Who owns the company
The holding company, not the founders personally, owns the Vietnamese company.
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There is no Vietnamese offshore registry. What advisers call the offshore structure is a foreign holding company owning the Vietnamese company: it changes who owns the company and where dividends go, and nothing about its tax, customs status or premises.
Ownership and the route profit takes out of Vietnam change. The Vietnamese company’s tax, customs status and premises do not.
The holding company, not the founders personally, owns the Vietnamese company.
Profit leaves Vietnam for the holding company through the direct investment capital account, once the year is audited and finalised.
The Vietnamese company’s tax, customs status and premises are the same whoever owns it.
A holding layer is an ownership decision across more than one country, taken with the group’s tax and legal advisers.
A holding company sits above the Vietnamese company. These are the points that decide whether it helps.
Indicative sequence shown. The Vietnamese company is set up the same way whoever owns it.
A group that already owns companies in other countries.
Founders who want ownership held above the Vietnamese company.
One owner for companies in Vietnam and other countries.
A group whose brand or technology is owned outside Vietnam.
Founders planning for investors above the Vietnamese company.
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 who owns the business today, where the group sits and what the Vietnamese company will do. We set out how the Vietnamese company is registered under a holding company and what to take advice on first.
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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.
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