{"id":12737,"date":"2026-08-18T11:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T04:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dreamplex.co\/?post_type=blog&p=12737"},"modified":"2026-08-19T13:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:08:08","slug":"fdi-vietnam-singapore-companies","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/dreamplex.co\/en\/fdi-vietnam-singapore-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"FDI Vietnam Singapore Companies: The 2026 Policy Shift and What It Means for Your Office Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FDI Vietnam Singapore Companies: The 2026 Policy Shift and What It Means for Your Office Decision<\/h1>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\r\n

FDI Vietnam Singapore companies registered in the first seven months of 2026 made up 27.3% of the national total, first among all source markets, according to the Foreign Investment Agency. The Law on Investment 2025 took effect in March, and Decree 96\/2026 followed weeks later. Ho Chi Minh City opened its International Financial Center in February, with a 10% corporate tax tier, according to Decree 324\/2025. The gain for most Singapore entrants is licensing speed, and speed is an office question.<\/p>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”12632″ css=””][vc_column_text css=””]The FDI Vietnam Singapore companies committed between January and July 2026 reached USD 10.39 billion, according to the Foreign Investment Agency. That is 27.3% of all foreign capital registered in Vietnam over the period, according to the same agency. Total registered FDI hit USD 38.05 billion over the seven months, up 58% year on year, according to the agency. It put Ho Chi Minh City ahead of every other province or city, at more than USD 3.6 billion across 1,235 new projects.\r\n\r\nThe volume is the easy part. The rules underneath it changed in March. That change rewards a specific kind of project, and it moves the timeline for everyone else.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\r\n

FDI Vietnam Singapore companies: what changed on March 1, 2026<\/h2>\r\nThe Law on Investment 2025 took effect on March 1, 2026. Decree 96\/2026\/ND-CP followed on March 31 and replaced Decree 31\/2021. Together they move Vietnam away from broad pre-approval control. What replaces it is simplified registration, stronger post-licensing supervision and tighter targeting of incentives.\r\n\r\nTwo provisions matter for a Singapore parent planning entry.\r\n

The green lane now covers more ground<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nThe first is the special investment procedure, known in practice as the green lane. Projects sited in industrial parks, export processing zones, hi-tech parks, digital technology zones and free trade zones now qualify regardless of sector. Carve-outs remain for major infrastructure such as airports and seaports. Qualifying projects register instead of seeking investment policy approval, and skip technology assessment, environmental impact assessment, construction permits and fire safety approval.\r\n

Incentives follow the project, not the sector<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nThe second is how incentives are earned. Decree 96 ties benefits to project characteristics rather than sector membership \u2013 capital scale, disbursement progress, technology contribution, innovation content. Semiconductors and chip manufacturing sit at the top of the priority list, alongside artificial intelligence, big data and digital technology. High-tech R&D and strategic digital infrastructure follow.\r\n\r\nA third date landed quietly. The provisions covering Vietnam’s list of conditional business lines took effect on July 1, 2026, four months after the law itself. That list decides which activities a foreign-invested company may register, and on what conditions. Check your intended business lines against the current version before the entity structure is signed off in Singapore, because a late change to scope reopens the filing.\r\n\r\nRead the two together and the direction is clear. Vietnam is buying quality of capital, not volume.\r\n\r\nFor the FDI Vietnam Singapore companies place into commercial, technology and professional services work, the benefit is a shorter licensing path rather than a lower tax rate. A 20-person product team will not clear the capital thresholds behind the headline rates. Neither will a regional sales entity.\r\n\r\nBoth will clear the market faster than the same entity did two years ago, which pulls the office requirement forward in the schedule. Plan the space around the licensing date, not the other way around.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\r\n

Where the FDI Vietnam Singapore companies commit is going<\/h2>\r\nDigital technology and energy infrastructure drove the rise in registered capital through July 2026. The geography splits along sector lines, and that split answers the office question before anyone asks it.\r\n\r\nManufacturing capital goes to the provinces. Thai Nguyen led the country with nearly USD 5.8 billion in newly registered investment over the seven months, according to the Foreign Investment Agency. Nghe An, Hai Phong, Bac Ninh and Dong Nai followed. That money buys industrial land and factory shells.\r\n\r\nCommercial, financial and professional services capital stays in the cities, and mostly in Ho Chi Minh City. This layer needs a registered address, a meeting room that holds up in front of a client, and room for five to fifty people. Both governments point the same way through the Green\u2013Digital Economic Partnership, which covers clean energy, carbon credits, data centers and green finance. Vietnam and Singapore elevated ties to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in March 2025, Singapore’s first with an ASEAN member.\r\n\r\nTwo-way trade reached close to USD 12 billion in 2025. The two sides plan to raise the number of Vietnam\u2013Singapore Industrial Parks to 30 during 2026, the model’s thirtieth year. The FDI Vietnam Singapore companies direct into the services layer rarely starts large. It starts with a country manager, a business development hire and a finance lead, and it grows on what those three produce in year one.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”2 rem” el_class=”hide-mobile”][vc_row_inner equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”middle” el_class=”blog-banner”][vc_column_inner el_class=”t-order-2″ width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1763021870691{padding-top: 4rem !important;padding-right: 4rem !important;padding-bottom: 4rem !important;padding-left: 4rem !important;background-color: #db4140 !important;}”][vc_column_text css=””]\r\n

Check out Dreamplex\u2019s solutions to help your business settle and ready for 2026.<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Talk to us” style=”outline-custom” outline_custom_color=”#ffffff” outline_custom_hover_background=”#ffffff” outline_custom_hover_text=”#db4140″ shape=”square” align=”left” i_align=”right” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-long-arrow-alt-right” css=”” add_icon=”true” el_class=”bt bt-outline hs-cta-trigger-button hs-cta-trigger-button-262816983790″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner el_class=”t-order-1″ width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1787114923941{background-image: url(https:\/\/dreamplex.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/8-1.png?id=12981) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_empty_space height=”20 rem”][vc_empty_space height=”20 rem” el_class=”hide-mobile”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”2 rem” el_class=”hide-mobile”][vc_column_text css=””]\r\n

Ho Chi Minh City’s financial center rewrites the address question<\/h2>\r\nThe Vietnam International Financial Center in Ho Chi Minh City launched on February 11, 2026, under National Assembly Resolution 222\/2025\/QH15 and Decree 323\/2025\/ND-CP. Its footprint covers 898 hectares across Ben Thanh Ward, Saigon Ward and most of Thu Thiem Ward. Ho Chi Minh City rose 11 places to 84th of 120 centers in the 2026 Global Financial Centres Index, third in Southeast Asia.\r\n\r\nDecree 324\/2025\/ND-CP sets the tax terms for members. The table compares the two member tiers against Vietnam’s standard corporate rate.\r\n\r\n

Project type (from 2026)<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

CIT rate & duration<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

Tax holiday<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><\/tr>

New project in a priority sector inside VIFC-HCMC<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

10% for 30 years<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

Exemption up to 4 years, then 50% reduction up to 9 years<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><\/tr>

New project outside priority sectors inside VIFC-HCMC<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

15% for 15 years<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

Exemption up to 2 years, then 50% reduction up to 4 years<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><\/tr>

Standard corporate income tax outside incentive regimes<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

20%, no fixed term<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

None<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><\/div>\n\r\n\r\nMembership is narrow by design. Eligibility runs to financial institutions, investment funds and Fortune 500 companies or their direct parents. Most Singapore SMEs entering Vietnam will not be members. The FDI Vietnam Singapore companies bring in through ordinary commercial channels sits outside the regime entirely.\r\n\r\nThe center still moves something for everyone. It pulls financial and professional demand into the central wards. It also raises what a central address signals to a Vietnamese counterparty. Watch the vocabulary while you search, because since the 2025 administrative merger the CBD is defined at ward level, while brokers and listings still call the same buildings District 1.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\r\n

What the office market looks like underneath the headline numbers<\/strong><\/h2>\r\nGrade A vacancy in Ho Chi Minh City sat at 16.7% in Q2 2026, with Grade B at 12.5%, according to CBRE. JLL put CBD Grade A gross asking rents at USD 64.7 per square meter per month in Q1 2026. Grade B stood at USD 33.6 on the same count.\r\n\r\nThose figures describe a market with room in it, and a price on that room. A Grade A floor is available. It also carries a three to five year lease, fit-out capital before anyone sits down, and service charges billed on top. The facilities burden lands on the first person you hire.\r\n\r\nTenants in the market have already shifted how they read those numbers. Leasing decisions in Ho Chi Minh City now turn on total occupancy cost, building quality and long-term space efficiency rather than a headline rent comparison. The headline rate is the smallest variable in the calculation, and the one most often quoted back to a regional head office.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”12975″ css=””][vc_column_text css=””]A serviced private office<\/a> reverses the order. One monthly invoice covers the registered address, furnished workstations, business internet, power, cleaning and reception. Meeting rooms come with it. The term starts at one month, so the Vietnam footprint tracks headcount instead of predicting it.\r\n\r\nSingapore finance teams already run this model at home. The internal case rarely needs explaining, which matters when the request lands with a regional CFO who has never visited Ho Chi Minh City.\r\n\r\nOne sequencing detail catches Singapore teams every year. The registered business address is required before the incorporation filing goes in, not after. A virtual office<\/a> with registration capability holds that place while the team is still in Singapore. It converts to a private office when the first hires start.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\r\n

The first 24 months decide more than the incentive schedule<\/strong><\/h2>\r\nThe honest reading of the 2026 reforms is that most Singapore service and technology entrants gain time, not tax. That lowest tier belongs to a small group of qualifying members. The green lane belongs to projects inside designated zones. Everyone else gets a licensing process that no longer waits on approvals it used to wait months for.\r\n\r\nThat turns the first 24 months into a staffing and credibility problem rather than a real estate one. The country manager’s job is revenue and relationships, not electricity contracts. The address has to hold up in a meeting with a Vietnamese bank or a state-linked partner. The space has to absorb a team that triples without forcing a move.\r\n\r\nThe FDI Vietnam Singapore companies bring into the country is arriving faster than the teams built to run it. That gap is where the first year is won or lost.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”2rem” el_class=”hide-mobile”][vc_row_inner equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”middle” el_class=”blog-banner”][vc_column_inner el_class=”t-order-2″ width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1701795473806{padding-top: 4rem !important;padding-right: 4rem !important;padding-bottom: 4rem !important;padding-left: 4rem !important;background-color: #e3edf6 !important;}”][vc_column_text css=””]\r\n

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Next steps when searching a Vietnam Office Space for a Singapore Company<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n