Representative Office in Vietnam

Question: May I know which taxation needs to be declared if establish a RO  in Vietnam. Your help will be much grateful. Thank you. Answer: Under Vietnam Law, a representative office does not involve with business activities for purpose of making profit. Then, except for declaration of personal income tax for...

SBLAW would like to mention about the difference between Branch and R.O in Vietnam as follows:

Client is willing to engage a legal consultant on advices regarding the establishment of representative office in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Client: Our Company intend to set up an office in Vietnam, may be you are able to advise us on this. We are american Trading Company and has presence in USA (HQ), Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and China. We would like to know the minimum paid up capital for setting up a...

Foreign investor: Dear sir, We are limited company from hongkong and are looking setup my fifth office in Vietnam We already have office in hongkong ,guanghzou.yiwu and qindao We need to ask some information from you to setup trading or service office or representative office first time cost of setup company auditing cost...

Q: Can a Representive Office open a bank account? If there any amount that need to maintain? A: Yes, the Representative office (R.O) can open bank account, that account is to receive expense from parent comapny only. No need to have any amount to maintain R.O ammount,

Foreign investor: Dear Sirs I am writing on behalf of a Hongkong registered company. I understand from your webpage that you specialise in services for establishing and closing representative office in Vietnam. We have 2 Representative offices in Vietnam (Hanoi and Hochiminh City) and we intend to close one of them (Hanoi...

Client: Dear Sir/Madam, Our company is interested in opening a rep office in VN. The purpose of this rep office is to research the VN market and identify potential supplying sources for our products. We are in the Fiber Optic components manufacturing. We have the following questions which we hope you would be...

SBLAW would like to provide the foreign investor some information about establishment of representative office (RO) in HoChiMinh City, Vietnam as follows:

Investor: We are currently looking into changing our structure from a rep office to a wholly foreign owned  Vietnamese company. Can you run me through step by step what needs to happen if we decide to proceed. I thought you would be the right person to know. Lawyer of SBLAW:Thank...