Last Updated：17th Jan 2017 General Nation Social Republic of Vietnam Capital Hanoi ( 7.25 million) Independence day September 2nd  1945 Politics One-party state Army Vietnam’s People Army Currency Vietnam Dong Geography Location Southeast Asia Provinces 5 municipalities and 58 provinces Area 330966.9 km2 Climate Tropical and Monsoon Time zone GMT+7 Demography Population (2016 Feb) 94.1

20-06-2014 The Law on Excise Tax provides for taxable and non-taxable objects, and payers, bases, refund, deduction and reduction of excise tax. CONTENT Chapter 1: General Provisions Chapter 2: Tax bases Chapter 3: Tax refund, deduction and reduction Chapter 4: Implementation provisions Tax rate for alcohol and beer products had some changes from January 1,

Unemployment rate (overall)   Unemployment rate of working-age labor = 2.30%, of which it was 3.18% for the urban area; 1.86% for the rural area.   Unemployment (youth)   Unemployment rate of the youth aged 15-24= 7.34%, of which it was 11.30% for the urban area; 5.74% for the rural area.   Employment rate  

    GRDP in Hanoi 2016   Estimated Gross Regional Domestic Product(GRDP) in Hanoi increased 8.2% from 2016. In 2016, Hanoi investment fund reached 277,950 billions VND (up 10% from 2015), of which government fund increase 15%, FDI fund increase 2.4%, export value in December 2016 reached 928 million USD (up 3% from last month).

Revenue   Total government revenues = 943.3 trillion dongs (93% of annual estimate), of which domestic revenues=744.9 trillion dongs (94.9% of annual estimate); collecting from crude oil= 37.7 trillion dongs (69.2%); from export-import balance = 156.2 trillion dongs (90.8%).   Expenditure   Total government expenditures= 1135.5 trillion dongs (89.2% of annual estimate), of which, spending

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Banking Service Report 2016 Research Description: We conducted survey by using our consumer panel (Bean Survey) to find out Vietnamese consumers behaviour of banking service Topic Customer behavior of retail banking in Vietnam Objective Understand Vietnamese customer behavior in bank usage, customer’s future intention and effective approach to potential customers Sample – 1,323 respondents –

08-06-2014 Circular 111/2013/TT-BTC prescribes the implementation of the law on personal income tax, the law on the amendments to the law on personal income tax, and the governmental decree No 65/2013/ND-CP elaborating a number of articles of the law on personal income tax and the law on the amendments to the law on personal income

18-08-2014 Act on customs 2014, issued by The Socialist Republic of Vietnam prescribes the State management over customs with regard to exported, imported or transited goods, transport means on exit, entry and in transit, of foreign and domestic organizations and individuals; and the organization and operation of the customs service. This Law shall apply to:

12-08-2014 Vietnamese government has issued list of projects that call for FDI till 2020. The list consists of 127 projects focusing mainly on infrastructure. The Decision takes effect from April 29, 2014. The list includes: 1. Infrastructure 1.1  Traffic infrastructure –      Road –      Railway –      Airport –      Sea port 1.2  Energy infrastructure 1.3  Urban infrastructure