Glossary
IRC
Vietnamese: Giấy chứng nhận đăng ký đầu tư
Investment Registration Certificate: registration of the investment project. It records the investor, the project, its capital, location and schedule. It is not a company and not an operating licence.
Where it comes up
- Setting up a new company in Vietnam: the ordinary procedure (R1)
- Projects requiring Investment Policy Approval in Vietnam (R2)
- Land-based projects: auction, bidding and investor selection (R3)
- The special investment procedure for projects in zones (R4)
- Buying shares in a Vietnamese company without prior approval (R5)
- M&A registration before closing: foreign share acquisitions (R6)
- Acquiring an investment project in Vietnam (R7)
- Investing through a Business Cooperation Contract (R8)
- Investing through an existing Vietnam company with foreign ownership (R9)
- Public-private partnership projects in Vietnam (R10)
- Opening a branch or representative office in Vietnam
- Land and premises for a foreign-invested company in Vietnam
- Capital, foreign exchange and the DICA
- Construction, environmental and fire-safety approvals
- Sector licences: what you need beyond the IRC and ERC
- Tax, accounting and e-invoices from day one
- Personal data, cybersecurity and compliance
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