Environment Protection Tax in Vietnam
The Law on Environment Protection Tax took effect from 1 January 2012.
Legal and Tax Advice in Vietnam
Question: I am currently working for a foreign based company established in Vietnam, a subsidiary of Hongkong company. We already established since early 2012, but in the meantime we still need many things to catch up for our legal and tax as we don't have this department to help...
Transfer Pricing in Vietnam
SBLAW would like to provide you some regulation of Transfer Pricing in Vietnam as follows:
Double Tax in Vietnam
The withholding taxes in the table be affected by relevant DTAs. For example, the deemed CIT on foreign contractors may be eliminated or reduced through a relevant DTA.
Tax Incentives in Vietnam
SBLaw would like to provide some information about Tax Incentives in Vietnam as follows:
Value Added Tax Refund for foreign contractor.
Under Vietnam Law, only when foreign contactor (FC) selects the option of Paying Value Added Tax according to declared revenue and expense and is classified to one of following cases as stipulated at the Article 8 of The Circular No. 219/2013/TT-BTC dated 31 December 2013 of the Ministry of...
Corporate Income Tax for Foreign contractor in Vietnam
Foreign constructor is entitled to choose one of two incorporate tax regimes available under Vietnam Law., i.e. (i) Paying Corporate Income Tax according to declared revenue and expense which is similar to tax regime applicable to domestic enterprises and (ii) Paying Corporate Income Tax according to fixed rates which...
Amount of domestic adoption registration fee is vnd 400,000/case
On July 08, 2017, the Government issued the Decree No. 114/2016/ND-CP on adoption registration fees, fees for issuance of operation licenses of inter-country adoption agencies.
In accordance with the Decree, amount of domestic adoption registration fee: VND 400,000/case; amount of adoption registration fee collected from Vietnamese people residing in foreign...
Custom Duty for foreign contractor in Vietnam
Import duty exemptions are provided for projects which are classified as encouraged sectors and goods imported in certain circumstances.
In line with the Law on investment (Article 33.3), machinery and equipment, specialized means of transportation and construction materials (which cannot be produced in Vietnam) for use as the fixed assets...
Tax Payer having permanent establishment in Vietnam
According to the Agreement between the government of the Government of Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the foreign countries (for example Government of Republic of France), a Tax Payer shall be considered as having permanent establishment in a Country if it has one of followings:
- A registered head office;
-...















