New provision on land rental exemption and reduction

The Government issued Decree No. 135/2016/ND-CP  dated September 09, 2015 amending and supplementing a number of articles on collection of land rental and water surface rental, within that prescribed land rental exemption or reduction is not applied in the case of auction on land lease rights. Similarly, land use levy...
Ministry of Construction

Circular No.01/2015/TT-BXD of Ministry of Construction

This circular provides guidelines for determination of the unit labor cost in the management of the construction cost. The unit labor cost is calculated according to the following formula: GNC= LNCx HCBx 1/t Where: GNC: The unit labor cost paid to an employee who directly produces their output in a working day. LNC : The...
timber processing

Restricting the new establishment of timber processing and trading establishments

On December 11, 2014, the Prime Minister signed the Decision No. 2242/QD-TTg approving the Scheme for strengthening the management of natural forest’s timber exploitation in 2014 – 2020 in order to improve quality of natural forest and develop the production forests with high quality eligible for sustainable exploitation...

Not collect charges for film appraisal serving for political tasks

On September 15, 2014, the Ministry of Finance issued the Circular No. 136/2014/TT-BTC amending and supplementing some articles of the Circular No. 122/2013/TT-BTC dated August 28, 2013 of the Ministry of Finance[...]
Legal Advisor

Not yet handovered the house, the owner must pay 70% charges

On November 25, 2014, the National Assembly officially approved the Housing Law No. 65/2014/QH13, replacing the Housing Law No. 56/2005/QH11 with many new contents. For owners of commercial housing projects, within 50 days from the date of handover of houses to purchasers or from the time when lessees make full...

Conditions for land allocation, land lease for implementing investment projects

In accordance with the Decree No. 43/2014/ND-CP detailing a number of articles of the Land Law issued by the Government on May 15, 2014[...]
License for production

License charge for production or trading of chemicals is vnd 200.000

In accordance with the Circular No. 85/2015/TT-BTC dated June 03, 2015 of the Ministry of Finance providing for rates, collection, payment, management and use of charges and fees in chemical business any organization/individual applying for a license or a certificate relating to chemical business; any organization/individual applying for approval...

Charges for the appraisal for commercial pangasius is VND 100,000/export contract

This is the content prescribed at the Circular No. 46/2015/TT-BTC dated April 07, 2015 of the Ministry of Finance providing for the collection rates, regime of collection, remittance, management and use of charges for the appraisal for commercial pangasius. According to this Circular’s contents, organizations, individuals when registering to export...

Surrogacy arrangement in Vietnam

Question: I would like to know about surrogacy arrangement which is carrying of a pregnancy for intended parents. A couple (Non-Resident of Vietnam) who attempted IVF with no success and they have embryos stored in Thailand.We select a surrogate mother who is our relative and would like to go through...