Legal updates

Pursuant to current regulations, in order to unify the management of participant data through the use of Personal Identification Numbers (PIN) and Citizen Identification Numbers (CID), ensuring integration and synchronization of databases (DB) among agencies for administrative management purposes, and to facilitate individuals and enterprises in resolving administrative procedures, Vietnam Social Security guides provincial Social Security offices to use PIN/CID in replacement of SSN and unit management codes for participants of social insurance (SI) and health insurance (HI) as follows:

In case the Company incurs expenses for mid-shift meals for employees working at the Company, and such allowances are clearly stipulated in terms of eligibility conditions and benefit levels in the labor contract, collective labor agreement, or the Company’s internal regulations or policies, the determination of taxable income for PIT purposes for such allowances (effective from June 15, 2025) shall be as follows:

The current family circumstance deductions under PIT are as follows:

VAT Reduction: A reduction of the VAT rate from 10% to 8% is applied for certain groups of goods and services. The reduction does not apply to:

(i) Household business owners who pay tax under the declaration method are required to participate in compulsory social insurance starting from July 1, 2025. Meanwhile, the roadmap specifies that other household business owners with registered businesses will be subject to compulsory participation from July 1, 2029 (Clause 2, Article 3 of Decree 158).

Accordingly, Article 3 of this Decree stipulates the “Application of overdue tax debt thresholds and debt duration in cases of exit suspension,” specifically 04 cases:

In cases where a company leases factory premises for production and business activities but the lessor has not yet fulfilled the conditions required for leasing such premises, then pursuant to Article 4 of Circular No. 96/2015/TT-BTC dated June 22, 2015 issued by the Ministry of Finance (amending and supplementing Article 6 of Circular No. 78/2014/TT-BTC), the rental expenses or depreciation expenses of fixed assets being the factory premises (if depreciation is applied to the asset) are not eligible to be considered deductible expenses when determining the company’s taxable corporate income.

Pursuant to Decision No. 571/QĐ-TTg dated March 12, 2025, issued by the Prime Minister on the establishment of a Steering Committee for the reorganization of administrative units at all levels and the development of a two-tier local government model, the Ministry of Finance issues this official dispatch to provide specific guidance on business registration procedures in the event of administrative boundary changes.

On April 2, 2025, the Government issued Decree No. 82/2025/NĐ-CP (“Decree 82”) on the extension of deadlines for the payment of value-added tax (VAT), corporate income tax (CIT), personal income tax (PIT), and land rental in 2025. This Decree takes effect from the date of signing (April 2, 2025) and remains in force until December 31, 2025.