We had a meeting with our management and other related parties on last week to discuss on how to manage our foreign expatriate in Vietnam appropriately and seeking for what proper directions & decision for moving forward to minimize risks prior to kicking off the payroll payment in Vietnam.
So,we have directions and decision of the management on the working status of all expatriates that they should be hired as the local hire, not secondment to Vietnam. That’s mean the Vietnam Local Contracts should be prepared for them as well.
According to these expatriates sign the labour contract in Vietnam, we understand that they receive their full employment income from Vietnam Company. If this case, their PIT will need to be declared on the same PIT return with other employees of their companies. In such case, the confidentiality couldn’t be strictly maintained because of the consolidating information of all employees’s tax reports in one return is still required to be sent back to HR team for keeping records.
Regarding to the returning of tax report after filling to the Vietnam Tax Authority, please kindly advise to whom the tax report will be sent and how possible if we will need PwC to send back this report to someone that has been assigned as the representative in Vietnam, instead of sending directly to the HR team.
Looking forward to hearing your helpful advice or suggestion soon.