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Pursuant to the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, which was amended and supplemented under Resolution No. 51/2001/QH10.
The National Assembly promulgates the Law on Enterprise Income Tax.
CHAPTER I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1.- Governing scope
This Law provides for enterprise income taxpayers, taxable incomes, tax-exempt incomes, tax bases, tax calculation methods, and tax incentives.
Article 2.- Taxpayers
1. Taxpayers are goods and service production and business organizations which have taxable incomes under the provisions of this Law (below referred to as enterprises), including:
a/ Enterprises established under Vietnamese law;
b/ Enterprises established under foreign laws (below referred to as foreign enterprises) with or without Vietnam-based permanent establishments;
c/ Organizations established under the Law on Cooperatives;
d/ Non-business units established under Vietnamese law;
e/ Other organizations engaged in income-generating production and business activities.
2. Enterprises having taxable incomes under Article 3 of this Law shall pay enterprise income tax as follows: