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THE PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No:
08/2002/QD-TTg
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Hanoi, January 11, 2002
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DECISION
AMENDING AND SUPPLEMENTING A NUMBER OF
ARTICLES OF THE REGULATION ON LAO BAO TRADE ZONE, QUANG TRI PROVINCE, ISSUED
TOGETHER WITH DECISION No. 219/1998/QD-TTg OF NOVEMBER 12, 1998
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the
Government of September 30, 1992;
In order to further create favorable conditions for investment and business
activities in Lao Bao Trade Zone, Quang Tri province;
At the proposals of the Minister of Trade and the President of the People’s Committee of Quang Tri province,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To amend and supplement a number of articles of
the Regulation on Lao Bao Trade Zone, issued together with the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 219/1998/QD-TTg of November 12,
1998, as follows:
1.
Article 19 is amended and supplemented as follows:
"Article 19.-
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2.
Article 21 is amended and supplemented as follows:
"Article 21.-
1. Projects on investment in Lao Bao Trade Zone
by foreign-invested enterprises and foreign parties to business cooperation
contracts shall be exempt from enterprise income tax for a duration of 08 years
after their taxable incomes are generated, and enjoy the enterprise income tax
rate of 10% for the subsequent years.
2. Projects on investment in Lao Bao Trade Zone
by domestic organizations and individuals shall be exempt from enterprise
income tax for a duration of 04 years after their taxable incomes are
generated; enjoy the 50% reduction of the payable enterprise income tax amounts
for 09 subsequent years; and enjoy the enterprise income tax rate of 15% for
the subsequent years."
3.
Article 22 is amended and supplemented as follows:
"Article 22.-
1. Foreign-invested enterprises and foreign
parties to business cooperation contracts, which use their earned profits for
re-investment in Lao Bao Trade Zone for 3 years or more, shall be refunded 100%
of the enterprise income tax amounts already paid on the profits used for
re-investment.
2. Vietnamese enterprises of various economic
sectors, which make investment in production and/or business in Lao Bao Trade
Zone, shall be considered for State credit capital lent by the Development
Assistance Fund under the Government’s
Decree No. 43/1999/ND-CP of June 29, 1999 on the State�s
development investment credits."
4.
Article 23 is amended and supplemented as follows:
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Organizations and individuals engaged in goods
production and/or trading, or services provision, foreign-invested enterprises
and foreign parties to business cooperation contracts operating in Lao Bao
Trade Zone, that, after making final settlement with the tax agency, suffer
from losses, shall be allowed to carry forward such losses to the subsequent
years, and these loss amounts shall be deducted from their taxable incomes. The
loss-carrying duration shall not exceed 05 years."
5.
Article 24 is amended and supplemented as follows:
"Article 24.-
Goods and service relations between Lao Bao
Trade Zone and the country shall be the import-export relations."
6.
Article 25 is amended and supplemented as follows:
"Article 25.-
1. Goods and services produced and consumed in
Lao Bao Trade Zone, and goods and services imported into Lao Bao Trade Zone
from foreign countries shall not be subject to value added tax.
2. Goods and services brought into Lao Bao Trade
Zone from Vietnam’s inland shall enjoy
the value added tax rate of 0%; goods and services brought into Vietnam’s inland from Lao Bao Trade Zone must be subject to
value added tax.
3. Goods and services subject to special
consumption tax, which are produced and consumed in Lao Bao Trade Zone, and
goods and services subject to special consumption tax, which are imported into
Lao Bao Trade Zone from foreign countries, shall not be subject to special
consumption tax.
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7.
Article 26 is amended and supplemented as follows:
"Article 26.-
1. Goods originating from Vietnam’s inland and goods imported into Lao Bao Trade Zone
from foreign countries shall be exempt from import tax.
2. Goods produced, processed, re-cycled and/or
assembled in Lao Bao Trade Zone, when being exported to foreign countries,
shall be exempt from export tax."
8.
Article 27 is amended and supplemented as follows:
"Article 27.-
1. For goods produced, processed, re-cycled
and/or assembled in Lao Bao Trade Zone using raw materials or components
imported from foreign countries, when being imported into Vietnam’s inland, the import tax shall be paid only for
part of imported raw materials or components making up such products or goods.
In cases where raw materials or components imported from foreign countries are
not used for goods imported into Vietnam’s inland, the import tax shall not be
paid.
2. Goods of Lao origin, which are imported into
Vietnam’s inland from Lao Bao Trade
Zone, shall enjoy the import tax reduction according to the provisions of the
Prime Minister’s Decision No.
181/1998/QD-TTg of September 21, 1998 or the agreement reached between the two
governments."
9.
Article 28 is amended and supplemented as follows:
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Organizations and individuals that have projects
on investment in Lao Bao Trade Zone shall be exempt from land rents for the
first 11 years as from the dates the land-lease contracts are signed, and enjoy
the land-rent rate equal to 30% of the rate applicable to mountainous districts
of Quang Tri province as from the 12th year on."
10.
Article 30 is amended and supplemented as follows:
"Article 30.-
Basing itself on the annual State budget revenue
actually collected in Lao Bao Trade Zone, the State shall re-invest in building
infrastructure of Lao Bao Trade Zone at the following levels:
- In cases where the collected State budget
revenue is below VND 50 billion/year, 100% of which shall be re-invested.
- In cases where the collected State budget
revenue reaches VND 50 billion/year or more, VND 50 billion and 50% of the
remainder shall be re-invested."
Article 2.- This Decision takes effect 15 days after its
signing.
Article 3.- The ministers, the heads of the
ministerial-level agencies, the heads of the agencies attached to the
Government and the president of the People’s
Committee of Quang Tri province shall have to implement this Decision.
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PRIME MINISTER
Phan Van Khai