Decree 181/2025/ND-CP, which came into force on July 1, stipulates specific conditions for input value-added tax (VAT) credit, including a requirement that purchases valued at VND 5 million and above must be made via non-cash payment methods.
The new decree, which took effect on July 8, 2025, revises the minimum production volume criteria for enterprises seeking to benefit from preferential import tariffs on automotive components under the preferential tariff program. This policy aims to support domestic vehicle manufacturers and assemblers, particularly those producing environmentally friendly models.
On July 8, 2025, the Ministry of Home Affairs issued Official Dispatch No. 4832/BNV-CTL&BHXH providing guidance on the implementation of the salary regime and position-based allowances for officials, civil servants, and public employees following the reorganization of the administrative apparatus.
On July 7, 2025, Social Insurance Agency of Region XXXIII issued Official Dispatch No. 351/BHXH-QLT providing guidelines on social insurance contribution applicable to household business owners and managers of enterprises who are not salaried
Vietnam will have special and superior mechanisms and policies to encourage the attraction of capital, technologies, modern management methods, high-quality human resources, and infrastructure development to its first International Financial Center.
From the 2025–26 academic year, all public school students, from preschool to high school, will be exempt from tuition fees, according to Resolution 217/2025/QH15.
Decision No. 2353/QĐ-BTC, issued on July 3, 2025, promulgates new administrative procedures in the field of household business under the Ministry of Finance.
The Law Amending and Supplementing a Number of Articles of 11 Laws on Military and National Defense, No. 98/2025/QH15, was passed by the National Assembly on June 27, 2025, and will take effect from July 1, 2025.
The draft decree guiding the Law Revising the Law on Vietnamese Nationality is expected to ease conditions for retaining foreign citizenship in naturalization and citizenship restoration cases.
To ensure legal continuity and clarity in the implementation of international agreements amid ongoing administrative reorganization, the Government has introduced new legal provisions to manage the transition of authority across various levels of state administration.
The Law on amending and supplementing the Law on Advertising 2025 (Law No. 75/2025/QH15), effective from January 1, 2026, clearly defines the categories of content that are not considered advertising.
On June 30, 2025, the Ministry of Finance issued Circular No. 61/2025/TT-BTC amending Clause 1 Article 4 of Circular No. 75/2013/TT-BTC dated June 4, 2013 of the Ministry of Finance detailing lottery business operation.
The Law amending a number of articles of eights laws concerning bidding; investment in the form of public-private partnership; customs; value-added tax; import duty and export duty; investment; public investment; and management and use of public property, is expected to enhance transparency and efficiency in related fields.
On June 18, 2025, the Ministry of Construction issued Official Dispatch No. 5323/BXD-CĐBVN regarding the implementation of Decree No. 119/2024/ND-CP on electronic payment for road traffic.
According to Circular No. 39/2025/TT-BCT, which takes effect on July 1, 2025, centralized promotion programs may apply a maximum promotional value of up to 100%.
his is stipulated in Circular No. 39/2025/TT-BCT of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, prescribing the maximum value limit of goods and services used for sales promotion, issued on June 22, 2025.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on June 17 directs all ministries and provincial-level authorities to ensure seamless and uninterrupted administrative services during the reorganizing of local administrative units and the implementation of the two-tier local government model.
Domestic and foreign e-commerce platform operators will have to deduct and pay taxes on sales from goods and services on behalf of households and individuals conducting business activities on the former’s platforms from July 1.
On June 19, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh approved a master plan for implementing the recommendations accepted by Vietnam during the fourth cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) conducted by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
Ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, and chairpersons of provincial-level People’s Committees have been urged to intensify efforts to ensure the effective implementation of the new two-tier local administration model from July 1, according to Official Dispatch 92/CD-TTg.
By 2060, Ho Chi Minh City will establish itself as a global, civilized, modern, and compassionate city, with a development level comparable to that of major cities worldwide, according to Decision 1125/QD-TTg approving by the Prime Minister on June 11
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