Leave a Vietnamese company idle and the system assumes it is still trading. Penalties pile up year after year, the tax authority is now chasing 290,000 such firms, and owners can be barred from leaving the country.
Vietnamese speakers may begin a negative answer with dạ because the word marks a polite response, not necessarily agreement.
Vietnam's premium gyms once relied on large clubs, rapid expansion and long memberships, but operators are now reassessing every location.
The Viet Media Pro is here. From October our articles split into free and paid tiers, with at least four in-depth pieces a month for Pro members. It all started with a survey.
Wu's Tea's Vietnamese operator landed on Ho Chi Minh City's tax debt list. Here is what these lists are, who gets on them and what happens next.