ALLOWANCE PAYABLE TO A PERSON ON WORK TRIP: VND 200,000/DAY
On April 28, 2017, the Ministry of Finance issued the Circular No. 40/2017/TT-BTC on work-trip allowances and conference expenditures.
Accordingly, stay allowances mean amounts paid by agencies or units to their staff on work trips in addition to their salaries for a period from the date they begin until they finish their work trips and return to their agencies or units (including time of journey and stay in work-trip destinations). Stay allowance payable to a person on work trip: VND 200,000/day. Officials, public employees and contractual employees working on the mainland who are sent on work trips at sea or on islands are entitled to the maximum stay allowance of VND 250,000/person/day of actual work trip (applicable to days during which they work at sea or on islands and travel days at sea or to and from islands).
Also in accordance with this Circular, officials, public employees and contractual employees who are sent by their agencies or units to work trips and must rent lodgings in work-trip destinations are entitled to payment of such lodging rents by adopting any of two following methods: payment of fixed allowance or invoice-based payment; persons on work trips to agencies or units that have arranged free lodgings are not entitled to payment of lodging rents.
For commune-level officials and officials of other agencies or units who have to regularly go on work trips for over 10 days a month (such as correspondence clerks, accountants, forest rangers, officers of procedural agencies who conduct investigation, procuracy or verification or send legal notices and other duties), heads of agencies or units shall, depending on entities, task characteristics and financial capacity, set the fixed level of monthly work-trip allowance to support these officials in covering car-parking and fuel expenses, which must not exceed VND 500,000/person/month and shall be included in their internal spending regulations.
