Question 59: If a parent company abroad has a representative office and a subsidiary in Vietnam, and the same person is hired to be the head of the representative office and the director of the subsidiary at the same time, can it pay the salary 0 dong for the title of the head of the representative office during the time the procedure for closing the representative office is being conducted?
Pursuant to Decree 07/2016/NĐ-CP of the Government providing for the operations of representative offices and branches of foreign companies in Vietnam, the head of a representative office cannot be the legal representative of an economic organisation established under the law of Vietnam[1]. Therefore, if a person is currently the head of a representative office, and…
