Lump-Sum vs Annual Land Rent: Which Suits FDI Companies?
When leasing land from the State, an FDI company must pick one of two rent payment modes: a single lump sum for the whole term, or annual payments.…
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Industrial-Park vs Off-Park Land Leases: Hidden Costs FDI Firms Often Miss
Off-park land rents typically run 20–40% below industrial-park rates, and that single figure is all many investors put into the comparison table. But a manufacturing project does not…
Read article ↗Cross-Guarantees Among Sister Subsidiaries in Vietnam
A bank lending to a newly formed subsidiary often asks for an extra guarantee from a revenue-earning sister company in the same group. Vietnamese law does not prohibit…
Read article ↗Parent-Company Trade Credit to a Vietnamese Subsidiary: Foreign Exchange Risks
Inside a group supply chain, the parent routinely ships goods to its Vietnamese subsidiary on 90–180 day payment terms. Commercially that is ordinary supplier credit; under Vietnam’s foreign-exchange…
Read article ↗Non-Deductible Excess Interest: What FDI Companies Must Watch
Many FDI companies in Vietnam are funded mainly by parent-company loans because the process is fast and internal rates are low. At tax finalization they discover that part…
Read article ↗Multimodal transport licenses: dossier, validity and issuing authority
If your company is preparing an application for an international multimodal transport business license, the most important fact is this: the license is STILL issued – by the…
Read article ↗International multimodal transport: conditions for FDI logistics companies
International multimodal transport is a field where a recent procedural change is widely misreported: Decree 14/2026/ND-CP did not abolish the business conditions or the license under Decree 87/2009/ND-CP…
Read article ↗Investor Changes Under the 2025 Investment Law: Transferee Conditions and Project Splits
A fund wants to acquire 60% of a half-built industrial park project and split the clean, undeveloped land portion into a separate project. The seller asks: is a…
Read article ↗Investment Incentives Under the 2025 Investment Law: New Criteria and How to Maximize Them
A USD 300 million manufacturing project in an economic zone was pitched three stacked incentive packages that sounded irresistible. When the appraisal team tested each layer against the…
Read article ↗Transitional Provisions of the 2025 Investment Law: How Are Ongoing Projects Handled?
On the day the 2025 Investment Law took effect, the general counsel of a group running 14 projects in Vietnam received the board’s question: are IRCs issued under…
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