Tax Partner · Control the future
It's AI again, and it checks your tax data every day. What you need is an expert who stays long enough to know your business, warns you of what is coming and represents you when it matters.
Three roles
The updater
Tracks changes in the law and new guidance, filters what affects your business, and tells you before the deadline.
The answerer
Answers tax questions from management and the accounting team by email, before decisions are made rather than after.
The representative
Stands with you in front of the tax office: preparing the file and the arguments, and attending in person.
12-month calendar
Every month: your periodic returns, a 60-minute meeting and a law update. Exact dates follow current rules and your own calendar, kept up to date by Kaizen.
Month 1
Q4 returns, year-end figures
Q4 tax report review
Month 2
Preparing finalization
Review deductible costs and related parties
Month 3
CIT and PIT finalization deadline
Review the key points of the finalization returns
Month 4
Q1 returns
Q1 tax report review
Month 5
First-half law changes
Summary of changes that affect you
Month 6
Mid-year review
Recheck the risks raised in the quarter
Month 7
Q2 returns
Q2 tax report review
Month 8
Planning major deals
Tax advice on new contracts and investments
Month 9
Full-year tax estimate
Check CIT provisional payments
Month 10
Q3 returns
Q3 tax report review
Month 11
Next year's tax plan
Review pay, bonuses and year-end costs
Month 12
Before closing the books
Collect missing invoices and documents, count stock, reconcile receivables and payables
Real questions
The package
Fee
VND 9-18 million/month
Depending on your size and complexity.
Cost comparison
Hire a strong chief accountant
VND 25-45m/month
Excluding social insurance, bonuses and hiring time. Strong in accounting, but few are both deep in tax and used to dealing with the tax office.
Hire a lawyer or tax adviser by the hour
VND 2-5m/hour
40 expert hours a month (taking questions, research, written advice) billed by the hour would cost VND 80-200m. Every question means explaining your business from scratch.
Kaizen Tax Partner
VND 9-18m/month
Up to 40 expert hours a month of email advice, a monthly meeting, law updates, 2 representation sessions a year and quarterly report reviews, from a team that already knows you.
Salary and hourly figures are indicative Ho Chi Minh City market estimates and vary by experience and firm.
Case studies
VND 1.4B refund
Company S.V.T.C, technology, US capital, Da Nang
Complete transfer pricing documentation
VND 1.4 billion VAT refunded
3 options
Company M.A.R, retail, Singaporean capital, HCMC
The board chose the lowest-risk option
Avoided about VND 800 million of disallowed management fees
No back taxes
Company G.R, packaging manufacturing, Korean capital, Dong Nai
Investment incentive kept for the new line
3-year tax audit closed with no back taxes
Client names are changed under our confidentiality commitment.
FAQ
An accounting service keeps the books and files the returns. Tax Partner advises on decisions with tax consequences, keeps you updated on the law and represents you before the tax office. The two work well side by side.
It is all the time Kaizen spends on email advice in the month: taking in your questions, researching the rules and writing the advice letters, up to 40 hours under the advisory contract. It is not 40 hours of you asking questions, but up to 40 hours of expert work on them.
Extra sessions are charged per session, and Kaizen confirms the fee before going ahead.
Your size, transaction volume, industry, and whether you have related-party transactions or foreign investment.
If past years have never been reviewed, clean up the past first so the Tax Partner starts on a clean base.
Yes. Kaizen works in Vietnamese and English; law updates and reviews can be bilingual for FDI companies.
Compare the 3 solutions
The three solutions answer three different questions: the past, the present and the future. Many companies go through all three in turn.
| Clean up the pastTax Health Check | Optimize the presentTax ROI | You are hereControl the futureTax Partner | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The question you have | "Is my tax history hiding any risk?" | "Am I paying tax correctly, fully and sensibly?" | "Who helps me make the right tax calls from now on?" |
| Best when | Years of books never reviewed, open years, a fresh explanation request, or an upcoming fundraise, sale or dissolution. | A growing business, costs often disallowed, no process yet for invoicing and filing, or transactions with related parties. | You need a tax expert on call without hiring one, and you often make decisions with tax consequences. |
| Format | One-off project | Project plus process set-up | Monthly partnership |
| Timing | Report 30 days after receiving the full file | Depends on the scope, fixed in the quote | Ongoing, month by month |
| You get | An in-depth report, a quantified risk map and a clean-up roadmap | A 15-point review, standard invoicing, documentation, filing and cost processes, and lawful optimization options | Email advice with up to 40 expert hours a month (intake, research, written advice), a 60-minute monthly meeting, a law update, 2 representation sessions a year and a quarterly tax report review |
| Pairs well with | Optimize the present, once the past is clean | Clean up the past first, then control the future | After the clean-up and process set-up |
| Clean up the past | Optimize the present | Request a consultation |
Free consultation
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