Deadline for and recipients of submission of financial statements for 2024 in Vietnam

Deadline for and recipients of submission of financial statements for 2024 in Vietnam (Internet image)

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1. Deadline for submission of financial statements for 2024 in Vietnam

The deadline for submission of financial statements in Vietnam is specified in Article 109 of Circular 200/2014/TT-BTC as follows:

* For state-owned enterprises

- Deadline for submission of quarterly financial statements:

+ Accounting unit must submit quarter financial statements at the latest 20 days from the end of the quarterly accounting period; It is at the latest 45 days for the parent companies, state-owned general companies;

+ accounting unit affiliated enterprises, state-owned general companies submit quarter financial statements to parent companies, general companies under the time limit set by parent companies, general companies.

- Deadline for submission of annual financial statements:

+ Accounting unit must submit annual financial statements at the latest 30 days from the end of the annual accounting period; It is at the latest 90 days for the parent companies, state-owned general companies;

+ Accounting unit affiliated state-owned general companies submit annual financial statements to parent companies, general companies under the time limit set by parent companies, general companies.

* For other types of enterprises

- Accounting unit being private enterprises and partnership must submit annual financial statements at the latest 30 days from the end of annual accounting period; for other accounting units, the deadline for submission of annual financial statements is within 90 days;

- Subordinate accounting unit affiliated submit annual financial statements to superior accounting unit within the time limit given by the superior accounting units

2. Recipients of financial statements for 2024 in Vietnam

Recipients of financial statements for 2024 in Vietnam are specified in Article 110 of Circular 200/2014/TT-BTC as follows:

- State-owned enterprises in central-affiliated cities and provinces must prepare and submit financial statement to the Service of Finance in central-affiliated cities and provinces. Central state-owned enterprises must submit financial statements to the Ministry of Finance (Department of Corporate Finance).

+ State-owned enterprises such as commercial banks, lottery companies, credit institutions, insurers, securities trading companies must submit financial statements to the Ministry of Finance (Department of Banking and Finance or Administration of Insurance Supervision).

+ Securities trading companies and public companies must submit financial statements to the State Securities Commission and the Stock Exchange.

- Enterprises must submit financial statements to supervisory tax authority in local. State-owned general companies must submit financial statements to the Ministry of Finance (General Department of Taxation).

- Enterprises having superior accounting units must submit financial statements to the superior accounting unit in accordance with the provisions of the superior accounting units.

- Enterprises required for financial audit by law must be audited prior to submission of financial statements in accordance with regulations. The financial statements of enterprises audited must be enclosed with the audit report when being submitted to State management agencies superior enterprises.

- The financial agency to which enterprises have foreign direct investment (FDI) must submit financial statements is the Service of Finance in central-affiliated cities and provinces where the enterprises register their main business office .

- State-owned enterprises owning 100% of the charter capital, in addition to the agencies where enterprises must submit financial statements as defined above, they must also submit financial statements to the agencies, organizations assigned, decentralized to exercise rights of owners under Decree 99/2012/ND-CP and documents amending, supplementing, replacing.

- Enterprises (including domestic enterprises and foreign-invested enterprises ) whose headquarters are in processing and exporting zones, industrial zones, hi-tech zones must also submit annual financial statements to the management board of processing and exporting zones , industrial zones , hi-tech zones if required.

Nguyen Ngoc Que Anh

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