On June 06, 2017, the State Bank of Vietnam issued the Circular No. 03/2017/TT-NHNN amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Circular No. 16/2012/TT-NHNN of May 25, 2012, guiding a number of articles of the Government’s Decree No. 24/2012/ND-CP of April 3, 2012, on management of gold business activities.
In accordance with this Circular, for an enterprise, a dossier of application for a gold bar trading license comprises an application for a gold bar trading license; list of business places registered as places selling and purchasing gold bar (head offices, branches, business places); operation registration certificates, operation registration certificates; the tax office’s certification of the tax amounts paid for gold trading activities in 2 (two) latest consecutive years. Therefore, enterprises shall not submit the audit financial statement of 2 latest consecutive years when making the dossier of application for gold bar trading.
This Circular takes effect on July 22, 2017.