General conditions for seagoing ship building
On July 01, 2016, the Government issued the Decree No. 111/2016/ND-CP prescribing business conditions for provision of seagoing ship building, conversion and repair services.
In accordance with regulations, from July 01, 2016, a shipyard must have a technical division and a quality inspection division which are separate from each other...
Incentives of 5% in selection of investors in ppp projects
On March 17, 2015, the Government issued the Decree No. 30/2015/ND-CP dated March 17, 2015 of the Government guiding the implementation of a number of Articles on investor selection of the Law on Bidding, within that, the important contents mention on incentives in selection of investors in PPP...
Decree No. 32/2015/ND-CP of Government regarding to the construction cost management.
Some significant regulations of the Decree:
- Construction costs of each project, construction, contract must be calculated correctly and sufficiently and appropriate for design requirements, technical instructions, construction conditions, market prices at that time, and the construction site.
- Investors may hire cost management consultants who are qualified as prescribed in...
Allowed to clear the loss and gain in the transfer of real estate
On June 18, 2014, the Ministry of Finance issued the Circular No. 78/2014/TT-BTC guiding the implementation of the Government’s Decree No. 218/2013/ND-CP of December 26, 2013, detailing and guiding the implementation of the Law on Enterprise Income Tax (EIT)[...]
Develope science and technology information activities
On February 18, 2014, the Government issued the Decree No. 11/2014/ND-CP science and technology information activities, encourage individuals and organizations to cooperate in and finance the formation and development of the national science and technology database. [...]
Second-hand cars over 5 years old are not allowed to be imported
On November 20, 2013, the Government issued Decree No. 187/2013/ND-CP on detailing implementation of the Commercial Law regarding to international purchases and sales of goods, agencies’ activities for purchases, sales and processing and abroad goods transit. Remarkably, Decree regulates the allowance to import second hand car under 5 years...
Foreign loans over 10 million usd are subject to registration with the state bank
On September 15, 2014, the State Bank of Vietnam issued the Circular No. 25/2014/TT-NHNN guiding the procedure on registering and registering for changes of foreign loan of businesses not guaranteed by the Government[...]
Increase the import tax for petroleum to 35% from january 07
The Ministry of Finance has just issued the Circular No. 03/2015/TT-BTC dated January 6, 2015 of the Ministry of Finance amending the preferential import tax rate for some petroleum commodities in the Heading 27.10 in the Preferential Import Tariff, decide to increase the preferential import tax for leaded or...
Procedures and dossiers to register Vietnam Green Label Certification
According to Circular No. 41/2013/TT-BTNMT dated December 2, 2014 of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, eco-label criteria applied for environment- friendly products [...]
A hi-tech enterprise has 5% staff members holding a university or higher degree
This is the prominent content prescribed at the Decision No. 19/2015/QD-TTg dated June 15, 2015 of the Prime Minister prescribing criteria for identifying hi-tech enterprises.
Accordingly, from August 01, 2015, beside satisfying the criteria prescribed at Point a and b, Article 75 of the Investment Law, a hi-tech enterprise ...
