What are details of the Form 02/KK-TNCN - Personal Income Tax Declaration Form for the year 2025 in Vietnam?
What are details of the Form 02/KK-TNCN - Personal Income Tax Declaration Form for the year 2025 in Vietnam?
Based on Form 02/KK-TNCN, Appendix 2 issued along with Circular 80/2021/TT-BTC stipulating the personal income tax declaration form:
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Note: Form 02/KK-TNCN - Personal income tax declaration applies to residents and non-residents with income from salaries and wages declaring tax directly with tax authorities.
What are details of the Form 02/KK-TNCN - Personal Income Tax Declaration Form for the year 2025 in Vietnam? (Image from the Internet)
Which income from salary is subject to personal income tax in Vietnam?
Based on Clause 2, Article 3 of the Personal Income Tax Law 2007 (amended by Clause 1, Article 1 of the Amended Personal Income Tax Law 2012):
Article 3. Taxable Income
Taxable personal income includes the following types of income, excluding income exempt from tax specified in Article 4 of this Law:
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- Income from salaries and wages, including:
a) Salaries, wages, and allowances of a salary or wage nature;
b) Allowances, benefits, except for allowances, benefits as per legal regulations regarding preferential treatment for contributors to the revolution; defense and security allowances; toxic and dangerous allowances for occupations or jobs in workplaces with hazardous or dangerous elements; attraction allowances, regional allowances in accordance with legal regulations; sudden hardship allowances, allowances for occupational accidents, diseases, one-time birth or adoption granting, reduced labor capacity allowances, single pension granting, monthly survivor's pensions, and other allowances as per social insurance legal regulations; compensation allowances for layoff, unemployment allowances as per the Labor Code; social protection nature allowances and other allowances and benefits not of a salary or wage nature as regulated by the Government of Vietnam.
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Income from salaries subject to personal income tax includes:
- Salaries, wages, and allowances of a salary or wage nature;
- Allowances, benefits, excluding the following:
+ Allowances, benefits as per legal regulations on preferential treatment for contributors to the revolution;
+ Defense and security allowances;
+ Toxic and dangerous allowances for occupations or jobs in workplaces with hazardous or dangerous elements;
+ Attraction allowances, regional allowances as regulated by law;
+ Sudden hardship allowances, occupational accident and disease allowances, one-time birth or adoption granting, reduced labor capacity allowances, single pension granting, monthly survivor's pensions, and other allowances as per social insurance legal regulations;
+ Layoff compensation allowances, unemployment allowances as per regulation;
+ Social protection nature allowances and other allowances and benefits not of a salary or wage nature as regulated by the Government of Vietnam.
Which income is exempt from personal income tax in Vietnam?
Based on Article 4 of the Personal Income Tax Law 2007 (amended supplemented by Clause 3, Article 2 of the Amendment Law to Tax Laws 2014 and Clause 2, Article 1 of the Amended Personal Income Tax Law 2012), it is stipulated that income exempt from personal income tax includes:
- Income from real estate transfers between husband and wife; biological parents and children; adoptive parents and adopted children; parents-in-law and daughters-in-law; parents-in-law and sons-in-law; paternal and maternal grandparents and grandchildren; siblings.
- Income from transferring ownership of dwelling houses, residential land use rights, and associated assets of individuals in cases where the individual owns only one residential dwelling house or residential land.
- Income from land use right value transferred to individuals by the State.
- Income from inheritance, gifts being real estate between spouses; biological parents and children; adoptive parents and adopted children; parents-in-law and daughters-in-law; parents-in-law and sons-in-law; grandparents and grandchildren; siblings.
- Income of households and individuals directly engaged in agricultural production, forestry, salt production, aquaculture, and fishing that has not been processed into other products or has only undergone rudimentary processing.
- Income from converting agricultural land granted by the State for production purposes.
- Income from interest on deposits at credit institutions, interest from life insurance contracts.
- Income from remittances.
- The portion of night shift wages, overtime wages paid that is higher than daytime wages per legal regulations.
- Pension distributed from the Social Insurance Fund; monthly pension from the voluntary pension fund.
- Income from scholarships, including:
+ Scholarships received from the state budget
+ Scholarships received from domestic and foreign organizations as part of their educational support programs.
- Income from compensation of life and non-life insurance contracts, compensation for occupational accidents, state compensation, and other compensations as prescribed by the law.
- Income received from charitable funds permitted to be established, or recognized by competent state bodies, operating for non-profit humanitarian purposes.
- Income received from foreign aid for humanitarian, charitable purposes in governmental or non-governmental forms approved by competent state bodies.
- Income from salaries, wages of Vietnamese crew members working for foreign shipping companies or Vietnamese shipping companies conducting international transport.
- Income of individual ship owners, individuals with the right to use ships, and individual ship workers from activities providing goods and services directly serving offshore fishing activities.









