Legal updates

From July 1, 2025, the personal identification number issued under the Law on Identity shall be used in place of the tax code for Vietnamese individuals. Additionally, the personal identification number of the head of a household, head of a household business, or individual businessperson will also be used instead of the tax identification number for those household businesses or individuals.

(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.

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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 issues an invoice at the incorrect time as stipulated in Clause 2, Article 9 of Decree No. 123/2020/NĐ-CP but does not fall under the cases specified in Clause 9, Article 3 of Decree No. 123/2020/NĐ-CP (regarding the use of illegal invoices and documents, and the unlawful use of invoices and documents), and the invoice fully complies with the form and content requirements of Decree No. 123/2020/NĐ-CP, it will be considered a valid invoice.