Procedures and application for establishment of business households in Vietnam

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LawNet would like to answer Mr. Minh Anh’s request as follows:

According to Decree No. 78/2015/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, business household owned by an individual, a group of individuals being Vietnamese citizens from 18 years of age or older, have full civil capacity, or owned by a household may only register one business location, employs fewer than 10 employees, and take responsibility for the business operation with all of their property.

The individual, group of individuals, or representative of the household shall submit the application form for business household registration to the business registration authority of the district where the business location is situated, including:

- Application form for registration of a business household;

- Legitimate copies of the unexpired ID cards or passports of individuals in the business household or representative of the household;

- A legitimate copy of the minutes of meeting of the group of individuals on establishment of the business household (in case the business household is established by a group of individuals);

- Authorization document for the person to submit the application and receive the results if not the founding individual or representative of the household establishing the business.

Place of application: The Finance – Planning Department of the People’s Committee of the district where the household business is situated.

Processing duration: Within 03 working days from the receipt of the application for registration of a business household.

If the application is not satisfactory, within 03 working days from the receipt of the application, the business registration authority of the district shall inform the applicant of necessary revisions or supplementation.

After 03 working days from the date of submission of the application for business household registration, if the certificate of business household registration is not issued or no request for revision or supplementation of the application is given, the applicant is entitled to lodge a complaint as prescribed by regulations of law on complaints and denunciation.

Some notes on business location of business household:

- Business households, including those doing nomadic business, must select a fixed location to register the business household. This location may be the permanent or temporary residence, the most frequent business location, or the collecting station.

- Business households doing mobile business are entitled to do business outside the registered location. The registered location and the actual business locations must be notified to the tax authority and market surveillance authority.

Cases in which business household registration is not required:

- Households engaged in agriculture, forestry, aquaculture, salt productions;

- Street vendors, nomadic businesspeople, and service providers earning low revenues.

Le Hai

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