• Foreign Investment Agency (FIA)
• The Investment & Trade Promotion Centre (ITPC)
• Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI)

Over the years, the Vietnamese Government has pursued strategies to join several free trade agreements such as the Comprehensive Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and the EU-Vietnam (EVFTA), in the hopes of attracting exporting companies to produce in Vietnam.

Corporate Tax Incentives

• Incentives granted are based on regulated encouraged sectors, locations and size.
• Preferential incentives vary from 10 per cent, 15 per cent, and 17 per cent and last for 10 years, 15 years or the whole investment period.

Large Manufacturing Projects Incentives

• Corporate Income Tax (CIT) rate of 10 per cent applicable for 15 years.
• Large manufacturing projects with investment capital of at least VND 6,000 billion being disbursed within 3 years from the date of investment licensing, and no later than 3 years from the year generating revenue, meeting one of the following conditions:
  • having at least 3,000 full-time employees or;
  • making at least VND 10,000 billion in revenue per year

Special preferential investment projects

• CIT rate from 5 to 10 per cent applicable for 15 to 37.5 years.
• CIT exemption duration not exceeding 6 years.
• Period of reduction of 50 per cent of preferential CIT not exceeding 13 years.
• Special preferential investment projects can apply for the relevant incentives if either criteria 1 or criteria 2 are met:
  • Criteria 1: Investment projects to establish innovation centres or research and development (R&D) centres with total investment from VND 3,000 billion or; National Innovation Centre (NIC) established under the Prime Minister’s Decision.
  • Criteria 2: Investment projects that have a total investment capital of above VND 30,000 billion, with at least VND 10,000 billion being disbursed within 3 years.

World Economic Outlook (October 2021); World Bank; UNESCO Institute of Statistics; International Labour Organization: Global Wage Report 2020–21: Wages and minimum wages in the time of COVID-19; Asian Development Bank; Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI); Foreign Investment Agency (FIA); Deloitte; RSM

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