How will logistics businesses receive electricity discounts for warehouses that store goods from the Government?

How will logistics businesses receive electricity price discounts for warehouses from the Government?

1. The Government’s view on supporting businesses in the context of Covid-19?

According to Section I of Resolution 105/NQ-CP of 2021, the Government has the following view on supporting businesses:

– Promoting the spirit of self-reliance and self-reliance; mobilize the strength of great national unity, the participation of the entire political system, business community, cooperatives, business households and people; Expand international cooperation, promote vaccine and medicine diplomacy to have vaccines and medicines as soon as possible; High determination, great efforts, drastic action for the highest goal of protecting people’s lives and health, and at the same time supporting and facilitating production and business activities of enterprises, cooperatives, and business households, but must ensure safety in disease prevention and control; Do not let a socio-economic crisis occur, have a specific roadmap and plan for businesses, cooperatives, and business households to resume operations, bringing the country back to a new normal state soon. Focus on scientific research, practical analysis and learning from international experience to build appropriate and effective solutions to gradually safely adapt to the epidemic.

– Be persistent and drastic in preventing and fighting the COVID-19 epidemic according to the motto “Fighting the epidemic is like fighting the enemy”; ensure harmony, reasonableness, and efficiency between epidemic prevention and control and production and business; “Fight the epidemic to produce and produce to fight the epidemic”, “Harmonized benefits – shared risks”, “Production must be safe, production must be safe”; Focus on efficiency, not show off formality, talk with action; Take people, businesses, cooperatives, and business households as the service center and at the same time be the subjects participating in epidemic prevention and control.

– Continue to accompany the business community, cooperatives, and business households on the principle that whatever level or locality has difficulties and problems, that level or locality must proactively and promptly remove, resolve, promote personal responsibility, and strictly handle violations that cause difficulties for production and business and cause congestion in the circulation of goods; In case of exceeding authority, must proactively report to the immediate superior for consideration and handling; Focus on immediately implementing measures to remove bottlenecks and bottlenecks with the motto “soonest – most effective” to minimize damage and negative impacts on businesses, cooperatives, business households and people.

– Promoting initiative and creativity in applying effective and safe production and business models to prevent and fight epidemics. Strengthen coordination between ministries, branches, agencies, localities, and units, ensuring effectiveness and substance in handling difficulties and problems for enterprises, cooperatives, and business households.

– Expand and strictly protect epidemic-free zones to promote production and business; control the epidemic and soon stabilize production and business in key economic regions, economic zones, high-tech zones, industrial parks, industrial clusters, areas and areas of production, business and processing of agricultural and aquatic products, resolutely not to break the production and labor supply chain.

2. The Government’s goals for supporting businesses in the context of Covid-19?

According to Section II of Resolution 105/NQ-CP in 2021, the Government sets goals to solve “difficult” problems for businesses, specifically as follows:

– Control the COVID-19 pandemic soon to restore production and business activities in time as soon as possible.

– Support to promptly remove difficulties, obstacles, and bottlenecks hindering production and business activities of enterprises to minimize the number of enterprises temporarily suspending operations, dissolution, and bankruptcy due to the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic.

– Strive to achieve the following specific targets by the end of 2021:

+ Cumulatively, about 01 million businesses and customers have enjoyed credit policies to support COVID-19 pandemic response.

+ About 160,000 businesses have enjoyed tax payment extension policies; exempting and reducing taxes, fees, and land rent.

+ About 50,000 businesses returned to operation.

+ Hundreds of thousands of businesses have access to support policies on reducing electricity bills, water bills, telecommunications fees, policies to support employees, employers, and labor training…

3. Will logistics businesses receive a discount from the Government on electricity prices for warehouses?

Pursuant to Section III of Resolution 105/NQ-CP 2021 and the above viewpoints, goals and practical situation stated in the above Resolution, the Government decides on 04 groups of tasks and solutions, of which for logistics businesses:

– Implement drastically and effectively measures to prevent and control the COVID-19 epidemic, and at the same time create favorable conditions for enterprises, cooperatives, and business households to recover, maintain and develop production and business associated with ensuring safety, epidemic prevention and control;

– Ensure stable production, smooth, efficient and safe circulation of goods, and overcome supply chain disruptions;

– Support cost cutting, solving financial and cash flow difficulties for businesses, cooperatives, and business households;

– Create favorable conditions for labor and experts.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade presides and coordinates with the Ministry of Finance and relevant agencies to urgently organize the implementation of Resolution 97/NQ-CP dated August 28, 2021 of the Government on the plan to support electricity bill reduction and electricity price reduction (phase 5) for electricity customers in accordance with the order, procedures and legal regulations; Strictly ensuring the right subjects, not allowing policy profiteering.