Legal Newsletter | August 2025

Dear Valued Customers and Partners,

Global Vietnam Lawyers would like to introduce you the Legal Newsletter Issue No. 08 of August 2025.

This newsletter will catch you up on the new regulations on granting permits to foreign workers in Vietnam, along with the requirements of the Data Law that enterprises must pay attention to regarding data management and use.
In the article “Small-scale real estate business: Still a legal “grey area”?”, Lawyer Nguyen Thi Hang and Paralegal Le Thi Ngan of GV Lawyers will analyze and clarify the concept of “small-scale real estate business” – the business of many enterprises and families. From there, the authors recommend that specific guidelines should be issued soon on a unified understanding of the conditions for determining an individual doing small-scale real estate business.
In the section “Legal Guidance“, we will keep you updated about the questions on 0% VAT policy for services provided to organizations in duty-free zones, and preferential corporate income tax rates for BOT projects.
The proposal on abolition of foreign investment licensing procedures, along with proposal for enterprises to self-declare and self-pay land use levies is of the notable centerpiece in the section “Good readings for you”.
The last part of the Legal Newsletter is, as usual, the list of selected latest legal documents.