Vietnam continues to outperform global averages in women’s leadership. Explore key insights from Grant Thornton’s Women in Business 2026 report on gender diversity and CEO representation.
Explore Grant Thornton Vietnam’s M&A Outlook 2026, featuring Vietnam’s M&A market performance in 2025, key sectors, investor trends and deal drivers for 2026.
In-depth analysis of Circular 99/2025/TT-BTC from an IFRS perspective, assessing its level of alignment and implications for IFRS conversion in Vietnam.
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Update on the latest regulations and important tax policies
Through the long process of formation and development, the bond market in Vietnam has been growing in both depth and scale, proving its role as a medium for long-term capital mobilization, in the economy, as well as addressing the shortfall of the State budget.
The Government is currently in discussions with employers and the Molisa and the National Wages Council on the increase in the minimum wage for 2019. In 2018 Vietnamese employees received the highest regional salary increases at 10% compared to Thailand at 5% and a regional average of 8% In fact it has been a trend for many years that the Government, at the request and through the lobbying of the Trade Unions and support from Molisa, has raised the minimum wage way higher than the increase in inflation and in fact far more than the increase in productivity.
There is currently a lot of interest in renewables, in Vietnam, and in particular Solar energy projects. There have been over 70 licenses issued recently for solar energy projects and many of these are in Ninh Thuan Province, where there are over 140 projects licensed.. The interest has been generated by the Feed in tariff incentive granted by the Vietnamese Government approved some time ago setting a tariff of US$ 9.35 cents per KWH for those projects operational by June 2019, with a 20 year term.
Grant Thornton Vietnam’s Hotel Survey 2018 presents financial, operational and marketing information for the 2017 financial year from a range of Vietnamese upscale hotels and resorts.
Update on new Decrees, Circulars and guidance relating to tax policies June 2018 In this newsletter, Grant Thornton Vietnam would like to update significant points as follows: 1. Decree 59/2018/ND-CP and Circular 39/2018/TT-BTC providing guidelines on customs procedures 2. Decree 39/2018/ND-CP providing guidance for Law on support for small and medium size enterprises 3. Circular 25/2018/TT-BTC supplementing certain new guidelines on Value Added Tax, Corporate Income Tax and Personal Income Tax
The companies subject to the Cyber Security Law are domestic and foreign companies providing services to customers in Vietnam over telecom networks or the internet such as social networks, search engines, online advertising, online steaming/broadcasting, e-commerce websites/marketplaces, internet-based voice/text services (OTT services), cloud services, online games, and online applications.
Explore the opportunities to trade beyond domestic markets and identify current and future trends.
Explore the opportunities to trade beyond domestic markets and identify current and future trends.
Gambling has long been a taboo with the Communist Party in Vietnam and the licensing of Casinos has been very strictly controlled and to date are only open to foreigners, as are electronic gaming centres, which generally operate from 5 star hotels.
Vietnam boasts a labour force of almost 60 million workers, growing by over 1 million per annum. 35% of these are generation Y born between 1976 and 1995. Almost 95% of the labour force are literate and over 88%x were enrolled in secondary school, whilst 5% are proficient English and over 10% are considered highly skilled. Of this work force 42% are engaged in the agricultural sector, 35% in the service sector and 23% in industry.
Liquidation of a Vietnamese legal entity is a lengthy and complicated process in which the final tax audit involves a lot of efforts of the dissolving entity. This article is to provide a list of key and common issues, which are frequently challenged by the tax authorities, during a tax audit upon dissolution for the enterprises’ perception and compliance in order to mitigate the risks of additional tax liabilities, penalties and interest on late tax payment.
The Government has just approved a new decree 63/2018/ND-CP which will come into effect in June 2018, governing PPP projects. The expectations are that the new decree which replaces Decree15/2015 ND-CP will have a positive effect on PPP and BOT projects. This will also be a forerunner on a new law on PPP to be submitted to the National Assembly in November 2019 for approval in May 2020.
