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PROMOTION CONFERENCE CALLING FOR PROMOTION CONFERENCE CALLING FOR INVESTMENT INTOINVESTMENT INTO

PART 1PART 1

PART 2PART 2

INCENTIVE POLICIES ON INVESTMENTINCENTIVE POLICIES ON INVESTMENT

PROJECTS CALLING FOR INVESTMENTPROJECTS CALLING FOR INVESTMENT

HCMC, May 9,2006

PEOPLE’S COMMITTEE OF KIEN GIANG PROVINCE PEOPLE’S COMMITTEE OF KIEN GIANG PROVINCE

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INTRODUCTION :INTRODUCTION :

PEOPLE’S COMMITTEE OF KIEN GIANG PROVINCE PEOPLE’S COMMITTEE OF KIEN GIANG PROVINCE

INCENTIVE POLICIES ON INVESTMENT AND PROJECTS CALLING FOR INVESTMENT INTO

PRIME MINISTER

Decision no 178/2004/QĐ-TTg date October 5 ,2004

Decision no229/2005/QÑ-TTg date November 16,2005

Decision no 1197/QÑ-TTg date November 9,2005

Decision no14/QÑ-TTg date January 4,2006

Decision no 38/2006/QÑ-TTg date February 14,2006

THE DECISIONS OF PRIME MINISTER ABOUT THE THE DECISIONS OF PRIME MINISTER ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF PHU QUOC ISLANDDEVELOPMENT OF PHU QUOC ISLAND

(From November 5, 2004 to now)

178/2004/QĐ-TTg date October 5 ,2004

178/2004/QĐ-TTg date October 5 ,2004

229/2005/QÑ-TTg date November 16,2005

229/2005/QÑ-TTg date November 16,2005

38/2006/QÑ-TTg date February 14,2006

38/2006/QÑ-TTg date February 14,2006

PART 1

PART 2

PART 3

PREFERENTIAL PREFERENTIAL POLICIESPOLICIES

THE REGULATION ON THE REGULATION ON FOREIGNERS ENTRY FOREIGNERS ENTRY

INTO, EXIT FROM INTO, EXIT FROM AND RESIDENCE INAND RESIDENCE IN

ENCOURAGING ENCOURAGING POLICIES ON POLICIES ON INVESTMENTINVESTMENT

THE DECISIONS OF PRIME MINISTER ABOUT THE THE DECISIONS OF PRIME MINISTER ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF PHU QUOC ISLANDDEVELOPMENT OF PHU QUOC ISLAND

(From November 5, 2004 to now)

PART 1

The Decision no. 178/2004/QD-TTg dated October 5, 2004 of the Prime Minister, the content of this Decision is to determine the target of the overall scheme on development of Phu Quoc Island, Kien Giang province till 2010 with a vision toward 2020. At article 7, the Prime Minister permitted Phu Quoc to apply the highest preferential mechanisms and policies promulgated by the Vietnamese State. In the other words, any places in the territory of Vietnam is permitted to apply the highest preferential mechanisms and policies promulgated by the Vietnamese State, Phu Quoc island of Kien Giang province shall be applied the same preference.

PREFERENTIAL POLICIESPREFERENTIAL POLICIES

PART 2

the Decision no. 229/2005/QD-TTg dated September 16, 2005 of the Governmental Prime Minister, the main content of this Decision is that the Prime Minister promulgated the regulation on foreigners entry into, exit from, and residence in, Phu Quoc Island, Kien Giang province.

Foreigners and Vietnamese holding foreign passports, entering, exiting from, and residing in, Phu Quoc Island, for a stay period not exceeding 15 days shall be exempt from visas; foreigners who enter an other international border-gate of Vietnam and stay in its transit lounge before traveling to Phu Quoc island shall also be exempt from visas. For instance, foreigners who enter Phu Quoc Island from Bangkok or Phnom Penh can transit in Tan Son Nhat International Airport, Ho Chi Minh City shall also be exempt from visas and can stay in Phu Quoc not exceeding 15 days.

Crew members holding valid foreign crew member's books or crew member's passport may enter, exit from, and reside in, Phu Quoc island during the period when their ships anchor at Phu Quoc island.

THE REGULATION ON FOREIGNERS THE REGULATION ON FOREIGNERS ENTRY INTO, EXIT FROM AND ENTRY INTO, EXIT FROM AND

RESIDENCE INRESIDENCE IN

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I. POLICY ON LAND II. POLICY ON TAX III. POLICY ON NON-CUSTOM AREA IV. POLICY ON BUSINESS

REGISTRATION AND ISSUING THE INVESTMENT LICENCE

PART 3

The Decision no. 38/2006/QD-TTg on February 14, 2006 of the Prime Minister, the main content of this Decision consists of 2 parts:

Statute for organization and operation of Phu Quoc Island Development Investment Management Board.

Preferential and encouraging policies for investment into Phu Quoc Island

ENCOURAGING POLICIES ON ENCOURAGING POLICIES ON INVESTMENTINVESTMENT

1. Domestic and foreign investors have operations on tourism, services, production, business of commodities or invest on infrastructure works in Phu Quoc Island have the rights:

1.a Foreign investors have the rights:

To transfer the renting land use right and property attached to land during the term of land lease or land sub-lease; to mortgage, guarantee, and contribute capital by the renting land use right in case of the total rental land is paid once;

To land lease, land sub-lease for land with construction of technical infrastructure composition of the enterprises for investment, construction and business on composition of infrastructure;

Foreigners permanently residing in Vietnam and foreign investors are entitled to purchase dwelling-house and lease resident land for long-term in Phu Quoc Island.

I. POLICY ON LAND


1.b 1.b Domestic investors Domestic investors have the rights:have the rights:- To transfer land use right, land lease, land

sub-lease for land with construction of technical infrastructure composition;

- To mortgage, guarantee and contribute capital by the value of land use right and property attached on land during the remaining term of land use;

- Vietnamese living abroad is entitled to purchase dwelling-house attached to the land use right in Phu Quoc. Island.

I. POLICY ON LAND


1.2/ The maximum exemption for rental land is 15 years from the date to finish the construction.

1.3/ The unit price of land rental per year equals 50% unit price of land rental regulated by Government in Decree no. 142/2005/ND-CP on November 14, 2005. However, the least price equals 0,25% of land price according to the using purpose of renting land promulgated by People’s Committee; the rental land is stable in 5 years.

To apply the policy of one price for commodities, services and land rental towards organizations, individuals without discrimination of inland people from foreigners, who have the operation of production, business in Phu Quoc Island.

I. POLICY ON LAND


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Government regulated all invested projects into the Phu Quoc Island are entitled to enjoy preferences for areas having specially difficult economic-social conditions (List C). Government determined Phu Quoc Island to be as the national main-point tourist zone, so the investment projects on tourism business in Phu Quoc Island belong to List A.

II. POLICY ON TAX


2.1/Preferences of income tax:- Investment projects of domestic and

foreign organizations and individuals into the Phu Quoc Island District are entitled to enjoy a tariff on enterprise income tax of 10% applied during the period of the project implementation (the present income tax is 28% for all enterprises).

- The maximum exemption is 4 years since getting income tax and 50% tax-reduction for 9 years following.

II. POLICY ON TAX


2.2/ Preferences of income tax for people having high income:

- Reduce 50% income tax for people having high income, including Vietnamese and foreigner working in Phu Quoc Island.

2.3/Preferences of import tax:- Domestic and foreign investors are

exempt from import tax towards one-time imported commodities in order to create the fixed property during the time of investment to projects; mechanism of the above preferences to be applied even to cases of enlarging scale of project, substitution and renovation of technology.

- As for BOT project, it is still exempt from import tax towards fuel, raw material, material and means imported of kinds not yet to be produced in the country, for serving the construction, operation of BOT project

II. POLICY ON TAX


2.4/ Preferences of VAT tariff:- Commodities, services

manufactured, consumed in the Non-customs Areas and those imported from foreign country into the Non-customs Areas are not to pay value added tax. Commodities, services from the interior of Vietnam and other functional zones on the Phu Quoc Island bringing into the Non-customs Areas will be applied a VAT tariff of 0%.

II. POLICY ON TAX


3.1/ On the Phu Quoc Island, Government allowed to construct 2 Non-customs Areas which will be attached to An Thoi Port and Phu Quoc Airport. The Non-customs Area has hard fence separated with surrounding areas. In the Non-customs Area has no residential areas

III.POLICY ON NON-CUSTOM AREA

3.2/ Types of main production and business in Non-customs Areas including:

a) Production, processing, re-production, assembling of export goods, import goods, and goods for serving on the spot;

b) Commerce of goods (including export, import, transfer through border gate, temporary import,

re-export, distribution, shops and supermarket for

retail, shops and supermarkets of non-duties);

c) Commerce of services (classification, packaging, transport, forwarding and receiving of transit goods, maintenance, warehouse, bonded warehouse, finance, banking, transport, insurance, entertainment services, restaurant);

d) Trade promotion (fair, exhibition, showroom, branches and representative offices of domestic and foreign companies and finance-banking organizations) and other trade operations.


3.3/ Progress of the implementation:- From 2006-2010, some works shall be

implemented with the average and small investment scale such as duty-free stores, retail supermarket, services of finance and banking in An Thoi Port and Duong Dong Airport.

- After 2010 the Non-customs Areas will be invested completely according to the planning in An Thoi Port and Duong To Airport.

III.POLICY ON NON-CUSTOM AREA


IV.POLICY ON BUSINESS REGISTRATION AND ISSUING THE INVESTMENT

LICENCE. Foreign direct investment projects into Phu Quoc Island are approved as per the process of registration for issuing the Investment Licence. Domestic invested projects are considered, approved as per the current regulations with the simplest procedures.

Decision no. 38/2006/QD-TTg dated February 14, 2006 of the Governmental Prime Minister allowed to establish Phu Quoc Island Development Investment Management Board. People’s Committee of Kien Giang province co-ordinated Ministry of the Interior to finish the project for the establishment of Phu Quoc Island Development Investment Management Board and aslo submited this project to the Governmental Prime Minister.


Decision no. 38/2006/QD-TTg dated February 14, 2006 of the Governmental Prime Minister allowed to establish Phu Quoc Island Development Investment Management Board. People’s Committee of Kien Giang province co-ordinated Ministry of the Interior to finish the project for the establishment of Phu Quoc Island Development Investment Management Board and aslo submited this project to the Governmental Prime Minister.

At the present, Phu Quoc Island Development Investment Management Board is not established. Therefore Kien Giang Department of Planning and Investment, the direct key office, will contact with the investors in order to carry out investment procedures for the investors.

THE CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS: Department of Planning and Investment of Kien

Giang province 29 Bach Dang Street, Rach Gia town, Kien Giang

province. Tel: 077. 874 118 (Investment office - Department of Planning and

Investment). Fax: 077. 862 037 Email : [email protected] Website: kehoach.kiengiang.gov.vn.

IV.POLICY ON BUSINESS REGISTRATION AND ISSUING THE INVESTMENT

LICENCE.

After the project for the establishment of Phu Quoc Island Development Investment Management Board is approved, all procedures of business registration, issuing the Investment Licence, land delivery... to investors is implemented quickly and passed one-door office at Phu Quoc Island Development Investment Management Board. This is the key office to solve problems of the investors so that they do not need to contact with other provincial departments in the mainland.


Welcome the co-operation of domestic and foreign investors.

Welcome the co-operation of domestic and foreign investors.

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