A mouse click away from being registered
VGP – Investors eagerly welcome a new decree on e-registration for business, which will soon be signed by PM Nguyễn Tấn Dũng to replace Decree 88/2006/NĐ-CP.
The
draft decree comprises of 8 chapters or 65 articles with many new features are as
follows:
New
decree allows businesses to apply for business registration certificates online
instead of waiting in lines (the photo is taken at the Hồ Chí Minh City
Department of Planning and Investment - Photo: Tuổi Trẻ)
Online business registration
Investors
soon can apply for business licenses through the internet instead of waiting in
lines at business registration centers.
The
centers will receive applications online, review them then assist investors if
necessary in completing all requirements. The centers will also make e-announcement
of the results to investors.
In
case, investors do not have any electronic signature, business registration
procedures will still be processed and the investors can acquire e-certificates
as proving that their documents have been sent to the registration centers.
One code for both taxation and
business registration
The
draft decree stipulates that each enterprise will be provided a business code
which will expire once the operation is terminated by the enterprise. This code
will not be re-used.
The
code is used for the declaration and payment of all tax types, applied for
enterprises that operate in many fields and different locations.
Nationally unified charges
Currently,
the People’s Councils of different provinces apply different levels of registration
fee for business. With the new decree, the same fee will be applied nationwide.
The
registration fee will not be refunded even when the investors fail to acquire
business registration certificates.
For coincident names of businesses
The
new decree does not force enterprises having the same name registered in line with
Decree 88/2006/NĐ-CP to rename.
The
MPI will list the coincident and confusingly similar names
of all enterprises online and encourage them to negotiate for changing these
names .
One application, one-stop shop
The business registration centers, under the provincial Departments of
Planning and Investment, are the sole destination for receiving applications
and returning results.
In
five centrally-governed cities namely Hà Nội, Hồ Chí Minh City, Hải Phòng, Đà
Nẵng, Cần Thơ, the People’s Committees are allowed to convert their business
registration centers into profit-making organizations.