The Covid-19 epidemic has activated the “force majeure” clause in contracts, especially for the purchase and sale of houses formed in the future. So is this considered a force majeure event, and can investors delay or extend the payment schedule? Is the Covid-19 epidemic considered a force majeure event for homebuyers? In order to consider…
Recently, the General Department of Taxation has explained why there is no proposal to reduce personal income tax for employees. Vietnam’s economic situation in the first half of 2021 In the first 6 months of this year, the national PIT collected by the tax sector was estimated at VND 73,027 billion, equaling 67.7% of the…
Article 19 of the IP Guidelines explain how businesses with a dominating market position can impose differing licensing restrictions on transaction counterparties with virtually equivalent conditions without justifiable reasons, resulting in discriminatory treatment. It also describes how to examine this behavior, including the conditions of the transaction counterparties, the licensing agreement’s provisions, and the discriminatory treatment.
Due to the heavy impacts from the Covid-19, the Vietnamese Government is doing its best to give out support for businesses suffering from this pandemic. Specifically, the Ministry of Finance is shortening the procedure for approving a tax and fee support package of about 20,000 billion VND. Furthermore, the banks also committed to reducing interest…
Recently, the “land fever” has re-emerged, causing the sale and transfer of the real estate to increase. However, in society, there has been a situation where the selling of a house contains 2 different prices. This phenomenon, caused by the buyers and the sellers, aims to avoid or reduce the taxes that they have to…
(Vietnam) Most of the workforce in every society is made of workers. The workers are manual laborers and they contribute to the founding of every stone and road in our society. Nonetheless, most of them still experience troubles with salary every month. So what is the right salary to be paid to the workers each…
The Vietnam Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has promulgated the Circular 09/2021/TTBTNMT that changes and amends several guidance to the Vietnam Land Law. This Circular was promulgated in 06/30/2021 and will be in force starting from 09/01/2021. About the required documents New articles in the Circular 09/2021/TT-BTNMT will not require citizens to file the…
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Legal500: Interview with Pham Duy Khuong, Founder and Managing Director of ASL LAW
Founder and Managing Director Pham Duy Khuong explains how leading Vietnamese firm ASL LAW is adapting to clients’ changing needs.
(Vietnam) Projects in the form of public-private partnerships (PPP) are implemented in the form of investment on the basis of contracts between state agencies and financiers to implement, manage, and operate infrastructure projects and provide public services.
The new support package that the Vietnam Ministry of Finance is developing is expected to reduce 50% of the payable tax amount arising from production and business activities in the third and fourth quarters of 2021 for all business households and business individuals in Vietnam. The recent complicated developments of the Covid-19 epidemic, especially in…