{"id":20613,"date":"2026-09-26T08:11:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T08:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/vietnam-royalty-tax-20-million-allowance-500-million-business-exemption\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T08:13:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T08:13:20","slug":"vietnam-royalty-tax-20-million-allowance-500-million-business-exemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/vietnam-royalty-tax-20-million-allowance-500-million-business-exemption\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam Doubled Its Royalty Tax Allowance to VND20 Million. For Most Artists, the Bigger Number Is 500 Million."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From 1 July 2026, Vietnam taxes a resident&#8217;s music royalties at 5 percent, but only on the part of each contract above VND20 million, double the old VND10 million allowance. For a working artist, that is worth at most VND500,000 per contract.<\/p>\n<p>The bigger number sits elsewhere in the same law, and how your income is classified decides which one you meet.<\/p>\n<h2>What changed on 1 July<\/h2>\n<p>PIT means personal income tax. Vietnam&#8217;s new PIT law, <a href=\"https:\/\/xaydungchinhsach.chinhphu.vn\/quy-dinh-thue-thu-nhap-ca-nhan-doi-voi-thu-nhap-tu-tien-ban-quyen-119260327094741784.htm\">Law No. 109\/2025\/QH15<\/a>, replaced the 2007 statute on 1 July 2026. Its implementing rules sit in Decree 253\/2026\/ND-CP, issued on 30 June.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rate:<\/strong> 5 percent on royalty income, for residents (Article 16) and for non-residents earning royalties in Vietnam (Article 25).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Allowance:<\/strong> only the portion above VND20 million per contract is taxable, up from VND10 million.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Timing:<\/strong> the tax point is the moment the payer pays you, not the month the streams happened.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scope:<\/strong> royalties mean income from transferring or licensing intellectual property rights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three rules in Decree 253 that decide the bill<\/h2>\n<p>Article 59 of the decree, as summarised by accounting firm <a href=\"https:\/\/vietda.com.vn\/cach-tinh-thue-tncn-doi-voi-thu-nhap-tu-tien-ban-quyen-tu-01-7-2026\/\">Viet Da<\/a>, makes the allowance narrower than the headline suggests.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Instalments do not multiply the allowance<\/h3>\n<p>The VND20 million is counted per contract, regardless of how many payments it arrives in. Twelve monthly instalments get one allowance, not twelve.<\/p>\n<h3>2. Splitting a deal does not either<\/h3>\n<p>If the same work is licensed to the same user under several contracts, the allowance applies to their combined value. Cutting one sync fee into two contracts saves nothing.<\/p>\n<h3>3. Co-owners split the taxable income by certificate<\/h3>\n<p>Where a work is co-owned, taxable income is divided among owners according to the state-issued ownership certificate. For co-written songs, that makes a copyright registration certificate the document to have before the money arrives.<\/p>\n<h2>The number that matters more: VND500 million<\/h2>\n<p>Article 7 of the same law treats business income separately. A resident individual with annual business revenue of VND500 million or less pays no personal income tax on it.<\/p>\n<p>Between VND500 million and VND3 billion, the law offers two methods: 15 percent of profit, or a flat rate on revenue above VND500 million. For digital content, which the law explicitly says includes digital music, that rate is 5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Vietnam&#8217;s tax authorities have already treated YouTube payouts as income from digital content services rather than royalties, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/vietnamnet.vn\/kiem-tien-tu-youtube-dong-thue-the-nao-tai-viet-nam-2500423.html\">VietNamNet&#8217;s March 2026 explainer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Same income, two different bills<\/h2>\n<p>Take an artist earning VND300 million a year under one distribution agreement.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Taxed as royalties:<\/strong> 5 percent of VND280 million, or VND14 million.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Taxed as business revenue:<\/strong> zero, because it sits under the VND500 million line.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At VND800 million a year, the royalty route costs VND39 million. The 5 percent revenue method costs VND15 million.<\/p>\n<p>Classification is not a menu. It follows what the contract actually is: a licence of rights to a user, or revenue from supplying digital content. Check the contract wording, and the income type on the payer&#8217;s withholding certificate, before year-end.<\/p>\n<h2>Money from abroad still counts<\/h2>\n<p>Residents are taxed on income arising inside and outside Vietnam (Article 2). A foreign distributor withholds no Vietnamese tax, so you declare it yourself.<\/p>\n<p>VietNamNet notes that tax already withheld abroad can be credited, capped at the Vietnamese tax due on that income, but the full amount must still be declared.<\/p>\n<h2>What to do this quarter<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Read the grant clause:<\/strong> check whether each contract licenses rights or pays a revenue share for content supply.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stop splitting:<\/strong> multiple contracts for one work with one user are aggregated anyway.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Register co-written works<\/strong> so the co-owner split has a state document behind it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keep foreign statements,<\/strong> including tax withheld abroad, for the credit.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Confirm your classification<\/strong> with a Vietnamese tax adviser; practice under the new decree is still forming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Every step above is easier with statements that break income out by platform, territory and payee, which is what an artist-facing royalty dashboard should give you. For where Vietnamese listening happens, see <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/vietnams-music-market-runs-on-zing-mp3-and-nhaccuatui-spotify-reaches-barely-1-in-4-listeners\/\">our Zing MP3 and NhacCuaTui market analysis<\/a>. For composer-side collection, read <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/vietnam-collected-a-record-vnd424-billion-in-music-royalties-from-1-july-every-cafe-in-hanoi-owes-a-share\/\">how VCPMC collected a record VND424 billion<\/a>, and for another royalty tax rewrite, see <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/belgium-music-royalty-tax-7-5-percent-arts-work-certificate-2026\/\">Belgium&#8217;s 7.5 percent to 15 percent shift<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vietnam&#8217;s royalty tax allowance doubled to VND20 million per contract on 1 July 2026, taxed at 5 percent. Decree 253 closes the instalment and contract-splitting routes, and a separate VND500 million business exemption can matter more. 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