Ready to grow your business in Vietnam?
Practical guides on entering, hiring, and operating in Vietnam.
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Vietnam grants trademark rights to whoever files first. Why your company name protects nothing, what the examination timeline really looks like, Madrid versus a national filing, and the Vietnamese-language risks foreign brands miss.
Read the articleImport, export, wholesale or retail in Vietnam? Our 2026 playbook covers the licenses foreign traders need, in what order, and the common delays.
The registrations that start counting from the first contract date, the insurance base that decides the real cost, the documents that make an employment defensible, and the separate track for foreign hires.
Vietnam's chip and electronics build-out is creating supplier openings from cleanroom services to precision parts. Here is where foreign firms fit in.
Control is not the shareholding split. It is the reserved-matters list, the legal representative, what happens when a partner cannot fund, and whether the exit mechanism actually works.
Why the capital account is not your operating account, contributing on the registered schedule, capital increase versus shareholder loan, paying suppliers abroad, and what actually blocks a profit remittance.
EOR or your own entity? We compare costs, timelines and compliance for hiring remote teams in Vietnam in 2026, with real budget numbers.
Vietnam's Personal Data Protection Law took effect in 2026. Our practical checklist shows foreign companies what to fix first - and what can wait.
Before the forms: business line classification, ownership caps, capital, registered address, legal representative, work permits, licences, the capital account, and whether you need an entity at all.
What the model actually does, the substance test that decides classification, where it genuinely fits, what goes wrong when it does not, and the questions to ask a provider.
Where the real levers are - deductibility, incentives, loss carry-forward, related-party substance, treaty relief and funding structure - and the patterns that reliably attract an audit.
Tax is roughly a third of it. The full map across five domains - tax, accounting, labour, insurance and licence maintenance - and the steps that quietly add new obligations as you grow.
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