Regulations on changing the content of business registration according to Vietnamese law

Registering a business requires providing your phone number, right? When changing the business registration content without adding information about the business phone number, is the application valid?

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1. When registering business activities, are you required to provide your phone number correctly?

The content of the application for business registration is specified in Article 23 of the Law on Enterprises 2020, specifically as follows:

Contents of the application for business registration

The application for business registration includes the following main contents here:

1. Business name;

2. Head office address of the enterprise, phone number; fax number, email (if any);

3. Business lines and professions;

4. charter capital; investment capital of private business owners;

5. Types of shares, par value of each type of share and total number of shares authorized to be offered for each type of share for a joint stock company;

6. Tax registration information;

7. Estimated number of employees;

8. Full name, signature, contact address, nationality, legal document information of individuals for private business owners and general partners of partnerships;

9. Full name, signature, contact address, nationality, legal document information of the individual for the legal representative of the limited liability company or joint stock company.

According to this regulation, the application for business registration must include the business’s head office address and phone number; Fax number, email (if any).

So it can be understood that when registering for business operations, you are required to provide your phone number.

2. When changing the business registration content without adding information about the business phone number, is the file valid?

Updating and supplementing information in the business registration file is prescribed in Article 63 Decree 01/2021/ND-CP, specifically as follows:

Updating and supplementing information in the business registration file

1. When registering or notifying changes to the business registration content, the business is responsible for adding missing information about the business’s phone number in the file. In case the enterprise does not add information about the phone number, the registration dossier and notice of change in business registration content are considered invalid.

2. Enterprises are obliged to update and supplement information in the Business Registration Certificate and business registration documents according to the provisions of Clause 3, Article 8 of the Law on Enterprises, as follows:

a) In case the enterprise updates or supplements information in the business registration documents that changes the content of the Business Registration Certificate but does not fall into the cases of registering changes to the business registration content specified in Articles 47 to Articles 55 of this Decree, enterprises send notices requesting to update and supplement business registration information to the Business Registration Office where the enterprise is headquartered. The Business Registration Office receives the notice, reviews the validity and issues the Business Registration Certificate to the enterprise;

This regulation mentions that when changing the business registration content, the enterprise is responsible for adding missing information about the business’s phone number in the file.

In case the business does not add information about the phone number, the registration file and notice of change in registration content The business is considered invalid.

According to this regulation, if the business does not add information about the phone number, the registration dossier and notice of change in business registration content are considered invalid.

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