New Procedures to Coordinate Various Business Commencement Steps for Vietnamese Companies

In October 2020, the Government issued the new Decree 122/2020 on the coordination between various separate procedures relating to the business commencement steps of a company in Vietnam including enterprise incorporation procedures, employee usage declaration, social insurance registration code, and registration of tax invoice. In particular,

  • Decree 122/2020 provides for a company registration application which also includes information necessary for tax and invoice registration, social insurance registration, and employee usage declaration. Previously, the company registration application only include company registration information and tax registration information; and

  • The Enterprise Registration Authority will act as the single contact point to receive the application submitted by the relevant company’s founders and will electronically transfer necessary information to the tax authority, social insurance authority, and labour authority.

Some New Key Points of The New Vietnam Investment Law 2020

The National Assembly of Vietnam passed a new Investment Law on 17 June 2020 which will become effective on 1 January 2021 (LOI 2020) and replace the current Investment Law 2014 (LOI 2014). In this briefing, we briefly discuss some new key points of LOI 2020.

This briefing is written by Ha Thi Dung and edited by Nguyen Quang Vu with the research assistance of Tran Kim Chi.

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New Decision on incentives for the development of solar power projects in Vietnam

On 6 April 2020, the Prime Minister issued a new Decision (Decision 13/2020) to replace Decision 11 dated 11 April 2017 on incentives for the development of solar power projects in Vietnam (Decision 11/2017), which expired 10 months ago. The summaries of certain key issues of this new Decision are here.

This post is written by Le Thanh Nhat and Nguyen Thuc Anh.

A Comparison between Vietnam's Commitments in Financial Services under WTO, CPTPP and EVFTA

The full text of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (CPTPP) and the Free Trade Agreement between Vietnam and European Union (EVFTA) have been made available for public information. The table below tries to compare the existing commitments of Vietnam under WTO Agreement, CPTPP and EVFTA Agreement in Financial Services. The comparison is done by Tran Thuy Tien, and Nguyen Bich Ngoc.

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