US$1.4 billion) this year, according to deputy minister of finance Nguyen Duc Chi.