Zone-based entity
A company whose project sits in an industrial park, export-processing zone or hi-tech park, with the zone’s board and a sublease from its developer.
Or your service is free.
Founders arrive with a Gulf model in mind: a zone as licensing authority, registrar, sponsor and tax status in one. None of that exists in Vietnam. A zone is a place with a management board and a landlord; the company, the tax rate and the permits follow national law inside and outside the fence. Six questions settle the structure.
Compared on who issues what, where you can sell, premises and exit.
A company whose project sits in an industrial park, export-processing zone or hi-tech park, with the zone’s board and a sublease from its developer.
A nationwide company registered outside any zone, selling across Vietnam from an office in the city.
A presence, not a business: it cannot invoice or earn income.
A foreign holding company owning the Vietnamese company — it changes who owns it, not its tax, customs status or premises.
Answer them in this order. Each can decide the case on its own, and cost comes last.
The output is a family of routes, not a single zone — and a shortlist you can check in writing.
Before you commit to a site, we send a written shortlist of the routes that are actually viable, with the board that would issue the certificate.
Shortlisted: an export-processing enterprise in a northern park, a hi-tech park and a city company in Ho Chi Minh City.
A founder building a payments and lending platform asks whether to wait for the International Financial Centre before forming anything in Vietnam.
Usually a zone-based entity, often an export-processing enterprise.
Usually a city company selling across Vietnam.
Either route: the incentive follows the activity, not the address.
A foreign holding company over a Vietnamese company, zone or city.
A representative office first, where earning income can wait.
A foreign-owned entity needs a Direct Investment Capital Account before charter capital can be paid in, and the window is 90 days from licensing. We prepare the pack, coordinate with your chosen bank, and track the deadline.
Tell us the activity, the customers and the premises you need. We send a written shortlist of the routes that are actually viable, with the board that would issue the certificate.
No obligation. We tell you if it is not the right route.
Sonsoto walked us through the investment registration and the enterprise registration as one sequence, with the capital account planned before we filed. We knew what came next at every step.
We were told which documents needed legalising before we flew in, not after. The file was complete the first time the licensing authority saw it.
The park, the licence and the bank were handled by one team. The capital-account deadline was tracked for us, and we were told what was outstanding while there was still time.
Our parent company’s documents were the hard part. Sonsoto told us exactly what the bank would ask for and in what order, so nothing was missing from the file.
We wanted the central coast, not one of the big cities. Sonsoto compared the routes honestly and set the company up where the operation actually is.
Work permits and residence cards for our first hires were planned with the licence, not bolted on afterwards. One scope, in writing, before anything started.
More clients onboarded, higher payout.
Straight to the account.
More referrals unlocks higher payouts.
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