Income Tax on Transferring JV Capital to Another Investor
Capital transfer tax is usually remembered last in a joint venture sale, after the price is fixed and the money is ready to move. Yet Vietnamese tax on…
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Valuing Capital Contributions When Exiting a JV: Avoiding Price Disputes
Most joint venture exit disputes do not start over whether a partner may leave, but over a number: what the stake is worth. The staying side sees a…
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Converting a JV into a 100% Vietnamese Company When the Foreign Investor Exits
When a foreign investor exits, the joint venture does not have to die: the Vietnamese partner or another domestic investor can buy out the entire foreign stake and…
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JVs Between Two Foreign Investors in Vietnam: What’s Different?
Two foreign investors forming a company together in Vietnam often assume they are avoiding the complexity of a local joint venture. In reality they trade one kind of…
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Lessons from Failed FDI Joint Ventures in Vietnam: 7 Classic Mistakes
Most FDI joint ventures in Vietnam do not die because the market turned bad; they die of mistakes planted in the negotiation room, years before the conflict surfaces.…
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JV Term Expiry: Extend or Convert to 100% Foreign-Owned?
The operating term printed on the investment registration certificate and in the charter is a countdown clock many joint ventures only look at when a few months remain.…
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Ownership Dilution in JVs: Defenses for Foreign Investors
Dilution rarely arrives as an openly declared decision; it comes through a rushed capital increase, a private placement to a third party, or a convertible loan quietly turning…
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Actual IRC Timelines in Hanoi, HCMC, Bac Ninh and Binh Duong
A seemingly simple question — “how long does an IRC take in province X?” — is the question most likely to receive a misleading answer in investment consulting.…
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Self-Filing an IRC Without Consultants: A 25-Step Checklist
Many smaller investors ask the same question: the IRC dossier looks like a handful of forms, so how hard can self-filing be? The honest answer is that self-filing…
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Hiring IRC Consultants: Scope and Reference Costs
“We handle everything — you just sign.” It is the standard pitch of the investment consulting market. But what “everything” includes, what it excludes, and what a fair…
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