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Pursuant to Clause 4, Article 9, Circular 39/2014/TT-BTC, for branches using the same invoice form with the Company, if the branch declares VAT separately, they must submit the notification of invoice issuance. On the contrary, if the branch declares VAT at its head office, it is exempted for the notification of invoice issuance.
In case of the branch submits the notification of e-invoice issuance, it must make sure a principle that not creating the identical invoices in the same serial as the e-invoices issued previously (Clause 3, Article 5 of Circular 39/2014/TT-BTC).
In addition, the branch must change the invoice template number when there is any change in one of the criteria on the invoice form issued previously such as mandatory criteria, invoice size,...
If the branch wants to change e-invoices according to the Group's unified form, they must stop using the current e-invoices and cancel them according to Clause 3, Article 11 of Circular 32/2011/TT-BTC and Article 29 of Circular 39/2014/TT-BTC.
Pursuant to Article 6, Circular 32/2011/TT-BTC, signature is a mandatory information of an e-invoice.
In principle, when issuing e-invoice, the enterprises must write all required information, including signature
Accordingly, in an e-invoice, there are two criteria “date of issuing” and “date of signing”, therefore, when issuing e-invoice, the seller has to sign on it. In other words, the date of signing must coincide with the date of issuing e-invoices
Pursuant to this Official Letter, if the company provides freight forwarding and transport services, the description on e-invoices should be “forwarding and transport services” and attaching with the list of quantity of freight forwarder and transport for comparison.
Pursuant to this Official Letter, in case of the foreign contractor receives advance payment of contract before establishing the Executive Office in Vietnam, and the investor has deducted FCT according to the percentage of the advance payment amount, even the Executive Office registered the VAT deduction method, it is not allowed to offset the VAT amount paid on behalf by the investor before the time of issuing the tax registration certificate of Executive Office.
Also, Executive Office is not allowed to deduct other input VAT incurred before the time of tax registration certificate.
Pursuant to Article 9, Circular 219/2013/TT-BTC, export services entitled to 0% VAT must be performed at overseas and must have the service contracts signed directly with the foreign organizations.
Accordingly, if two domestic companies sign a contract with each other to bring machines and equipments abroad for lease, the company that directly signs the lease contract with the foreign party will be entitled to 0% VAT. Another party only signs a contract with a local company, even if those machines and equipments are brought abroad for lease, is not entitled to 0% VAT.
Pursuant to Clause 2.32, Article 4, Circular 96/2015/TT-BTC, enterprises only record charity expenses as deductible expenses if they are used for sponsoring for education, health care, disaster recovery, building gratitude houses, charity houses; sponsoring for scientific research and especially difficult areas.
Conversely, if the charity for other purposes, it will be non-deductible expense.
Pursuant to Point c, Clause 4, Article 2 of the Law on Import and Export Tax No.107/2016/QH13, goods imported from abroad into non-tariff areas are exempt from import tax if it is only used in non-tariff zones.
However, according to the General Department of Vietnam Customs, if EPEs import uniforms for employees, uniforms are used daily, in and out of EPEs frequently, therefore there is not enough evidence to determine whether they are only used in EPEs. Therefore, import tax is not exempted.