Pursuant to the Resolution of the National Assembly Standing Committee on the arrangement of administrative units, the new Giang Vo ward was established on the basis of merger and reorganization as follows: “Arranging the entire natural area, population size of Giang Vo ward, part of the natural area, population size of Cat Linh, Lang Ha, Ngoc Khanh, Thanh Cong wards, the rest of Cong Vi ward”. Does the enterprise have to carry out the procedures for changing business registration? Viet An Law would like to guide customers through the above procedures through the article below.
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According to Official Letter 4370/BTC-DNTN in 2025, the guidance on business registration in case of change of administrative boundaries is as follows:
“1. Enterprises, business households, cooperatives, cooperative unions, and cooperative groups shall continue to use the issued enterprise registration certificates, business household registration certificates, cooperative registration certificates, cooperative group registration certificates, and certificates of operation registration of branches/representative offices/business locations.
2. Business registration agencies may not request enterprises, business households, cooperatives, cooperative unions and cooperative groups to register changes in address information due to changes in administrative boundaries. Enterprises, business households, cooperatives, cooperative unions and cooperative groups shall update information on addresses due to changes in administrative boundaries on enterprise registration certificates, business household registration certificates, cooperative registration certificates, cooperative group registration certificates, etc Certificate of registration of operation of branches/representative offices/business locations when there is a need or at the same time when registering changes, notifying changes in other contents in the registration of enterprises, business households, cooperatives, unions of cooperatives, cooperative groups.”
Therefore, updating information on the business registration certificate in Giang Vo Ward in case of merging administrative boundaries is not mandatory. Enterprises have the right to take the initiative to do so when there is a need, or combine in other times of registration to change content in the future.
Step 1: Prepare a dossier of change of business registration due to a change in administrative boundaries.
Components of the dossier include:
Step 2: Sign the dossier and submit the dossier
Dossiers of change of business registration are currently only submitted through the public service portal on enterprise registration (except for some exceptions) via the following link: https://dangkyquamang.dkkd.gov.vn/online/Forms/APP/Agenda.aspx?h=cb64
Step 3: Process the application and receive the result
Usually the application will take about 3 working days from the date of receipt of the application to be processed. If only the address is changed due to a change in administrative boundaries. Enterprises will not have to pay a fee for announcing changes to enterprise registration contents. Currently, Hanoi is implementing the issuance of electronic business registration forms with digital signatures of the state, so businesses will not be issued hard paper copies as before.
Step 1: Prepare a dossier of change business registration, including:
Note: Enterprises will need to add information about the beneficial owner when establishing a new company or changing the business registration content. According to Article 17, Decree 168/2025/ND-CP on enterprise registration on the criteria for determining the beneficial owner of the enterprise as follows:
“1. The beneficial owner of an enterprise with legal status (hereinafter referred to as the beneficial owner of the enterprise) is an individual who satisfies one of the following criteria:
a) Individuals who directly or indirectly own 25% of the charter capital or 25% or more of the total voting shares of the enterprise;
b) Individuals have the right to govern the approval of at least one of the following matters: Appointment, dismissal or dismissal of the majority or all members of the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board of Members; the legal representative, director or general director of the enterprise; amending and supplementing the charter of the enterprise; changes in the organizational structure of the company’s management; reorganize and dissolve the company.
2. An individual who owns an indirect property as prescribed at Point a, Clause 1 of this Article is an individual who owns 25% or more of the charter capital or 25% or more of the total voting shares of the enterprise through another organization.”
Step 2 and Step 3 will be carried out similarly to the case above; however, you will have to pay a fee for the public disclosure of the change in business registration content, which is 100,000 VND.
– When changing the business registration to the new administrative boundary with other changes, is it necessary to pay a fee?
Enterprises will have to pay a fee for announcing changes in enterprise content registration if they change contents other than updating administrative boundaries.
– What cases are not allowed to change business registration in Giang Vo Ward?
Cases in which enterprises are not allowed to change their business registration in Giang Vo Ward include:
Above are some advice of Viet An Law on changing business registration in the newly merged Giang Vo ward. If you have any questions about this service or legal issues related to business operations, please contact us immediately for timely assistance.
