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HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam will elevate its efficient tax price utilized to Samsung (KS:) and different multinationals to fifteen% from January as a part of a world tax reform, its legislature selected Wednesday although it delayed measures to offset the upper levy.
New incentives for high-tech buyers are also anticipated to be agreed at a later stage, however the delay has raised issues about future international investments on which the nation is very reliant, consultants mentioned.
The brand new tax regime will come into pressure from Jan. 1, 2024.
“The National Assembly is not issuing a separate resolution on investment incentives at this time,” mentioned Le Quang Manh, head of the meeting’s monetary fee, including that the federal government would work on particular incentives in 2024.
Vietnam’s company earnings tax is already set at 20%, however the nation has supplied for years a lot decrease efficient charges to giant international buyers.
With the brand new price, 122 international firms will face a steep enhance of their tax prices, based on a doc ready by the Vietnamese authorities, which estimated the extra consumption for the state at 14.6 trillion dong ($601 million) a 12 months.
A big portion of the extra tax invoice is predicted to be shouldered by Samsung alone.
Its multi-billion-dollar revenues from its Vietnamese factories are the biggest within the nation, based on one individual concerned within the preparation of the brand new incentives.
The South Korean electronics large, which assembles half of its smartphones in Vietnam, paid as little as 5.1% in tax in 2019 in one of many Vietnamese provinces the place it has operations.
Samsung didn’t reply to Reuters queries on the tax earlier this week.
