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Asia Counsel Insights 20 October 2016
1. ASIA COUNSEL INSIGHTS
20 October 2016
Asia Counsel Insights provide an
overview of the key trending legal
and business issues in Vietnam and
how they may impact your business.
Please enjoy your read.
Key Dates
October 20: opening of the 2nd
Session of the XIV National
Assembly of Vietnam
October 30: quarterly CIT return
due
Official Law Firm Partner of the
Vietnam Basketball Association
Banking
Forex activities by credit institutions
Circular 28/2016/TT-NHNN dated 05
October 2016 of the State Bank of
Vietnam (“SBV”) amends a number
of articles of Circular 21/2014/TT-
NHNN on forex activities, conditions
and procedures for consent to
forex activities of credit institutions
by the SBV. Under Circular 28, apart
from basic and other forex
activities listed by law, banks are
permitted to conduct, without
additional approval from the SBV:
forex-related derivative activities
if there have been SBV’s
guidelines on such activities and
banks have previously permitted
to carry out these transactions.
other forex activities if there have
been guidelines on such
activities.
Circular 28 also amend scope of
basic and other forex activities
stipulated under Circular 21.
The amendments will take effect as
of 18 November 2016.
Business
Decree on Business License Fee
Decree No. 139/2016/ND-CP dated 4
October 2016 of the Government has
amended the annual business license
fee. The new fee based on the
charter capital or investment capital
of the business entity is below.
Charter or Investment
Capital (VND)
Fee
(VND)
Above 10 billion 3,000,000
10 billion or less 2,000,000
Branches, representative
offices, business
locations and others
1,000,000
The business license fee applicable to
individuals and household businesses
are lower and based on their revenue.
Business entities that have made a
business license fee filing before 1
January 2017 do not need to submit
any future filing if there is no change to
their capital or revenue, as the case
may be. The business entity will only
need to pay its current annual rate to
the State treasury.
Administration
Registration Fee
On 10 October 2016, the Government
issued Decree No. 140/2016/ND-CP to
replace Decree No. 45/2011/ND-CP (as
amended by Decree No. 23/2013/ND-
CP) on registration fees (akin to stamp
duties) applicable to certain property
registrations (“Decree 140”). New
provisions under Decree 140 are:
Aircrafts used for non-commercial
purpose shall also be subject to
registration fee, which is 1% of the
actual purchase price in the
market.
Assets purchased by a finance
company and then leased back to
the seller shall be exempt from
registration fee. The same applies to
fishing vessels.
Registration fees for cars under nine
seats, aircrafts and yachts shall no
longer be capped at
VND500million.
Decree 140 takes effect as of 1
January 2017.
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experience in working on complex and challenging matters in Vietnam. We are committed to helping clients achieve their business strategies and providing
outstanding legal services.
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2. ASIA COUNSEL INSIGHTS
20 October 2016
Vietnam Fact Box
Vietnam’s GDP increases by
5.93%, while inflation rate
increases 1.81% in the first 9
months of 2016.
South Korea is the largest
source of FDI in the first 9
months of 2016, contributing
US$5.58 billion, accounting for
34% of the total FDI registered
in Vietnam. Singapore and
Japan rank second and third
with 11.2% and 10.3%
respectively. Most investment
are for processing and
machinery manufacturing
(73.9%) and real estate (6.1%).
Source: General Department
of Statistics, Foreign Investment
Department
The issuers must have an escrow
at the custodian bank equal to
50% of the value of the warrants to
be issued or a guarantee by the
custodian bank for the same
amount.
The issuers must obtain a
certificate of issue of warrants
from the SSC before offering to sell
warrants. Allotment of warrants to
investors must be completed
within 15 days of issue of such
certificate. Payment for purchase
of warrants must be paid into an
escrow account and only
released to the issuer when the
SSC confirms the allotment results.
There is no foreign ownership on
the holding of warrants. However,
foreign ownership of the warrants
applies on the conversion of the
warrants into the underlying
securities. The issuer will need to
make mandatory cash payment
to the foreign holder of the
warrants if there is no foreign room
on conversion.
Margin trading is not allowed for
warrants.
Circular 107 shall take effect from 1
January 2017.
Securities
Covered Warrants
The Ministry of Finance issued Circular
No. 107/2016/TT-BTC dated 29 June
2016 guiding, for the first time, offers for
sale and transactions of covered
warrants. The key provisions are below.
Underlying securities of the covered
warrants must meet specific
requirements on market
capitalization, liquidity and other
criteria set by the State Securities
Commission (“SSC”).
Covered warrants must be listed
and traded on a Vietnam securities
exchange.
The relevant securities exchange will
publish a list of securities qualified to
be underlying securities for issue of
warrants on a quarterly basis and
shall announce which securities are
no longer qualified within 24 hours of
a decision to remove such securities
from the list.
Warrants are traded via the normal
securities trading accounts opened
at a licensed securities broker.
Issuers are not permitted to trade
warrants that uses the issuer’s
securities as the underlying securities
for the warrants.
Business
Standards Assessment Services
Decree 107/2016/ND-CP issued by the Government on 1 July 2016 regulates
conditions on standards assessment services. Standard assessment services include
(i) testing, accreditation, inspection and certification with respect to the conformity
of a product, manufacture or service provision process or environment to
applicable standards or technical regulations, and (ii) recognition of standards
assessment organizations. Standards assessment organizations must satisfy specific
regulatory requirements on management system, operation capacity and human
resources to obtain an operation registration certificate from the line ministry for
provision of the above services. The validity term of the operation registration
certificates shall not exceed 5 years from the date of issue.
This Decree took effect as of 1 July 2016.
Tax
Transfer Pricing
The Ministry of Finance has
introduced a draft Decree on
management of transfer price of
affiliated transactions, anti-
avoidance and prevention of
loss to the State budget for
public comments.
The draft governs a broader
scope of transactions between
affiliated parties (affiliated
transactions), which additionally
covers borrowing transactions,
transactions of tangible and
intangible assets and
cooperation arrangements for
resource and cost sharing.
The draft also changes the
definition of “affiliated parties”.
Two entities are considered
affiliated parties if (i) either of
them owns 25% or more interest
of the other party, (i) both of
them have at least 25% interest
owned by a third party or have
at least 25% interest each in a
third party. This ratio under the
current regulations is 20%.