Legal advice & case studies.

Under the provisions of the Vietnam law for operations of foreign contractors in Vietnam in the fields: investment and construction consulting, supply of materials and technology equipment together with technical services related to the construction works, construction of work, foreign contractors must apply for a contractor license. Conditions for obtaining permits for foreign contractor in … Read More

In the process of establishing, businesses need to conduct the declaration of registered business lines as prescribed by law. For ordinary professions, businesses only need to encode the professions according to the encoding system in accordance with the law. However, for some conditional business lines, in addition to the declaration in accordance with regulations, enterprises … Read More

On July 1st 2016, the Government issued Decree No. 79/2016/ND-CP guiding the business of training service, improving the professional knowledge, management profession and operation of condominium. Accordingly, organizations and individuals providing the above services must fully satisfy the 05 following conditions: – First, the organization was established and operating in Vietnam; has the function of … Read More

Rape, humiliating others, committing forcible sexual intercourses, slandering… are crimes that are prosecuted at the request of the victim. According to the provisions of Clause 1, Article 105 of the Criminal Procedure Code 2003, the cases of the offenses specified in Paragraph 1, Article 104, 105, 106, 108, 109, 111, 113, 121, 122, 131 and … Read More

The Ministry of Finance is drafting a report submitting to the Government on the implementation of Resolution 35/2016 of the Government on a number of solutions to remove difficulties and tax obstacles for small and medium enterprises. Accordingly, the Ministry is expected to submit two plans to prepare for comments of the Parliament at the … Read More

Cases that the work permit is revoked are: a) The contents in the dossiers requesting for the issuance and re-issuance of work permit are fake; b) The work permit has expired; c) Foreign workers or employers do not comply with the contents stating in the work permit; d) Termination of the labor contract; e) The … Read More

The organizing of international conference or conference without international element must be approved by the competent state authority in accordance with law. The reason is that the conferences have to be managed by the authorities competent in terms of the contents of the conference, ensuring that no policies and laws are violated. In this article … Read More

This is a remarkable content which is specified in Article 162 of the Criminal Code 2015 and will take effect from July 1st 2016. Accordingly, any people indenting to self-seeking or for their personal motives that they do one of the following behaviors to make other people to be dismissed, fired, their families fall into … Read More

United States (US) businesses are expecting to pour investment capital and set up  in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) in the near future, when Vietnam and the US are members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP). Statistics from the Department of Planning and Investment of HCMC showed that in 2015, the city has attracted 26 … Read More

After establishing a company in Vietnam, the compay has to perform a number of legal procedures for compliance purpose. First, they have to declare the license tax. The tax declaration should be submitted to tax authorities. If the taxpayer has branch in the same province, the tax declarations of the branch should be submitted to the taxpayer’s … Read More