Proposal on dividend remittance abroad on a quarterly basis of Unilever Vietnam International Company Limited (“Unilever Vietnam”)Unilever Vietnam would like to send you our most respectful greetings and would like to take this precious chance to thank you for all discussions and workshops that you have organised in relation to tax and other related matters since then. Unilever Vietnam would like to present our opinion on applicable legislation regulating dividend remittance aboard issue as follows: Since the effective date of Circular 186/2010/TT-BTC dated 18 November 2010 guiding the remittance abroad of dividend earned by foreign organisations and individuals from their direct investment in Vietnam under the Law on Investment (“Circular 186”), Unilever Vietnam and other foreign invested companies have to remit their dividend aboard on a yearly basis. After more than 4 years of implementation, this regulation has put big multinational corporations like Unilever (“Unilever Corporation”) in a very difficult position with the following particulars:Unilever Corporation has a system on management of revenue and dividend that applies generally for all companies in more than 190 countries and territories (“Subsidiary Companies”). According to general policy of this system, all Subsidiary Companies must report and remit dividend to Unilever Corporation on a quarterly basis and this policy is also completely appropriate and complied with most of accounting standard systems of the aforesaid countries and territories. Currently, Unilever Vietnam is the only company that remits dividend to Unilever Corporation on a yearly basis in accordance with regulations of Circular 186. This causes a lot of hindrances for Unilever Corporation and Unilever Vietnam as we have to use a dividend report and statistics system that is totally different from the same of other Subsidiary Companies around the world. Moreover, the coexistence of these two dividend report and remittance systems, in which one system is merely applied for Unilever Vietnam shall not only cause the difficulties, complicatedness and lack of the identicalness for the management of Unilever Corporation but also cost a lot of expenses. As such, in accordance with the globalisation and integration trends of Vietnam, we are of the view that the dividend remittance abroad on a yearly basis provided in Circular 186 is not proper and yet, does not follow the actual operation condition of big corporations in the world. By this letter, we respectfully suggest you to consider providing a number of exceptions for Circular 186, whereby big corporations like Unilever shall have the right to remit dividend abroad on a quarterly basis. If we are allowed to do so, we, Unilever Vietnam and Unilever Corporation undertake to recapitulate the overseas dividend remittance at the end of each fiscal year to balance and adjust the discrepancy timely and ensure that the dividend remitted abroad to Unilever Corporation is the dividend that being recorded accurately in our yearly audited financial report. We also undertake to strictly and completely comply with Vietnamese regulations on dividend remittance abroad procedure.
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