Sell across Vietnam
Invoice customers anywhere in the country, without the import formalities an export-processing enterprise faces on every domestic sale.
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Vietnam has no mainland licence in the Gulf sense: a company registered in a city, outside any zone, is a nationwide company under national law. Full foreign ownership is the default nationwide, subject to the market-access conditions. This is how to tell whether a city company fits you.
A national company that can sell across Vietnam, with an office you lease in the city rather than a site you rent from a zone.
Invoice customers anywhere in the country, without the import formalities an export-processing enterprise faces on every domestic sale.
The default nationwide, subject to the market-access conditions and the conditional-business list — the same list inside and outside every zone.
The registered address is an office you lease in the city, not land or a factory rented from a zone developer. Until you lease your own, a virtual office in a commercial building can serve as that address.
The enterprise registration is national and only the project is registered locally, so the company survives a later move.
A city company is the default route for selling in Vietnam. The conditions that decide it are the same national ones every foreign investor meets.
Indicative sequence shown. Conditional sectors can add approvals before registration.
Sell consulting, software or professional services to customers in Vietnam.
Import and sell across Vietnam from a city base.
A Vietnamese company for a group’s local clients and staff.
A small team in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi or Da Nang.
Shops, studios or clinics with premises in the city.
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 city. We check the market-access conditions and set out the route, the premises and the order of the filings.
No obligation. We tell you if it is not the right route.
Business banking
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Corporate tax
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Renewals & filings
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Visas & work permits
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Best for production and export, inside an industrial park, export-processing zone or hi-tech park.
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Best for selling across Vietnam: a nationwide company registered in a city, outside any zone.
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Best for group ownership: a foreign holding company that owns the Vietnamese company.
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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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