[ingodirectors] PIT Exemption Mini-Survey

[Marko Lovrekovic]

Dear INGO directors:

Some of you have received letters from the Hanoi Tax Department
recently, in which they asked for payments of Personal Income Tax
(PIT) for your foreign staff. A few of you have been asked to pay PIT
for your foreign staff retroactively, as far back as 2013. Hanoi Tax
Department claims that some foreign staff does not meet sufficient
conditions for PIT exemption and/or that some INGOs have no provisions
on PIT exemption in their partnership agreements signed with VUFO, on
behalf of COMINGO.

If such claims proved valid, this may have significant consequences
and implications on our work. I would like to propose a meeting with
the VUFO-NGO Resource Centre Steering Committee, PACCOM senior
leadership and selected INGO directors affected with the
above-mentioned request. Before we schedule a meeting, I would like to
collect some basic information in order to get a 'bigger perspective'
on the current status of this issue within the INGO community.

I have prepared 8 simple questions, mostly with 'yes' or 'no' answer.
It should not take more than 3 minutes of your time; and it would help
me greatly to prepare a follow up. Kindly note that the questions are
intended for INGOs which employ foreign nationals, including those
with dual citizenship. Click here:

https://goo.gl/forms/iEdMupdyRxPnjC6o2

Thank you in advance for your prompt responses. I will keep you
informed about further developments.

Marko

Marko Lovrekovic, Managing Co-Director
VUFO-NGO Resource Centre
Trung Tu Diplomatic Compound
6 Dang Van Ngu, Dong Da, Hanoi
Building E3, Room 201, 2nd floor
Mobile: +84 904 191 871
Phone: +84 4 3832 8570
Email: director at ngocentre.org.vn
Web: http://www.ngocentre.org.vn