In 2025, Which Sectors Are Excluded from the Business Survey?
In 2025, which sectors are not subject to corporate investigation?
Based on Section 2 of the Detailed Plan for Corporate Investigation in 2025 issued together with Decision 1706/QD-BKHDT in 2024, the regulations are as follows:
II. SCOPE, SUBJECTS, UNITS OF INVESTIGATION
- Scope of Investigation
The corporate investigation for the year 2025 will be conducted across 63 provinces and centrally-run cities (collectively referred to as provinces, cities) for businesses engaged in production and business activities in all sectors of the Vietnam Economic Sector System (VSIC 2018) except the following 3 sectors:
- Sector O - Activities of the Communist Party, socio-political organizations, state management, national defense, compulsory social security;
- Sector U - Activities of international organizations and agencies;
- Sector T - Employment activities in households, production of goods and services for household consumption.
- Subjects of Investigation
The subjects of investigation are production establishments and businesses engaged in production and business activities within the scope of an economic sector at a specific location (economic sector unit by locality) of all national economic sectors (except sectors O, U, and T in the Vietnam Economic Sector System).
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According to the above regulations, the subjects of the corporate investigation in 2025 are production establishments and businesses that engage in production and business activities within a specific economic sector at a particular location of all national economic sectors, except for sectors O, U, and T in the Vietnam Economic Sector System.
Thus, the sectors not subject to corporate investigation include:
- Sector O - Activities of the Communist Party, socio-political organizations, state management, national defense, compulsory social security
- Sector U - Activities of international organizations and agencies
- Sector T - Employment activities in households, production of goods and services for household consumption
In 2025, which sectors are not subject to corporate investigation? (Image from the Internet)
What rights do businesses have?
Based on Article 7 of the Enterprise Law 2020, the rights of businesses are regulated as follows:
- Freedom to conduct business in industries and trades that the law does not prohibit.
- Autonomous business operations and the choice of business organization form; proactively choosing industries, trades, locales, and business forms; proactively adjusting the scale and industries of business.
- Selection of forms and methods for raising, allocating, and using capital.
- Freedom to seek markets, customers, and enter contracts.
- Rights to export and import business.
- Recruitment, hiring, and use of labor in accordance with labor law regulations.
- Proactively applying science and technology to improve business efficiency and competitiveness; protected intellectual property rights in accordance with the intellectual property law.
- Possession, utilization, and disposal of business assets.
- The right to refuse any demands from agencies, organizations, or individuals for resource supply that are not in accordance with the law.
- Filing appeals, participating in legal proceedings in accordance with the law.
- Other rights as stipulated by the law.
What are the obligations of businesses?
Based on Article 8 of the Enterprise Law 2020, the obligations of businesses are regulated as follows:
- Meeting sufficient investment and business conditions when conducting conditional investment and business sectors; sectors with conditional market access for foreign investors as prescribed by law and ensuring the maintenance of these conditions throughout business operations.
- Fully and promptly fulfilling obligations regarding enterprise registration, registration of changes to enterprise registration information, publicizing information on the establishment and operation of the enterprise, reporting, and other obligations as required by law.
- Being responsible for the honesty and accuracy of information declared in enterprise registration dossiers and reports; promptly correcting and supplementing such information if it is found inaccurate or incomplete.
- Organizing accounting work, paying taxes, and fulfilling other financial obligations as required by law.
- Ensuring the legal and legitimate rights and interests of employees according to the law; not discriminating or insulting the honor and dignity of employees in the enterprise.
- Not mistreating employees, forcing labor or illegally employing minors; supporting and creating favorable conditions for employees to participate in training to improve their professional skills.
- Implementing policies, social insurance benefits, unemployment insurance, health insurance, and other insurance for employees as required by law.
- Other obligations as stipulated by the law.
