VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
A Legal Company Registration Address in Eastern Ho Chi Minh City, from VND 550.000 a Month
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
Quick answer: A virtual office in Thu Duc is a real, verifiable address in the eastern corridor of Ho Chi Minh City that you lease in order to register your company’s head office, branch or representative office — including the right to display your company signboard and a service that receives and forwards your mail. It is fully legal: Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that a head office be a contact address inside Vietnam, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Golden Star’s address here is No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City, at VND 550,000 per month (≈ US$21).
Important, and almost certainly not what your research shows you: since 1 July 2025, Thu Duc City no longer exists as an administrative unit. Its 34 former wards were reorganised into 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City, and the former Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward is now part of Hiep Binh Ward. Section 3 explains exactly what this means for your company documents.
1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
1.1. Definition
A virtual office is a service that leases you a real address for use as your company’s registered address, together with the minimum administrative services that address needs to function: the right to display your signboard, and the receipt and forwarding of your correspondence.
You obtain a full legal address for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, your invoices, your contracts and your bank file — without paying for floor space you will not occupy. What you are leasing is the right to use an address in a legal and administrative sense, not a room with a desk in it.
1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
Yes. This is the first question almost every foreign client asks, and the answer sits in Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020.
That article requires a company’s head office to be located within Vietnamese territory, to serve as the contact address of the enterprise, to be identifiable by administrative boundaries, and to have a telephone number, fax number and email address where applicable.
Read carefully, the provision is permissive rather than restrictive:
Not required by law
Required by law
That you own the premises
An address inside Vietnamese territory
That you lease an entire property
Identifiable by administrative boundaries
That you be the only company at the address
That the company can actually be reached there
That staff be physically present all day
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Three consequences follow, and together they are the entire legal basis of the model:
First, the head office is a contact address, not a mandated place of production. The law requires that you can be reached there — not that someone sits there for eight hours a day.
Second, nothing requires you to own premises or lease a whole property. Leasing an address for company registration is your right.
Third, nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. This is why the model exists in Vietnam, as it does in most jurisdictions.
1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
a) Residential apartments in condominium buildings. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023, in force since 1 January 2025, prohibits using a condominium apartment for any purpose other than residential. The penalty under Point e, Clause 1, Article 70 of Decree 16/2022/ND-CP is VND 20,000,000 to VND 40,000,000 — the rate applicable to individuals versus organisations being determined under Article 4 of that Decree — together with a forced measure requiring residential use to be restored, which in practice means relocating your head office.
This matters more in eastern Ho Chi Minh City than most foreign founders expect. The corridor along Pham Van Dong Street and National Highway 13 has a very high density of residential developments, and living in one does not entitle you to register a company in it.
The exception: in a mixed-use building, registration is permitted in the portion zoned and approved for commercial, business or office use. The test is the legal function of the specific floor area, not the name of the building.
b) Addresses that cannot be identified by administrative boundaries — incomplete addresses without street number, street, ward and city.
c) Addresses already flagged as high-risk by the tax authority, typically because previous occupants were declared not operating there.
1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
Having a lawful address is step one. You must also:
- Display your company signboard at the head office, branch, representative office and business locations — Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020. This is a legal obligation and, in practice, your single most important piece of evidence during a tax inspection.
- Remain reachable by post at the registered address.
- Cooperate with tax authority verification of your operating status.
- Register any change of head office within 10 days of the change.
Registration procedure now follows Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, effective 1 July 2025, which replaced Decree 01/2021/ND-CP and prioritises online submission through the National Public Service Portal.
2. WHY COMPANIES IN EASTERN HO CHI MINH CITY USE ONE
The eastern corridor — the area formerly known as Thu Duc City — has an economic profile quite unlike the centre, and that shapes the demand for a virtual office in Thu Duc.
2.1. The business mix works outside an office
The east concentrates logistics, transport, construction, building materials, manufacturing and distribution businesses. In all of these, the team is at a warehouse, on a site, in a plant or on the road. A fixed office sits empty most of the day, and the rent for it buys nothing.
2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
This corridor sits on the route toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai — a connection that became more significant when Ho Chi Minh City expanded its boundaries on 1 July 2025. Companies whose actual operations sit near the boundary, but who want a Ho Chi Minh City legal address on their documents, look here for an entirely practical reason: it is close to where the work happens and it is still a Ho Chi Minh City address on paper.
2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
The presence of the Hi-Tech Park, the industrial and export processing zones and a large university cluster produces a distinct population of technology, engineering and digital-services companies. These businesses seldom need physical office space, but they very much need a serious legal address for dealing with large corporate customers and with banks.
2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
That perception has not kept pace with the corridor’s urbanisation. Rents along the main axes have risen substantially. For a team of two to five people, the combination of rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet and furniture remains a large fixed cost with no corresponding benefit.
3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
This is the most important section of this article, and the reason most English-language information about Thu Duc is now misleading.
3.1. Thu Duc City no longer exists
Foreign readers researching Vietnam encounter a confusing sequence. Thu Duc City was created in 2021 by merging three districts, was widely promoted as Vietnam’s first “city within a city”, and was then abolished on 1 July 2025.
Under Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15 dated 16 June 2025 of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, Vietnam reorganised its commune-level administrative units and removed the district tier. Thu Duc City ceased to exist as a city under Ho Chi Minh City.
Its 34 former wards were reorganised into 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City: Hiep Binh, Thu Duc, Tam Binh, Linh Xuan, Tang Nhon Phu, Long Binh, Long Phuoc, Long Truong, Cat Lai, Binh Trung, Phuoc Long and An Khanh.
Note one detail that causes real confusion: “Thu Duc” still exists — but as the name of a ward, not a city. So when you read “an address in Thu Duc”, you now need to know whether the writer means the former city area or the present-day Thu Duc Ward.
3.2. Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward is now Hiep Binh Ward
Specifically for the area where Golden Star holds an address: under Clause 67, Article 1 of Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15, Hiep Binh Chanh Ward, Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward and part of Linh Dong Ward were reorganised into a new ward named Hiep Binh Ward.
The correct address under current administrative naming is therefore:
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (previously written as Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
3.3. Do you have to amend your company registration?
No — not for this reason. A great many companies filed unnecessary amendments in the second half of 2025.
Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a company’s registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. It may request an update when convenient, or alongside another amendment it is making anyway.
In plain terms: if your Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”, it remains valid. You do not need to redo it because of the reorganisation.
3.4. But new filings must use the current ward name
This is the distinction that costs time. If you are:
- Establishing a new company
- Setting up a branch, representative office or business location
- Amending your enterprise registration for any reason
- Filing an investment registration application
then the address must be written using the current administrative unit name. Filing with a ward name that has been abolished will attract a supplementary request, and each supplementary request costs roughly a week.
3.5. How to tell whether a provider is current
If a provider is still issuing lease agreements that say “Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City” at this point, they are working from an outdated template and are not tracking legal change. For a service whose entire value lies in the legal accuracy of the documents it produces, that is worth noticing before you sign.
4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
4.1. The landlord will not permit business registration
Common with shophouses and properties in residential areas. Ordinary Vietnamese residential leases do not permit business registration; landlords are reluctant to trigger rental income tax obligations or attract inspections. Even where a landlord agrees, many will not release a copy of the land use right certificate — leaving your file without supporting evidence and in a loop of supplementary requests.
4.2. Registering at a condominium apartment — an immediate rejection
As explained in 1.3. Given the density of residential development along Pham Van Dong, National Highway 13 and the riverfront, this is a recurring error. If the registration has already been made, the exposure is VND 20–40 million plus a forced relocation.
4.3. A house address down a lane — a disadvantage where it counts
Eastern-corridor businesses in construction, materials and logistics submit capability documents for tenders and files for bank facilities more often than most. An address in a narrow lane is a disadvantage against competitors — not a legal problem, but an assessment problem.
4.4. Writing an abolished ward name
The direct consequence of section 3. If your address provider issues documents with the old ward name, you are the one who loses the week.
4.5. The biggest risk: being declared “not operating at the registered address”
This is the risk foreign owners underestimate most, because it has no close equivalent in many home jurisdictions.
How it is triggered. Under Article 17 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, where the tax authority sends a document by post and it is returned because nobody received it or the address does not exist — or where the taxpayer fails to file returns after a second notice — the taxpayer is moved to a status of “pending verification of operating status at the registered address.” The tax authority then coordinates with the commune-level People’s Committee and the police to verify the premises in person and record the findings. If there is no signboard and nobody present, the company is declared “not operating at the registered address.”
What follows is a chain reaction:
- E-invoices can no longer be issued — you cannot invoice customers, which effectively stops revenue
- Tax returns can no longer be filed
- No amendment to the enterprise registration can be processed
- The company is published on the tax authority’s public list, visible to banks and counterparties
- Revocation of the Enterprise Registration Certificate may be requested
- Even voluntary dissolution is blocked: under Clause 3, Article 14 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, a company in this status must first attend its managing tax office to complete its tax obligations and terminate the validity of its tax code
- For a foreign-invested company the damage runs past the local operation: blocked invoicing and a public non-operating status complicate profit repatriation, audit sign-off and reporting to the parent company.
The enforcement climate in 2026. Vietnam’s tax sector is running a “tax code clean-up” campaign. Under Official Telegram No. 18, issued by the Tax Department on 13 July 2026, tax offices were instructed to deal with 325,500 enterprises that are not operating at their registered address and owe tax; where a company has not operated for a year or more without notification, the tax office requests that the business registration authority handle the violation and revoke the Enterprise Registration Certificate. A further 291,962 enterprises that ceased operations without completing dissolution were required to finalise their obligations. From 1 July 2026, tax authorities may request the opening of bankruptcy proceedings against companies that owe tax and have abandoned their registered address for more than three years.
The practical conclusion: an address that exists only on paper is no longer a workable arrangement. Your registered address must receive post, display a signboard and produce a person when verification arrives.
4.6. Choosing a weak provider
Warning signs when leasing a virtual office in Thu Duc:
- The address is a residential condominium apartment — non-compliant from day one
- No signboard permitted — a breach of Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020, and the loss of your best evidence during inspection
- Nobody on site to receive post — tax letters are returned and you never learn of it
- A thin lease with no proof of the lessor’s lawful right to the premises
- Documents issued with abolished administrative unit names
- No professional capacity to respond when the tax authority asks for an explanation
5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company provides a virtual office in Thu Duc at a real address in the eastern corridor, structured around the risks described above.
5.1. What is included
a) Use of the leased address to register a company and to establish your head office, branch or representative office address.
b) The right to display your company signboard at the leased address — satisfying the obligation under Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and providing physical evidence of presence.
c) Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone and SMS. For a company whose decision-makers are overseas, this is the single most valuable component of the service.
d) Golden Star forwards mail and documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam (postal charges payable by the client).
e) You receive your own visitors at the leased premises.
f) A complete document pack — a properly drafted lease, the lessor’s proof of lawful right to the premises, and all documents issued using current administrative unit names.
5.2. How it works
Step 1 — Consultation. We advise on the address that fits your structure, your intended business lines and the specific file you will submit: domestic company, foreign-invested company, branch or representative office.
Step 2 — Agreement and document pack. You receive the lease agreement together with the supporting documents needed for your enterprise or investment registration file, written with the current ward name.
Step 3 — Filing. Golden Star prepares and submits the enterprise registration, investment registration, initial tax registration, e-invoice and digital signature applications.
Step 4 — Ongoing protection. Signboard displayed, correspondence received and reported to you immediately, and professional support whenever the tax authority verifies your operating status.
5.3. An important limitation we raise before you commit
Golden Star tells eastern-corridor clients something an address-only provider has no reason to mention: not every business line can operate from a registered address alone.
A virtual office suits services, consulting, trading, technology, e-commerce, investment holding and coordination activities. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to physical premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education and training, healthcare — the sub-licence process will require actual, inspectable facilities. A registered address will not carry it.
This matters disproportionately in the east, where manufacturing, logistics and warehousing are common, and where foreign investors are often drawn by the Hi-Tech Park and the industrial zones. Registering the business line on your certificate is permitted; operating it requires the condition to be met.
The failure surfaces late — after incorporation, when a sub-licence application requires premises that do not exist. We review your intended business lines before registration rather than after.
6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
From VND 550,000 (≈ US$21) per month, replacing rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet, furniture and reception. For a new company or one whose team works away from a desk, that saving goes straight to cash flow.
6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
Premises with a function suitable for company head office registration — not a residential condominium apartment. The Housing Law 2023 exposure is removed at the point of filing, before it can become a penalty.
6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
Your file is not returned over a ward name. It sounds trivial; in the present period it is one of the most common causes of a one- to two-week delay.
6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. In the current enforcement climate, one returned envelope is enough to start a verification process — and you should hear about it the same day, not months later.
6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
Your company signboard is displayed at the registered address — compliant with the law, and the evidence an inspection is looking for.
6.6. Flexibility
Work from anywhere; expand into a new area without building infrastructure. Your team can be at a warehouse, on site or remote while the legal address stays fixed.
6.7. A stable address
No forced relocation because a landlord sells the property or declines to renew — which avoids the entire downstream cost of an address change: the registration amendment, tax record and e-invoice updates, notifications to the bank, social insurance, partners and clients, and corrections to any tender documents already submitted.
6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
Clients using the virtual office can also use bookkeeping, tax declaration and finalisation, refunds, payroll, social insurance, e-invoicing and digital signatures — without coordinating several providers around one file.
6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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A Legal Company Registration Address in Eastern Ho Chi Minh City, from VND 550.000 a Month
Quick answer: A virtual office in Thu Duc is a real, verifiable address in the eastern corridor of Ho Chi Minh City that you lease in order to register your company’s head office, branch or representative office — including the right to display your company signboard and a service that receives and forwards your mail. It is fully legal: Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that a head office be a contact address inside Vietnam, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Golden Star’s address here is No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City, at VND 550,000 per month (≈ US$21).
Important, and almost certainly not what your research shows you: since 1 July 2025, Thu Duc City no longer exists as an administrative unit. Its 34 former wards were reorganised into 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City, and the former Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward is now part of Hiep Binh Ward. Section 3 explains exactly what this means for your company documents.
1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
1.1. Definition
A virtual office is a service that leases you a real address for use as your company’s registered address, together with the minimum administrative services that address needs to function: the right to display your signboard, and the receipt and forwarding of your correspondence.
You obtain a full legal address for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, your invoices, your contracts and your bank file — without paying for floor space you will not occupy. What you are leasing is the right to use an address in a legal and administrative sense, not a room with a desk in it.
1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
Yes. This is the first question almost every foreign client asks, and the answer sits in Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020.
That article requires a company’s head office to be located within Vietnamese territory, to serve as the contact address of the enterprise, to be identifiable by administrative boundaries, and to have a telephone number, fax number and email address where applicable.
Read carefully, the provision is permissive rather than restrictive:
Not required by law
Required by law
That you own the premises
An address inside Vietnamese territory
That you lease an entire property
Identifiable by administrative boundaries
That you be the only company at the address
That the company can actually be reached there
That staff be physically present all day
—
Three consequences follow, and together they are the entire legal basis of the model:
First, the head office is a contact address, not a mandated place of production. The law requires that you can be reached there — not that someone sits there for eight hours a day.
Second, nothing requires you to own premises or lease a whole property. Leasing an address for company registration is your right.
Third, nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. This is why the model exists in Vietnam, as it does in most jurisdictions.
1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
a) Residential apartments in condominium buildings. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023, in force since 1 January 2025, prohibits using a condominium apartment for any purpose other than residential. The penalty under Point e, Clause 1, Article 70 of Decree 16/2022/ND-CP is VND 20,000,000 to VND 40,000,000 — the rate applicable to individuals versus organisations being determined under Article 4 of that Decree — together with a forced measure requiring residential use to be restored, which in practice means relocating your head office.
This matters more in eastern Ho Chi Minh City than most foreign founders expect. The corridor along Pham Van Dong Street and National Highway 13 has a very high density of residential developments, and living in one does not entitle you to register a company in it.
The exception: in a mixed-use building, registration is permitted in the portion zoned and approved for commercial, business or office use. The test is the legal function of the specific floor area, not the name of the building.
b) Addresses that cannot be identified by administrative boundaries — incomplete addresses without street number, street, ward and city.
c) Addresses already flagged as high-risk by the tax authority, typically because previous occupants were declared not operating there.
1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
Having a lawful address is step one. You must also:
- Display your company signboard at the head office, branch, representative office and business locations — Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020. This is a legal obligation and, in practice, your single most important piece of evidence during a tax inspection.
- Remain reachable by post at the registered address.
- Cooperate with tax authority verification of your operating status.
- Register any change of head office within 10 days of the change.
Registration procedure now follows Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, effective 1 July 2025, which replaced Decree 01/2021/ND-CP and prioritises online submission through the National Public Service Portal.
2. WHY COMPANIES IN EASTERN HO CHI MINH CITY USE ONE
The eastern corridor — the area formerly known as Thu Duc City — has an economic profile quite unlike the centre, and that shapes the demand for a virtual office in Thu Duc.
2.1. The business mix works outside an office
The east concentrates logistics, transport, construction, building materials, manufacturing and distribution businesses. In all of these, the team is at a warehouse, on a site, in a plant or on the road. A fixed office sits empty most of the day, and the rent for it buys nothing.
2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
This corridor sits on the route toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai — a connection that became more significant when Ho Chi Minh City expanded its boundaries on 1 July 2025. Companies whose actual operations sit near the boundary, but who want a Ho Chi Minh City legal address on their documents, look here for an entirely practical reason: it is close to where the work happens and it is still a Ho Chi Minh City address on paper.
2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
The presence of the Hi-Tech Park, the industrial and export processing zones and a large university cluster produces a distinct population of technology, engineering and digital-services companies. These businesses seldom need physical office space, but they very much need a serious legal address for dealing with large corporate customers and with banks.
2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
That perception has not kept pace with the corridor’s urbanisation. Rents along the main axes have risen substantially. For a team of two to five people, the combination of rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet and furniture remains a large fixed cost with no corresponding benefit.
3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
This is the most important section of this article, and the reason most English-language information about Thu Duc is now misleading.
3.1. Thu Duc City no longer exists
Foreign readers researching Vietnam encounter a confusing sequence. Thu Duc City was created in 2021 by merging three districts, was widely promoted as Vietnam’s first “city within a city”, and was then abolished on 1 July 2025.
Under Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15 dated 16 June 2025 of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, Vietnam reorganised its commune-level administrative units and removed the district tier. Thu Duc City ceased to exist as a city under Ho Chi Minh City.
Its 34 former wards were reorganised into 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City: Hiep Binh, Thu Duc, Tam Binh, Linh Xuan, Tang Nhon Phu, Long Binh, Long Phuoc, Long Truong, Cat Lai, Binh Trung, Phuoc Long and An Khanh.
Note one detail that causes real confusion: “Thu Duc” still exists — but as the name of a ward, not a city. So when you read “an address in Thu Duc”, you now need to know whether the writer means the former city area or the present-day Thu Duc Ward.
3.2. Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward is now Hiep Binh Ward
Specifically for the area where Golden Star holds an address: under Clause 67, Article 1 of Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15, Hiep Binh Chanh Ward, Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward and part of Linh Dong Ward were reorganised into a new ward named Hiep Binh Ward.
The correct address under current administrative naming is therefore:
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (previously written as Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
3.3. Do you have to amend your company registration?
No — not for this reason. A great many companies filed unnecessary amendments in the second half of 2025.
Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a company’s registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. It may request an update when convenient, or alongside another amendment it is making anyway.
In plain terms: if your Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”, it remains valid. You do not need to redo it because of the reorganisation.
3.4. But new filings must use the current ward name
This is the distinction that costs time. If you are:
- Establishing a new company
- Setting up a branch, representative office or business location
- Amending your enterprise registration for any reason
- Filing an investment registration application
then the address must be written using the current administrative unit name. Filing with a ward name that has been abolished will attract a supplementary request, and each supplementary request costs roughly a week.
3.5. How to tell whether a provider is current
If a provider is still issuing lease agreements that say “Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City” at this point, they are working from an outdated template and are not tracking legal change. For a service whose entire value lies in the legal accuracy of the documents it produces, that is worth noticing before you sign.
4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
4.1. The landlord will not permit business registration
Common with shophouses and properties in residential areas. Ordinary Vietnamese residential leases do not permit business registration; landlords are reluctant to trigger rental income tax obligations or attract inspections. Even where a landlord agrees, many will not release a copy of the land use right certificate — leaving your file without supporting evidence and in a loop of supplementary requests.
4.2. Registering at a condominium apartment — an immediate rejection
As explained in 1.3. Given the density of residential development along Pham Van Dong, National Highway 13 and the riverfront, this is a recurring error. If the registration has already been made, the exposure is VND 20–40 million plus a forced relocation.
4.3. A house address down a lane — a disadvantage where it counts
Eastern-corridor businesses in construction, materials and logistics submit capability documents for tenders and files for bank facilities more often than most. An address in a narrow lane is a disadvantage against competitors — not a legal problem, but an assessment problem.
4.4. Writing an abolished ward name
The direct consequence of section 3. If your address provider issues documents with the old ward name, you are the one who loses the week.
4.5. The biggest risk: being declared “not operating at the registered address”
This is the risk foreign owners underestimate most, because it has no close equivalent in many home jurisdictions.
How it is triggered. Under Article 17 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, where the tax authority sends a document by post and it is returned because nobody received it or the address does not exist — or where the taxpayer fails to file returns after a second notice — the taxpayer is moved to a status of “pending verification of operating status at the registered address.” The tax authority then coordinates with the commune-level People’s Committee and the police to verify the premises in person and record the findings. If there is no signboard and nobody present, the company is declared “not operating at the registered address.”
What follows is a chain reaction:
- E-invoices can no longer be issued — you cannot invoice customers, which effectively stops revenue
- Tax returns can no longer be filed
- No amendment to the enterprise registration can be processed
- The company is published on the tax authority’s public list, visible to banks and counterparties
- Revocation of the Enterprise Registration Certificate may be requested
- Even voluntary dissolution is blocked: under Clause 3, Article 14 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, a company in this status must first attend its managing tax office to complete its tax obligations and terminate the validity of its tax code
- For a foreign-invested company the damage runs past the local operation: blocked invoicing and a public non-operating status complicate profit repatriation, audit sign-off and reporting to the parent company.
The enforcement climate in 2026. Vietnam’s tax sector is running a “tax code clean-up” campaign. Under Official Telegram No. 18, issued by the Tax Department on 13 July 2026, tax offices were instructed to deal with 325,500 enterprises that are not operating at their registered address and owe tax; where a company has not operated for a year or more without notification, the tax office requests that the business registration authority handle the violation and revoke the Enterprise Registration Certificate. A further 291,962 enterprises that ceased operations without completing dissolution were required to finalise their obligations. From 1 July 2026, tax authorities may request the opening of bankruptcy proceedings against companies that owe tax and have abandoned their registered address for more than three years.
The practical conclusion: an address that exists only on paper is no longer a workable arrangement. Your registered address must receive post, display a signboard and produce a person when verification arrives.
4.6. Choosing a weak provider
Warning signs when leasing a virtual office in Thu Duc:
- The address is a residential condominium apartment — non-compliant from day one
- No signboard permitted — a breach of Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020, and the loss of your best evidence during inspection
- Nobody on site to receive post — tax letters are returned and you never learn of it
- A thin lease with no proof of the lessor’s lawful right to the premises
- Documents issued with abolished administrative unit names
- No professional capacity to respond when the tax authority asks for an explanation
5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company provides a virtual office in Thu Duc at a real address in the eastern corridor, structured around the risks described above.
5.1. What is included
a) Use of the leased address to register a company and to establish your head office, branch or representative office address.
b) The right to display your company signboard at the leased address — satisfying the obligation under Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and providing physical evidence of presence.
c) Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone and SMS. For a company whose decision-makers are overseas, this is the single most valuable component of the service.
d) Golden Star forwards mail and documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam (postal charges payable by the client).
e) You receive your own visitors at the leased premises.
f) A complete document pack — a properly drafted lease, the lessor’s proof of lawful right to the premises, and all documents issued using current administrative unit names.
5.2. How it works
Step 1 — Consultation. We advise on the address that fits your structure, your intended business lines and the specific file you will submit: domestic company, foreign-invested company, branch or representative office.
Step 2 — Agreement and document pack. You receive the lease agreement together with the supporting documents needed for your enterprise or investment registration file, written with the current ward name.
Step 3 — Filing. Golden Star prepares and submits the enterprise registration, investment registration, initial tax registration, e-invoice and digital signature applications.
Step 4 — Ongoing protection. Signboard displayed, correspondence received and reported to you immediately, and professional support whenever the tax authority verifies your operating status.
5.3. An important limitation we raise before you commit
Golden Star tells eastern-corridor clients something an address-only provider has no reason to mention: not every business line can operate from a registered address alone.
A virtual office suits services, consulting, trading, technology, e-commerce, investment holding and coordination activities. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to physical premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education and training, healthcare — the sub-licence process will require actual, inspectable facilities. A registered address will not carry it.
This matters disproportionately in the east, where manufacturing, logistics and warehousing are common, and where foreign investors are often drawn by the Hi-Tech Park and the industrial zones. Registering the business line on your certificate is permitted; operating it requires the condition to be met.
The failure surfaces late — after incorporation, when a sub-licence application requires premises that do not exist. We review your intended business lines before registration rather than after.
6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
From VND 550,000 (≈ US$21) per month, replacing rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet, furniture and reception. For a new company or one whose team works away from a desk, that saving goes straight to cash flow.
6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
Premises with a function suitable for company head office registration — not a residential condominium apartment. The Housing Law 2023 exposure is removed at the point of filing, before it can become a penalty.
6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
Your file is not returned over a ward name. It sounds trivial; in the present period it is one of the most common causes of a one- to two-week delay.
6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. In the current enforcement climate, one returned envelope is enough to start a verification process — and you should hear about it the same day, not months later.
6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
Your company signboard is displayed at the registered address — compliant with the law, and the evidence an inspection is looking for.
6.6. Flexibility
Work from anywhere; expand into a new area without building infrastructure. Your team can be at a warehouse, on site or remote while the legal address stays fixed.
6.7. A stable address
No forced relocation because a landlord sells the property or declines to renew — which avoids the entire downstream cost of an address change: the registration amendment, tax record and e-invoice updates, notifications to the bank, social insurance, partners and clients, and corrections to any tender documents already submitted.
6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
Clients using the virtual office can also use bookkeeping, tax declaration and finalisation, refunds, payroll, social insurance, e-invoicing and digital signatures — without coordinating several providers around one file.
6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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1.1. Definition
A virtual office is a service that leases you a real address for use as your company’s registered address, together with the minimum administrative services that address needs to function: the right to display your signboard, and the receipt and forwarding of your correspondence.
You obtain a full legal address for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, your invoices, your contracts and your bank file — without paying for floor space you will not occupy. What you are leasing is the right to use an address in a legal and administrative sense, not a room with a desk in it.
1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
Yes. This is the first question almost every foreign client asks, and the answer sits in Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020.
That article requires a company’s head office to be located within Vietnamese territory, to serve as the contact address of the enterprise, to be identifiable by administrative boundaries, and to have a telephone number, fax number and email address where applicable.
Read carefully, the provision is permissive rather than restrictive:
Not required by law
Required by law
That you own the premises
An address inside Vietnamese territory
That you lease an entire property
Identifiable by administrative boundaries
That you be the only company at the address
That the company can actually be reached there
That staff be physically present all day
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Three consequences follow, and together they are the entire legal basis of the model:
First, the head office is a contact address, not a mandated place of production. The law requires that you can be reached there — not that someone sits there for eight hours a day.
Second, nothing requires you to own premises or lease a whole property. Leasing an address for company registration is your right.
Third, nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. This is why the model exists in Vietnam, as it does in most jurisdictions.
1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
a) Residential apartments in condominium buildings. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023, in force since 1 January 2025, prohibits using a condominium apartment for any purpose other than residential. The penalty under Point e, Clause 1, Article 70 of Decree 16/2022/ND-CP is VND 20,000,000 to VND 40,000,000 — the rate applicable to individuals versus organisations being determined under Article 4 of that Decree — together with a forced measure requiring residential use to be restored, which in practice means relocating your head office.
This matters more in eastern Ho Chi Minh City than most foreign founders expect. The corridor along Pham Van Dong Street and National Highway 13 has a very high density of residential developments, and living in one does not entitle you to register a company in it.
The exception: in a mixed-use building, registration is permitted in the portion zoned and approved for commercial, business or office use. The test is the legal function of the specific floor area, not the name of the building.
b) Addresses that cannot be identified by administrative boundaries — incomplete addresses without street number, street, ward and city.
c) Addresses already flagged as high-risk by the tax authority, typically because previous occupants were declared not operating there.
1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
Having a lawful address is step one. You must also:
- Display your company signboard at the head office, branch, representative office and business locations — Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020. This is a legal obligation and, in practice, your single most important piece of evidence during a tax inspection.
- Remain reachable by post at the registered address.
- Cooperate with tax authority verification of your operating status.
- Register any change of head office within 10 days of the change.
Registration procedure now follows Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, effective 1 July 2025, which replaced Decree 01/2021/ND-CP and prioritises online submission through the National Public Service Portal.
2. WHY COMPANIES IN EASTERN HO CHI MINH CITY USE ONE
The eastern corridor — the area formerly known as Thu Duc City — has an economic profile quite unlike the centre, and that shapes the demand for a virtual office in Thu Duc.
2.1. The business mix works outside an office
The east concentrates logistics, transport, construction, building materials, manufacturing and distribution businesses. In all of these, the team is at a warehouse, on a site, in a plant or on the road. A fixed office sits empty most of the day, and the rent for it buys nothing.
2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
This corridor sits on the route toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai — a connection that became more significant when Ho Chi Minh City expanded its boundaries on 1 July 2025. Companies whose actual operations sit near the boundary, but who want a Ho Chi Minh City legal address on their documents, look here for an entirely practical reason: it is close to where the work happens and it is still a Ho Chi Minh City address on paper.
2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
The presence of the Hi-Tech Park, the industrial and export processing zones and a large university cluster produces a distinct population of technology, engineering and digital-services companies. These businesses seldom need physical office space, but they very much need a serious legal address for dealing with large corporate customers and with banks.
2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
That perception has not kept pace with the corridor’s urbanisation. Rents along the main axes have risen substantially. For a team of two to five people, the combination of rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet and furniture remains a large fixed cost with no corresponding benefit.
3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
This is the most important section of this article, and the reason most English-language information about Thu Duc is now misleading.
3.1. Thu Duc City no longer exists
Foreign readers researching Vietnam encounter a confusing sequence. Thu Duc City was created in 2021 by merging three districts, was widely promoted as Vietnam’s first “city within a city”, and was then abolished on 1 July 2025.
Under Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15 dated 16 June 2025 of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, Vietnam reorganised its commune-level administrative units and removed the district tier. Thu Duc City ceased to exist as a city under Ho Chi Minh City.
Its 34 former wards were reorganised into 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City: Hiep Binh, Thu Duc, Tam Binh, Linh Xuan, Tang Nhon Phu, Long Binh, Long Phuoc, Long Truong, Cat Lai, Binh Trung, Phuoc Long and An Khanh.
Note one detail that causes real confusion: “Thu Duc” still exists — but as the name of a ward, not a city. So when you read “an address in Thu Duc”, you now need to know whether the writer means the former city area or the present-day Thu Duc Ward.
3.2. Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward is now Hiep Binh Ward
Specifically for the area where Golden Star holds an address: under Clause 67, Article 1 of Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15, Hiep Binh Chanh Ward, Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward and part of Linh Dong Ward were reorganised into a new ward named Hiep Binh Ward.
The correct address under current administrative naming is therefore:
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (previously written as Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
3.3. Do you have to amend your company registration?
No — not for this reason. A great many companies filed unnecessary amendments in the second half of 2025.
Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a company’s registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. It may request an update when convenient, or alongside another amendment it is making anyway.
In plain terms: if your Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”, it remains valid. You do not need to redo it because of the reorganisation.
3.4. But new filings must use the current ward name
This is the distinction that costs time. If you are:
- Establishing a new company
- Setting up a branch, representative office or business location
- Amending your enterprise registration for any reason
- Filing an investment registration application
then the address must be written using the current administrative unit name. Filing with a ward name that has been abolished will attract a supplementary request, and each supplementary request costs roughly a week.
3.5. How to tell whether a provider is current
If a provider is still issuing lease agreements that say “Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City” at this point, they are working from an outdated template and are not tracking legal change. For a service whose entire value lies in the legal accuracy of the documents it produces, that is worth noticing before you sign.
4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
4.1. The landlord will not permit business registration
Common with shophouses and properties in residential areas. Ordinary Vietnamese residential leases do not permit business registration; landlords are reluctant to trigger rental income tax obligations or attract inspections. Even where a landlord agrees, many will not release a copy of the land use right certificate — leaving your file without supporting evidence and in a loop of supplementary requests.
4.2. Registering at a condominium apartment — an immediate rejection
As explained in 1.3. Given the density of residential development along Pham Van Dong, National Highway 13 and the riverfront, this is a recurring error. If the registration has already been made, the exposure is VND 20–40 million plus a forced relocation.
4.3. A house address down a lane — a disadvantage where it counts
Eastern-corridor businesses in construction, materials and logistics submit capability documents for tenders and files for bank facilities more often than most. An address in a narrow lane is a disadvantage against competitors — not a legal problem, but an assessment problem.
4.4. Writing an abolished ward name
The direct consequence of section 3. If your address provider issues documents with the old ward name, you are the one who loses the week.
4.5. The biggest risk: being declared “not operating at the registered address”
This is the risk foreign owners underestimate most, because it has no close equivalent in many home jurisdictions.
How it is triggered. Under Article 17 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, where the tax authority sends a document by post and it is returned because nobody received it or the address does not exist — or where the taxpayer fails to file returns after a second notice — the taxpayer is moved to a status of “pending verification of operating status at the registered address.” The tax authority then coordinates with the commune-level People’s Committee and the police to verify the premises in person and record the findings. If there is no signboard and nobody present, the company is declared “not operating at the registered address.”
What follows is a chain reaction:
- E-invoices can no longer be issued — you cannot invoice customers, which effectively stops revenue
- Tax returns can no longer be filed
- No amendment to the enterprise registration can be processed
- The company is published on the tax authority’s public list, visible to banks and counterparties
- Revocation of the Enterprise Registration Certificate may be requested
- Even voluntary dissolution is blocked: under Clause 3, Article 14 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, a company in this status must first attend its managing tax office to complete its tax obligations and terminate the validity of its tax code
- For a foreign-invested company the damage runs past the local operation: blocked invoicing and a public non-operating status complicate profit repatriation, audit sign-off and reporting to the parent company.
The enforcement climate in 2026. Vietnam’s tax sector is running a “tax code clean-up” campaign. Under Official Telegram No. 18, issued by the Tax Department on 13 July 2026, tax offices were instructed to deal with 325,500 enterprises that are not operating at their registered address and owe tax; where a company has not operated for a year or more without notification, the tax office requests that the business registration authority handle the violation and revoke the Enterprise Registration Certificate. A further 291,962 enterprises that ceased operations without completing dissolution were required to finalise their obligations. From 1 July 2026, tax authorities may request the opening of bankruptcy proceedings against companies that owe tax and have abandoned their registered address for more than three years.
The practical conclusion: an address that exists only on paper is no longer a workable arrangement. Your registered address must receive post, display a signboard and produce a person when verification arrives.
4.6. Choosing a weak provider
Warning signs when leasing a virtual office in Thu Duc:
- The address is a residential condominium apartment — non-compliant from day one
- No signboard permitted — a breach of Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020, and the loss of your best evidence during inspection
- Nobody on site to receive post — tax letters are returned and you never learn of it
- A thin lease with no proof of the lessor’s lawful right to the premises
- Documents issued with abolished administrative unit names
- No professional capacity to respond when the tax authority asks for an explanation
5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company provides a virtual office in Thu Duc at a real address in the eastern corridor, structured around the risks described above.
5.1. What is included
a) Use of the leased address to register a company and to establish your head office, branch or representative office address.
b) The right to display your company signboard at the leased address — satisfying the obligation under Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and providing physical evidence of presence.
c) Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone and SMS. For a company whose decision-makers are overseas, this is the single most valuable component of the service.
d) Golden Star forwards mail and documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam (postal charges payable by the client).
e) You receive your own visitors at the leased premises.
f) A complete document pack — a properly drafted lease, the lessor’s proof of lawful right to the premises, and all documents issued using current administrative unit names.
5.2. How it works
Step 1 — Consultation. We advise on the address that fits your structure, your intended business lines and the specific file you will submit: domestic company, foreign-invested company, branch or representative office.
Step 2 — Agreement and document pack. You receive the lease agreement together with the supporting documents needed for your enterprise or investment registration file, written with the current ward name.
Step 3 — Filing. Golden Star prepares and submits the enterprise registration, investment registration, initial tax registration, e-invoice and digital signature applications.
Step 4 — Ongoing protection. Signboard displayed, correspondence received and reported to you immediately, and professional support whenever the tax authority verifies your operating status.
5.3. An important limitation we raise before you commit
Golden Star tells eastern-corridor clients something an address-only provider has no reason to mention: not every business line can operate from a registered address alone.
A virtual office suits services, consulting, trading, technology, e-commerce, investment holding and coordination activities. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to physical premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education and training, healthcare — the sub-licence process will require actual, inspectable facilities. A registered address will not carry it.
This matters disproportionately in the east, where manufacturing, logistics and warehousing are common, and where foreign investors are often drawn by the Hi-Tech Park and the industrial zones. Registering the business line on your certificate is permitted; operating it requires the condition to be met.
The failure surfaces late — after incorporation, when a sub-licence application requires premises that do not exist. We review your intended business lines before registration rather than after.
6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
From VND 550,000 (≈ US$21) per month, replacing rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet, furniture and reception. For a new company or one whose team works away from a desk, that saving goes straight to cash flow.
6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
Premises with a function suitable for company head office registration — not a residential condominium apartment. The Housing Law 2023 exposure is removed at the point of filing, before it can become a penalty.
6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
Your file is not returned over a ward name. It sounds trivial; in the present period it is one of the most common causes of a one- to two-week delay.
6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. In the current enforcement climate, one returned envelope is enough to start a verification process — and you should hear about it the same day, not months later.
6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
Your company signboard is displayed at the registered address — compliant with the law, and the evidence an inspection is looking for.
6.6. Flexibility
Work from anywhere; expand into a new area without building infrastructure. Your team can be at a warehouse, on site or remote while the legal address stays fixed.
6.7. A stable address
No forced relocation because a landlord sells the property or declines to renew — which avoids the entire downstream cost of an address change: the registration amendment, tax record and e-invoice updates, notifications to the bank, social insurance, partners and clients, and corrections to any tender documents already submitted.
6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
Clients using the virtual office can also use bookkeeping, tax declaration and finalisation, refunds, payroll, social insurance, e-invoicing and digital signatures — without coordinating several providers around one file.
6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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A virtual office is a service that leases you a real address for use as your company’s registered address, together with the minimum administrative services that address needs to function: the right to display your signboard, and the receipt and forwarding of your correspondence.
You obtain a full legal address for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, your invoices, your contracts and your bank file — without paying for floor space you will not occupy. What you are leasing is the right to use an address in a legal and administrative sense, not a room with a desk in it.
1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
Yes. This is the first question almost every foreign client asks, and the answer sits in Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020.
That article requires a company’s head office to be located within Vietnamese territory, to serve as the contact address of the enterprise, to be identifiable by administrative boundaries, and to have a telephone number, fax number and email address where applicable.
Read carefully, the provision is permissive rather than restrictive:
Not required by law
Required by law
That you own the premises
An address inside Vietnamese territory
That you lease an entire property
Identifiable by administrative boundaries
That you be the only company at the address
That the company can actually be reached there
That staff be physically present all day
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Three consequences follow, and together they are the entire legal basis of the model:
First, the head office is a contact address, not a mandated place of production. The law requires that you can be reached there — not that someone sits there for eight hours a day.
Second, nothing requires you to own premises or lease a whole property. Leasing an address for company registration is your right.
Third, nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. This is why the model exists in Vietnam, as it does in most jurisdictions.
1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
a) Residential apartments in condominium buildings. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023, in force since 1 January 2025, prohibits using a condominium apartment for any purpose other than residential. The penalty under Point e, Clause 1, Article 70 of Decree 16/2022/ND-CP is VND 20,000,000 to VND 40,000,000 — the rate applicable to individuals versus organisations being determined under Article 4 of that Decree — together with a forced measure requiring residential use to be restored, which in practice means relocating your head office.
This matters more in eastern Ho Chi Minh City than most foreign founders expect. The corridor along Pham Van Dong Street and National Highway 13 has a very high density of residential developments, and living in one does not entitle you to register a company in it.
The exception: in a mixed-use building, registration is permitted in the portion zoned and approved for commercial, business or office use. The test is the legal function of the specific floor area, not the name of the building.
b) Addresses that cannot be identified by administrative boundaries — incomplete addresses without street number, street, ward and city.
c) Addresses already flagged as high-risk by the tax authority, typically because previous occupants were declared not operating there.
1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
Having a lawful address is step one. You must also:
- Display your company signboard at the head office, branch, representative office and business locations — Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020. This is a legal obligation and, in practice, your single most important piece of evidence during a tax inspection.
- Remain reachable by post at the registered address.
- Cooperate with tax authority verification of your operating status.
- Register any change of head office within 10 days of the change.
Registration procedure now follows Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, effective 1 July 2025, which replaced Decree 01/2021/ND-CP and prioritises online submission through the National Public Service Portal.
2. WHY COMPANIES IN EASTERN HO CHI MINH CITY USE ONE
The eastern corridor — the area formerly known as Thu Duc City — has an economic profile quite unlike the centre, and that shapes the demand for a virtual office in Thu Duc.
2.1. The business mix works outside an office
The east concentrates logistics, transport, construction, building materials, manufacturing and distribution businesses. In all of these, the team is at a warehouse, on a site, in a plant or on the road. A fixed office sits empty most of the day, and the rent for it buys nothing.
2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
This corridor sits on the route toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai — a connection that became more significant when Ho Chi Minh City expanded its boundaries on 1 July 2025. Companies whose actual operations sit near the boundary, but who want a Ho Chi Minh City legal address on their documents, look here for an entirely practical reason: it is close to where the work happens and it is still a Ho Chi Minh City address on paper.
2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
The presence of the Hi-Tech Park, the industrial and export processing zones and a large university cluster produces a distinct population of technology, engineering and digital-services companies. These businesses seldom need physical office space, but they very much need a serious legal address for dealing with large corporate customers and with banks.
2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
That perception has not kept pace with the corridor’s urbanisation. Rents along the main axes have risen substantially. For a team of two to five people, the combination of rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet and furniture remains a large fixed cost with no corresponding benefit.
3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
This is the most important section of this article, and the reason most English-language information about Thu Duc is now misleading.
3.1. Thu Duc City no longer exists
Foreign readers researching Vietnam encounter a confusing sequence. Thu Duc City was created in 2021 by merging three districts, was widely promoted as Vietnam’s first “city within a city”, and was then abolished on 1 July 2025.
Under Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15 dated 16 June 2025 of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, Vietnam reorganised its commune-level administrative units and removed the district tier. Thu Duc City ceased to exist as a city under Ho Chi Minh City.
Its 34 former wards were reorganised into 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City: Hiep Binh, Thu Duc, Tam Binh, Linh Xuan, Tang Nhon Phu, Long Binh, Long Phuoc, Long Truong, Cat Lai, Binh Trung, Phuoc Long and An Khanh.
Note one detail that causes real confusion: “Thu Duc” still exists — but as the name of a ward, not a city. So when you read “an address in Thu Duc”, you now need to know whether the writer means the former city area or the present-day Thu Duc Ward.
3.2. Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward is now Hiep Binh Ward
Specifically for the area where Golden Star holds an address: under Clause 67, Article 1 of Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15, Hiep Binh Chanh Ward, Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward and part of Linh Dong Ward were reorganised into a new ward named Hiep Binh Ward.
The correct address under current administrative naming is therefore:
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (previously written as Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
3.3. Do you have to amend your company registration?
No — not for this reason. A great many companies filed unnecessary amendments in the second half of 2025.
Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a company’s registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. It may request an update when convenient, or alongside another amendment it is making anyway.
In plain terms: if your Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”, it remains valid. You do not need to redo it because of the reorganisation.
3.4. But new filings must use the current ward name
This is the distinction that costs time. If you are:
- Establishing a new company
- Setting up a branch, representative office or business location
- Amending your enterprise registration for any reason
- Filing an investment registration application
then the address must be written using the current administrative unit name. Filing with a ward name that has been abolished will attract a supplementary request, and each supplementary request costs roughly a week.
3.5. How to tell whether a provider is current
If a provider is still issuing lease agreements that say “Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City” at this point, they are working from an outdated template and are not tracking legal change. For a service whose entire value lies in the legal accuracy of the documents it produces, that is worth noticing before you sign.
4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
4.1. The landlord will not permit business registration
Common with shophouses and properties in residential areas. Ordinary Vietnamese residential leases do not permit business registration; landlords are reluctant to trigger rental income tax obligations or attract inspections. Even where a landlord agrees, many will not release a copy of the land use right certificate — leaving your file without supporting evidence and in a loop of supplementary requests.
4.2. Registering at a condominium apartment — an immediate rejection
As explained in 1.3. Given the density of residential development along Pham Van Dong, National Highway 13 and the riverfront, this is a recurring error. If the registration has already been made, the exposure is VND 20–40 million plus a forced relocation.
4.3. A house address down a lane — a disadvantage where it counts
Eastern-corridor businesses in construction, materials and logistics submit capability documents for tenders and files for bank facilities more often than most. An address in a narrow lane is a disadvantage against competitors — not a legal problem, but an assessment problem.
4.4. Writing an abolished ward name
The direct consequence of section 3. If your address provider issues documents with the old ward name, you are the one who loses the week.
4.5. The biggest risk: being declared “not operating at the registered address”
This is the risk foreign owners underestimate most, because it has no close equivalent in many home jurisdictions.
How it is triggered. Under Article 17 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, where the tax authority sends a document by post and it is returned because nobody received it or the address does not exist — or where the taxpayer fails to file returns after a second notice — the taxpayer is moved to a status of “pending verification of operating status at the registered address.” The tax authority then coordinates with the commune-level People’s Committee and the police to verify the premises in person and record the findings. If there is no signboard and nobody present, the company is declared “not operating at the registered address.”
What follows is a chain reaction:
- E-invoices can no longer be issued — you cannot invoice customers, which effectively stops revenue
- Tax returns can no longer be filed
- No amendment to the enterprise registration can be processed
- The company is published on the tax authority’s public list, visible to banks and counterparties
- Revocation of the Enterprise Registration Certificate may be requested
- Even voluntary dissolution is blocked: under Clause 3, Article 14 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, a company in this status must first attend its managing tax office to complete its tax obligations and terminate the validity of its tax code
- For a foreign-invested company the damage runs past the local operation: blocked invoicing and a public non-operating status complicate profit repatriation, audit sign-off and reporting to the parent company.
The enforcement climate in 2026. Vietnam’s tax sector is running a “tax code clean-up” campaign. Under Official Telegram No. 18, issued by the Tax Department on 13 July 2026, tax offices were instructed to deal with 325,500 enterprises that are not operating at their registered address and owe tax; where a company has not operated for a year or more without notification, the tax office requests that the business registration authority handle the violation and revoke the Enterprise Registration Certificate. A further 291,962 enterprises that ceased operations without completing dissolution were required to finalise their obligations. From 1 July 2026, tax authorities may request the opening of bankruptcy proceedings against companies that owe tax and have abandoned their registered address for more than three years.
The practical conclusion: an address that exists only on paper is no longer a workable arrangement. Your registered address must receive post, display a signboard and produce a person when verification arrives.
4.6. Choosing a weak provider
Warning signs when leasing a virtual office in Thu Duc:
- The address is a residential condominium apartment — non-compliant from day one
- No signboard permitted — a breach of Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020, and the loss of your best evidence during inspection
- Nobody on site to receive post — tax letters are returned and you never learn of it
- A thin lease with no proof of the lessor’s lawful right to the premises
- Documents issued with abolished administrative unit names
- No professional capacity to respond when the tax authority asks for an explanation
5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company provides a virtual office in Thu Duc at a real address in the eastern corridor, structured around the risks described above.
5.1. What is included
a) Use of the leased address to register a company and to establish your head office, branch or representative office address.
b) The right to display your company signboard at the leased address — satisfying the obligation under Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and providing physical evidence of presence.
c) Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone and SMS. For a company whose decision-makers are overseas, this is the single most valuable component of the service.
d) Golden Star forwards mail and documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam (postal charges payable by the client).
e) You receive your own visitors at the leased premises.
f) A complete document pack — a properly drafted lease, the lessor’s proof of lawful right to the premises, and all documents issued using current administrative unit names.
5.2. How it works
Step 1 — Consultation. We advise on the address that fits your structure, your intended business lines and the specific file you will submit: domestic company, foreign-invested company, branch or representative office.
Step 2 — Agreement and document pack. You receive the lease agreement together with the supporting documents needed for your enterprise or investment registration file, written with the current ward name.
Step 3 — Filing. Golden Star prepares and submits the enterprise registration, investment registration, initial tax registration, e-invoice and digital signature applications.
Step 4 — Ongoing protection. Signboard displayed, correspondence received and reported to you immediately, and professional support whenever the tax authority verifies your operating status.
5.3. An important limitation we raise before you commit
Golden Star tells eastern-corridor clients something an address-only provider has no reason to mention: not every business line can operate from a registered address alone.
A virtual office suits services, consulting, trading, technology, e-commerce, investment holding and coordination activities. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to physical premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education and training, healthcare — the sub-licence process will require actual, inspectable facilities. A registered address will not carry it.
This matters disproportionately in the east, where manufacturing, logistics and warehousing are common, and where foreign investors are often drawn by the Hi-Tech Park and the industrial zones. Registering the business line on your certificate is permitted; operating it requires the condition to be met.
The failure surfaces late — after incorporation, when a sub-licence application requires premises that do not exist. We review your intended business lines before registration rather than after.
6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
From VND 550,000 (≈ US$21) per month, replacing rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet, furniture and reception. For a new company or one whose team works away from a desk, that saving goes straight to cash flow.
6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
Premises with a function suitable for company head office registration — not a residential condominium apartment. The Housing Law 2023 exposure is removed at the point of filing, before it can become a penalty.
6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
Your file is not returned over a ward name. It sounds trivial; in the present period it is one of the most common causes of a one- to two-week delay.
6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. In the current enforcement climate, one returned envelope is enough to start a verification process — and you should hear about it the same day, not months later.
6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
Your company signboard is displayed at the registered address — compliant with the law, and the evidence an inspection is looking for.
6.6. Flexibility
Work from anywhere; expand into a new area without building infrastructure. Your team can be at a warehouse, on site or remote while the legal address stays fixed.
6.7. A stable address
No forced relocation because a landlord sells the property or declines to renew — which avoids the entire downstream cost of an address change: the registration amendment, tax record and e-invoice updates, notifications to the bank, social insurance, partners and clients, and corrections to any tender documents already submitted.
6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
Clients using the virtual office can also use bookkeeping, tax declaration and finalisation, refunds, payroll, social insurance, e-invoicing and digital signatures — without coordinating several providers around one file.
6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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Yes. This is the first question almost every foreign client asks, and the answer sits in Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020.
That article requires a company’s head office to be located within Vietnamese territory, to serve as the contact address of the enterprise, to be identifiable by administrative boundaries, and to have a telephone number, fax number and email address where applicable.
Read carefully, the provision is permissive rather than restrictive:
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Not required by law |
Required by law |
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That you own the premises |
An address inside Vietnamese territory |
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That you lease an entire property |
Identifiable by administrative boundaries |
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That you be the only company at the address |
That the company can actually be reached there |
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That staff be physically present all day |
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Three consequences follow, and together they are the entire legal basis of the model:
First, the head office is a contact address, not a mandated place of production. The law requires that you can be reached there — not that someone sits there for eight hours a day.
Second, nothing requires you to own premises or lease a whole property. Leasing an address for company registration is your right.
Third, nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. This is why the model exists in Vietnam, as it does in most jurisdictions.
1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
a) Residential apartments in condominium buildings. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023, in force since 1 January 2025, prohibits using a condominium apartment for any purpose other than residential. The penalty under Point e, Clause 1, Article 70 of Decree 16/2022/ND-CP is VND 20,000,000 to VND 40,000,000 — the rate applicable to individuals versus organisations being determined under Article 4 of that Decree — together with a forced measure requiring residential use to be restored, which in practice means relocating your head office.
This matters more in eastern Ho Chi Minh City than most foreign founders expect. The corridor along Pham Van Dong Street and National Highway 13 has a very high density of residential developments, and living in one does not entitle you to register a company in it.
The exception: in a mixed-use building, registration is permitted in the portion zoned and approved for commercial, business or office use. The test is the legal function of the specific floor area, not the name of the building.
b) Addresses that cannot be identified by administrative boundaries — incomplete addresses without street number, street, ward and city.
c) Addresses already flagged as high-risk by the tax authority, typically because previous occupants were declared not operating there.
1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
Having a lawful address is step one. You must also:
- Display your company signboard at the head office, branch, representative office and business locations — Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020. This is a legal obligation and, in practice, your single most important piece of evidence during a tax inspection.
- Remain reachable by post at the registered address.
- Cooperate with tax authority verification of your operating status.
- Register any change of head office within 10 days of the change.
Registration procedure now follows Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, effective 1 July 2025, which replaced Decree 01/2021/ND-CP and prioritises online submission through the National Public Service Portal.
2. WHY COMPANIES IN EASTERN HO CHI MINH CITY USE ONE
The eastern corridor — the area formerly known as Thu Duc City — has an economic profile quite unlike the centre, and that shapes the demand for a virtual office in Thu Duc.
2.1. The business mix works outside an office
The east concentrates logistics, transport, construction, building materials, manufacturing and distribution businesses. In all of these, the team is at a warehouse, on a site, in a plant or on the road. A fixed office sits empty most of the day, and the rent for it buys nothing.
2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
This corridor sits on the route toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai — a connection that became more significant when Ho Chi Minh City expanded its boundaries on 1 July 2025. Companies whose actual operations sit near the boundary, but who want a Ho Chi Minh City legal address on their documents, look here for an entirely practical reason: it is close to where the work happens and it is still a Ho Chi Minh City address on paper.
2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
The presence of the Hi-Tech Park, the industrial and export processing zones and a large university cluster produces a distinct population of technology, engineering and digital-services companies. These businesses seldom need physical office space, but they very much need a serious legal address for dealing with large corporate customers and with banks.
2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
That perception has not kept pace with the corridor’s urbanisation. Rents along the main axes have risen substantially. For a team of two to five people, the combination of rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet and furniture remains a large fixed cost with no corresponding benefit.
3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
This is the most important section of this article, and the reason most English-language information about Thu Duc is now misleading.
3.1. Thu Duc City no longer exists
Foreign readers researching Vietnam encounter a confusing sequence. Thu Duc City was created in 2021 by merging three districts, was widely promoted as Vietnam’s first “city within a city”, and was then abolished on 1 July 2025.
Under Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15 dated 16 June 2025 of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, Vietnam reorganised its commune-level administrative units and removed the district tier. Thu Duc City ceased to exist as a city under Ho Chi Minh City.
Its 34 former wards were reorganised into 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City: Hiep Binh, Thu Duc, Tam Binh, Linh Xuan, Tang Nhon Phu, Long Binh, Long Phuoc, Long Truong, Cat Lai, Binh Trung, Phuoc Long and An Khanh.
Note one detail that causes real confusion: “Thu Duc” still exists — but as the name of a ward, not a city. So when you read “an address in Thu Duc”, you now need to know whether the writer means the former city area or the present-day Thu Duc Ward.
3.2. Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward is now Hiep Binh Ward
Specifically for the area where Golden Star holds an address: under Clause 67, Article 1 of Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15, Hiep Binh Chanh Ward, Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward and part of Linh Dong Ward were reorganised into a new ward named Hiep Binh Ward.
The correct address under current administrative naming is therefore:
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (previously written as Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
3.3. Do you have to amend your company registration?
No — not for this reason. A great many companies filed unnecessary amendments in the second half of 2025.
Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a company’s registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. It may request an update when convenient, or alongside another amendment it is making anyway.
In plain terms: if your Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”, it remains valid. You do not need to redo it because of the reorganisation.
3.4. But new filings must use the current ward name
This is the distinction that costs time. If you are:
- Establishing a new company
- Setting up a branch, representative office or business location
- Amending your enterprise registration for any reason
- Filing an investment registration application
then the address must be written using the current administrative unit name. Filing with a ward name that has been abolished will attract a supplementary request, and each supplementary request costs roughly a week.
3.5. How to tell whether a provider is current
If a provider is still issuing lease agreements that say “Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City” at this point, they are working from an outdated template and are not tracking legal change. For a service whose entire value lies in the legal accuracy of the documents it produces, that is worth noticing before you sign.
4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
4.1. The landlord will not permit business registration
Common with shophouses and properties in residential areas. Ordinary Vietnamese residential leases do not permit business registration; landlords are reluctant to trigger rental income tax obligations or attract inspections. Even where a landlord agrees, many will not release a copy of the land use right certificate — leaving your file without supporting evidence and in a loop of supplementary requests.
4.2. Registering at a condominium apartment — an immediate rejection
As explained in 1.3. Given the density of residential development along Pham Van Dong, National Highway 13 and the riverfront, this is a recurring error. If the registration has already been made, the exposure is VND 20–40 million plus a forced relocation.
4.3. A house address down a lane — a disadvantage where it counts
Eastern-corridor businesses in construction, materials and logistics submit capability documents for tenders and files for bank facilities more often than most. An address in a narrow lane is a disadvantage against competitors — not a legal problem, but an assessment problem.
4.4. Writing an abolished ward name
The direct consequence of section 3. If your address provider issues documents with the old ward name, you are the one who loses the week.
4.5. The biggest risk: being declared “not operating at the registered address”
This is the risk foreign owners underestimate most, because it has no close equivalent in many home jurisdictions.
How it is triggered. Under Article 17 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, where the tax authority sends a document by post and it is returned because nobody received it or the address does not exist — or where the taxpayer fails to file returns after a second notice — the taxpayer is moved to a status of “pending verification of operating status at the registered address.” The tax authority then coordinates with the commune-level People’s Committee and the police to verify the premises in person and record the findings. If there is no signboard and nobody present, the company is declared “not operating at the registered address.”
What follows is a chain reaction:
- E-invoices can no longer be issued — you cannot invoice customers, which effectively stops revenue
- Tax returns can no longer be filed
- No amendment to the enterprise registration can be processed
- The company is published on the tax authority’s public list, visible to banks and counterparties
- Revocation of the Enterprise Registration Certificate may be requested
- Even voluntary dissolution is blocked: under Clause 3, Article 14 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, a company in this status must first attend its managing tax office to complete its tax obligations and terminate the validity of its tax code
- For a foreign-invested company the damage runs past the local operation: blocked invoicing and a public non-operating status complicate profit repatriation, audit sign-off and reporting to the parent company.
The enforcement climate in 2026. Vietnam’s tax sector is running a “tax code clean-up” campaign. Under Official Telegram No. 18, issued by the Tax Department on 13 July 2026, tax offices were instructed to deal with 325,500 enterprises that are not operating at their registered address and owe tax; where a company has not operated for a year or more without notification, the tax office requests that the business registration authority handle the violation and revoke the Enterprise Registration Certificate. A further 291,962 enterprises that ceased operations without completing dissolution were required to finalise their obligations. From 1 July 2026, tax authorities may request the opening of bankruptcy proceedings against companies that owe tax and have abandoned their registered address for more than three years.
The practical conclusion: an address that exists only on paper is no longer a workable arrangement. Your registered address must receive post, display a signboard and produce a person when verification arrives.
4.6. Choosing a weak provider
Warning signs when leasing a virtual office in Thu Duc:
- The address is a residential condominium apartment — non-compliant from day one
- No signboard permitted — a breach of Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020, and the loss of your best evidence during inspection
- Nobody on site to receive post — tax letters are returned and you never learn of it
- A thin lease with no proof of the lessor’s lawful right to the premises
- Documents issued with abolished administrative unit names
- No professional capacity to respond when the tax authority asks for an explanation
5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company provides a virtual office in Thu Duc at a real address in the eastern corridor, structured around the risks described above.
5.1. What is included
a) Use of the leased address to register a company and to establish your head office, branch or representative office address.
b) The right to display your company signboard at the leased address — satisfying the obligation under Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and providing physical evidence of presence.
c) Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone and SMS. For a company whose decision-makers are overseas, this is the single most valuable component of the service.
d) Golden Star forwards mail and documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam (postal charges payable by the client).
e) You receive your own visitors at the leased premises.
f) A complete document pack — a properly drafted lease, the lessor’s proof of lawful right to the premises, and all documents issued using current administrative unit names.
5.2. How it works
Step 1 — Consultation. We advise on the address that fits your structure, your intended business lines and the specific file you will submit: domestic company, foreign-invested company, branch or representative office.
Step 2 — Agreement and document pack. You receive the lease agreement together with the supporting documents needed for your enterprise or investment registration file, written with the current ward name.
Step 3 — Filing. Golden Star prepares and submits the enterprise registration, investment registration, initial tax registration, e-invoice and digital signature applications.
Step 4 — Ongoing protection. Signboard displayed, correspondence received and reported to you immediately, and professional support whenever the tax authority verifies your operating status.
5.3. An important limitation we raise before you commit
Golden Star tells eastern-corridor clients something an address-only provider has no reason to mention: not every business line can operate from a registered address alone.
A virtual office suits services, consulting, trading, technology, e-commerce, investment holding and coordination activities. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to physical premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education and training, healthcare — the sub-licence process will require actual, inspectable facilities. A registered address will not carry it.
This matters disproportionately in the east, where manufacturing, logistics and warehousing are common, and where foreign investors are often drawn by the Hi-Tech Park and the industrial zones. Registering the business line on your certificate is permitted; operating it requires the condition to be met.
The failure surfaces late — after incorporation, when a sub-licence application requires premises that do not exist. We review your intended business lines before registration rather than after.
6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
From VND 550,000 (≈ US$21) per month, replacing rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet, furniture and reception. For a new company or one whose team works away from a desk, that saving goes straight to cash flow.
6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
Premises with a function suitable for company head office registration — not a residential condominium apartment. The Housing Law 2023 exposure is removed at the point of filing, before it can become a penalty.
6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
Your file is not returned over a ward name. It sounds trivial; in the present period it is one of the most common causes of a one- to two-week delay.
6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. In the current enforcement climate, one returned envelope is enough to start a verification process — and you should hear about it the same day, not months later.
6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
Your company signboard is displayed at the registered address — compliant with the law, and the evidence an inspection is looking for.
6.6. Flexibility
Work from anywhere; expand into a new area without building infrastructure. Your team can be at a warehouse, on site or remote while the legal address stays fixed.
6.7. A stable address
No forced relocation because a landlord sells the property or declines to renew — which avoids the entire downstream cost of an address change: the registration amendment, tax record and e-invoice updates, notifications to the bank, social insurance, partners and clients, and corrections to any tender documents already submitted.
6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
Clients using the virtual office can also use bookkeeping, tax declaration and finalisation, refunds, payroll, social insurance, e-invoicing and digital signatures — without coordinating several providers around one file.
6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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a) Residential apartments in condominium buildings. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023, in force since 1 January 2025, prohibits using a condominium apartment for any purpose other than residential. The penalty under Point e, Clause 1, Article 70 of Decree 16/2022/ND-CP is VND 20,000,000 to VND 40,000,000 — the rate applicable to individuals versus organisations being determined under Article 4 of that Decree — together with a forced measure requiring residential use to be restored, which in practice means relocating your head office.
This matters more in eastern Ho Chi Minh City than most foreign founders expect. The corridor along Pham Van Dong Street and National Highway 13 has a very high density of residential developments, and living in one does not entitle you to register a company in it.
The exception: in a mixed-use building, registration is permitted in the portion zoned and approved for commercial, business or office use. The test is the legal function of the specific floor area, not the name of the building.
b) Addresses that cannot be identified by administrative boundaries — incomplete addresses without street number, street, ward and city.
c) Addresses already flagged as high-risk by the tax authority, typically because previous occupants were declared not operating there.
1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
Having a lawful address is step one. You must also:
- Display your company signboard at the head office, branch, representative office and business locations — Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020. This is a legal obligation and, in practice, your single most important piece of evidence during a tax inspection.
- Remain reachable by post at the registered address.
- Cooperate with tax authority verification of your operating status.
- Register any change of head office within 10 days of the change.
Registration procedure now follows Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, effective 1 July 2025, which replaced Decree 01/2021/ND-CP and prioritises online submission through the National Public Service Portal.
2. WHY COMPANIES IN EASTERN HO CHI MINH CITY USE ONE
The eastern corridor — the area formerly known as Thu Duc City — has an economic profile quite unlike the centre, and that shapes the demand for a virtual office in Thu Duc.
2.1. The business mix works outside an office
The east concentrates logistics, transport, construction, building materials, manufacturing and distribution businesses. In all of these, the team is at a warehouse, on a site, in a plant or on the road. A fixed office sits empty most of the day, and the rent for it buys nothing.
2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
This corridor sits on the route toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai — a connection that became more significant when Ho Chi Minh City expanded its boundaries on 1 July 2025. Companies whose actual operations sit near the boundary, but who want a Ho Chi Minh City legal address on their documents, look here for an entirely practical reason: it is close to where the work happens and it is still a Ho Chi Minh City address on paper.
2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
The presence of the Hi-Tech Park, the industrial and export processing zones and a large university cluster produces a distinct population of technology, engineering and digital-services companies. These businesses seldom need physical office space, but they very much need a serious legal address for dealing with large corporate customers and with banks.
2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
That perception has not kept pace with the corridor’s urbanisation. Rents along the main axes have risen substantially. For a team of two to five people, the combination of rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet and furniture remains a large fixed cost with no corresponding benefit.
3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
This is the most important section of this article, and the reason most English-language information about Thu Duc is now misleading.
3.1. Thu Duc City no longer exists
Foreign readers researching Vietnam encounter a confusing sequence. Thu Duc City was created in 2021 by merging three districts, was widely promoted as Vietnam’s first “city within a city”, and was then abolished on 1 July 2025.
Under Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15 dated 16 June 2025 of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, Vietnam reorganised its commune-level administrative units and removed the district tier. Thu Duc City ceased to exist as a city under Ho Chi Minh City.
Its 34 former wards were reorganised into 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City: Hiep Binh, Thu Duc, Tam Binh, Linh Xuan, Tang Nhon Phu, Long Binh, Long Phuoc, Long Truong, Cat Lai, Binh Trung, Phuoc Long and An Khanh.
Note one detail that causes real confusion: “Thu Duc” still exists — but as the name of a ward, not a city. So when you read “an address in Thu Duc”, you now need to know whether the writer means the former city area or the present-day Thu Duc Ward.
3.2. Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward is now Hiep Binh Ward
Specifically for the area where Golden Star holds an address: under Clause 67, Article 1 of Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15, Hiep Binh Chanh Ward, Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward and part of Linh Dong Ward were reorganised into a new ward named Hiep Binh Ward.
The correct address under current administrative naming is therefore:
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (previously written as Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
3.3. Do you have to amend your company registration?
No — not for this reason. A great many companies filed unnecessary amendments in the second half of 2025.
Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a company’s registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. It may request an update when convenient, or alongside another amendment it is making anyway.
In plain terms: if your Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”, it remains valid. You do not need to redo it because of the reorganisation.
3.4. But new filings must use the current ward name
This is the distinction that costs time. If you are:
- Establishing a new company
- Setting up a branch, representative office or business location
- Amending your enterprise registration for any reason
- Filing an investment registration application
then the address must be written using the current administrative unit name. Filing with a ward name that has been abolished will attract a supplementary request, and each supplementary request costs roughly a week.
3.5. How to tell whether a provider is current
If a provider is still issuing lease agreements that say “Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City” at this point, they are working from an outdated template and are not tracking legal change. For a service whose entire value lies in the legal accuracy of the documents it produces, that is worth noticing before you sign.
4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
4.1. The landlord will not permit business registration
Common with shophouses and properties in residential areas. Ordinary Vietnamese residential leases do not permit business registration; landlords are reluctant to trigger rental income tax obligations or attract inspections. Even where a landlord agrees, many will not release a copy of the land use right certificate — leaving your file without supporting evidence and in a loop of supplementary requests.
4.2. Registering at a condominium apartment — an immediate rejection
As explained in 1.3. Given the density of residential development along Pham Van Dong, National Highway 13 and the riverfront, this is a recurring error. If the registration has already been made, the exposure is VND 20–40 million plus a forced relocation.
4.3. A house address down a lane — a disadvantage where it counts
Eastern-corridor businesses in construction, materials and logistics submit capability documents for tenders and files for bank facilities more often than most. An address in a narrow lane is a disadvantage against competitors — not a legal problem, but an assessment problem.
4.4. Writing an abolished ward name
The direct consequence of section 3. If your address provider issues documents with the old ward name, you are the one who loses the week.
4.5. The biggest risk: being declared “not operating at the registered address”
This is the risk foreign owners underestimate most, because it has no close equivalent in many home jurisdictions.
How it is triggered. Under Article 17 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, where the tax authority sends a document by post and it is returned because nobody received it or the address does not exist — or where the taxpayer fails to file returns after a second notice — the taxpayer is moved to a status of “pending verification of operating status at the registered address.” The tax authority then coordinates with the commune-level People’s Committee and the police to verify the premises in person and record the findings. If there is no signboard and nobody present, the company is declared “not operating at the registered address.”
What follows is a chain reaction:
- E-invoices can no longer be issued — you cannot invoice customers, which effectively stops revenue
- Tax returns can no longer be filed
- No amendment to the enterprise registration can be processed
- The company is published on the tax authority’s public list, visible to banks and counterparties
- Revocation of the Enterprise Registration Certificate may be requested
- Even voluntary dissolution is blocked: under Clause 3, Article 14 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, a company in this status must first attend its managing tax office to complete its tax obligations and terminate the validity of its tax code
- For a foreign-invested company the damage runs past the local operation: blocked invoicing and a public non-operating status complicate profit repatriation, audit sign-off and reporting to the parent company.
The enforcement climate in 2026. Vietnam’s tax sector is running a “tax code clean-up” campaign. Under Official Telegram No. 18, issued by the Tax Department on 13 July 2026, tax offices were instructed to deal with 325,500 enterprises that are not operating at their registered address and owe tax; where a company has not operated for a year or more without notification, the tax office requests that the business registration authority handle the violation and revoke the Enterprise Registration Certificate. A further 291,962 enterprises that ceased operations without completing dissolution were required to finalise their obligations. From 1 July 2026, tax authorities may request the opening of bankruptcy proceedings against companies that owe tax and have abandoned their registered address for more than three years.
The practical conclusion: an address that exists only on paper is no longer a workable arrangement. Your registered address must receive post, display a signboard and produce a person when verification arrives.
4.6. Choosing a weak provider
Warning signs when leasing a virtual office in Thu Duc:
- The address is a residential condominium apartment — non-compliant from day one
- No signboard permitted — a breach of Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020, and the loss of your best evidence during inspection
- Nobody on site to receive post — tax letters are returned and you never learn of it
- A thin lease with no proof of the lessor’s lawful right to the premises
- Documents issued with abolished administrative unit names
- No professional capacity to respond when the tax authority asks for an explanation
5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company provides a virtual office in Thu Duc at a real address in the eastern corridor, structured around the risks described above.
5.1. What is included
a) Use of the leased address to register a company and to establish your head office, branch or representative office address.
b) The right to display your company signboard at the leased address — satisfying the obligation under Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and providing physical evidence of presence.
c) Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone and SMS. For a company whose decision-makers are overseas, this is the single most valuable component of the service.
d) Golden Star forwards mail and documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam (postal charges payable by the client).
e) You receive your own visitors at the leased premises.
f) A complete document pack — a properly drafted lease, the lessor’s proof of lawful right to the premises, and all documents issued using current administrative unit names.
5.2. How it works
Step 1 — Consultation. We advise on the address that fits your structure, your intended business lines and the specific file you will submit: domestic company, foreign-invested company, branch or representative office.
Step 2 — Agreement and document pack. You receive the lease agreement together with the supporting documents needed for your enterprise or investment registration file, written with the current ward name.
Step 3 — Filing. Golden Star prepares and submits the enterprise registration, investment registration, initial tax registration, e-invoice and digital signature applications.
Step 4 — Ongoing protection. Signboard displayed, correspondence received and reported to you immediately, and professional support whenever the tax authority verifies your operating status.
5.3. An important limitation we raise before you commit
Golden Star tells eastern-corridor clients something an address-only provider has no reason to mention: not every business line can operate from a registered address alone.
A virtual office suits services, consulting, trading, technology, e-commerce, investment holding and coordination activities. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to physical premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education and training, healthcare — the sub-licence process will require actual, inspectable facilities. A registered address will not carry it.
This matters disproportionately in the east, where manufacturing, logistics and warehousing are common, and where foreign investors are often drawn by the Hi-Tech Park and the industrial zones. Registering the business line on your certificate is permitted; operating it requires the condition to be met.
The failure surfaces late — after incorporation, when a sub-licence application requires premises that do not exist. We review your intended business lines before registration rather than after.
6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
From VND 550,000 (≈ US$21) per month, replacing rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet, furniture and reception. For a new company or one whose team works away from a desk, that saving goes straight to cash flow.
6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
Premises with a function suitable for company head office registration — not a residential condominium apartment. The Housing Law 2023 exposure is removed at the point of filing, before it can become a penalty.
6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
Your file is not returned over a ward name. It sounds trivial; in the present period it is one of the most common causes of a one- to two-week delay.
6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. In the current enforcement climate, one returned envelope is enough to start a verification process — and you should hear about it the same day, not months later.
6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
Your company signboard is displayed at the registered address — compliant with the law, and the evidence an inspection is looking for.
6.6. Flexibility
Work from anywhere; expand into a new area without building infrastructure. Your team can be at a warehouse, on site or remote while the legal address stays fixed.
6.7. A stable address
No forced relocation because a landlord sells the property or declines to renew — which avoids the entire downstream cost of an address change: the registration amendment, tax record and e-invoice updates, notifications to the bank, social insurance, partners and clients, and corrections to any tender documents already submitted.
6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
Clients using the virtual office can also use bookkeeping, tax declaration and finalisation, refunds, payroll, social insurance, e-invoicing and digital signatures — without coordinating several providers around one file.
6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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Having a lawful address is step one. You must also:
- Display your company signboard at the head office, branch, representative office and business locations — Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020. This is a legal obligation and, in practice, your single most important piece of evidence during a tax inspection.
- Remain reachable by post at the registered address.
- Cooperate with tax authority verification of your operating status.
- Register any change of head office within 10 days of the change.
Registration procedure now follows Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, effective 1 July 2025, which replaced Decree 01/2021/ND-CP and prioritises online submission through the National Public Service Portal.
2. WHY COMPANIES IN EASTERN HO CHI MINH CITY USE ONE
The eastern corridor — the area formerly known as Thu Duc City — has an economic profile quite unlike the centre, and that shapes the demand for a virtual office in Thu Duc.
2.1. The business mix works outside an office
The east concentrates logistics, transport, construction, building materials, manufacturing and distribution businesses. In all of these, the team is at a warehouse, on a site, in a plant or on the road. A fixed office sits empty most of the day, and the rent for it buys nothing.
2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
This corridor sits on the route toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai — a connection that became more significant when Ho Chi Minh City expanded its boundaries on 1 July 2025. Companies whose actual operations sit near the boundary, but who want a Ho Chi Minh City legal address on their documents, look here for an entirely practical reason: it is close to where the work happens and it is still a Ho Chi Minh City address on paper.
2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
The presence of the Hi-Tech Park, the industrial and export processing zones and a large university cluster produces a distinct population of technology, engineering and digital-services companies. These businesses seldom need physical office space, but they very much need a serious legal address for dealing with large corporate customers and with banks.
2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
That perception has not kept pace with the corridor’s urbanisation. Rents along the main axes have risen substantially. For a team of two to five people, the combination of rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet and furniture remains a large fixed cost with no corresponding benefit.
3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
This is the most important section of this article, and the reason most English-language information about Thu Duc is now misleading.
3.1. Thu Duc City no longer exists
Foreign readers researching Vietnam encounter a confusing sequence. Thu Duc City was created in 2021 by merging three districts, was widely promoted as Vietnam’s first “city within a city”, and was then abolished on 1 July 2025.
Under Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15 dated 16 June 2025 of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, Vietnam reorganised its commune-level administrative units and removed the district tier. Thu Duc City ceased to exist as a city under Ho Chi Minh City.
Its 34 former wards were reorganised into 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City: Hiep Binh, Thu Duc, Tam Binh, Linh Xuan, Tang Nhon Phu, Long Binh, Long Phuoc, Long Truong, Cat Lai, Binh Trung, Phuoc Long and An Khanh.
Note one detail that causes real confusion: “Thu Duc” still exists — but as the name of a ward, not a city. So when you read “an address in Thu Duc”, you now need to know whether the writer means the former city area or the present-day Thu Duc Ward.
3.2. Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward is now Hiep Binh Ward
Specifically for the area where Golden Star holds an address: under Clause 67, Article 1 of Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15, Hiep Binh Chanh Ward, Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward and part of Linh Dong Ward were reorganised into a new ward named Hiep Binh Ward.
The correct address under current administrative naming is therefore:
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (previously written as Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
3.3. Do you have to amend your company registration?
No — not for this reason. A great many companies filed unnecessary amendments in the second half of 2025.
Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a company’s registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. It may request an update when convenient, or alongside another amendment it is making anyway.
In plain terms: if your Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”, it remains valid. You do not need to redo it because of the reorganisation.
3.4. But new filings must use the current ward name
This is the distinction that costs time. If you are:
- Establishing a new company
- Setting up a branch, representative office or business location
- Amending your enterprise registration for any reason
- Filing an investment registration application
then the address must be written using the current administrative unit name. Filing with a ward name that has been abolished will attract a supplementary request, and each supplementary request costs roughly a week.
3.5. How to tell whether a provider is current
If a provider is still issuing lease agreements that say “Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City” at this point, they are working from an outdated template and are not tracking legal change. For a service whose entire value lies in the legal accuracy of the documents it produces, that is worth noticing before you sign.
4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
4.1. The landlord will not permit business registration
Common with shophouses and properties in residential areas. Ordinary Vietnamese residential leases do not permit business registration; landlords are reluctant to trigger rental income tax obligations or attract inspections. Even where a landlord agrees, many will not release a copy of the land use right certificate — leaving your file without supporting evidence and in a loop of supplementary requests.
4.2. Registering at a condominium apartment — an immediate rejection
As explained in 1.3. Given the density of residential development along Pham Van Dong, National Highway 13 and the riverfront, this is a recurring error. If the registration has already been made, the exposure is VND 20–40 million plus a forced relocation.
4.3. A house address down a lane — a disadvantage where it counts
Eastern-corridor businesses in construction, materials and logistics submit capability documents for tenders and files for bank facilities more often than most. An address in a narrow lane is a disadvantage against competitors — not a legal problem, but an assessment problem.
4.4. Writing an abolished ward name
The direct consequence of section 3. If your address provider issues documents with the old ward name, you are the one who loses the week.
4.5. The biggest risk: being declared “not operating at the registered address”
This is the risk foreign owners underestimate most, because it has no close equivalent in many home jurisdictions.
How it is triggered. Under Article 17 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, where the tax authority sends a document by post and it is returned because nobody received it or the address does not exist — or where the taxpayer fails to file returns after a second notice — the taxpayer is moved to a status of “pending verification of operating status at the registered address.” The tax authority then coordinates with the commune-level People’s Committee and the police to verify the premises in person and record the findings. If there is no signboard and nobody present, the company is declared “not operating at the registered address.”
What follows is a chain reaction:
- E-invoices can no longer be issued — you cannot invoice customers, which effectively stops revenue
- Tax returns can no longer be filed
- No amendment to the enterprise registration can be processed
- The company is published on the tax authority’s public list, visible to banks and counterparties
- Revocation of the Enterprise Registration Certificate may be requested
- Even voluntary dissolution is blocked: under Clause 3, Article 14 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, a company in this status must first attend its managing tax office to complete its tax obligations and terminate the validity of its tax code
- For a foreign-invested company the damage runs past the local operation: blocked invoicing and a public non-operating status complicate profit repatriation, audit sign-off and reporting to the parent company.
The enforcement climate in 2026. Vietnam’s tax sector is running a “tax code clean-up” campaign. Under Official Telegram No. 18, issued by the Tax Department on 13 July 2026, tax offices were instructed to deal with 325,500 enterprises that are not operating at their registered address and owe tax; where a company has not operated for a year or more without notification, the tax office requests that the business registration authority handle the violation and revoke the Enterprise Registration Certificate. A further 291,962 enterprises that ceased operations without completing dissolution were required to finalise their obligations. From 1 July 2026, tax authorities may request the opening of bankruptcy proceedings against companies that owe tax and have abandoned their registered address for more than three years.
The practical conclusion: an address that exists only on paper is no longer a workable arrangement. Your registered address must receive post, display a signboard and produce a person when verification arrives.
4.6. Choosing a weak provider
Warning signs when leasing a virtual office in Thu Duc:
- The address is a residential condominium apartment — non-compliant from day one
- No signboard permitted — a breach of Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020, and the loss of your best evidence during inspection
- Nobody on site to receive post — tax letters are returned and you never learn of it
- A thin lease with no proof of the lessor’s lawful right to the premises
- Documents issued with abolished administrative unit names
- No professional capacity to respond when the tax authority asks for an explanation
5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company provides a virtual office in Thu Duc at a real address in the eastern corridor, structured around the risks described above.
5.1. What is included
a) Use of the leased address to register a company and to establish your head office, branch or representative office address.
b) The right to display your company signboard at the leased address — satisfying the obligation under Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and providing physical evidence of presence.
c) Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone and SMS. For a company whose decision-makers are overseas, this is the single most valuable component of the service.
d) Golden Star forwards mail and documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam (postal charges payable by the client).
e) You receive your own visitors at the leased premises.
f) A complete document pack — a properly drafted lease, the lessor’s proof of lawful right to the premises, and all documents issued using current administrative unit names.
5.2. How it works
Step 1 — Consultation. We advise on the address that fits your structure, your intended business lines and the specific file you will submit: domestic company, foreign-invested company, branch or representative office.
Step 2 — Agreement and document pack. You receive the lease agreement together with the supporting documents needed for your enterprise or investment registration file, written with the current ward name.
Step 3 — Filing. Golden Star prepares and submits the enterprise registration, investment registration, initial tax registration, e-invoice and digital signature applications.
Step 4 — Ongoing protection. Signboard displayed, correspondence received and reported to you immediately, and professional support whenever the tax authority verifies your operating status.
5.3. An important limitation we raise before you commit
Golden Star tells eastern-corridor clients something an address-only provider has no reason to mention: not every business line can operate from a registered address alone.
A virtual office suits services, consulting, trading, technology, e-commerce, investment holding and coordination activities. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to physical premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education and training, healthcare — the sub-licence process will require actual, inspectable facilities. A registered address will not carry it.
This matters disproportionately in the east, where manufacturing, logistics and warehousing are common, and where foreign investors are often drawn by the Hi-Tech Park and the industrial zones. Registering the business line on your certificate is permitted; operating it requires the condition to be met.
The failure surfaces late — after incorporation, when a sub-licence application requires premises that do not exist. We review your intended business lines before registration rather than after.
6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
From VND 550,000 (≈ US$21) per month, replacing rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet, furniture and reception. For a new company or one whose team works away from a desk, that saving goes straight to cash flow.
6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
Premises with a function suitable for company head office registration — not a residential condominium apartment. The Housing Law 2023 exposure is removed at the point of filing, before it can become a penalty.
6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
Your file is not returned over a ward name. It sounds trivial; in the present period it is one of the most common causes of a one- to two-week delay.
6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. In the current enforcement climate, one returned envelope is enough to start a verification process — and you should hear about it the same day, not months later.
6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
Your company signboard is displayed at the registered address — compliant with the law, and the evidence an inspection is looking for.
6.6. Flexibility
Work from anywhere; expand into a new area without building infrastructure. Your team can be at a warehouse, on site or remote while the legal address stays fixed.
6.7. A stable address
No forced relocation because a landlord sells the property or declines to renew — which avoids the entire downstream cost of an address change: the registration amendment, tax record and e-invoice updates, notifications to the bank, social insurance, partners and clients, and corrections to any tender documents already submitted.
6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
Clients using the virtual office can also use bookkeeping, tax declaration and finalisation, refunds, payroll, social insurance, e-invoicing and digital signatures — without coordinating several providers around one file.
6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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The east concentrates logistics, transport, construction, building materials, manufacturing and distribution businesses. In all of these, the team is at a warehouse, on a site, in a plant or on the road. A fixed office sits empty most of the day, and the rent for it buys nothing.
2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
This corridor sits on the route toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai — a connection that became more significant when Ho Chi Minh City expanded its boundaries on 1 July 2025. Companies whose actual operations sit near the boundary, but who want a Ho Chi Minh City legal address on their documents, look here for an entirely practical reason: it is close to where the work happens and it is still a Ho Chi Minh City address on paper.
2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
The presence of the Hi-Tech Park, the industrial and export processing zones and a large university cluster produces a distinct population of technology, engineering and digital-services companies. These businesses seldom need physical office space, but they very much need a serious legal address for dealing with large corporate customers and with banks.
2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
That perception has not kept pace with the corridor’s urbanisation. Rents along the main axes have risen substantially. For a team of two to five people, the combination of rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet and furniture remains a large fixed cost with no corresponding benefit.
3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
This is the most important section of this article, and the reason most English-language information about Thu Duc is now misleading.
3.1. Thu Duc City no longer exists
Foreign readers researching Vietnam encounter a confusing sequence. Thu Duc City was created in 2021 by merging three districts, was widely promoted as Vietnam’s first “city within a city”, and was then abolished on 1 July 2025.
Under Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15 dated 16 June 2025 of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, Vietnam reorganised its commune-level administrative units and removed the district tier. Thu Duc City ceased to exist as a city under Ho Chi Minh City.
Its 34 former wards were reorganised into 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City: Hiep Binh, Thu Duc, Tam Binh, Linh Xuan, Tang Nhon Phu, Long Binh, Long Phuoc, Long Truong, Cat Lai, Binh Trung, Phuoc Long and An Khanh.
Note one detail that causes real confusion: “Thu Duc” still exists — but as the name of a ward, not a city. So when you read “an address in Thu Duc”, you now need to know whether the writer means the former city area or the present-day Thu Duc Ward.
3.2. Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward is now Hiep Binh Ward
Specifically for the area where Golden Star holds an address: under Clause 67, Article 1 of Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15, Hiep Binh Chanh Ward, Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward and part of Linh Dong Ward were reorganised into a new ward named Hiep Binh Ward.
The correct address under current administrative naming is therefore:
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (previously written as Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
3.3. Do you have to amend your company registration?
No — not for this reason. A great many companies filed unnecessary amendments in the second half of 2025.
Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a company’s registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. It may request an update when convenient, or alongside another amendment it is making anyway.
In plain terms: if your Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”, it remains valid. You do not need to redo it because of the reorganisation.
3.4. But new filings must use the current ward name
This is the distinction that costs time. If you are:
- Establishing a new company
- Setting up a branch, representative office or business location
- Amending your enterprise registration for any reason
- Filing an investment registration application
then the address must be written using the current administrative unit name. Filing with a ward name that has been abolished will attract a supplementary request, and each supplementary request costs roughly a week.
3.5. How to tell whether a provider is current
If a provider is still issuing lease agreements that say “Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City” at this point, they are working from an outdated template and are not tracking legal change. For a service whose entire value lies in the legal accuracy of the documents it produces, that is worth noticing before you sign.
4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
4.1. The landlord will not permit business registration
Common with shophouses and properties in residential areas. Ordinary Vietnamese residential leases do not permit business registration; landlords are reluctant to trigger rental income tax obligations or attract inspections. Even where a landlord agrees, many will not release a copy of the land use right certificate — leaving your file without supporting evidence and in a loop of supplementary requests.
4.2. Registering at a condominium apartment — an immediate rejection
As explained in 1.3. Given the density of residential development along Pham Van Dong, National Highway 13 and the riverfront, this is a recurring error. If the registration has already been made, the exposure is VND 20–40 million plus a forced relocation.
4.3. A house address down a lane — a disadvantage where it counts
Eastern-corridor businesses in construction, materials and logistics submit capability documents for tenders and files for bank facilities more often than most. An address in a narrow lane is a disadvantage against competitors — not a legal problem, but an assessment problem.
4.4. Writing an abolished ward name
The direct consequence of section 3. If your address provider issues documents with the old ward name, you are the one who loses the week.
4.5. The biggest risk: being declared “not operating at the registered address”
This is the risk foreign owners underestimate most, because it has no close equivalent in many home jurisdictions.
How it is triggered. Under Article 17 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, where the tax authority sends a document by post and it is returned because nobody received it or the address does not exist — or where the taxpayer fails to file returns after a second notice — the taxpayer is moved to a status of “pending verification of operating status at the registered address.” The tax authority then coordinates with the commune-level People’s Committee and the police to verify the premises in person and record the findings. If there is no signboard and nobody present, the company is declared “not operating at the registered address.”
What follows is a chain reaction:
- E-invoices can no longer be issued — you cannot invoice customers, which effectively stops revenue
- Tax returns can no longer be filed
- No amendment to the enterprise registration can be processed
- The company is published on the tax authority’s public list, visible to banks and counterparties
- Revocation of the Enterprise Registration Certificate may be requested
- Even voluntary dissolution is blocked: under Clause 3, Article 14 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, a company in this status must first attend its managing tax office to complete its tax obligations and terminate the validity of its tax code
- For a foreign-invested company the damage runs past the local operation: blocked invoicing and a public non-operating status complicate profit repatriation, audit sign-off and reporting to the parent company.
The enforcement climate in 2026. Vietnam’s tax sector is running a “tax code clean-up” campaign. Under Official Telegram No. 18, issued by the Tax Department on 13 July 2026, tax offices were instructed to deal with 325,500 enterprises that are not operating at their registered address and owe tax; where a company has not operated for a year or more without notification, the tax office requests that the business registration authority handle the violation and revoke the Enterprise Registration Certificate. A further 291,962 enterprises that ceased operations without completing dissolution were required to finalise their obligations. From 1 July 2026, tax authorities may request the opening of bankruptcy proceedings against companies that owe tax and have abandoned their registered address for more than three years.
The practical conclusion: an address that exists only on paper is no longer a workable arrangement. Your registered address must receive post, display a signboard and produce a person when verification arrives.
4.6. Choosing a weak provider
Warning signs when leasing a virtual office in Thu Duc:
- The address is a residential condominium apartment — non-compliant from day one
- No signboard permitted — a breach of Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020, and the loss of your best evidence during inspection
- Nobody on site to receive post — tax letters are returned and you never learn of it
- A thin lease with no proof of the lessor’s lawful right to the premises
- Documents issued with abolished administrative unit names
- No professional capacity to respond when the tax authority asks for an explanation
5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company provides a virtual office in Thu Duc at a real address in the eastern corridor, structured around the risks described above.
5.1. What is included
a) Use of the leased address to register a company and to establish your head office, branch or representative office address.
b) The right to display your company signboard at the leased address — satisfying the obligation under Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and providing physical evidence of presence.
c) Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone and SMS. For a company whose decision-makers are overseas, this is the single most valuable component of the service.
d) Golden Star forwards mail and documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam (postal charges payable by the client).
e) You receive your own visitors at the leased premises.
f) A complete document pack — a properly drafted lease, the lessor’s proof of lawful right to the premises, and all documents issued using current administrative unit names.
5.2. How it works
Step 1 — Consultation. We advise on the address that fits your structure, your intended business lines and the specific file you will submit: domestic company, foreign-invested company, branch or representative office.
Step 2 — Agreement and document pack. You receive the lease agreement together with the supporting documents needed for your enterprise or investment registration file, written with the current ward name.
Step 3 — Filing. Golden Star prepares and submits the enterprise registration, investment registration, initial tax registration, e-invoice and digital signature applications.
Step 4 — Ongoing protection. Signboard displayed, correspondence received and reported to you immediately, and professional support whenever the tax authority verifies your operating status.
5.3. An important limitation we raise before you commit
Golden Star tells eastern-corridor clients something an address-only provider has no reason to mention: not every business line can operate from a registered address alone.
A virtual office suits services, consulting, trading, technology, e-commerce, investment holding and coordination activities. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to physical premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education and training, healthcare — the sub-licence process will require actual, inspectable facilities. A registered address will not carry it.
This matters disproportionately in the east, where manufacturing, logistics and warehousing are common, and where foreign investors are often drawn by the Hi-Tech Park and the industrial zones. Registering the business line on your certificate is permitted; operating it requires the condition to be met.
The failure surfaces late — after incorporation, when a sub-licence application requires premises that do not exist. We review your intended business lines before registration rather than after.
6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
From VND 550,000 (≈ US$21) per month, replacing rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet, furniture and reception. For a new company or one whose team works away from a desk, that saving goes straight to cash flow.
6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
Premises with a function suitable for company head office registration — not a residential condominium apartment. The Housing Law 2023 exposure is removed at the point of filing, before it can become a penalty.
6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
Your file is not returned over a ward name. It sounds trivial; in the present period it is one of the most common causes of a one- to two-week delay.
6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. In the current enforcement climate, one returned envelope is enough to start a verification process — and you should hear about it the same day, not months later.
6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
Your company signboard is displayed at the registered address — compliant with the law, and the evidence an inspection is looking for.
6.6. Flexibility
Work from anywhere; expand into a new area without building infrastructure. Your team can be at a warehouse, on site or remote while the legal address stays fixed.
6.7. A stable address
No forced relocation because a landlord sells the property or declines to renew — which avoids the entire downstream cost of an address change: the registration amendment, tax record and e-invoice updates, notifications to the bank, social insurance, partners and clients, and corrections to any tender documents already submitted.
6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
Clients using the virtual office can also use bookkeeping, tax declaration and finalisation, refunds, payroll, social insurance, e-invoicing and digital signatures — without coordinating several providers around one file.
6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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This corridor sits on the route toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai — a connection that became more significant when Ho Chi Minh City expanded its boundaries on 1 July 2025. Companies whose actual operations sit near the boundary, but who want a Ho Chi Minh City legal address on their documents, look here for an entirely practical reason: it is close to where the work happens and it is still a Ho Chi Minh City address on paper.
2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
The presence of the Hi-Tech Park, the industrial and export processing zones and a large university cluster produces a distinct population of technology, engineering and digital-services companies. These businesses seldom need physical office space, but they very much need a serious legal address for dealing with large corporate customers and with banks.
2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
That perception has not kept pace with the corridor’s urbanisation. Rents along the main axes have risen substantially. For a team of two to five people, the combination of rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet and furniture remains a large fixed cost with no corresponding benefit.
3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
This is the most important section of this article, and the reason most English-language information about Thu Duc is now misleading.
3.1. Thu Duc City no longer exists
Foreign readers researching Vietnam encounter a confusing sequence. Thu Duc City was created in 2021 by merging three districts, was widely promoted as Vietnam’s first “city within a city”, and was then abolished on 1 July 2025.
Under Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15 dated 16 June 2025 of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, Vietnam reorganised its commune-level administrative units and removed the district tier. Thu Duc City ceased to exist as a city under Ho Chi Minh City.
Its 34 former wards were reorganised into 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City: Hiep Binh, Thu Duc, Tam Binh, Linh Xuan, Tang Nhon Phu, Long Binh, Long Phuoc, Long Truong, Cat Lai, Binh Trung, Phuoc Long and An Khanh.
Note one detail that causes real confusion: “Thu Duc” still exists — but as the name of a ward, not a city. So when you read “an address in Thu Duc”, you now need to know whether the writer means the former city area or the present-day Thu Duc Ward.
3.2. Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward is now Hiep Binh Ward
Specifically for the area where Golden Star holds an address: under Clause 67, Article 1 of Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15, Hiep Binh Chanh Ward, Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward and part of Linh Dong Ward were reorganised into a new ward named Hiep Binh Ward.
The correct address under current administrative naming is therefore:
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (previously written as Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
3.3. Do you have to amend your company registration?
No — not for this reason. A great many companies filed unnecessary amendments in the second half of 2025.
Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a company’s registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. It may request an update when convenient, or alongside another amendment it is making anyway.
In plain terms: if your Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”, it remains valid. You do not need to redo it because of the reorganisation.
3.4. But new filings must use the current ward name
This is the distinction that costs time. If you are:
- Establishing a new company
- Setting up a branch, representative office or business location
- Amending your enterprise registration for any reason
- Filing an investment registration application
then the address must be written using the current administrative unit name. Filing with a ward name that has been abolished will attract a supplementary request, and each supplementary request costs roughly a week.
3.5. How to tell whether a provider is current
If a provider is still issuing lease agreements that say “Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City” at this point, they are working from an outdated template and are not tracking legal change. For a service whose entire value lies in the legal accuracy of the documents it produces, that is worth noticing before you sign.
4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
4.1. The landlord will not permit business registration
Common with shophouses and properties in residential areas. Ordinary Vietnamese residential leases do not permit business registration; landlords are reluctant to trigger rental income tax obligations or attract inspections. Even where a landlord agrees, many will not release a copy of the land use right certificate — leaving your file without supporting evidence and in a loop of supplementary requests.
4.2. Registering at a condominium apartment — an immediate rejection
As explained in 1.3. Given the density of residential development along Pham Van Dong, National Highway 13 and the riverfront, this is a recurring error. If the registration has already been made, the exposure is VND 20–40 million plus a forced relocation.
4.3. A house address down a lane — a disadvantage where it counts
Eastern-corridor businesses in construction, materials and logistics submit capability documents for tenders and files for bank facilities more often than most. An address in a narrow lane is a disadvantage against competitors — not a legal problem, but an assessment problem.
4.4. Writing an abolished ward name
The direct consequence of section 3. If your address provider issues documents with the old ward name, you are the one who loses the week.
4.5. The biggest risk: being declared “not operating at the registered address”
This is the risk foreign owners underestimate most, because it has no close equivalent in many home jurisdictions.
How it is triggered. Under Article 17 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, where the tax authority sends a document by post and it is returned because nobody received it or the address does not exist — or where the taxpayer fails to file returns after a second notice — the taxpayer is moved to a status of “pending verification of operating status at the registered address.” The tax authority then coordinates with the commune-level People’s Committee and the police to verify the premises in person and record the findings. If there is no signboard and nobody present, the company is declared “not operating at the registered address.”
What follows is a chain reaction:
- E-invoices can no longer be issued — you cannot invoice customers, which effectively stops revenue
- Tax returns can no longer be filed
- No amendment to the enterprise registration can be processed
- The company is published on the tax authority’s public list, visible to banks and counterparties
- Revocation of the Enterprise Registration Certificate may be requested
- Even voluntary dissolution is blocked: under Clause 3, Article 14 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, a company in this status must first attend its managing tax office to complete its tax obligations and terminate the validity of its tax code
- For a foreign-invested company the damage runs past the local operation: blocked invoicing and a public non-operating status complicate profit repatriation, audit sign-off and reporting to the parent company.
The enforcement climate in 2026. Vietnam’s tax sector is running a “tax code clean-up” campaign. Under Official Telegram No. 18, issued by the Tax Department on 13 July 2026, tax offices were instructed to deal with 325,500 enterprises that are not operating at their registered address and owe tax; where a company has not operated for a year or more without notification, the tax office requests that the business registration authority handle the violation and revoke the Enterprise Registration Certificate. A further 291,962 enterprises that ceased operations without completing dissolution were required to finalise their obligations. From 1 July 2026, tax authorities may request the opening of bankruptcy proceedings against companies that owe tax and have abandoned their registered address for more than three years.
The practical conclusion: an address that exists only on paper is no longer a workable arrangement. Your registered address must receive post, display a signboard and produce a person when verification arrives.
4.6. Choosing a weak provider
Warning signs when leasing a virtual office in Thu Duc:
- The address is a residential condominium apartment — non-compliant from day one
- No signboard permitted — a breach of Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020, and the loss of your best evidence during inspection
- Nobody on site to receive post — tax letters are returned and you never learn of it
- A thin lease with no proof of the lessor’s lawful right to the premises
- Documents issued with abolished administrative unit names
- No professional capacity to respond when the tax authority asks for an explanation
5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company provides a virtual office in Thu Duc at a real address in the eastern corridor, structured around the risks described above.
5.1. What is included
a) Use of the leased address to register a company and to establish your head office, branch or representative office address.
b) The right to display your company signboard at the leased address — satisfying the obligation under Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and providing physical evidence of presence.
c) Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone and SMS. For a company whose decision-makers are overseas, this is the single most valuable component of the service.
d) Golden Star forwards mail and documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam (postal charges payable by the client).
e) You receive your own visitors at the leased premises.
f) A complete document pack — a properly drafted lease, the lessor’s proof of lawful right to the premises, and all documents issued using current administrative unit names.
5.2. How it works
Step 1 — Consultation. We advise on the address that fits your structure, your intended business lines and the specific file you will submit: domestic company, foreign-invested company, branch or representative office.
Step 2 — Agreement and document pack. You receive the lease agreement together with the supporting documents needed for your enterprise or investment registration file, written with the current ward name.
Step 3 — Filing. Golden Star prepares and submits the enterprise registration, investment registration, initial tax registration, e-invoice and digital signature applications.
Step 4 — Ongoing protection. Signboard displayed, correspondence received and reported to you immediately, and professional support whenever the tax authority verifies your operating status.
5.3. An important limitation we raise before you commit
Golden Star tells eastern-corridor clients something an address-only provider has no reason to mention: not every business line can operate from a registered address alone.
A virtual office suits services, consulting, trading, technology, e-commerce, investment holding and coordination activities. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to physical premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education and training, healthcare — the sub-licence process will require actual, inspectable facilities. A registered address will not carry it.
This matters disproportionately in the east, where manufacturing, logistics and warehousing are common, and where foreign investors are often drawn by the Hi-Tech Park and the industrial zones. Registering the business line on your certificate is permitted; operating it requires the condition to be met.
The failure surfaces late — after incorporation, when a sub-licence application requires premises that do not exist. We review your intended business lines before registration rather than after.
6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
From VND 550,000 (≈ US$21) per month, replacing rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet, furniture and reception. For a new company or one whose team works away from a desk, that saving goes straight to cash flow.
6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
Premises with a function suitable for company head office registration — not a residential condominium apartment. The Housing Law 2023 exposure is removed at the point of filing, before it can become a penalty.
6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
Your file is not returned over a ward name. It sounds trivial; in the present period it is one of the most common causes of a one- to two-week delay.
6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. In the current enforcement climate, one returned envelope is enough to start a verification process — and you should hear about it the same day, not months later.
6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
Your company signboard is displayed at the registered address — compliant with the law, and the evidence an inspection is looking for.
6.6. Flexibility
Work from anywhere; expand into a new area without building infrastructure. Your team can be at a warehouse, on site or remote while the legal address stays fixed.
6.7. A stable address
No forced relocation because a landlord sells the property or declines to renew — which avoids the entire downstream cost of an address change: the registration amendment, tax record and e-invoice updates, notifications to the bank, social insurance, partners and clients, and corrections to any tender documents already submitted.
6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
Clients using the virtual office can also use bookkeeping, tax declaration and finalisation, refunds, payroll, social insurance, e-invoicing and digital signatures — without coordinating several providers around one file.
6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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The presence of the Hi-Tech Park, the industrial and export processing zones and a large university cluster produces a distinct population of technology, engineering and digital-services companies. These businesses seldom need physical office space, but they very much need a serious legal address for dealing with large corporate customers and with banks.
2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
That perception has not kept pace with the corridor’s urbanisation. Rents along the main axes have risen substantially. For a team of two to five people, the combination of rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet and furniture remains a large fixed cost with no corresponding benefit.
3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
This is the most important section of this article, and the reason most English-language information about Thu Duc is now misleading.
3.1. Thu Duc City no longer exists
Foreign readers researching Vietnam encounter a confusing sequence. Thu Duc City was created in 2021 by merging three districts, was widely promoted as Vietnam’s first “city within a city”, and was then abolished on 1 July 2025.
Under Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15 dated 16 June 2025 of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, Vietnam reorganised its commune-level administrative units and removed the district tier. Thu Duc City ceased to exist as a city under Ho Chi Minh City.
Its 34 former wards were reorganised into 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City: Hiep Binh, Thu Duc, Tam Binh, Linh Xuan, Tang Nhon Phu, Long Binh, Long Phuoc, Long Truong, Cat Lai, Binh Trung, Phuoc Long and An Khanh.
Note one detail that causes real confusion: “Thu Duc” still exists — but as the name of a ward, not a city. So when you read “an address in Thu Duc”, you now need to know whether the writer means the former city area or the present-day Thu Duc Ward.
3.2. Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward is now Hiep Binh Ward
Specifically for the area where Golden Star holds an address: under Clause 67, Article 1 of Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15, Hiep Binh Chanh Ward, Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward and part of Linh Dong Ward were reorganised into a new ward named Hiep Binh Ward.
The correct address under current administrative naming is therefore:
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (previously written as Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
3.3. Do you have to amend your company registration?
No — not for this reason. A great many companies filed unnecessary amendments in the second half of 2025.
Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a company’s registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. It may request an update when convenient, or alongside another amendment it is making anyway.
In plain terms: if your Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”, it remains valid. You do not need to redo it because of the reorganisation.
3.4. But new filings must use the current ward name
This is the distinction that costs time. If you are:
- Establishing a new company
- Setting up a branch, representative office or business location
- Amending your enterprise registration for any reason
- Filing an investment registration application
then the address must be written using the current administrative unit name. Filing with a ward name that has been abolished will attract a supplementary request, and each supplementary request costs roughly a week.
3.5. How to tell whether a provider is current
If a provider is still issuing lease agreements that say “Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City” at this point, they are working from an outdated template and are not tracking legal change. For a service whose entire value lies in the legal accuracy of the documents it produces, that is worth noticing before you sign.
4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
4.1. The landlord will not permit business registration
Common with shophouses and properties in residential areas. Ordinary Vietnamese residential leases do not permit business registration; landlords are reluctant to trigger rental income tax obligations or attract inspections. Even where a landlord agrees, many will not release a copy of the land use right certificate — leaving your file without supporting evidence and in a loop of supplementary requests.
4.2. Registering at a condominium apartment — an immediate rejection
As explained in 1.3. Given the density of residential development along Pham Van Dong, National Highway 13 and the riverfront, this is a recurring error. If the registration has already been made, the exposure is VND 20–40 million plus a forced relocation.
4.3. A house address down a lane — a disadvantage where it counts
Eastern-corridor businesses in construction, materials and logistics submit capability documents for tenders and files for bank facilities more often than most. An address in a narrow lane is a disadvantage against competitors — not a legal problem, but an assessment problem.
4.4. Writing an abolished ward name
The direct consequence of section 3. If your address provider issues documents with the old ward name, you are the one who loses the week.
4.5. The biggest risk: being declared “not operating at the registered address”
This is the risk foreign owners underestimate most, because it has no close equivalent in many home jurisdictions.
How it is triggered. Under Article 17 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, where the tax authority sends a document by post and it is returned because nobody received it or the address does not exist — or where the taxpayer fails to file returns after a second notice — the taxpayer is moved to a status of “pending verification of operating status at the registered address.” The tax authority then coordinates with the commune-level People’s Committee and the police to verify the premises in person and record the findings. If there is no signboard and nobody present, the company is declared “not operating at the registered address.”
What follows is a chain reaction:
- E-invoices can no longer be issued — you cannot invoice customers, which effectively stops revenue
- Tax returns can no longer be filed
- No amendment to the enterprise registration can be processed
- The company is published on the tax authority’s public list, visible to banks and counterparties
- Revocation of the Enterprise Registration Certificate may be requested
- Even voluntary dissolution is blocked: under Clause 3, Article 14 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, a company in this status must first attend its managing tax office to complete its tax obligations and terminate the validity of its tax code
- For a foreign-invested company the damage runs past the local operation: blocked invoicing and a public non-operating status complicate profit repatriation, audit sign-off and reporting to the parent company.
The enforcement climate in 2026. Vietnam’s tax sector is running a “tax code clean-up” campaign. Under Official Telegram No. 18, issued by the Tax Department on 13 July 2026, tax offices were instructed to deal with 325,500 enterprises that are not operating at their registered address and owe tax; where a company has not operated for a year or more without notification, the tax office requests that the business registration authority handle the violation and revoke the Enterprise Registration Certificate. A further 291,962 enterprises that ceased operations without completing dissolution were required to finalise their obligations. From 1 July 2026, tax authorities may request the opening of bankruptcy proceedings against companies that owe tax and have abandoned their registered address for more than three years.
The practical conclusion: an address that exists only on paper is no longer a workable arrangement. Your registered address must receive post, display a signboard and produce a person when verification arrives.
4.6. Choosing a weak provider
Warning signs when leasing a virtual office in Thu Duc:
- The address is a residential condominium apartment — non-compliant from day one
- No signboard permitted — a breach of Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020, and the loss of your best evidence during inspection
- Nobody on site to receive post — tax letters are returned and you never learn of it
- A thin lease with no proof of the lessor’s lawful right to the premises
- Documents issued with abolished administrative unit names
- No professional capacity to respond when the tax authority asks for an explanation
5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company provides a virtual office in Thu Duc at a real address in the eastern corridor, structured around the risks described above.
5.1. What is included
a) Use of the leased address to register a company and to establish your head office, branch or representative office address.
b) The right to display your company signboard at the leased address — satisfying the obligation under Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and providing physical evidence of presence.
c) Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone and SMS. For a company whose decision-makers are overseas, this is the single most valuable component of the service.
d) Golden Star forwards mail and documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam (postal charges payable by the client).
e) You receive your own visitors at the leased premises.
f) A complete document pack — a properly drafted lease, the lessor’s proof of lawful right to the premises, and all documents issued using current administrative unit names.
5.2. How it works
Step 1 — Consultation. We advise on the address that fits your structure, your intended business lines and the specific file you will submit: domestic company, foreign-invested company, branch or representative office.
Step 2 — Agreement and document pack. You receive the lease agreement together with the supporting documents needed for your enterprise or investment registration file, written with the current ward name.
Step 3 — Filing. Golden Star prepares and submits the enterprise registration, investment registration, initial tax registration, e-invoice and digital signature applications.
Step 4 — Ongoing protection. Signboard displayed, correspondence received and reported to you immediately, and professional support whenever the tax authority verifies your operating status.
5.3. An important limitation we raise before you commit
Golden Star tells eastern-corridor clients something an address-only provider has no reason to mention: not every business line can operate from a registered address alone.
A virtual office suits services, consulting, trading, technology, e-commerce, investment holding and coordination activities. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to physical premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education and training, healthcare — the sub-licence process will require actual, inspectable facilities. A registered address will not carry it.
This matters disproportionately in the east, where manufacturing, logistics and warehousing are common, and where foreign investors are often drawn by the Hi-Tech Park and the industrial zones. Registering the business line on your certificate is permitted; operating it requires the condition to be met.
The failure surfaces late — after incorporation, when a sub-licence application requires premises that do not exist. We review your intended business lines before registration rather than after.
6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
From VND 550,000 (≈ US$21) per month, replacing rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet, furniture and reception. For a new company or one whose team works away from a desk, that saving goes straight to cash flow.
6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
Premises with a function suitable for company head office registration — not a residential condominium apartment. The Housing Law 2023 exposure is removed at the point of filing, before it can become a penalty.
6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
Your file is not returned over a ward name. It sounds trivial; in the present period it is one of the most common causes of a one- to two-week delay.
6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. In the current enforcement climate, one returned envelope is enough to start a verification process — and you should hear about it the same day, not months later.
6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
Your company signboard is displayed at the registered address — compliant with the law, and the evidence an inspection is looking for.
6.6. Flexibility
Work from anywhere; expand into a new area without building infrastructure. Your team can be at a warehouse, on site or remote while the legal address stays fixed.
6.7. A stable address
No forced relocation because a landlord sells the property or declines to renew — which avoids the entire downstream cost of an address change: the registration amendment, tax record and e-invoice updates, notifications to the bank, social insurance, partners and clients, and corrections to any tender documents already submitted.
6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
Clients using the virtual office can also use bookkeeping, tax declaration and finalisation, refunds, payroll, social insurance, e-invoicing and digital signatures — without coordinating several providers around one file.
6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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That perception has not kept pace with the corridor’s urbanisation. Rents along the main axes have risen substantially. For a team of two to five people, the combination of rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet and furniture remains a large fixed cost with no corresponding benefit.
3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
This is the most important section of this article, and the reason most English-language information about Thu Duc is now misleading.
3.1. Thu Duc City no longer exists
Foreign readers researching Vietnam encounter a confusing sequence. Thu Duc City was created in 2021 by merging three districts, was widely promoted as Vietnam’s first “city within a city”, and was then abolished on 1 July 2025.
Under Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15 dated 16 June 2025 of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, Vietnam reorganised its commune-level administrative units and removed the district tier. Thu Duc City ceased to exist as a city under Ho Chi Minh City.
Its 34 former wards were reorganised into 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City: Hiep Binh, Thu Duc, Tam Binh, Linh Xuan, Tang Nhon Phu, Long Binh, Long Phuoc, Long Truong, Cat Lai, Binh Trung, Phuoc Long and An Khanh.
Note one detail that causes real confusion: “Thu Duc” still exists — but as the name of a ward, not a city. So when you read “an address in Thu Duc”, you now need to know whether the writer means the former city area or the present-day Thu Duc Ward.
3.2. Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward is now Hiep Binh Ward
Specifically for the area where Golden Star holds an address: under Clause 67, Article 1 of Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15, Hiep Binh Chanh Ward, Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward and part of Linh Dong Ward were reorganised into a new ward named Hiep Binh Ward.
The correct address under current administrative naming is therefore:
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (previously written as Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
3.3. Do you have to amend your company registration?
No — not for this reason. A great many companies filed unnecessary amendments in the second half of 2025.
Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a company’s registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. It may request an update when convenient, or alongside another amendment it is making anyway.
In plain terms: if your Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”, it remains valid. You do not need to redo it because of the reorganisation.
3.4. But new filings must use the current ward name
This is the distinction that costs time. If you are:
- Establishing a new company
- Setting up a branch, representative office or business location
- Amending your enterprise registration for any reason
- Filing an investment registration application
then the address must be written using the current administrative unit name. Filing with a ward name that has been abolished will attract a supplementary request, and each supplementary request costs roughly a week.
3.5. How to tell whether a provider is current
If a provider is still issuing lease agreements that say “Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City” at this point, they are working from an outdated template and are not tracking legal change. For a service whose entire value lies in the legal accuracy of the documents it produces, that is worth noticing before you sign.
4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
4.1. The landlord will not permit business registration
Common with shophouses and properties in residential areas. Ordinary Vietnamese residential leases do not permit business registration; landlords are reluctant to trigger rental income tax obligations or attract inspections. Even where a landlord agrees, many will not release a copy of the land use right certificate — leaving your file without supporting evidence and in a loop of supplementary requests.
4.2. Registering at a condominium apartment — an immediate rejection
As explained in 1.3. Given the density of residential development along Pham Van Dong, National Highway 13 and the riverfront, this is a recurring error. If the registration has already been made, the exposure is VND 20–40 million plus a forced relocation.
4.3. A house address down a lane — a disadvantage where it counts
Eastern-corridor businesses in construction, materials and logistics submit capability documents for tenders and files for bank facilities more often than most. An address in a narrow lane is a disadvantage against competitors — not a legal problem, but an assessment problem.
4.4. Writing an abolished ward name
The direct consequence of section 3. If your address provider issues documents with the old ward name, you are the one who loses the week.
4.5. The biggest risk: being declared “not operating at the registered address”
This is the risk foreign owners underestimate most, because it has no close equivalent in many home jurisdictions.
How it is triggered. Under Article 17 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, where the tax authority sends a document by post and it is returned because nobody received it or the address does not exist — or where the taxpayer fails to file returns after a second notice — the taxpayer is moved to a status of “pending verification of operating status at the registered address.” The tax authority then coordinates with the commune-level People’s Committee and the police to verify the premises in person and record the findings. If there is no signboard and nobody present, the company is declared “not operating at the registered address.”
What follows is a chain reaction:
- E-invoices can no longer be issued — you cannot invoice customers, which effectively stops revenue
- Tax returns can no longer be filed
- No amendment to the enterprise registration can be processed
- The company is published on the tax authority’s public list, visible to banks and counterparties
- Revocation of the Enterprise Registration Certificate may be requested
- Even voluntary dissolution is blocked: under Clause 3, Article 14 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, a company in this status must first attend its managing tax office to complete its tax obligations and terminate the validity of its tax code
- For a foreign-invested company the damage runs past the local operation: blocked invoicing and a public non-operating status complicate profit repatriation, audit sign-off and reporting to the parent company.
The enforcement climate in 2026. Vietnam’s tax sector is running a “tax code clean-up” campaign. Under Official Telegram No. 18, issued by the Tax Department on 13 July 2026, tax offices were instructed to deal with 325,500 enterprises that are not operating at their registered address and owe tax; where a company has not operated for a year or more without notification, the tax office requests that the business registration authority handle the violation and revoke the Enterprise Registration Certificate. A further 291,962 enterprises that ceased operations without completing dissolution were required to finalise their obligations. From 1 July 2026, tax authorities may request the opening of bankruptcy proceedings against companies that owe tax and have abandoned their registered address for more than three years.
The practical conclusion: an address that exists only on paper is no longer a workable arrangement. Your registered address must receive post, display a signboard and produce a person when verification arrives.
4.6. Choosing a weak provider
Warning signs when leasing a virtual office in Thu Duc:
- The address is a residential condominium apartment — non-compliant from day one
- No signboard permitted — a breach of Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020, and the loss of your best evidence during inspection
- Nobody on site to receive post — tax letters are returned and you never learn of it
- A thin lease with no proof of the lessor’s lawful right to the premises
- Documents issued with abolished administrative unit names
- No professional capacity to respond when the tax authority asks for an explanation
5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company provides a virtual office in Thu Duc at a real address in the eastern corridor, structured around the risks described above.
5.1. What is included
a) Use of the leased address to register a company and to establish your head office, branch or representative office address.
b) The right to display your company signboard at the leased address — satisfying the obligation under Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and providing physical evidence of presence.
c) Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone and SMS. For a company whose decision-makers are overseas, this is the single most valuable component of the service.
d) Golden Star forwards mail and documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam (postal charges payable by the client).
e) You receive your own visitors at the leased premises.
f) A complete document pack — a properly drafted lease, the lessor’s proof of lawful right to the premises, and all documents issued using current administrative unit names.
5.2. How it works
Step 1 — Consultation. We advise on the address that fits your structure, your intended business lines and the specific file you will submit: domestic company, foreign-invested company, branch or representative office.
Step 2 — Agreement and document pack. You receive the lease agreement together with the supporting documents needed for your enterprise or investment registration file, written with the current ward name.
Step 3 — Filing. Golden Star prepares and submits the enterprise registration, investment registration, initial tax registration, e-invoice and digital signature applications.
Step 4 — Ongoing protection. Signboard displayed, correspondence received and reported to you immediately, and professional support whenever the tax authority verifies your operating status.
5.3. An important limitation we raise before you commit
Golden Star tells eastern-corridor clients something an address-only provider has no reason to mention: not every business line can operate from a registered address alone.
A virtual office suits services, consulting, trading, technology, e-commerce, investment holding and coordination activities. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to physical premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education and training, healthcare — the sub-licence process will require actual, inspectable facilities. A registered address will not carry it.
This matters disproportionately in the east, where manufacturing, logistics and warehousing are common, and where foreign investors are often drawn by the Hi-Tech Park and the industrial zones. Registering the business line on your certificate is permitted; operating it requires the condition to be met.
The failure surfaces late — after incorporation, when a sub-licence application requires premises that do not exist. We review your intended business lines before registration rather than after.
6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
From VND 550,000 (≈ US$21) per month, replacing rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet, furniture and reception. For a new company or one whose team works away from a desk, that saving goes straight to cash flow.
6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
Premises with a function suitable for company head office registration — not a residential condominium apartment. The Housing Law 2023 exposure is removed at the point of filing, before it can become a penalty.
6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
Your file is not returned over a ward name. It sounds trivial; in the present period it is one of the most common causes of a one- to two-week delay.
6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. In the current enforcement climate, one returned envelope is enough to start a verification process — and you should hear about it the same day, not months later.
6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
Your company signboard is displayed at the registered address — compliant with the law, and the evidence an inspection is looking for.
6.6. Flexibility
Work from anywhere; expand into a new area without building infrastructure. Your team can be at a warehouse, on site or remote while the legal address stays fixed.
6.7. A stable address
No forced relocation because a landlord sells the property or declines to renew — which avoids the entire downstream cost of an address change: the registration amendment, tax record and e-invoice updates, notifications to the bank, social insurance, partners and clients, and corrections to any tender documents already submitted.
6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
Clients using the virtual office can also use bookkeeping, tax declaration and finalisation, refunds, payroll, social insurance, e-invoicing and digital signatures — without coordinating several providers around one file.
6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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This is the most important section of this article, and the reason most English-language information about Thu Duc is now misleading.
3.1. Thu Duc City no longer exists
Foreign readers researching Vietnam encounter a confusing sequence. Thu Duc City was created in 2021 by merging three districts, was widely promoted as Vietnam’s first “city within a city”, and was then abolished on 1 July 2025.
Under Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15 dated 16 June 2025 of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, Vietnam reorganised its commune-level administrative units and removed the district tier. Thu Duc City ceased to exist as a city under Ho Chi Minh City.
Its 34 former wards were reorganised into 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City: Hiep Binh, Thu Duc, Tam Binh, Linh Xuan, Tang Nhon Phu, Long Binh, Long Phuoc, Long Truong, Cat Lai, Binh Trung, Phuoc Long and An Khanh.
Note one detail that causes real confusion: “Thu Duc” still exists — but as the name of a ward, not a city. So when you read “an address in Thu Duc”, you now need to know whether the writer means the former city area or the present-day Thu Duc Ward.
3.2. Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward is now Hiep Binh Ward
Specifically for the area where Golden Star holds an address: under Clause 67, Article 1 of Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15, Hiep Binh Chanh Ward, Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward and part of Linh Dong Ward were reorganised into a new ward named Hiep Binh Ward.
The correct address under current administrative naming is therefore:
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (previously written as Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
3.3. Do you have to amend your company registration?
No — not for this reason. A great many companies filed unnecessary amendments in the second half of 2025.
Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a company’s registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. It may request an update when convenient, or alongside another amendment it is making anyway.
In plain terms: if your Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”, it remains valid. You do not need to redo it because of the reorganisation.
3.4. But new filings must use the current ward name
This is the distinction that costs time. If you are:
- Establishing a new company
- Setting up a branch, representative office or business location
- Amending your enterprise registration for any reason
- Filing an investment registration application
then the address must be written using the current administrative unit name. Filing with a ward name that has been abolished will attract a supplementary request, and each supplementary request costs roughly a week.
3.5. How to tell whether a provider is current
If a provider is still issuing lease agreements that say “Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City” at this point, they are working from an outdated template and are not tracking legal change. For a service whose entire value lies in the legal accuracy of the documents it produces, that is worth noticing before you sign.
4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
4.1. The landlord will not permit business registration
Common with shophouses and properties in residential areas. Ordinary Vietnamese residential leases do not permit business registration; landlords are reluctant to trigger rental income tax obligations or attract inspections. Even where a landlord agrees, many will not release a copy of the land use right certificate — leaving your file without supporting evidence and in a loop of supplementary requests.
4.2. Registering at a condominium apartment — an immediate rejection
As explained in 1.3. Given the density of residential development along Pham Van Dong, National Highway 13 and the riverfront, this is a recurring error. If the registration has already been made, the exposure is VND 20–40 million plus a forced relocation.
4.3. A house address down a lane — a disadvantage where it counts
Eastern-corridor businesses in construction, materials and logistics submit capability documents for tenders and files for bank facilities more often than most. An address in a narrow lane is a disadvantage against competitors — not a legal problem, but an assessment problem.
4.4. Writing an abolished ward name
The direct consequence of section 3. If your address provider issues documents with the old ward name, you are the one who loses the week.
4.5. The biggest risk: being declared “not operating at the registered address”
This is the risk foreign owners underestimate most, because it has no close equivalent in many home jurisdictions.
How it is triggered. Under Article 17 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, where the tax authority sends a document by post and it is returned because nobody received it or the address does not exist — or where the taxpayer fails to file returns after a second notice — the taxpayer is moved to a status of “pending verification of operating status at the registered address.” The tax authority then coordinates with the commune-level People’s Committee and the police to verify the premises in person and record the findings. If there is no signboard and nobody present, the company is declared “not operating at the registered address.”
What follows is a chain reaction:
- E-invoices can no longer be issued — you cannot invoice customers, which effectively stops revenue
- Tax returns can no longer be filed
- No amendment to the enterprise registration can be processed
- The company is published on the tax authority’s public list, visible to banks and counterparties
- Revocation of the Enterprise Registration Certificate may be requested
- Even voluntary dissolution is blocked: under Clause 3, Article 14 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, a company in this status must first attend its managing tax office to complete its tax obligations and terminate the validity of its tax code
- For a foreign-invested company the damage runs past the local operation: blocked invoicing and a public non-operating status complicate profit repatriation, audit sign-off and reporting to the parent company.
The enforcement climate in 2026. Vietnam’s tax sector is running a “tax code clean-up” campaign. Under Official Telegram No. 18, issued by the Tax Department on 13 July 2026, tax offices were instructed to deal with 325,500 enterprises that are not operating at their registered address and owe tax; where a company has not operated for a year or more without notification, the tax office requests that the business registration authority handle the violation and revoke the Enterprise Registration Certificate. A further 291,962 enterprises that ceased operations without completing dissolution were required to finalise their obligations. From 1 July 2026, tax authorities may request the opening of bankruptcy proceedings against companies that owe tax and have abandoned their registered address for more than three years.
The practical conclusion: an address that exists only on paper is no longer a workable arrangement. Your registered address must receive post, display a signboard and produce a person when verification arrives.
4.6. Choosing a weak provider
Warning signs when leasing a virtual office in Thu Duc:
- The address is a residential condominium apartment — non-compliant from day one
- No signboard permitted — a breach of Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020, and the loss of your best evidence during inspection
- Nobody on site to receive post — tax letters are returned and you never learn of it
- A thin lease with no proof of the lessor’s lawful right to the premises
- Documents issued with abolished administrative unit names
- No professional capacity to respond when the tax authority asks for an explanation
5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company provides a virtual office in Thu Duc at a real address in the eastern corridor, structured around the risks described above.
5.1. What is included
a) Use of the leased address to register a company and to establish your head office, branch or representative office address.
b) The right to display your company signboard at the leased address — satisfying the obligation under Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and providing physical evidence of presence.
c) Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone and SMS. For a company whose decision-makers are overseas, this is the single most valuable component of the service.
d) Golden Star forwards mail and documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam (postal charges payable by the client).
e) You receive your own visitors at the leased premises.
f) A complete document pack — a properly drafted lease, the lessor’s proof of lawful right to the premises, and all documents issued using current administrative unit names.
5.2. How it works
Step 1 — Consultation. We advise on the address that fits your structure, your intended business lines and the specific file you will submit: domestic company, foreign-invested company, branch or representative office.
Step 2 — Agreement and document pack. You receive the lease agreement together with the supporting documents needed for your enterprise or investment registration file, written with the current ward name.
Step 3 — Filing. Golden Star prepares and submits the enterprise registration, investment registration, initial tax registration, e-invoice and digital signature applications.
Step 4 — Ongoing protection. Signboard displayed, correspondence received and reported to you immediately, and professional support whenever the tax authority verifies your operating status.
5.3. An important limitation we raise before you commit
Golden Star tells eastern-corridor clients something an address-only provider has no reason to mention: not every business line can operate from a registered address alone.
A virtual office suits services, consulting, trading, technology, e-commerce, investment holding and coordination activities. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to physical premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education and training, healthcare — the sub-licence process will require actual, inspectable facilities. A registered address will not carry it.
This matters disproportionately in the east, where manufacturing, logistics and warehousing are common, and where foreign investors are often drawn by the Hi-Tech Park and the industrial zones. Registering the business line on your certificate is permitted; operating it requires the condition to be met.
The failure surfaces late — after incorporation, when a sub-licence application requires premises that do not exist. We review your intended business lines before registration rather than after.
6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
From VND 550,000 (≈ US$21) per month, replacing rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet, furniture and reception. For a new company or one whose team works away from a desk, that saving goes straight to cash flow.
6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
Premises with a function suitable for company head office registration — not a residential condominium apartment. The Housing Law 2023 exposure is removed at the point of filing, before it can become a penalty.
6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
Your file is not returned over a ward name. It sounds trivial; in the present period it is one of the most common causes of a one- to two-week delay.
6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. In the current enforcement climate, one returned envelope is enough to start a verification process — and you should hear about it the same day, not months later.
6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
Your company signboard is displayed at the registered address — compliant with the law, and the evidence an inspection is looking for.
6.6. Flexibility
Work from anywhere; expand into a new area without building infrastructure. Your team can be at a warehouse, on site or remote while the legal address stays fixed.
6.7. A stable address
No forced relocation because a landlord sells the property or declines to renew — which avoids the entire downstream cost of an address change: the registration amendment, tax record and e-invoice updates, notifications to the bank, social insurance, partners and clients, and corrections to any tender documents already submitted.
6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
Clients using the virtual office can also use bookkeeping, tax declaration and finalisation, refunds, payroll, social insurance, e-invoicing and digital signatures — without coordinating several providers around one file.
6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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Foreign readers researching Vietnam encounter a confusing sequence. Thu Duc City was created in 2021 by merging three districts, was widely promoted as Vietnam’s first “city within a city”, and was then abolished on 1 July 2025.
Under Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15 dated 16 June 2025 of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, Vietnam reorganised its commune-level administrative units and removed the district tier. Thu Duc City ceased to exist as a city under Ho Chi Minh City.
Its 34 former wards were reorganised into 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City: Hiep Binh, Thu Duc, Tam Binh, Linh Xuan, Tang Nhon Phu, Long Binh, Long Phuoc, Long Truong, Cat Lai, Binh Trung, Phuoc Long and An Khanh.
Note one detail that causes real confusion: “Thu Duc” still exists — but as the name of a ward, not a city. So when you read “an address in Thu Duc”, you now need to know whether the writer means the former city area or the present-day Thu Duc Ward.
3.2. Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward is now Hiep Binh Ward
Specifically for the area where Golden Star holds an address: under Clause 67, Article 1 of Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15, Hiep Binh Chanh Ward, Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward and part of Linh Dong Ward were reorganised into a new ward named Hiep Binh Ward.
The correct address under current administrative naming is therefore:
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (previously written as Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
3.3. Do you have to amend your company registration?
No — not for this reason. A great many companies filed unnecessary amendments in the second half of 2025.
Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a company’s registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. It may request an update when convenient, or alongside another amendment it is making anyway.
In plain terms: if your Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”, it remains valid. You do not need to redo it because of the reorganisation.
3.4. But new filings must use the current ward name
This is the distinction that costs time. If you are:
- Establishing a new company
- Setting up a branch, representative office or business location
- Amending your enterprise registration for any reason
- Filing an investment registration application
then the address must be written using the current administrative unit name. Filing with a ward name that has been abolished will attract a supplementary request, and each supplementary request costs roughly a week.
3.5. How to tell whether a provider is current
If a provider is still issuing lease agreements that say “Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City” at this point, they are working from an outdated template and are not tracking legal change. For a service whose entire value lies in the legal accuracy of the documents it produces, that is worth noticing before you sign.
4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
4.1. The landlord will not permit business registration
Common with shophouses and properties in residential areas. Ordinary Vietnamese residential leases do not permit business registration; landlords are reluctant to trigger rental income tax obligations or attract inspections. Even where a landlord agrees, many will not release a copy of the land use right certificate — leaving your file without supporting evidence and in a loop of supplementary requests.
4.2. Registering at a condominium apartment — an immediate rejection
As explained in 1.3. Given the density of residential development along Pham Van Dong, National Highway 13 and the riverfront, this is a recurring error. If the registration has already been made, the exposure is VND 20–40 million plus a forced relocation.
4.3. A house address down a lane — a disadvantage where it counts
Eastern-corridor businesses in construction, materials and logistics submit capability documents for tenders and files for bank facilities more often than most. An address in a narrow lane is a disadvantage against competitors — not a legal problem, but an assessment problem.
4.4. Writing an abolished ward name
The direct consequence of section 3. If your address provider issues documents with the old ward name, you are the one who loses the week.
4.5. The biggest risk: being declared “not operating at the registered address”
This is the risk foreign owners underestimate most, because it has no close equivalent in many home jurisdictions.
How it is triggered. Under Article 17 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, where the tax authority sends a document by post and it is returned because nobody received it or the address does not exist — or where the taxpayer fails to file returns after a second notice — the taxpayer is moved to a status of “pending verification of operating status at the registered address.” The tax authority then coordinates with the commune-level People’s Committee and the police to verify the premises in person and record the findings. If there is no signboard and nobody present, the company is declared “not operating at the registered address.”
What follows is a chain reaction:
- E-invoices can no longer be issued — you cannot invoice customers, which effectively stops revenue
- Tax returns can no longer be filed
- No amendment to the enterprise registration can be processed
- The company is published on the tax authority’s public list, visible to banks and counterparties
- Revocation of the Enterprise Registration Certificate may be requested
- Even voluntary dissolution is blocked: under Clause 3, Article 14 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, a company in this status must first attend its managing tax office to complete its tax obligations and terminate the validity of its tax code
- For a foreign-invested company the damage runs past the local operation: blocked invoicing and a public non-operating status complicate profit repatriation, audit sign-off and reporting to the parent company.
The enforcement climate in 2026. Vietnam’s tax sector is running a “tax code clean-up” campaign. Under Official Telegram No. 18, issued by the Tax Department on 13 July 2026, tax offices were instructed to deal with 325,500 enterprises that are not operating at their registered address and owe tax; where a company has not operated for a year or more without notification, the tax office requests that the business registration authority handle the violation and revoke the Enterprise Registration Certificate. A further 291,962 enterprises that ceased operations without completing dissolution were required to finalise their obligations. From 1 July 2026, tax authorities may request the opening of bankruptcy proceedings against companies that owe tax and have abandoned their registered address for more than three years.
The practical conclusion: an address that exists only on paper is no longer a workable arrangement. Your registered address must receive post, display a signboard and produce a person when verification arrives.
4.6. Choosing a weak provider
Warning signs when leasing a virtual office in Thu Duc:
- The address is a residential condominium apartment — non-compliant from day one
- No signboard permitted — a breach of Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020, and the loss of your best evidence during inspection
- Nobody on site to receive post — tax letters are returned and you never learn of it
- A thin lease with no proof of the lessor’s lawful right to the premises
- Documents issued with abolished administrative unit names
- No professional capacity to respond when the tax authority asks for an explanation
5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company provides a virtual office in Thu Duc at a real address in the eastern corridor, structured around the risks described above.
5.1. What is included
a) Use of the leased address to register a company and to establish your head office, branch or representative office address.
b) The right to display your company signboard at the leased address — satisfying the obligation under Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and providing physical evidence of presence.
c) Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone and SMS. For a company whose decision-makers are overseas, this is the single most valuable component of the service.
d) Golden Star forwards mail and documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam (postal charges payable by the client).
e) You receive your own visitors at the leased premises.
f) A complete document pack — a properly drafted lease, the lessor’s proof of lawful right to the premises, and all documents issued using current administrative unit names.
5.2. How it works
Step 1 — Consultation. We advise on the address that fits your structure, your intended business lines and the specific file you will submit: domestic company, foreign-invested company, branch or representative office.
Step 2 — Agreement and document pack. You receive the lease agreement together with the supporting documents needed for your enterprise or investment registration file, written with the current ward name.
Step 3 — Filing. Golden Star prepares and submits the enterprise registration, investment registration, initial tax registration, e-invoice and digital signature applications.
Step 4 — Ongoing protection. Signboard displayed, correspondence received and reported to you immediately, and professional support whenever the tax authority verifies your operating status.
5.3. An important limitation we raise before you commit
Golden Star tells eastern-corridor clients something an address-only provider has no reason to mention: not every business line can operate from a registered address alone.
A virtual office suits services, consulting, trading, technology, e-commerce, investment holding and coordination activities. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to physical premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education and training, healthcare — the sub-licence process will require actual, inspectable facilities. A registered address will not carry it.
This matters disproportionately in the east, where manufacturing, logistics and warehousing are common, and where foreign investors are often drawn by the Hi-Tech Park and the industrial zones. Registering the business line on your certificate is permitted; operating it requires the condition to be met.
The failure surfaces late — after incorporation, when a sub-licence application requires premises that do not exist. We review your intended business lines before registration rather than after.
6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
From VND 550,000 (≈ US$21) per month, replacing rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet, furniture and reception. For a new company or one whose team works away from a desk, that saving goes straight to cash flow.
6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
Premises with a function suitable for company head office registration — not a residential condominium apartment. The Housing Law 2023 exposure is removed at the point of filing, before it can become a penalty.
6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
Your file is not returned over a ward name. It sounds trivial; in the present period it is one of the most common causes of a one- to two-week delay.
6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. In the current enforcement climate, one returned envelope is enough to start a verification process — and you should hear about it the same day, not months later.
6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
Your company signboard is displayed at the registered address — compliant with the law, and the evidence an inspection is looking for.
6.6. Flexibility
Work from anywhere; expand into a new area without building infrastructure. Your team can be at a warehouse, on site or remote while the legal address stays fixed.
6.7. A stable address
No forced relocation because a landlord sells the property or declines to renew — which avoids the entire downstream cost of an address change: the registration amendment, tax record and e-invoice updates, notifications to the bank, social insurance, partners and clients, and corrections to any tender documents already submitted.
6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
Clients using the virtual office can also use bookkeeping, tax declaration and finalisation, refunds, payroll, social insurance, e-invoicing and digital signatures — without coordinating several providers around one file.
6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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Specifically for the area where Golden Star holds an address: under Clause 67, Article 1 of Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15, Hiep Binh Chanh Ward, Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward and part of Linh Dong Ward were reorganised into a new ward named Hiep Binh Ward.
The correct address under current administrative naming is therefore:
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (previously written as Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
3.3. Do you have to amend your company registration?
No — not for this reason. A great many companies filed unnecessary amendments in the second half of 2025.
Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a company’s registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. It may request an update when convenient, or alongside another amendment it is making anyway.
In plain terms: if your Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”, it remains valid. You do not need to redo it because of the reorganisation.
3.4. But new filings must use the current ward name
This is the distinction that costs time. If you are:
- Establishing a new company
- Setting up a branch, representative office or business location
- Amending your enterprise registration for any reason
- Filing an investment registration application
then the address must be written using the current administrative unit name. Filing with a ward name that has been abolished will attract a supplementary request, and each supplementary request costs roughly a week.
3.5. How to tell whether a provider is current
If a provider is still issuing lease agreements that say “Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City” at this point, they are working from an outdated template and are not tracking legal change. For a service whose entire value lies in the legal accuracy of the documents it produces, that is worth noticing before you sign.
4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
4.1. The landlord will not permit business registration
Common with shophouses and properties in residential areas. Ordinary Vietnamese residential leases do not permit business registration; landlords are reluctant to trigger rental income tax obligations or attract inspections. Even where a landlord agrees, many will not release a copy of the land use right certificate — leaving your file without supporting evidence and in a loop of supplementary requests.
4.2. Registering at a condominium apartment — an immediate rejection
As explained in 1.3. Given the density of residential development along Pham Van Dong, National Highway 13 and the riverfront, this is a recurring error. If the registration has already been made, the exposure is VND 20–40 million plus a forced relocation.
4.3. A house address down a lane — a disadvantage where it counts
Eastern-corridor businesses in construction, materials and logistics submit capability documents for tenders and files for bank facilities more often than most. An address in a narrow lane is a disadvantage against competitors — not a legal problem, but an assessment problem.
4.4. Writing an abolished ward name
The direct consequence of section 3. If your address provider issues documents with the old ward name, you are the one who loses the week.
4.5. The biggest risk: being declared “not operating at the registered address”
This is the risk foreign owners underestimate most, because it has no close equivalent in many home jurisdictions.
How it is triggered. Under Article 17 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, where the tax authority sends a document by post and it is returned because nobody received it or the address does not exist — or where the taxpayer fails to file returns after a second notice — the taxpayer is moved to a status of “pending verification of operating status at the registered address.” The tax authority then coordinates with the commune-level People’s Committee and the police to verify the premises in person and record the findings. If there is no signboard and nobody present, the company is declared “not operating at the registered address.”
What follows is a chain reaction:
- E-invoices can no longer be issued — you cannot invoice customers, which effectively stops revenue
- Tax returns can no longer be filed
- No amendment to the enterprise registration can be processed
- The company is published on the tax authority’s public list, visible to banks and counterparties
- Revocation of the Enterprise Registration Certificate may be requested
- Even voluntary dissolution is blocked: under Clause 3, Article 14 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, a company in this status must first attend its managing tax office to complete its tax obligations and terminate the validity of its tax code
- For a foreign-invested company the damage runs past the local operation: blocked invoicing and a public non-operating status complicate profit repatriation, audit sign-off and reporting to the parent company.
The enforcement climate in 2026. Vietnam’s tax sector is running a “tax code clean-up” campaign. Under Official Telegram No. 18, issued by the Tax Department on 13 July 2026, tax offices were instructed to deal with 325,500 enterprises that are not operating at their registered address and owe tax; where a company has not operated for a year or more without notification, the tax office requests that the business registration authority handle the violation and revoke the Enterprise Registration Certificate. A further 291,962 enterprises that ceased operations without completing dissolution were required to finalise their obligations. From 1 July 2026, tax authorities may request the opening of bankruptcy proceedings against companies that owe tax and have abandoned their registered address for more than three years.
The practical conclusion: an address that exists only on paper is no longer a workable arrangement. Your registered address must receive post, display a signboard and produce a person when verification arrives.
4.6. Choosing a weak provider
Warning signs when leasing a virtual office in Thu Duc:
- The address is a residential condominium apartment — non-compliant from day one
- No signboard permitted — a breach of Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020, and the loss of your best evidence during inspection
- Nobody on site to receive post — tax letters are returned and you never learn of it
- A thin lease with no proof of the lessor’s lawful right to the premises
- Documents issued with abolished administrative unit names
- No professional capacity to respond when the tax authority asks for an explanation
5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company provides a virtual office in Thu Duc at a real address in the eastern corridor, structured around the risks described above.
5.1. What is included
a) Use of the leased address to register a company and to establish your head office, branch or representative office address.
b) The right to display your company signboard at the leased address — satisfying the obligation under Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and providing physical evidence of presence.
c) Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone and SMS. For a company whose decision-makers are overseas, this is the single most valuable component of the service.
d) Golden Star forwards mail and documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam (postal charges payable by the client).
e) You receive your own visitors at the leased premises.
f) A complete document pack — a properly drafted lease, the lessor’s proof of lawful right to the premises, and all documents issued using current administrative unit names.
5.2. How it works
Step 1 — Consultation. We advise on the address that fits your structure, your intended business lines and the specific file you will submit: domestic company, foreign-invested company, branch or representative office.
Step 2 — Agreement and document pack. You receive the lease agreement together with the supporting documents needed for your enterprise or investment registration file, written with the current ward name.
Step 3 — Filing. Golden Star prepares and submits the enterprise registration, investment registration, initial tax registration, e-invoice and digital signature applications.
Step 4 — Ongoing protection. Signboard displayed, correspondence received and reported to you immediately, and professional support whenever the tax authority verifies your operating status.
5.3. An important limitation we raise before you commit
Golden Star tells eastern-corridor clients something an address-only provider has no reason to mention: not every business line can operate from a registered address alone.
A virtual office suits services, consulting, trading, technology, e-commerce, investment holding and coordination activities. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to physical premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education and training, healthcare — the sub-licence process will require actual, inspectable facilities. A registered address will not carry it.
This matters disproportionately in the east, where manufacturing, logistics and warehousing are common, and where foreign investors are often drawn by the Hi-Tech Park and the industrial zones. Registering the business line on your certificate is permitted; operating it requires the condition to be met.
The failure surfaces late — after incorporation, when a sub-licence application requires premises that do not exist. We review your intended business lines before registration rather than after.
6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
From VND 550,000 (≈ US$21) per month, replacing rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet, furniture and reception. For a new company or one whose team works away from a desk, that saving goes straight to cash flow.
6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
Premises with a function suitable for company head office registration — not a residential condominium apartment. The Housing Law 2023 exposure is removed at the point of filing, before it can become a penalty.
6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
Your file is not returned over a ward name. It sounds trivial; in the present period it is one of the most common causes of a one- to two-week delay.
6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. In the current enforcement climate, one returned envelope is enough to start a verification process — and you should hear about it the same day, not months later.
6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
Your company signboard is displayed at the registered address — compliant with the law, and the evidence an inspection is looking for.
6.6. Flexibility
Work from anywhere; expand into a new area without building infrastructure. Your team can be at a warehouse, on site or remote while the legal address stays fixed.
6.7. A stable address
No forced relocation because a landlord sells the property or declines to renew — which avoids the entire downstream cost of an address change: the registration amendment, tax record and e-invoice updates, notifications to the bank, social insurance, partners and clients, and corrections to any tender documents already submitted.
6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
Clients using the virtual office can also use bookkeeping, tax declaration and finalisation, refunds, payroll, social insurance, e-invoicing and digital signatures — without coordinating several providers around one file.
6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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- Virtual Office Services In Binh Thanh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Virtual office services in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
No — not for this reason. A great many companies filed unnecessary amendments in the second half of 2025.
Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a company’s registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. It may request an update when convenient, or alongside another amendment it is making anyway.
In plain terms: if your Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”, it remains valid. You do not need to redo it because of the reorganisation.
3.4. But new filings must use the current ward name
This is the distinction that costs time. If you are:
- Establishing a new company
- Setting up a branch, representative office or business location
- Amending your enterprise registration for any reason
- Filing an investment registration application
then the address must be written using the current administrative unit name. Filing with a ward name that has been abolished will attract a supplementary request, and each supplementary request costs roughly a week.
3.5. How to tell whether a provider is current
If a provider is still issuing lease agreements that say “Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City” at this point, they are working from an outdated template and are not tracking legal change. For a service whose entire value lies in the legal accuracy of the documents it produces, that is worth noticing before you sign.
4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
4.1. The landlord will not permit business registration
Common with shophouses and properties in residential areas. Ordinary Vietnamese residential leases do not permit business registration; landlords are reluctant to trigger rental income tax obligations or attract inspections. Even where a landlord agrees, many will not release a copy of the land use right certificate — leaving your file without supporting evidence and in a loop of supplementary requests.
4.2. Registering at a condominium apartment — an immediate rejection
As explained in 1.3. Given the density of residential development along Pham Van Dong, National Highway 13 and the riverfront, this is a recurring error. If the registration has already been made, the exposure is VND 20–40 million plus a forced relocation.
4.3. A house address down a lane — a disadvantage where it counts
Eastern-corridor businesses in construction, materials and logistics submit capability documents for tenders and files for bank facilities more often than most. An address in a narrow lane is a disadvantage against competitors — not a legal problem, but an assessment problem.
4.4. Writing an abolished ward name
The direct consequence of section 3. If your address provider issues documents with the old ward name, you are the one who loses the week.
4.5. The biggest risk: being declared “not operating at the registered address”
This is the risk foreign owners underestimate most, because it has no close equivalent in many home jurisdictions.
How it is triggered. Under Article 17 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, where the tax authority sends a document by post and it is returned because nobody received it or the address does not exist — or where the taxpayer fails to file returns after a second notice — the taxpayer is moved to a status of “pending verification of operating status at the registered address.” The tax authority then coordinates with the commune-level People’s Committee and the police to verify the premises in person and record the findings. If there is no signboard and nobody present, the company is declared “not operating at the registered address.”
What follows is a chain reaction:
- E-invoices can no longer be issued — you cannot invoice customers, which effectively stops revenue
- Tax returns can no longer be filed
- No amendment to the enterprise registration can be processed
- The company is published on the tax authority’s public list, visible to banks and counterparties
- Revocation of the Enterprise Registration Certificate may be requested
- Even voluntary dissolution is blocked: under Clause 3, Article 14 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, a company in this status must first attend its managing tax office to complete its tax obligations and terminate the validity of its tax code
- For a foreign-invested company the damage runs past the local operation: blocked invoicing and a public non-operating status complicate profit repatriation, audit sign-off and reporting to the parent company.
The enforcement climate in 2026. Vietnam’s tax sector is running a “tax code clean-up” campaign. Under Official Telegram No. 18, issued by the Tax Department on 13 July 2026, tax offices were instructed to deal with 325,500 enterprises that are not operating at their registered address and owe tax; where a company has not operated for a year or more without notification, the tax office requests that the business registration authority handle the violation and revoke the Enterprise Registration Certificate. A further 291,962 enterprises that ceased operations without completing dissolution were required to finalise their obligations. From 1 July 2026, tax authorities may request the opening of bankruptcy proceedings against companies that owe tax and have abandoned their registered address for more than three years.
The practical conclusion: an address that exists only on paper is no longer a workable arrangement. Your registered address must receive post, display a signboard and produce a person when verification arrives.
4.6. Choosing a weak provider
Warning signs when leasing a virtual office in Thu Duc:
- The address is a residential condominium apartment — non-compliant from day one
- No signboard permitted — a breach of Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020, and the loss of your best evidence during inspection
- Nobody on site to receive post — tax letters are returned and you never learn of it
- A thin lease with no proof of the lessor’s lawful right to the premises
- Documents issued with abolished administrative unit names
- No professional capacity to respond when the tax authority asks for an explanation
5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company provides a virtual office in Thu Duc at a real address in the eastern corridor, structured around the risks described above.
5.1. What is included
a) Use of the leased address to register a company and to establish your head office, branch or representative office address.
b) The right to display your company signboard at the leased address — satisfying the obligation under Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and providing physical evidence of presence.
c) Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone and SMS. For a company whose decision-makers are overseas, this is the single most valuable component of the service.
d) Golden Star forwards mail and documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam (postal charges payable by the client).
e) You receive your own visitors at the leased premises.
f) A complete document pack — a properly drafted lease, the lessor’s proof of lawful right to the premises, and all documents issued using current administrative unit names.
5.2. How it works
Step 1 — Consultation. We advise on the address that fits your structure, your intended business lines and the specific file you will submit: domestic company, foreign-invested company, branch or representative office.
Step 2 — Agreement and document pack. You receive the lease agreement together with the supporting documents needed for your enterprise or investment registration file, written with the current ward name.
Step 3 — Filing. Golden Star prepares and submits the enterprise registration, investment registration, initial tax registration, e-invoice and digital signature applications.
Step 4 — Ongoing protection. Signboard displayed, correspondence received and reported to you immediately, and professional support whenever the tax authority verifies your operating status.
5.3. An important limitation we raise before you commit
Golden Star tells eastern-corridor clients something an address-only provider has no reason to mention: not every business line can operate from a registered address alone.
A virtual office suits services, consulting, trading, technology, e-commerce, investment holding and coordination activities. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to physical premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education and training, healthcare — the sub-licence process will require actual, inspectable facilities. A registered address will not carry it.
This matters disproportionately in the east, where manufacturing, logistics and warehousing are common, and where foreign investors are often drawn by the Hi-Tech Park and the industrial zones. Registering the business line on your certificate is permitted; operating it requires the condition to be met.
The failure surfaces late — after incorporation, when a sub-licence application requires premises that do not exist. We review your intended business lines before registration rather than after.
6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
From VND 550,000 (≈ US$21) per month, replacing rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet, furniture and reception. For a new company or one whose team works away from a desk, that saving goes straight to cash flow.
6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
Premises with a function suitable for company head office registration — not a residential condominium apartment. The Housing Law 2023 exposure is removed at the point of filing, before it can become a penalty.
6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
Your file is not returned over a ward name. It sounds trivial; in the present period it is one of the most common causes of a one- to two-week delay.
6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. In the current enforcement climate, one returned envelope is enough to start a verification process — and you should hear about it the same day, not months later.
6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
Your company signboard is displayed at the registered address — compliant with the law, and the evidence an inspection is looking for.
6.6. Flexibility
Work from anywhere; expand into a new area without building infrastructure. Your team can be at a warehouse, on site or remote while the legal address stays fixed.
6.7. A stable address
No forced relocation because a landlord sells the property or declines to renew — which avoids the entire downstream cost of an address change: the registration amendment, tax record and e-invoice updates, notifications to the bank, social insurance, partners and clients, and corrections to any tender documents already submitted.
6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
Clients using the virtual office can also use bookkeeping, tax declaration and finalisation, refunds, payroll, social insurance, e-invoicing and digital signatures — without coordinating several providers around one file.
6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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This is the distinction that costs time. If you are:
- Establishing a new company
- Setting up a branch, representative office or business location
- Amending your enterprise registration for any reason
- Filing an investment registration application
then the address must be written using the current administrative unit name. Filing with a ward name that has been abolished will attract a supplementary request, and each supplementary request costs roughly a week.
3.5. How to tell whether a provider is current
If a provider is still issuing lease agreements that say “Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City” at this point, they are working from an outdated template and are not tracking legal change. For a service whose entire value lies in the legal accuracy of the documents it produces, that is worth noticing before you sign.
4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
4.1. The landlord will not permit business registration
Common with shophouses and properties in residential areas. Ordinary Vietnamese residential leases do not permit business registration; landlords are reluctant to trigger rental income tax obligations or attract inspections. Even where a landlord agrees, many will not release a copy of the land use right certificate — leaving your file without supporting evidence and in a loop of supplementary requests.
4.2. Registering at a condominium apartment — an immediate rejection
As explained in 1.3. Given the density of residential development along Pham Van Dong, National Highway 13 and the riverfront, this is a recurring error. If the registration has already been made, the exposure is VND 20–40 million plus a forced relocation.
4.3. A house address down a lane — a disadvantage where it counts
Eastern-corridor businesses in construction, materials and logistics submit capability documents for tenders and files for bank facilities more often than most. An address in a narrow lane is a disadvantage against competitors — not a legal problem, but an assessment problem.
4.4. Writing an abolished ward name
The direct consequence of section 3. If your address provider issues documents with the old ward name, you are the one who loses the week.
4.5. The biggest risk: being declared “not operating at the registered address”
This is the risk foreign owners underestimate most, because it has no close equivalent in many home jurisdictions.
How it is triggered. Under Article 17 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, where the tax authority sends a document by post and it is returned because nobody received it or the address does not exist — or where the taxpayer fails to file returns after a second notice — the taxpayer is moved to a status of “pending verification of operating status at the registered address.” The tax authority then coordinates with the commune-level People’s Committee and the police to verify the premises in person and record the findings. If there is no signboard and nobody present, the company is declared “not operating at the registered address.”
What follows is a chain reaction:
- E-invoices can no longer be issued — you cannot invoice customers, which effectively stops revenue
- Tax returns can no longer be filed
- No amendment to the enterprise registration can be processed
- The company is published on the tax authority’s public list, visible to banks and counterparties
- Revocation of the Enterprise Registration Certificate may be requested
- Even voluntary dissolution is blocked: under Clause 3, Article 14 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, a company in this status must first attend its managing tax office to complete its tax obligations and terminate the validity of its tax code
- For a foreign-invested company the damage runs past the local operation: blocked invoicing and a public non-operating status complicate profit repatriation, audit sign-off and reporting to the parent company.
The enforcement climate in 2026. Vietnam’s tax sector is running a “tax code clean-up” campaign. Under Official Telegram No. 18, issued by the Tax Department on 13 July 2026, tax offices were instructed to deal with 325,500 enterprises that are not operating at their registered address and owe tax; where a company has not operated for a year or more without notification, the tax office requests that the business registration authority handle the violation and revoke the Enterprise Registration Certificate. A further 291,962 enterprises that ceased operations without completing dissolution were required to finalise their obligations. From 1 July 2026, tax authorities may request the opening of bankruptcy proceedings against companies that owe tax and have abandoned their registered address for more than three years.
The practical conclusion: an address that exists only on paper is no longer a workable arrangement. Your registered address must receive post, display a signboard and produce a person when verification arrives.
4.6. Choosing a weak provider
Warning signs when leasing a virtual office in Thu Duc:
- The address is a residential condominium apartment — non-compliant from day one
- No signboard permitted — a breach of Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020, and the loss of your best evidence during inspection
- Nobody on site to receive post — tax letters are returned and you never learn of it
- A thin lease with no proof of the lessor’s lawful right to the premises
- Documents issued with abolished administrative unit names
- No professional capacity to respond when the tax authority asks for an explanation
5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company provides a virtual office in Thu Duc at a real address in the eastern corridor, structured around the risks described above.
5.1. What is included
a) Use of the leased address to register a company and to establish your head office, branch or representative office address.
b) The right to display your company signboard at the leased address — satisfying the obligation under Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and providing physical evidence of presence.
c) Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone and SMS. For a company whose decision-makers are overseas, this is the single most valuable component of the service.
d) Golden Star forwards mail and documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam (postal charges payable by the client).
e) You receive your own visitors at the leased premises.
f) A complete document pack — a properly drafted lease, the lessor’s proof of lawful right to the premises, and all documents issued using current administrative unit names.
5.2. How it works
Step 1 — Consultation. We advise on the address that fits your structure, your intended business lines and the specific file you will submit: domestic company, foreign-invested company, branch or representative office.
Step 2 — Agreement and document pack. You receive the lease agreement together with the supporting documents needed for your enterprise or investment registration file, written with the current ward name.
Step 3 — Filing. Golden Star prepares and submits the enterprise registration, investment registration, initial tax registration, e-invoice and digital signature applications.
Step 4 — Ongoing protection. Signboard displayed, correspondence received and reported to you immediately, and professional support whenever the tax authority verifies your operating status.
5.3. An important limitation we raise before you commit
Golden Star tells eastern-corridor clients something an address-only provider has no reason to mention: not every business line can operate from a registered address alone.
A virtual office suits services, consulting, trading, technology, e-commerce, investment holding and coordination activities. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to physical premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education and training, healthcare — the sub-licence process will require actual, inspectable facilities. A registered address will not carry it.
This matters disproportionately in the east, where manufacturing, logistics and warehousing are common, and where foreign investors are often drawn by the Hi-Tech Park and the industrial zones. Registering the business line on your certificate is permitted; operating it requires the condition to be met.
The failure surfaces late — after incorporation, when a sub-licence application requires premises that do not exist. We review your intended business lines before registration rather than after.
6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
From VND 550,000 (≈ US$21) per month, replacing rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet, furniture and reception. For a new company or one whose team works away from a desk, that saving goes straight to cash flow.
6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
Premises with a function suitable for company head office registration — not a residential condominium apartment. The Housing Law 2023 exposure is removed at the point of filing, before it can become a penalty.
6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
Your file is not returned over a ward name. It sounds trivial; in the present period it is one of the most common causes of a one- to two-week delay.
6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. In the current enforcement climate, one returned envelope is enough to start a verification process — and you should hear about it the same day, not months later.
6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
Your company signboard is displayed at the registered address — compliant with the law, and the evidence an inspection is looking for.
6.6. Flexibility
Work from anywhere; expand into a new area without building infrastructure. Your team can be at a warehouse, on site or remote while the legal address stays fixed.
6.7. A stable address
No forced relocation because a landlord sells the property or declines to renew — which avoids the entire downstream cost of an address change: the registration amendment, tax record and e-invoice updates, notifications to the bank, social insurance, partners and clients, and corrections to any tender documents already submitted.
6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
Clients using the virtual office can also use bookkeeping, tax declaration and finalisation, refunds, payroll, social insurance, e-invoicing and digital signatures — without coordinating several providers around one file.
6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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If a provider is still issuing lease agreements that say “Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City” at this point, they are working from an outdated template and are not tracking legal change. For a service whose entire value lies in the legal accuracy of the documents it produces, that is worth noticing before you sign.
4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
4.1. The landlord will not permit business registration
Common with shophouses and properties in residential areas. Ordinary Vietnamese residential leases do not permit business registration; landlords are reluctant to trigger rental income tax obligations or attract inspections. Even where a landlord agrees, many will not release a copy of the land use right certificate — leaving your file without supporting evidence and in a loop of supplementary requests.
4.2. Registering at a condominium apartment — an immediate rejection
As explained in 1.3. Given the density of residential development along Pham Van Dong, National Highway 13 and the riverfront, this is a recurring error. If the registration has already been made, the exposure is VND 20–40 million plus a forced relocation.
4.3. A house address down a lane — a disadvantage where it counts
Eastern-corridor businesses in construction, materials and logistics submit capability documents for tenders and files for bank facilities more often than most. An address in a narrow lane is a disadvantage against competitors — not a legal problem, but an assessment problem.
4.4. Writing an abolished ward name
The direct consequence of section 3. If your address provider issues documents with the old ward name, you are the one who loses the week.
4.5. The biggest risk: being declared “not operating at the registered address”
This is the risk foreign owners underestimate most, because it has no close equivalent in many home jurisdictions.
How it is triggered. Under Article 17 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, where the tax authority sends a document by post and it is returned because nobody received it or the address does not exist — or where the taxpayer fails to file returns after a second notice — the taxpayer is moved to a status of “pending verification of operating status at the registered address.” The tax authority then coordinates with the commune-level People’s Committee and the police to verify the premises in person and record the findings. If there is no signboard and nobody present, the company is declared “not operating at the registered address.”
What follows is a chain reaction:
- E-invoices can no longer be issued — you cannot invoice customers, which effectively stops revenue
- Tax returns can no longer be filed
- No amendment to the enterprise registration can be processed
- The company is published on the tax authority’s public list, visible to banks and counterparties
- Revocation of the Enterprise Registration Certificate may be requested
- Even voluntary dissolution is blocked: under Clause 3, Article 14 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, a company in this status must first attend its managing tax office to complete its tax obligations and terminate the validity of its tax code
- For a foreign-invested company the damage runs past the local operation: blocked invoicing and a public non-operating status complicate profit repatriation, audit sign-off and reporting to the parent company.
The enforcement climate in 2026. Vietnam’s tax sector is running a “tax code clean-up” campaign. Under Official Telegram No. 18, issued by the Tax Department on 13 July 2026, tax offices were instructed to deal with 325,500 enterprises that are not operating at their registered address and owe tax; where a company has not operated for a year or more without notification, the tax office requests that the business registration authority handle the violation and revoke the Enterprise Registration Certificate. A further 291,962 enterprises that ceased operations without completing dissolution were required to finalise their obligations. From 1 July 2026, tax authorities may request the opening of bankruptcy proceedings against companies that owe tax and have abandoned their registered address for more than three years.
The practical conclusion: an address that exists only on paper is no longer a workable arrangement. Your registered address must receive post, display a signboard and produce a person when verification arrives.
4.6. Choosing a weak provider
Warning signs when leasing a virtual office in Thu Duc:
- The address is a residential condominium apartment — non-compliant from day one
- No signboard permitted — a breach of Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020, and the loss of your best evidence during inspection
- Nobody on site to receive post — tax letters are returned and you never learn of it
- A thin lease with no proof of the lessor’s lawful right to the premises
- Documents issued with abolished administrative unit names
- No professional capacity to respond when the tax authority asks for an explanation
5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company provides a virtual office in Thu Duc at a real address in the eastern corridor, structured around the risks described above.
5.1. What is included
a) Use of the leased address to register a company and to establish your head office, branch or representative office address.
b) The right to display your company signboard at the leased address — satisfying the obligation under Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and providing physical evidence of presence.
c) Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone and SMS. For a company whose decision-makers are overseas, this is the single most valuable component of the service.
d) Golden Star forwards mail and documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam (postal charges payable by the client).
e) You receive your own visitors at the leased premises.
f) A complete document pack — a properly drafted lease, the lessor’s proof of lawful right to the premises, and all documents issued using current administrative unit names.
5.2. How it works
Step 1 — Consultation. We advise on the address that fits your structure, your intended business lines and the specific file you will submit: domestic company, foreign-invested company, branch or representative office.
Step 2 — Agreement and document pack. You receive the lease agreement together with the supporting documents needed for your enterprise or investment registration file, written with the current ward name.
Step 3 — Filing. Golden Star prepares and submits the enterprise registration, investment registration, initial tax registration, e-invoice and digital signature applications.
Step 4 — Ongoing protection. Signboard displayed, correspondence received and reported to you immediately, and professional support whenever the tax authority verifies your operating status.
5.3. An important limitation we raise before you commit
Golden Star tells eastern-corridor clients something an address-only provider has no reason to mention: not every business line can operate from a registered address alone.
A virtual office suits services, consulting, trading, technology, e-commerce, investment holding and coordination activities. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to physical premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education and training, healthcare — the sub-licence process will require actual, inspectable facilities. A registered address will not carry it.
This matters disproportionately in the east, where manufacturing, logistics and warehousing are common, and where foreign investors are often drawn by the Hi-Tech Park and the industrial zones. Registering the business line on your certificate is permitted; operating it requires the condition to be met.
The failure surfaces late — after incorporation, when a sub-licence application requires premises that do not exist. We review your intended business lines before registration rather than after.
6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
From VND 550,000 (≈ US$21) per month, replacing rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet, furniture and reception. For a new company or one whose team works away from a desk, that saving goes straight to cash flow.
6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
Premises with a function suitable for company head office registration — not a residential condominium apartment. The Housing Law 2023 exposure is removed at the point of filing, before it can become a penalty.
6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
Your file is not returned over a ward name. It sounds trivial; in the present period it is one of the most common causes of a one- to two-week delay.
6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. In the current enforcement climate, one returned envelope is enough to start a verification process — and you should hear about it the same day, not months later.
6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
Your company signboard is displayed at the registered address — compliant with the law, and the evidence an inspection is looking for.
6.6. Flexibility
Work from anywhere; expand into a new area without building infrastructure. Your team can be at a warehouse, on site or remote while the legal address stays fixed.
6.7. A stable address
No forced relocation because a landlord sells the property or declines to renew — which avoids the entire downstream cost of an address change: the registration amendment, tax record and e-invoice updates, notifications to the bank, social insurance, partners and clients, and corrections to any tender documents already submitted.
6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
Clients using the virtual office can also use bookkeeping, tax declaration and finalisation, refunds, payroll, social insurance, e-invoicing and digital signatures — without coordinating several providers around one file.
6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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4.1. The landlord will not permit business registration
Common with shophouses and properties in residential areas. Ordinary Vietnamese residential leases do not permit business registration; landlords are reluctant to trigger rental income tax obligations or attract inspections. Even where a landlord agrees, many will not release a copy of the land use right certificate — leaving your file without supporting evidence and in a loop of supplementary requests.
4.2. Registering at a condominium apartment — an immediate rejection
As explained in 1.3. Given the density of residential development along Pham Van Dong, National Highway 13 and the riverfront, this is a recurring error. If the registration has already been made, the exposure is VND 20–40 million plus a forced relocation.
4.3. A house address down a lane — a disadvantage where it counts
Eastern-corridor businesses in construction, materials and logistics submit capability documents for tenders and files for bank facilities more often than most. An address in a narrow lane is a disadvantage against competitors — not a legal problem, but an assessment problem.
4.4. Writing an abolished ward name
The direct consequence of section 3. If your address provider issues documents with the old ward name, you are the one who loses the week.
4.5. The biggest risk: being declared “not operating at the registered address”
This is the risk foreign owners underestimate most, because it has no close equivalent in many home jurisdictions.
How it is triggered. Under Article 17 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, where the tax authority sends a document by post and it is returned because nobody received it or the address does not exist — or where the taxpayer fails to file returns after a second notice — the taxpayer is moved to a status of “pending verification of operating status at the registered address.” The tax authority then coordinates with the commune-level People’s Committee and the police to verify the premises in person and record the findings. If there is no signboard and nobody present, the company is declared “not operating at the registered address.”
What follows is a chain reaction:
- E-invoices can no longer be issued — you cannot invoice customers, which effectively stops revenue
- Tax returns can no longer be filed
- No amendment to the enterprise registration can be processed
- The company is published on the tax authority’s public list, visible to banks and counterparties
- Revocation of the Enterprise Registration Certificate may be requested
- Even voluntary dissolution is blocked: under Clause 3, Article 14 of Circular 86/2024/TT-BTC, a company in this status must first attend its managing tax office to complete its tax obligations and terminate the validity of its tax code
- For a foreign-invested company the damage runs past the local operation: blocked invoicing and a public non-operating status complicate profit repatriation, audit sign-off and reporting to the parent company.
The enforcement climate in 2026. Vietnam’s tax sector is running a “tax code clean-up” campaign. Under Official Telegram No. 18, issued by the Tax Department on 13 July 2026, tax offices were instructed to deal with 325,500 enterprises that are not operating at their registered address and owe tax; where a company has not operated for a year or more without notification, the tax office requests that the business registration authority handle the violation and revoke the Enterprise Registration Certificate. A further 291,962 enterprises that ceased operations without completing dissolution were required to finalise their obligations. From 1 July 2026, tax authorities may request the opening of bankruptcy proceedings against companies that owe tax and have abandoned their registered address for more than three years.
The practical conclusion: an address that exists only on paper is no longer a workable arrangement. Your registered address must receive post, display a signboard and produce a person when verification arrives.
4.6. Choosing a weak provider
Warning signs when leasing a virtual office in Thu Duc:
- The address is a residential condominium apartment — non-compliant from day one
- No signboard permitted — a breach of Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020, and the loss of your best evidence during inspection
- Nobody on site to receive post — tax letters are returned and you never learn of it
- A thin lease with no proof of the lessor’s lawful right to the premises
- Documents issued with abolished administrative unit names
- No professional capacity to respond when the tax authority asks for an explanation
5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company provides a virtual office in Thu Duc at a real address in the eastern corridor, structured around the risks described above.
5.1. What is included
a) Use of the leased address to register a company and to establish your head office, branch or representative office address.
b) The right to display your company signboard at the leased address — satisfying the obligation under Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and providing physical evidence of presence.
c) Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone and SMS. For a company whose decision-makers are overseas, this is the single most valuable component of the service.
d) Golden Star forwards mail and documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam (postal charges payable by the client).
e) You receive your own visitors at the leased premises.
f) A complete document pack — a properly drafted lease, the lessor’s proof of lawful right to the premises, and all documents issued using current administrative unit names.
5.2. How it works
Step 1 — Consultation. We advise on the address that fits your structure, your intended business lines and the specific file you will submit: domestic company, foreign-invested company, branch or representative office.
Step 2 — Agreement and document pack. You receive the lease agreement together with the supporting documents needed for your enterprise or investment registration file, written with the current ward name.
Step 3 — Filing. Golden Star prepares and submits the enterprise registration, investment registration, initial tax registration, e-invoice and digital signature applications.
Step 4 — Ongoing protection. Signboard displayed, correspondence received and reported to you immediately, and professional support whenever the tax authority verifies your operating status.
5.3. An important limitation we raise before you commit
Golden Star tells eastern-corridor clients something an address-only provider has no reason to mention: not every business line can operate from a registered address alone.
A virtual office suits services, consulting, trading, technology, e-commerce, investment holding and coordination activities. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to physical premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education and training, healthcare — the sub-licence process will require actual, inspectable facilities. A registered address will not carry it.
This matters disproportionately in the east, where manufacturing, logistics and warehousing are common, and where foreign investors are often drawn by the Hi-Tech Park and the industrial zones. Registering the business line on your certificate is permitted; operating it requires the condition to be met.
The failure surfaces late — after incorporation, when a sub-licence application requires premises that do not exist. We review your intended business lines before registration rather than after.
6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
From VND 550,000 (≈ US$21) per month, replacing rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet, furniture and reception. For a new company or one whose team works away from a desk, that saving goes straight to cash flow.
6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
Premises with a function suitable for company head office registration — not a residential condominium apartment. The Housing Law 2023 exposure is removed at the point of filing, before it can become a penalty.
6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
Your file is not returned over a ward name. It sounds trivial; in the present period it is one of the most common causes of a one- to two-week delay.
6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. In the current enforcement climate, one returned envelope is enough to start a verification process — and you should hear about it the same day, not months later.
6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
Your company signboard is displayed at the registered address — compliant with the law, and the evidence an inspection is looking for.
6.6. Flexibility
Work from anywhere; expand into a new area without building infrastructure. Your team can be at a warehouse, on site or remote while the legal address stays fixed.
6.7. A stable address
No forced relocation because a landlord sells the property or declines to renew — which avoids the entire downstream cost of an address change: the registration amendment, tax record and e-invoice updates, notifications to the bank, social insurance, partners and clients, and corrections to any tender documents already submitted.
6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
Clients using the virtual office can also use bookkeeping, tax declaration and finalisation, refunds, payroll, social insurance, e-invoicing and digital signatures — without coordinating several providers around one file.
6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company provides a virtual office in Thu Duc at a real address in the eastern corridor, structured around the risks described above.
5.1. What is included
a) Use of the leased address to register a company and to establish your head office, branch or representative office address.
b) The right to display your company signboard at the leased address — satisfying the obligation under Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and providing physical evidence of presence.
c) Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone and SMS. For a company whose decision-makers are overseas, this is the single most valuable component of the service.
d) Golden Star forwards mail and documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam (postal charges payable by the client).
e) You receive your own visitors at the leased premises.
f) A complete document pack — a properly drafted lease, the lessor’s proof of lawful right to the premises, and all documents issued using current administrative unit names.
5.2. How it works
Step 1 — Consultation. We advise on the address that fits your structure, your intended business lines and the specific file you will submit: domestic company, foreign-invested company, branch or representative office.
Step 2 — Agreement and document pack. You receive the lease agreement together with the supporting documents needed for your enterprise or investment registration file, written with the current ward name.
Step 3 — Filing. Golden Star prepares and submits the enterprise registration, investment registration, initial tax registration, e-invoice and digital signature applications.
Step 4 — Ongoing protection. Signboard displayed, correspondence received and reported to you immediately, and professional support whenever the tax authority verifies your operating status.
5.3. An important limitation we raise before you commit
Golden Star tells eastern-corridor clients something an address-only provider has no reason to mention: not every business line can operate from a registered address alone.
A virtual office suits services, consulting, trading, technology, e-commerce, investment holding and coordination activities. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to physical premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education and training, healthcare — the sub-licence process will require actual, inspectable facilities. A registered address will not carry it.
This matters disproportionately in the east, where manufacturing, logistics and warehousing are common, and where foreign investors are often drawn by the Hi-Tech Park and the industrial zones. Registering the business line on your certificate is permitted; operating it requires the condition to be met.
The failure surfaces late — after incorporation, when a sub-licence application requires premises that do not exist. We review your intended business lines before registration rather than after.
6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
From VND 550,000 (≈ US$21) per month, replacing rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet, furniture and reception. For a new company or one whose team works away from a desk, that saving goes straight to cash flow.
6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
Premises with a function suitable for company head office registration — not a residential condominium apartment. The Housing Law 2023 exposure is removed at the point of filing, before it can become a penalty.
6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
Your file is not returned over a ward name. It sounds trivial; in the present period it is one of the most common causes of a one- to two-week delay.
6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. In the current enforcement climate, one returned envelope is enough to start a verification process — and you should hear about it the same day, not months later.
6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
Your company signboard is displayed at the registered address — compliant with the law, and the evidence an inspection is looking for.
6.6. Flexibility
Work from anywhere; expand into a new area without building infrastructure. Your team can be at a warehouse, on site or remote while the legal address stays fixed.
6.7. A stable address
No forced relocation because a landlord sells the property or declines to renew — which avoids the entire downstream cost of an address change: the registration amendment, tax record and e-invoice updates, notifications to the bank, social insurance, partners and clients, and corrections to any tender documents already submitted.
6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
Clients using the virtual office can also use bookkeeping, tax declaration and finalisation, refunds, payroll, social insurance, e-invoicing and digital signatures — without coordinating several providers around one file.
6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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- Virtual Office Services
- Virtual Office Services in HCM City, Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services in Vietnam
- Virtual office service in Vinhomes Central Park, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services In Binh Thanh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Virtual office services in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
a) Use of the leased address to register a company and to establish your head office, branch or representative office address.
b) The right to display your company signboard at the leased address — satisfying the obligation under Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and providing physical evidence of presence.
c) Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone and SMS. For a company whose decision-makers are overseas, this is the single most valuable component of the service.
d) Golden Star forwards mail and documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam (postal charges payable by the client).
e) You receive your own visitors at the leased premises.
f) A complete document pack — a properly drafted lease, the lessor’s proof of lawful right to the premises, and all documents issued using current administrative unit names.
5.2. How it works
Step 1 — Consultation. We advise on the address that fits your structure, your intended business lines and the specific file you will submit: domestic company, foreign-invested company, branch or representative office.
Step 2 — Agreement and document pack. You receive the lease agreement together with the supporting documents needed for your enterprise or investment registration file, written with the current ward name.
Step 3 — Filing. Golden Star prepares and submits the enterprise registration, investment registration, initial tax registration, e-invoice and digital signature applications.
Step 4 — Ongoing protection. Signboard displayed, correspondence received and reported to you immediately, and professional support whenever the tax authority verifies your operating status.
5.3. An important limitation we raise before you commit
Golden Star tells eastern-corridor clients something an address-only provider has no reason to mention: not every business line can operate from a registered address alone.
A virtual office suits services, consulting, trading, technology, e-commerce, investment holding and coordination activities. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to physical premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education and training, healthcare — the sub-licence process will require actual, inspectable facilities. A registered address will not carry it.
This matters disproportionately in the east, where manufacturing, logistics and warehousing are common, and where foreign investors are often drawn by the Hi-Tech Park and the industrial zones. Registering the business line on your certificate is permitted; operating it requires the condition to be met.
The failure surfaces late — after incorporation, when a sub-licence application requires premises that do not exist. We review your intended business lines before registration rather than after.
6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
From VND 550,000 (≈ US$21) per month, replacing rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet, furniture and reception. For a new company or one whose team works away from a desk, that saving goes straight to cash flow.
6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
Premises with a function suitable for company head office registration — not a residential condominium apartment. The Housing Law 2023 exposure is removed at the point of filing, before it can become a penalty.
6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
Your file is not returned over a ward name. It sounds trivial; in the present period it is one of the most common causes of a one- to two-week delay.
6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. In the current enforcement climate, one returned envelope is enough to start a verification process — and you should hear about it the same day, not months later.
6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
Your company signboard is displayed at the registered address — compliant with the law, and the evidence an inspection is looking for.
6.6. Flexibility
Work from anywhere; expand into a new area without building infrastructure. Your team can be at a warehouse, on site or remote while the legal address stays fixed.
6.7. A stable address
No forced relocation because a landlord sells the property or declines to renew — which avoids the entire downstream cost of an address change: the registration amendment, tax record and e-invoice updates, notifications to the bank, social insurance, partners and clients, and corrections to any tender documents already submitted.
6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
Clients using the virtual office can also use bookkeeping, tax declaration and finalisation, refunds, payroll, social insurance, e-invoicing and digital signatures — without coordinating several providers around one file.
6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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- Virtual Office Services in Vietnam
- Virtual office service in Vinhomes Central Park, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services In Binh Thanh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Virtual office services in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Step 1 — Consultation. We advise on the address that fits your structure, your intended business lines and the specific file you will submit: domestic company, foreign-invested company, branch or representative office.
Step 2 — Agreement and document pack. You receive the lease agreement together with the supporting documents needed for your enterprise or investment registration file, written with the current ward name.
Step 3 — Filing. Golden Star prepares and submits the enterprise registration, investment registration, initial tax registration, e-invoice and digital signature applications.
Step 4 — Ongoing protection. Signboard displayed, correspondence received and reported to you immediately, and professional support whenever the tax authority verifies your operating status.
5.3. An important limitation we raise before you commit
Golden Star tells eastern-corridor clients something an address-only provider has no reason to mention: not every business line can operate from a registered address alone.
A virtual office suits services, consulting, trading, technology, e-commerce, investment holding and coordination activities. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to physical premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education and training, healthcare — the sub-licence process will require actual, inspectable facilities. A registered address will not carry it.
This matters disproportionately in the east, where manufacturing, logistics and warehousing are common, and where foreign investors are often drawn by the Hi-Tech Park and the industrial zones. Registering the business line on your certificate is permitted; operating it requires the condition to be met.
The failure surfaces late — after incorporation, when a sub-licence application requires premises that do not exist. We review your intended business lines before registration rather than after.
6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
From VND 550,000 (≈ US$21) per month, replacing rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet, furniture and reception. For a new company or one whose team works away from a desk, that saving goes straight to cash flow.
6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
Premises with a function suitable for company head office registration — not a residential condominium apartment. The Housing Law 2023 exposure is removed at the point of filing, before it can become a penalty.
6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
Your file is not returned over a ward name. It sounds trivial; in the present period it is one of the most common causes of a one- to two-week delay.
6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. In the current enforcement climate, one returned envelope is enough to start a verification process — and you should hear about it the same day, not months later.
6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
Your company signboard is displayed at the registered address — compliant with the law, and the evidence an inspection is looking for.
6.6. Flexibility
Work from anywhere; expand into a new area without building infrastructure. Your team can be at a warehouse, on site or remote while the legal address stays fixed.
6.7. A stable address
No forced relocation because a landlord sells the property or declines to renew — which avoids the entire downstream cost of an address change: the registration amendment, tax record and e-invoice updates, notifications to the bank, social insurance, partners and clients, and corrections to any tender documents already submitted.
6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
Clients using the virtual office can also use bookkeeping, tax declaration and finalisation, refunds, payroll, social insurance, e-invoicing and digital signatures — without coordinating several providers around one file.
6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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- Virtual Office Services in HCM City, Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services in Vietnam
- Virtual office service in Vinhomes Central Park, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services In Binh Thanh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Virtual office services in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Golden Star tells eastern-corridor clients something an address-only provider has no reason to mention: not every business line can operate from a registered address alone.
A virtual office suits services, consulting, trading, technology, e-commerce, investment holding and coordination activities. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to physical premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education and training, healthcare — the sub-licence process will require actual, inspectable facilities. A registered address will not carry it.
This matters disproportionately in the east, where manufacturing, logistics and warehousing are common, and where foreign investors are often drawn by the Hi-Tech Park and the industrial zones. Registering the business line on your certificate is permitted; operating it requires the condition to be met.
The failure surfaces late — after incorporation, when a sub-licence application requires premises that do not exist. We review your intended business lines before registration rather than after.
6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
From VND 550,000 (≈ US$21) per month, replacing rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet, furniture and reception. For a new company or one whose team works away from a desk, that saving goes straight to cash flow.
6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
Premises with a function suitable for company head office registration — not a residential condominium apartment. The Housing Law 2023 exposure is removed at the point of filing, before it can become a penalty.
6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
Your file is not returned over a ward name. It sounds trivial; in the present period it is one of the most common causes of a one- to two-week delay.
6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. In the current enforcement climate, one returned envelope is enough to start a verification process — and you should hear about it the same day, not months later.
6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
Your company signboard is displayed at the registered address — compliant with the law, and the evidence an inspection is looking for.
6.6. Flexibility
Work from anywhere; expand into a new area without building infrastructure. Your team can be at a warehouse, on site or remote while the legal address stays fixed.
6.7. A stable address
No forced relocation because a landlord sells the property or declines to renew — which avoids the entire downstream cost of an address change: the registration amendment, tax record and e-invoice updates, notifications to the bank, social insurance, partners and clients, and corrections to any tender documents already submitted.
6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
Clients using the virtual office can also use bookkeeping, tax declaration and finalisation, refunds, payroll, social insurance, e-invoicing and digital signatures — without coordinating several providers around one file.
6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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- Virtual office services in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
From VND 550,000 (≈ US$21) per month, replacing rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet, furniture and reception. For a new company or one whose team works away from a desk, that saving goes straight to cash flow.
6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
Premises with a function suitable for company head office registration — not a residential condominium apartment. The Housing Law 2023 exposure is removed at the point of filing, before it can become a penalty.
6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
Your file is not returned over a ward name. It sounds trivial; in the present period it is one of the most common causes of a one- to two-week delay.
6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. In the current enforcement climate, one returned envelope is enough to start a verification process — and you should hear about it the same day, not months later.
6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
Your company signboard is displayed at the registered address — compliant with the law, and the evidence an inspection is looking for.
6.6. Flexibility
Work from anywhere; expand into a new area without building infrastructure. Your team can be at a warehouse, on site or remote while the legal address stays fixed.
6.7. A stable address
No forced relocation because a landlord sells the property or declines to renew — which avoids the entire downstream cost of an address change: the registration amendment, tax record and e-invoice updates, notifications to the bank, social insurance, partners and clients, and corrections to any tender documents already submitted.
6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
Clients using the virtual office can also use bookkeeping, tax declaration and finalisation, refunds, payroll, social insurance, e-invoicing and digital signatures — without coordinating several providers around one file.
6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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From VND 550,000 (≈ US$21) per month, replacing rent, a two- to three-month deposit, management fees, utilities, internet, furniture and reception. For a new company or one whose team works away from a desk, that saving goes straight to cash flow.
6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
Premises with a function suitable for company head office registration — not a residential condominium apartment. The Housing Law 2023 exposure is removed at the point of filing, before it can become a penalty.
6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
Your file is not returned over a ward name. It sounds trivial; in the present period it is one of the most common causes of a one- to two-week delay.
6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. In the current enforcement climate, one returned envelope is enough to start a verification process — and you should hear about it the same day, not months later.
6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
Your company signboard is displayed at the registered address — compliant with the law, and the evidence an inspection is looking for.
6.6. Flexibility
Work from anywhere; expand into a new area without building infrastructure. Your team can be at a warehouse, on site or remote while the legal address stays fixed.
6.7. A stable address
No forced relocation because a landlord sells the property or declines to renew — which avoids the entire downstream cost of an address change: the registration amendment, tax record and e-invoice updates, notifications to the bank, social insurance, partners and clients, and corrections to any tender documents already submitted.
6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
Clients using the virtual office can also use bookkeeping, tax declaration and finalisation, refunds, payroll, social insurance, e-invoicing and digital signatures — without coordinating several providers around one file.
6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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Premises with a function suitable for company head office registration — not a residential condominium apartment. The Housing Law 2023 exposure is removed at the point of filing, before it can become a penalty.
6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
Your file is not returned over a ward name. It sounds trivial; in the present period it is one of the most common causes of a one- to two-week delay.
6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. In the current enforcement climate, one returned envelope is enough to start a verification process — and you should hear about it the same day, not months later.
6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
Your company signboard is displayed at the registered address — compliant with the law, and the evidence an inspection is looking for.
6.6. Flexibility
Work from anywhere; expand into a new area without building infrastructure. Your team can be at a warehouse, on site or remote while the legal address stays fixed.
6.7. A stable address
No forced relocation because a landlord sells the property or declines to renew — which avoids the entire downstream cost of an address change: the registration amendment, tax record and e-invoice updates, notifications to the bank, social insurance, partners and clients, and corrections to any tender documents already submitted.
6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
Clients using the virtual office can also use bookkeeping, tax declaration and finalisation, refunds, payroll, social insurance, e-invoicing and digital signatures — without coordinating several providers around one file.
6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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- Virtual office services in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Your file is not returned over a ward name. It sounds trivial; in the present period it is one of the most common causes of a one- to two-week delay.
6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. In the current enforcement climate, one returned envelope is enough to start a verification process — and you should hear about it the same day, not months later.
6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
Your company signboard is displayed at the registered address — compliant with the law, and the evidence an inspection is looking for.
6.6. Flexibility
Work from anywhere; expand into a new area without building infrastructure. Your team can be at a warehouse, on site or remote while the legal address stays fixed.
6.7. A stable address
No forced relocation because a landlord sells the property or declines to renew — which avoids the entire downstream cost of an address change: the registration amendment, tax record and e-invoice updates, notifications to the bank, social insurance, partners and clients, and corrections to any tender documents already submitted.
6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
Clients using the virtual office can also use bookkeeping, tax declaration and finalisation, refunds, payroll, social insurance, e-invoicing and digital signatures — without coordinating several providers around one file.
6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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- Virtual Office Services in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services in Vietnam
- Virtual office service in Vinhomes Central Park, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services In Binh Thanh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Virtual office services in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. In the current enforcement climate, one returned envelope is enough to start a verification process — and you should hear about it the same day, not months later.
6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
Your company signboard is displayed at the registered address — compliant with the law, and the evidence an inspection is looking for.
6.6. Flexibility
Work from anywhere; expand into a new area without building infrastructure. Your team can be at a warehouse, on site or remote while the legal address stays fixed.
6.7. A stable address
No forced relocation because a landlord sells the property or declines to renew — which avoids the entire downstream cost of an address change: the registration amendment, tax record and e-invoice updates, notifications to the bank, social insurance, partners and clients, and corrections to any tender documents already submitted.
6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
Clients using the virtual office can also use bookkeeping, tax declaration and finalisation, refunds, payroll, social insurance, e-invoicing and digital signatures — without coordinating several providers around one file.
6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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- Virtual Office Services
- Virtual Office Services in HCM City, Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services in Vietnam
- Virtual office service in Vinhomes Central Park, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services In Binh Thanh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Virtual office services in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Your company signboard is displayed at the registered address — compliant with the law, and the evidence an inspection is looking for.
6.6. Flexibility
Work from anywhere; expand into a new area without building infrastructure. Your team can be at a warehouse, on site or remote while the legal address stays fixed.
6.7. A stable address
No forced relocation because a landlord sells the property or declines to renew — which avoids the entire downstream cost of an address change: the registration amendment, tax record and e-invoice updates, notifications to the bank, social insurance, partners and clients, and corrections to any tender documents already submitted.
6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
Clients using the virtual office can also use bookkeeping, tax declaration and finalisation, refunds, payroll, social insurance, e-invoicing and digital signatures — without coordinating several providers around one file.
6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
other services
- Virtual Office Services In Thanh My Tay Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services
- Virtual Office Services in HCM City, Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services in Vietnam
- Virtual office service in Vinhomes Central Park, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services In Binh Thanh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Virtual office services in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Work from anywhere; expand into a new area without building infrastructure. Your team can be at a warehouse, on site or remote while the legal address stays fixed.
6.7. A stable address
No forced relocation because a landlord sells the property or declines to renew — which avoids the entire downstream cost of an address change: the registration amendment, tax record and e-invoice updates, notifications to the bank, social insurance, partners and clients, and corrections to any tender documents already submitted.
6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
Clients using the virtual office can also use bookkeeping, tax declaration and finalisation, refunds, payroll, social insurance, e-invoicing and digital signatures — without coordinating several providers around one file.
6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
other services
- Virtual Office Services In Thanh My Tay Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services
- Virtual Office Services in HCM City, Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services in Vietnam
- Virtual office service in Vinhomes Central Park, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services In Binh Thanh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Virtual office services in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
No forced relocation because a landlord sells the property or declines to renew — which avoids the entire downstream cost of an address change: the registration amendment, tax record and e-invoice updates, notifications to the bank, social insurance, partners and clients, and corrections to any tender documents already submitted.
6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
Clients using the virtual office can also use bookkeeping, tax declaration and finalisation, refunds, payroll, social insurance, e-invoicing and digital signatures — without coordinating several providers around one file.
6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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- Virtual office services in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Clients using the virtual office can also use bookkeeping, tax declaration and finalisation, refunds, payroll, social insurance, e-invoicing and digital signatures — without coordinating several providers around one file.
6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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- Virtual Office Services In Thanh My Tay Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services
- Virtual Office Services in HCM City, Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services in Vietnam
- Virtual office service in Vinhomes Central Park, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services In Binh Thanh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Virtual office services in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
When the tax authority verifies your address or requests an explanation, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it.
7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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- Virtual office services in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Suitable for:
- Foreign investors establishing a first entity in Vietnam who want a presence in the eastern corridor
- Foreign companies opening a representative office or branch
- Technology, engineering and digital-services companies working with the Hi-Tech Park ecosystem
- Logistics, transport, construction, materials and distribution businesses whose teams work off-site
- Companies operating near the Binh Duong or Dong Nai boundary that need a Ho Chi Minh City legal address
- Trading and e-commerce businesses using third-party warehousing
- Regional groups adding a Ho Chi Minh City address alongside operations elsewhere
- Small and medium businesses optimising fixed costs
Not suitable, or only partly suitable, for:
- Projects requiring manufacturing plants, warehouses or other inspectable premises as a licensing condition
- Business lines whose sub-licence requires facility inspection — food processing, education and training centres, healthcare
- Investment projects whose described scope includes production or storage, where the project location must be premises appropriate to that use
For these, the head office may still be a registered address while the operating location is registered separately. We advise case by case rather than selling past the boundary.
8. FEES
Package
Purpose
Monthly fee
Standard
Head office, branch or representative office address
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21)
Investment / FDI
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34)
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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- Virtual office services in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
|
Package |
Purpose |
Monthly fee |
|
Standard |
Head office, branch or representative office address |
VND 550,000 (≈ US$21) |
|
Investment / FDI |
Company address and investment project location, or representative office of a foreign company in Vietnam |
VND 880,000 (≈ US$34) |
USD figures are indicative and depend on the prevailing exchange rate.
Why the second tier costs more. Not a better address — more documentation. An investment registration file must evidence the project location, established by a valid copy of documents on land use rights, a valid copy of the location lease agreement, or other documents establishing the right to use the location. That lease package must be prepared to a standard that survives submission to the licensing authority.
Not charged: premises deposit, management fee, utilities, fit-out.
Quoted separately: bookkeeping, tax declaration, finalisation and refunds, payroll and social insurance, corporate and tax legal advice, contract drafting, e-invoicing and digital signatures, work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
Charged at cost: postal forwarding, according to postal tariffs.
9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
other services
- Virtual Office Services In Thanh My Tay Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services
- Virtual Office Services in HCM City, Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services in Vietnam
- Virtual office service in Vinhomes Central Park, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services In Binh Thanh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Virtual office services in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
9.1. Thu Duc — Hiep Binh Ward (eastern corridor)
No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (before 1 July 2025: Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc City)
Best suited to logistics, transport, construction, materials, manufacturing, distribution and technology businesses operating in the east. Well positioned for the National Highway 13 and Pham Van Dong axes and for connections toward Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
9.2. Tan Dinh — central Ho Chi Minh City
No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly District 1)
This is also Golden Star’s own head office — permanently staffed. Best suited to consulting, legal, accounting, financial, insurance and trading firms, where the address on a proposal influences how a client or a bank assesses you.
9.3. Thanh My Tay — Vinhomes Central Park
Floor 38, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Binh Thanh District)
Best suited to technology companies, startups, e-commerce and foreign-invested businesses wanting an internationally recognisable address.
All three addresses are offered at the same fee. Choose on fit — where your clients and partners are concentrated, and what your business line needs — not on budget.
10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
ARTICLE CONTENTS
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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- Virtual Office Services in HCM City, Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services in Vietnam
- Virtual office service in Vinhomes Central Park, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services In Binh Thanh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Virtual office services in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
10.1. A licensed accounting and tax agent firm, not a space broker
This is the difference that matters when something goes wrong. Golden Star has operated since 2009 — Business Registration Certificate No. 0308929524, issued 29 May 2009 by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City — and holds both a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Accounting Services and a Certificate of Eligibility to Provide Tax Procedure Services.
When a tax officer arrives to verify the address, when an explanatory letter is required, or when a filing is queried, licensed accounting and tax practitioners handle it — not a receptionist at a serviced office.
10.2. Documents written with current administrative names
Lease agreements and supporting documents say “Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”, in line with Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15. Your file is not returned over a ward name.
10.3. An address with the correct legal function
Commercial premises, not a residential condominium apartment — removing the Housing Law 2023 exposure at the point of filing.
10.4. Proactive correspondence handling
Immediate notification by email, telephone and SMS. This is the direct and most effective protection against the tax-status risk described in section 4.5, and it is what foreign owners based overseas most often say they were missing.
10.5. Business lines reviewed before registration
We tell you where a registered address is not sufficient for what you intend to do. An address-only provider has no reason to raise the sub-licence question; a licensed professional firm does.
10.6. A full service ecosystem from one provider
Company formation and investment registration; representative office establishment; bookkeeping; tax declaration, finalisation and refunds; payroll and social insurance; corporate, tax and accounting legal advice; contract and internal regulation drafting; e-invoicing and digital signatures; and work permits, temporary residence cards and visas for foreign personnel.
10.7. Three addresses and bilingual support
Tan Dinh, Thanh My Tay and Hiep Binh — at the same fee. Documentation and support in Vietnamese and English, with an English version of our website.
11. WHAT YOU GET
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
✔ A lawful head office address in eastern Ho Chi Minh City for your Enterprise Registration Certificate, invoices and contracts — compliant with Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 and clear of the Housing Law 2023 prohibition
✔ A document pack written with current administrative names, so your registration file is not returned over an address
✔ Your company signboard displayed at the registered address, as Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires
✔ Someone in Vietnam receiving your tax correspondence, sharply reducing the risk of being declared not operating at your registered address, having your tax code suspended, or facing revocation of your Enterprise Registration Certificate
✔ Fixed costs of roughly US$21 per month, replacing rent, deposit, management fees, utilities and fit-out
✔ Business lines reviewed before registration, so a premises-linked licensing condition does not surface months later
✔ A stable address that does not disappear when a landlord changes plans
✔ A credible address for banks, partners, tender committees and overseas counterparties
✔ A single provider for address, accounting, tax, payroll and foreign personnel matters
✔ Licensed practitioners beside you whenever the tax authority inspects or requests an explanation
12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
Is a virtual office in Thu Duc legal?
Yes. Article 42 of the Enterprise Law 2020 requires only that the head office be a contact address inside Vietnamese territory, identifiable by administrative boundaries. Nothing prohibits leasing an address for company registration, and nothing prohibits several companies from registering at the same lawful address. The address must be real, must not be a residential condominium apartment, and must be supported by a proper lease and the lessor’s proof of lawful right.
Thu Duc City was abolished. How do I write the address now?
Since 1 July 2025 Thu Duc City is no longer an administrative unit; the area comprises 12 wards reporting directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Golden Star’s address is written as “No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City”. New filings must use the current ward name.
My Enterprise Registration Certificate still says “Thu Duc City”. Must I amend it?
No. Under Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, where a change in administrative boundaries alters a registered address, the company is not obliged to file a change-of-address registration. You may request an update when convenient or alongside another amendment.
How much does a virtual office in Thu Duc cost?
VND 550,000 per month (approximately US$21) for a head office, branch or representative office address; VND 880,000 per month (approximately US$34) where the address also serves as an investment project location or as the address of a foreign company’s representative office in Vietnam. No premises deposit, management fee or utilities.
I live in an apartment in the area. Can I register my company there?
Not if it is a residential condominium apartment. Point c, Clause 8, Article 3 of the Housing Law 2023 prohibits non-residential use, and Decree 16/2022/ND-CP sets a penalty of VND 20–40 million plus forced restoration of residential use. In a mixed-use building, registration is permitted only in the portion approved for commercial, business or office use.
Can several companies share one address?
Yes. There is no legal limit. Problems arise not from the number of companies but from whether post is genuinely received and whether there is a verifiable presence when the tax authority inspects.
My project involves manufacturing or warehousing. Does a virtual office work?
For the head office address, generally yes. But where your business line carries a licensing condition tied to premises — manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, education, healthcare — the sub-licence will require actual inspectable facilities, and for an investment project the location must be premises suited to the activity. Operating locations are registered separately from the head office. We review this before registration.
Can a foreign investor use this address for an investment registration file?
Yes. The investment file must evidence the project location, which may be established by a valid copy of the location lease agreement. Golden Star’s investment package at VND 880,000 per month provides a lease prepared to that standard.
I do not live in Vietnam. How will I receive official correspondence?
Golden Star receives correspondence on your behalf and notifies you immediately by email, telephone or SMS, then forwards documents to any address you nominate, including outside Vietnam. This is the main reason foreign clients use the service.
Am I allowed to display my company signboard?
Yes. Clause 4, Article 37 of the Enterprise Law 2020 makes it an obligation, and it is your primary evidence of presence during verification. Insist on it with any provider.
What if I later lease real premises?
You file a change of head office within 10 days of the change. Golden Star handles that filing and the downstream updates with the tax authority, e-invoice issuer details, bank and social insurance.
Can I open a corporate bank account with this address?
Yes. The address on your Enterprise Registration Certificate is your legal address for all transactions, including bank account opening, initial tax registration, e-invoicing and digital signatures.
13. CONTACT US
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
Looking for a virtual office in Thu Duc? You need a lawful company registration address, safe from a tax perspective, with documents written using the current ward name.
Golden Star Accounting and Consulting Company
Head office: No. 9 Phan Ke Binh, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Binh Thanh office: P7-38.17, Park 7 Tower, Vinhomes Central Park, 720A Dien Bien Phu, Thanh My Tay Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Thu Duc virtual office address: No. 1, Street 18, Hiep Binh Residential Area, Hiep Binh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Telephone: +84 914 19 07 07 · +84 942 05 04 07
Email: ngocthu@ketoansaovang.com
- VIRTUAL OFFICE SERVICES IN THU DUC
- 1. WHAT A VIRTUAL OFFICE IS, AND WHY IT IS LEGAL IN VIETNAM
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Is a virtual office legal in Vietnam?
- 1.3. Addresses that will be rejected
- 1.4. Obligations that continue after registration
- 2.1. The business mix works outside an office
- 2.2. Gateway position and regional connectivity
- 2.3. Saigon Hi-Tech Park, industrial zones and the university cluster
- 2.4. “The east is cheap” is out of date
- 3. THE 1 JULY 2025 ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE — WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE FILING
- 4. THE PROBLEMS AND RISKS FOREIGN COMPANIES RUN INTO HERE
- 5. THE SOLUTION: GOLDEN STAR’S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6. BENEFITS OF USING A VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THU DUC
- 6.1. A sharp reduction in fixed costs
- 6.2. A lawful address with no legal exposure
- 6.3. Documents written with current administrative names
- 6.4. Tax correspondence never missed
- 6.5. The signboard obligation satisfied
- 6.6. Flexibility
- 6.7. A stable address
- 6.8. One provider for address, accounting and tax
- 6.9. Licensed professionals beside you during inspection
- 7. WHO THIS SERVICE SUITS — AND WHO IT DOES NOT
- 8. FEES
- 9. OUR ADDRESSES IN HO CHI MINH CITY
- 10. WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE GOLDEN STAR
- 11. WHAT YOU GET
- 12. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 13. CONTACT US
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- Virtual Office Services in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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- Virtual office service in Vinhomes Central Park, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Virtual Office Services In Binh Thanh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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