In order to innovate legal support activities for businesses, listen, grasp, identify legal problems, create a favorable environment for investment, production and business of businesses, on October 9, 2024, the Central Council for Coordinating the Dissemination and Education of Law organized the 2024 "Business and Law" Forum.

This is the second time the Forum has been organized, as an activity under the Inter-sectoral Legal Support Program for Small and Medium Enterprises for the period 2021 - 2025, contributing to the effective implementation of the Project "Organizing policy communication with great impact on society in the process of building legal documents for the period 2022 - 2027".

The theme of this year’s Forum is: “Joining hands to remove difficulties and legal obstacles, creating a favorable investment and business environment for enterprises”. The content focuses on discussing two major issues:

Legal problems in procedures for investment projects using land and solutions. In particular, identifying shortcomings due to conflicts and incompatibilities between legal documents in construction investment activities and problems in regulations and implementation.

Legal problems in tax and solutions. In addition, difficulties in VAT refunds also need to be amended and supplemented with regulations on procedures for VAT refunds to ensure policy transparency, ensure VAT refunds according to risk management principles, and timely tax refunds for businesses within the time limit prescribed by tax administration laws.

Corporate income tax also needs to be amended in the context of enterprises tending to do business in many industries and fields, at the same time with the requirements for reforming administrative procedures and creating favorable conditions for enterprises, the regulation that enterprises must declare and pay separate taxes on profits from real estate transfers is showing limitations and inadequacies that need to be adjusted accordingly.

At the regular press conference for the third quarter of 2024 held by the Ministry of Justice in October, Mr. Le Ve Quoc, Director of the Department of Education and Law Dissemination, expressed: The forum is an opportunity for ministries and branches to listen to feedback from the business community, promptly grasp and identify legal problems, difficulties and obstacles in the implementation process, thereby proposing solutions to remove them, creating a favorable environment for investment, production and business of enterprises.

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Mr. Le Ve Quoc, Director of the Department of Education and Law Dissemination.

The forum will be held at the International Conference Center, 11 Le Hong Phong, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi City, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long - Chairman of the Central Council for Coordinating the Dissemination and Education of Law.

Attending the forum in Hanoi were about 450 delegates representing agencies of the Party, National Assembly, Government, ministries, sectors, especially delegates from the business community.

The forum is organized in both live and online formats with 63 connecting points of provinces and centrally-run cities. This is also a practical event in response to Vietnam Entrepreneurs Day (October 13, 2024) and Vietnam Law Day (November 9, 2024).

The “Business and Law” Forum is an important annual event, a bridge between state management agencies and the business community. The forum focuses on discussing and analyzing outstanding legal issues, difficulties and obstacles that businesses encounter in the process of production and business activities, thereby contributing to removing difficulties, perfecting the legal framework, creating a favorable, transparent and equal investment and business environment, promoting the socio-economic development of the country.

The forum gathered the participation of Government leaders, representatives of ministries, departments, branches, legal experts, and a large number of domestic and foreign business communities. This is an opportunity for all parties to exchange, dialogue, share views and propose solutions to improve the effectiveness of law enforcement, protect the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises, and contribute to building a socialist rule-of-law state in Vietnam.

The "Business and Law" Forum was organized by the Ministry of Justice for the first time in 2022 with the theme "Identifying and removing legal obstacles, supporting businesses to recover and develop".