Soldiers, Cipher employees shall be paid as for the Soldiers, People’s Police who are entitled to receive a continuing monthly allowance 25/09/2012

On August 28, the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Finance issued Circular No. 99/2012/TTLT-BQP- BTC adjusted monthly allowances for Soldiers, Cipher employees shall be paid as for Soldiers, People’s Police who are receive a continuing monthly allowance.

The Amendment to the Vietnamese Constitution is particularly critical national 18/09/2012

On September 17, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung chaired the thematic session, discussed the draft opinion of the Government of the draft Constitution (as amended).

Proposed Endowment support for judicial expertise office 18/09/2012

In the draft Decree on detailing the implementation of some articles of the Law on judicial assessment was announced people's opinions, the Ministry of Justice has proposed a number of tax incentives and credits for judicial expertise.

Proposed revision of the Law on Personal Income Tax (PIT) to increase the starting point of taxation on personal income from VND 4 million to VND 9 million per month 13/09/2012

While the government proposed to raise its reduction based on family circumstances themselves taxpayers VND 04 million / month to VND 09 million / month; deductions for each dependent from VND 1.6 million / month to VND 3.6 million / month budget, thus the Finance Committee of the National Assembly said that just VND 07 million and VND 2.8 million respectively for the above is reasonable.

Provisions of the sanctioning of administrative violations in the field of management and use of State property 12/09/2012

On September 06, the Government issued Decree No. 66/2012/ND-CP on stipulating the sanctioning of administrative violations in the field of management and use of State property.

Simplify administrative procedures in procurement 12/09/2012

To achieve economic efficiency in procurement, simplifying administrative procedures in procurement is seen as a breakthrough and needed. This not only has implications for the parties in the bidding, but also economic efficiency for business - where in the bidding procedures need quick, simple and convenient.

Disclosure to 02 Laws and 07 Resolutions 18/07/2012

The President's Office on Monday afternoon announced the official ratification of seven new laws and two Resolutions approved during the 3rd session of the 13th National Assembly.

New Directive on complaints and denunciations settlement 24/05/2012

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has issued Directive No. 14/CT-TTg on asking inferior levels to improve the efficiency of complaints and denunciations settlement. He also urged inferior levels to develop database on prolonged and complicated cases and publish them on local websites.

The administrative procedures control at the Ministry of Justice: to simplify more than 60% of the procedures 03/05/2012

Overcoming the difficulties, the administrative procedures control of Ministry of Justice has so far achieved encouraging results, of which the Ministry of Justice has simplified more than 60% of administrative procedures within its scope of management.

Ordinance of legal document unification to take effect from June 1 26/04/2012

Ordinance of legal document unification regulated the merging of legal normative documents issued by the state agencies at central level; the authority and responsibilities of these agencies in the legal document unification; process  and technique of legal document unification to ensure that the legal system is simple, clear, easy to execute and efficient.

Decree 24/2012/ND-CP on gold bar transaction 06/04/2012

Since May 25, using gold bars as a tool of payment will be illegal, according to Decree 24/2012/NĐ-CP which was released by the Prime Minister on April 3.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has signed two documents issued new legislation in the field of administrative reform and non-governmental organizations 22/03/2012

Following the Prime Minister’s Decision No.263/QĐ-TTg on reviewing administrative procedures in 2012, The targeted procedures are related to business registration and operations, customs procedures, taxes, insurance, stock trading, exports, consumption and consumer interests, food safety, investment projects, unemployment insurance, migration, copyrights, and pay television.
The results of this administrative review are expected to be reported to the Government before August 31.

New documents 21/03/2012

Administrative infringements in the field of tourism will get heavy punishments

Shortening the marriage registration time 13/02/2012

Government has issued Decree No. 06/2012/ND-CP amending and supplementing some articles of the Decree on civil status, marriage and family, authentication, in which adding regulations on civil status registration records through the postal system and shortening the marriage registration time. Accordingly, the time of the marriage registration has been shortened from 5 days to 3 days.

Shortening the time of granting legal aid collaborator’s card 09/02/2012

According to Decree No.5/2012/ND-CP amending and supplementing some articles of the Decrees on registration of security transactions, legal aid, lawyers, legal consultancy, the time of granting collaborator’s card  will be 7 days instead of 22 days as currently.

New charge rates of notary fees 06/02/2012

From March 15, 2012, the notary fees will be made as prescribed in joint circular No. 08/2012/TTLT-BTC-BTP issued by the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Justice, replacing circular No.91/2008/TTLT-BTC-BTP dated October17, 2008.

Activity fee for lawyer practice in Vietnam 03/02/2012

According to Circular No.02/2012/TT-BTC of the Ministry of Finance for the collection, remittance, management and use of fees for lawyers operating in Vietnam, since March 1, 2012 the license fee for establishing branches of foreign lawyers' organizations, foreign law firms in Vietnam is 20 million.

New rules for temporary residency in VN 02/02/2012

The Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have jointly issued Joint Circular No. 01/2012/TTLT-BCA-BNG dated on January 3 on new regulations and procedures of temporary residence card (TRC) in Vietnam.

District-level justice sections authenticate bilingual papers and documents 01/02/2012

Government has just issued Decree No. 04/2012/ND-CP on amending and supplementing Clause 1, Article 5 of the Decree No. 79/2007/ND -CP dated May 18, 2007 on the authority and responsibility for the issue of copies from master registers and authentication of copies from originals and authentication of signatures.

Scope of consular certification defined 06/01/2012

The Government issued Decree No 111/2011/ND-CP on December 5 regulating consular certification and legalisation of documents.