Chapter I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article l. - Scope of regulation
This Decree details a number of articles of the Law on Personal Income Tax and provisions on personal income tax registration, declaration and finanlization under the Law on Personal Income Tax.
Article 2. - Taxpayers
1. Personal income taxpayers include resident and non-resident individuals who earn taxable incomes specified in Article 3 of the Law on personal Income Tax and Article 3 of this Decree. Taxable incomes of taxpayers are determined as follows:
a/ For resident individuals, their taxable incomes are incomes earned inside and outside the Vietnamese territory, regardless of when their incomes are paid;
b/ For non-resident individuals, their taxable incomes are incomes earned in Vietnam, regardless of where their incomes are paid.
2. A resident individual means a person who satisfies any of the following conditions:
a/ Being present in Vietnam for 183 days or more in a calendar year or 12 consecutive months counting from the first date of his/her presence in Vietnam;
Individuals present in Vietnam under this Point means those whose
Presence is in the Vietnamese territory.
b/ Having a place of habitual residence in Vietnam in either of the following two cases:
- Having a registered place of permanent residence under the law on residence;
- Having a rented house for dwelling in Vietnam under the law on housing, under a rent contract with a term of 90 days or more in a tax year.
3. A non-resident individual means a person who does not satisfy any of the conditions specified in Clause 2 of this Article.
Article 3. - Taxable incomes
Taxable incomes of individuals include the following kinds of income:
1. Incomes from production or business activities, including:
a/ Incomes from goods production or trading or service provision under law. Particularly for incomes from agricultural production, forestry, salt-making, aquaculture and fishing activities, personal income tax will only be imposed on individuals who do not fully satisfy the conditions for tax exemption specified in Clause 5, Article 4 of this Decree;
b/ Incomes from independent professional activities of individuals possessing practice licenses or certificates under law.
2. Salaries or wages receivable by employees from their employers, including:
a/ Salaries, wages and amount of similar nature receivable in monetary or non monetary forms;
b/ Allowances and subsidies, except those paid under the law on preferential treatment of persons with meritorious services; defense or security allowances; hazard or danger allowances for persons working in branches, occupations or jobs at places where exist hazardous or dangerous elements; allowances for attraction of laborers to work in certain branches or in certain regions specified by law; allowances for sudden difficulties , allowances for laborers suffering from labor accidents or occupational diseases; lump-sum maternity or child adoption allowances; allowances for working capacity loss, lump-sum retirement allowances, monthly survivorship allowances, severance and job loss allowances specified in the Labor Code, other allowances paid by Social Insurance, and allowances for combat of social evils;
Allowances and subsidies not accounted as taxable incomes specified at this Point must be prescribed by competent state agencies.
c/ Remunerations receivable as brokerage commissions, payments for participation in schemes or projects, royalties, and other remunerations;
d/ Sums of money eared from participation in business associations, boards of directors, control boards, management boards, associations, professional societies and other organizations;
e/ Other monetary or non-monetary benefits other than salaries and wages paid by employers to or on behalf of taxpayers in any form:
- House rents, charges for electricity, water and associated services (if any);
- Insurance for employees which employers are not obliged to purchase under law;
Membership fees and charges for other services such as healthcare entertainment, sports, recreation, beauty care, which are provided for individuals upon their request;
- Other benefits provided for by law.
f/ Monetary or non-monetary bonuses or rewards in any form, including also bonus securities, except for the following bonuses or rewards:
- Rewards accompanying honorary titles conferred by the State, including also those accompanying emulation titles and other commendation and reward forms under the law on emulation and commendation;
Rewards accompanying international or national prizes recognized by the Vietnamese State;
- Rewards for technical renovations, innovations or inventions recognized by competent state agencies;
- Rewards for detection of and reporting on illegal acts to competent state agencies.
3. Incomes from capital investment, including.
a/ Loan interests;
b/ Share dividends;
c/ Incomes from capital investment in other forms, including also capital contributions in kind, reputation, land use rights, creations or inventions; except for government bond interests.
4. Incomes from capital transfer, including:
a/ Incomes from transfer of capital holdings in economic organizations;
b/ Incomes from transfer of securities;
c/ Incomes from transfer of capital in other forms.
5. Incomes from transfer of real estate, including:
a/ Incomes from transfer of rights to use land and assets attached to land;
b/ Incomes from transfer of the right to own or use residential houses;
c/ Incomes from transfer of the right to lease land or water surface;
d/ Other incomes earned from transfer of real estate.
6. Incomes from won prizes in cash or in kind, including:
a/ Lottery winnings;
b/ Sales promotion winnings in all forms;
c/ Betting or casino winnings;
d/ Winning in prized games and contests and other forms of winning.
7. Incomes from copyright, including:
a/ Incomes from assignment or licensing of intellectual property objects: copyright and related rights; industrial property rights; rights to plant varieties;
b/ Incomes from technology transfer: technical know-how, technical knowledge, solutions to production rationalization and technological renewal.
8. Incomes from commercial franchising under the Commercial Law.
9. Incomes from inheritances that are securities, capital holdings in economic organizations or business establishments, real estate and other assets subject to ownership or use registration.
10. Incomes from gins that are Securities, capital holdings in economic organizations or business establishments, real estate and other assets subject to ownership or use registration.
Article 4. - Tax-exempt incomes
1. Incomes from transfer or real estate between spouses; parents and their children; adoptive parents and their adopted children; fathers-in-law or mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law or sons-in-law; grandparents and their grandchildren; or among blood siblings.
2. Incomes from transfer of residential houses, rights to use residential land and assets attached to residential land received by individuals who have only one residential house or land plot each.
3. Incomes from the value of land use rights of individuals who are allocated land by the State without having to pay land use levy or with reduced land use levy under law.
4. Incomes from receipt of inheritances or gifts that are real estate between spouses, parents and their children; adoptive parents and their adopted children; fathers-in-law or mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law or sons-in-law; grandparents and their grandchildren; or among blood siblings.
5. Incomes of households and individuals directly engaged in agricultural or forest production, salt making, aquaculture, fishing and trading of aquatic resources not yet processed into other products or preliminarily processed aquatic products.
Households and individuals directly engaged in production activities specified in this Clause must satisfy the following conditions:
a/ Having lawful land or water surface use rights for production, and being directly engaged in agricultural or forest production, salt making or aquaculture. For fishing activities, they must have the right to own or use ships, boats and fishing gears and be directly engaged in these activities;
b/ They actually reside in localities where agricultural or forest production, salt making or aquaculture activities are conducted under the law on residence.
6. Incomes from conversion of agricultural land allocated by the State to households and individuals for production.
7. Incomes from interests on deposits at banks or credit institutions or interests from life insurance policies.
8. Incomes from foreign exchange remittances.
9. Salary or wage amounts paid for night shift or overtime work, which are higher than those paid for day shifts or prescribed working hours under law.
10. Retirement pensions paid by Social Insurance under the Law on Social Insurance. Individuals residing in Vietnam are eligible for exemption from personal income tax on pensions paid by foreign countries.
11. Incomes from scholarships, including:
a/ Scholarships granted from the state budget;
b/ Scholarships granted by domestic and foreign organizations under their study promotion programs.
12. Incomes from indemnities paid under life insurance policies, non-life insurance policies, compensations for labor accidents, compensations paid by the State and other compensations as provided for by law.
13. Incomes received from charity funds licensed or recognized by competent state agencies and operating for charity, humanitarian or non-profit purposes.
14. Incomes received from governmental or non-governmental foreign aid for charity or humanitarian purposes approved by competent state agencies.
The Finance Ministry shall specify procedures and dossiers for identification of tax-exempt incomes stated in this Article.
Article 5. - Tax reduction
1. Taxpayers who face difficulties caused by natural disasters, fires, accidents or severe diseases and affecting their tax payment ability may be considered for tax reduction corresponding to the extent of damage they suffer from but not exceeding payable tax amounts.
2. The Finance Ministry shall specify procedures and dossiers for and consideration of personal income tax reduction mentioned in this Article.
Tìm kiếm
Nghị định 100/2008/NĐ-CP (Bản Word)