From 2026, business households to be classified into three groups for tax administration

Accordingly, from 2026, the tax authorities will completely terminate the presumptive tax collection mechanism and shift to the self-declaration and self-payment mechanism as prescribed by the Law on Tax Administration.

Under the Scheme attached to Decision No. 3389/QD-BTC, business households will be classified into three new groups for tax administration as follows:

Group 1: Annual revenue below VND 200 million

• Exempted from value-added tax (VAT) and personal income tax (PIT).

• Not required to apply complicated accounting books but must still make periodic declarations.

• May choose to declare twice a year (at the beginning and in the middle or at the end of the year) or at other suitable times.
   

Group 2: Annual revenue from VND 200 million to below VND 3 billion

• Continue to be subject to direct tax calculation based on revenue as currently applied.

• Tax rates by business line:

  • 1%: Distribution and supply of goods

  • 3%: Production, transportation, services associated with goods, and construction with material supply

  • 5%: Services and construction without material supply

  • 2%: Other business activities

• Required to make declarations four times a year (quarterly).

• Business households with annual revenue exceeding VND 1 billion in the retail or consumer service sector must issue e-invoices from cash registers connected to the tax authority.

• Those with annual revenue below VND 1 billion are not required but encouraged to record their revenues fully.

Group 3: Annual revenue exceeding VND 3 billion

• Business households with annual revenue exceeding VND 3 billion for two consecutive years shall be classified into this group.

• Apply the credit method for VAT calculation:

  VAT payable = Output VAT – Input VAT

• PIT calculated at 17% on total profits, in which:

  Profit = Revenue – Deductible expenses

• Households with annual revenue exceeding VND 50 billion shall make monthly tax declarations; those with revenue below VND 50 billion shall declare quarterly.

• Required to issue e-invoices and open a separate bank account for business transactions.

• The use of e-invoices with tax codes or e-invoices generated from cash registers is mandatory