Table of contents
Stage 1: Foreign Investment overview in Vietnam
Stage 2: Foreign Investment licenses in Vietnam
Stage 3: Consulting legal procedures after receiving Investment Certificates
- Procedures for foreign investment registration in Vietnam?
- Cases in which it is not necessary to carry out procedures for granting an Investment Registration Certificate
- Procedures for registering a business establishment:
With experience and deep understanding of Vietnamese law on Foreign investment in Vietnam, CFATAX will support clients with the most useful legal advices in the fields of foreign investment.
Investors will get the most specific legal perspectives before investing in Vietnam to help bring the highest profit.
FOREIGN INVESTMENT PROCEDURES IN VIETNAM
STAGE 1: FOREIGN INVESTMENT OVERVIEW IN VIETNAM
- CFATAX will provide an overview of foreign investment law in Vietnam, types and forms of foreign investment as well as investment fields, based on legal knowledge and practical experience at CFA.
- Issues for foreign investors to wonder when INVESTING IN VIETNAM
- Is the investor allowed to invest in the field that the investor intends to do?
- If possible, what are the procedures that need to be carried out in accordance with the investment law in particular and other relevant regulations?
- Which relevant Vietnamese agencies must be approved?
- What types of licenses are required?
- What are the legal consequences if it happens to be “CRIMINAL” or just a “CIVIL, CRIMINAL” issue?
- CFATAX can confidently solve all problems for you. Let us be a reliable companion, and you are the potential business owner.
STAGE 2: FOREIGN INVESTMENT LICENSES IN VIETNAM
- CFATAX will advise you in detail on the necessary procedures, stages and documents to prepare for the application for an investment certificate in Vietnam.
- Prepare all necessary documents to apply for a license foreign investment in Vietnam for investors.
STAGE 3: CONSULTING RELATED LEGAL PROCEDURES AFTER CERTIFICATION OF INVESTMENT
- Apply for a business registration certificate.
- Tax registration with tax authorities in Vietnam.
- Labor contract with employees.
- Calculating salary, registering social insurance for employees.
- Regulations on transferring investment capital into Vietnam and procedures for repatriating profits.
- Consulting on intellectual property rights.
- Work permit for foreigners and temporary residence card from 2 to 5 years for foreigners.
PROCEDURES FOR FOREIGN INVESTMENT REGISTRATION IN VIETNAM
According to Article 36, Clauses 1 and 2 of the 2014 Investment Law, the procedures for granting an investment registration certificate include:
- Cases in which the procedures for issuance of an Investment Registration Certificate must be carried out:
- Investment projects of foreign investors;
- Investment projects of economic organizations specified in Clause 1, Article 23 of this Law.
- Cases in which it is not necessary to carry out procedures for granting an Investment Registration Certificate
- Investment projects of domestic investors;
- Investment projects of economic organizations specified in Clause 2, Article 23 of this Law;
- Investment in the form of capital contribution or purchase of shares or capital contribution of economic organizations.
Procedure for issuance of investment registration certificates according to Article 37 of the Law on Investment 2014:
- For investment projects subject to decision on investment policies, within 5 working years from the date of receipt of the written decision on investment policies, the investment registration agency shall be the Industrial Park Management Board. export processing zones, high-tech zones, economic zones or the Department of Planning and Investment must grant investment certificates to investors.
- As for the case where the investment project is not subject to decision on investment policies, the investor shall submit a dossier according to Clause 1, Article 33 to the investment registration agency and within 15 days from the date of receipt of a complete dossier. the investment registration authority shall issue an investment registration certificate or refuse to grant it in writing, clearly stating the reasons therefor.
- The agency that can issue the Investment Registration Certificate is:
- If the investor establishes an enterprise in an industrial park, export processing zone, high-tech zone or economic zone, the Management Board of the industrial park, export processing zone, hi-tech park or economic zone has the authority to issue Investment registration certificate for investors.
- If the projects are located outside the above zones, the Department of Planning and Investment has the authority to issue the Certificate of Investment Registration to the investor.
