Vietnam: What is the Gregorian date for 12th day of the 12th lunar month of 2025? What holidays are in the 12th lunar month?
What is the Gregorian date for 12th day of the 12th lunar month of 2025?
Based on the Perpetual Calendar for January 2025 as follows:
Thus, December 12 falls on Saturday, January 11, 2025 (corresponding to the lunar date of December 12, 2024 being January 11, 2025, in the Gregorian calendar).
In this December, there are the following holidays:
(1) Full Moon of the Twelfth Month
For the Vietnamese, the Twelfth Month is an important month of the year, as everyone looks forward to the reunion of Tet with family. People are in a hurry, striving to complete the year's plans so that when the New Year arrives, they can look back on their achievements.
The worship ritual on the Full Moon of the Twelfth Month is considered a year-end summary. It symbolizes wishing for luck and peace, remembrance of ancestors, and gratitude to deities. Therefore, this ritual is carefully and thoroughly prepared.
(2) December 23
The ancient Vietnamese believed that after the Jade Emperor listened to the Kitchen Gods' reports, He would decide to reward or punish the household.
Hence, on December 23 every year, before the Kitchen Gods ascend to heaven, Vietnamese people conduct a ritual to worship the God of the Household and the Kitchen Gods.
This is done to express gratitude to the Kitchen Gods and ask them to "speak well" for the family for wealth and peace in the coming year.
Thus, December 23 is called the day the Household and Kitchen Gods return to heaven. December 23, 2025, will fall in the middle of the week, so families can prepare meticulous offerings to bid farewell to the Household and Kitchen Gods. The time for the Kitchen Gods' ritual can start from the 21st in the lunar calendar and must finish before the Noon hour (from 11 AM to 1 PM) on December 23 each year as this is the time when deities gather before returning to heaven.
(3) December 29
The 30th of the Twelfth Month every year marks the end of the old year, a tradition deeply ingrained in Vietnamese consciousness. However, this year there is no 30th of the Twelfth Month; from 2025 onwards until 2032, there is only the 29th of the Tet holiday.
Therefore, the 29th of the Twelfth Month could be considered the New Year's Eve of 2025 since there is no 30th.
Note: The information is for reference only
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Are Vietnamese tax officials entitled to a day off on December 29?
Recently, the Office of the Government of Vietnam issued Official Dispatch 8726/VPCP-KGVX of 2024 conveying the directives of the Prime Minister on the Lunar New Year holidays and other holiday occasions in 2025.
The Prime Minister agreed with the proposal from the Ministry of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs regarding the Lunar New Year holidays for officials, civil servants, and public employees as follows:
- For the Lunar New Year of 2025, officials and public employees will have a continuous break of 9 days, including 5 days of New Year holidays and 4 weekends.
- Specifically, officials, public employees, and workers will have 5 days off for the Lunar New Year, from Monday, January 27, 2025, to the end of Friday, January 31, 2025 (equivalent to December 28 of the Year of the Dragon to the 3rd of January in the Year of the Snake).
- However, since in 2025, all 5 days of the Lunar New Year holidays fall on weekdays, workers will get an additional 2 weekend days off before and 2 days off after the New Year holiday.
- Organizations and units must arrange appropriate staffing and operations schedules to ensure continuous work and excellent public service, ensuring that officials are on duty to handle unexpected or urgent matters that may arise during the holidays, according to regulations.
- Ministries, agencies, and localities should have specific and suitable plans and measures to encourage units, businesses, organizations, and individuals to actively and proactively implement production, business, economic, and social activities, ensuring the stability of supply and demand, services, prices, markets, contributing to boosting production, business, economic growth, practicing thrift, preventing waste, striving for success in achieving the goals and tasks of the 2025 plan, and laying a solid foundation for rapid and sustainable development in the future.
Therefore, the Tet lunar holiday for Vietnamese tax officials, civil servants, and employees could be a continuous 9-day holiday starting from January 25 - February 2, 2025 (from December 26 to the end of the 5th of January).
Thus, Vietnamese tax officials will be off for the Lunar New Year 2025 on December 29.
If the tax submission deadline falls on a holiday, what is the regulation?
Based on Article 86 of Circular 80/2021/TT-BTC, which regulates tax submission deadlines as follows:
Tax declaration and submission deadlines
Tax declaration submission deadlines are implemented according to Clause 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Article 44 of the Tax Administration Law and Article 10 of Decree No. 126/2020/ND-CP. Tax payment deadlines are implemented according to Clause 1, 2, 3 Article 55 of the Tax Administration Law and Article 18 of Decree No. 126/2020/ND-CP. In cases where the tax declaration submission deadline and tax payment deadline coincide with a holiday, the deadline is considered the next working day following the holiday according to the Civil Code.
Thus, according to the above regulation, if the tax declaration submission deadline or tax payment deadline coincides with a designated holiday, the deadline is calculated as the next working day following the holiday.
