{"id":1600,"date":"2025-10-01T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T09:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawpage.vn\/?p=1600"},"modified":"2026-08-06T10:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T10:14:10","slug":"law-on-corporate-income-tax-no-67-2025-qh15-takes-effect-on-october-1-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawpage.vn\/en\/law-on-corporate-income-tax-no-67-2025-qh15-takes-effect-on-october-1-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Law on Corporate Income Tax No. 67\/2025\/QH15 takes effect on October 1, 2025."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>SUMMARY OF ENTERPRISE INCOME TAX\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Chapter I \u2013 General Provisions<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">This chapter includes:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u2022 Defining the scope of regulation of the law: taxpayers, taxable income, tax exempt income, tax bases, tax calculation methods, and corporate income tax incentives.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u2022 Clearly specifying taxpayers, including Vietnamese enterprises, foreign enterprises with or without a permanent establishment in Vietnam, cooperatives, public service units, and other organizations with taxable income.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u2022 Clarifying the concept of a permanent establishment of foreign enterprises (branches, representative offices, factories, agents, digital platforms, etc.).<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u2022 Defining taxable income, other income, and the principle for determining income arising in Vietnam.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u2022 Providing tax exempt income categories (agriculture, science and technology, vocational education, donations, income from state assigned tasks, etc.).<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u2022 Defining the tax period based on the calendar year or fiscal year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\"><strong><em>Article 4. Tax Exempt Income<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\"><em>1. Income from offshore fishing activities; income of enterprises from producing crop products, planted forests, livestock, aquaculture, processing agricultural and aquatic products (including cases of purchasing agricultural and aquatic products for processing) in areas with extremely difficult socio economic conditions; income of cooperatives and unions of cooperatives from producing crop products, planted forests, livestock, aquaculture, processing agricultural and aquatic products (including cases of purchasing agricultural and aquatic products for processing), and salt production.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\"><em>2. Income of cooperatives and unions of cooperatives operating in agriculture, forestry, fishery, and salt production in areas with difficult or extremely difficult socio economic conditions.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\"><em>3. Income from providing technical services directly serving agriculture.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\"><em>4. Income from performing scientific research contracts, technology development and innovation, digital transformation; income from selling products created from new technologies applied for the first time in Vietnam; income from selling products from trial production during the trial production period, including controlled trial production as prescribed by law. Income under this clause is exempt for a maximum of 03 years.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\"><em>5. Income from production and business activities of enterprises where at least 30% of the average number of employees in the year are persons with disabilities, rehabilitated drug addicts, or persons living with HIV\/AIDS, and the enterprise has at least 20 employees on average in the year, excluding enterprises operating in finance or real estate.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\"><em>6. Income from vocational education and training activities exclusively for ethnic minorities, persons with disabilities, children in special circumstances, and social protection beneficiaries.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\"><em>7. Income distributed from capital contribution, share purchase, joint ventures, and associations with domestic enterprises after corporate income tax has been paid under this Law, including cases where the capital recipient, share issuer, or joint venture partner enjoys corporate income tax incentives.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\"><em>8. Donations received for education, culture, arts, charity, humanitarian, and other social activities in Vietnam; donations received from non related enterprises, organizations, and individuals inside and outside Vietnam for scientific research, technology development and innovation, digital transformation; direct support from the state budget and from the Investment Support Fund established by the Government; compensation from the State as prescribed by law. If donations under this clause are used for improper purposes, tax shall be collected retrospectively and penalties imposed.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\"><em>9. Differences arising from revaluation of assets under the law for equitization or restructuring of enterprises wholly owned by the State.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\"><em>10. Income from transferring emission reduction certificates, transferring carbon credits for the first time after issuance by enterprises granted such certificates; income from interest on green bonds; income from transferring green bonds for the first time after issuance.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\"><em>11. Income (including bank deposit interest, government bond interest, treasury bill interest) from performing state assigned tasks in the following cases: a) Income of the Vietnam Development Bank from development investment credit and export credit activities; b) Income of the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies from credit activities for the poor and other policy beneficiaries; c) Income of the Asset Management Company of Vietnamese credit institutions; d) Income from revenue generating activities of state financial funds and other non profit state organizations as prescribed or decided by the Government or the Prime Minister.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\"><em>12. Undistributed income of socialized establishments in education, training, healthcare, and other socialized fields retained for reinvestment meeting the minimum ratio prescribed by the Government; undistributed common funds and shared assets of cooperatives and unions of cooperatives established and operating under the Law on Cooperatives.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\"><em>13. Income from transferring technology in prioritized technology transfer fields to organizations and individuals in areas with extremely difficult socio economic conditions.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\"><em>14. Income of public service units from providing public services, including: a) Basic and essential public services on the list of public services funded by the state budget; b) Public services for which the State must support and ensure operating funds due to insufficient cost recovery in service prices; c) Public services provided in areas with extremely difficult socio economic conditions.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\"><em>15. The Government shall detail this Article.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Chapter II \u2013 Tax Bases and Tax Calculation Methods<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">This chapter includes:<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">\u2022 Tax bases consist of taxable income and tax rates.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">\u2022 Taxable income = Taxable revenue \u2013 (Tax exempt income + Losses carried forward).<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">\u2022 Taxable revenue = Revenue \u2013 Deductible expenses + Other income.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">\u2022 Rules on offsetting losses between business activities, except real estate and mineral activities.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">\u2022 Revenue includes all proceeds from sales and service provision, whether collected or not.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">\u2022 Deductible expenses must meet conditions: related to business operations, supported by valid documents, and not falling under non deductible expense categories.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">\u2022 Tax rates:<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">\u2022 Standard rate: 20%<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">\u2022 Revenue \u2264 3 billion VND: 15%<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">\u2022 Revenue 3\u201350 billion VND: 17%<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">\u2022 Oil and gas: 25\u201350%<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">\u2022 Rare minerals: 40\u201350%<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">\u2022 Tax payable = Taxable income \u00d7 Tax rate.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Chapter III \u2013 Corporate income tax incentives<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">This chapter includes:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">1. Preferential tax rates<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">\u2022 Preferential tax rates of 10%, 15%, and 17% for sectors, industries, or geographical areas that receive special investment encouragement.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">\u2022 Applicable to:<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">&#8211; High tech projects, scientific research, innovation.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">&#8211; Education and training, healthcare, environmental protection.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">&#8211; Projects located in areas with difficult or extremely difficult socio economic conditions.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">&#8211; Production of products on the prioritized list.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">2. Tax exemption and reduction periods<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">\u2022 Tax exemption for 2\u20134 years, followed by a 50% tax reduction for 4\u20139 years, depending on the type of project.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">\u2022 The exemption\/reduction period begins from the first year the enterprise generates taxable income.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">3. Conditions for enjoying incentives<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">\u2022 Projects must meet criteria regarding:<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">\u2022 Investment capital scale.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">\u2022 Technology level.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">\u2022 Investment location.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">\u2022 Labor ratio.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">\u2022 Nature of the industry or sector. \u2022 Enterprises must separately account for income eligible for tax incentives.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">4. Principles for applying incentives<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">\u2022 Tax incentives are not applicable to:<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">\u2022 Real estate transfer activities.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">\u2022 Mineral extraction activities.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">\u2022 Projects that fail to fulfill investment commitments.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">\u2022 If an enterprise has multiple business activities, it must separate income eligible for incentives.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">5. Preventing abuse of incentives<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">\u2022 Tax authorities have the right to inspect and verify eligibility for incentives.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: justify\">\u2022 If the enterprise fails to meet the conditions, tax will be retrospectively collected and penalties imposed.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Chapter\u00a0 IV \u2013 Implementation provision<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">1. This Law takes effect on October 1, 2025, and applies from the 2025 corporate income tax period.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">2. The Corporate Income Tax Law No. 14\/2008\/QH12, as amended and supplemented by Law No. 32\/2013\/QH13, Law No. 71\/2014\/QH13, Law No. 61\/2020\/QH14, Law No. 12\/2022\/QH15, and Law No. 15\/2023\/QH15, ceases to be effective from the effective date of this Law.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUMMARY OF ENTERPRISE INCOME TAX\u00a0 Chapter I \u2013 General Provisions This chapter includes: \u2022 Defining the scope of regulation of the law: taxpayers, taxable income, tax exempt income, tax bases, tax calculation methods, and corporate income tax incentives. \u2022 Clearly specifying taxpayers, including Vietnamese enterprises, foreign enterprises with or without a permanent establishment in Vietnam, [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawpage.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawpage.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawpage.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawpage.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawpage.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawpage.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawpage.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawpage.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawpage.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}