Steps to register a business household
Article 87 of Decree 01/2021/ND-CP guides how to register a business household as follows:
- Step 1: Prepare documents for business household registration.
- Step 2: Submit the business registration dossier to the Business Registration Agency.
- Step 3: When receiving the application, the Business Registration Agency shall issue a receipt and issue a Business Registration Certificate to the business household within 3 working days from the date of receipt of the application.
In case the application is invalid, within 03 working days from the date of receipt of the application, the District-level Business Registration Agency must notify in writing the dossier submitter or the founder of the business household. The notice must clearly state the reasons and requirements for amending and supplementing the dossier (if any).
If after 03 working days from the date of submitting the business household registration dossier but do not receive the Business Household Registration Certificate or do not receive a notice requesting amendments or supplements to the business household registration dossier, the founder of the business household or business household has the right to complain and denounce according to the provisions of law on complaints and denunciations.
23 forms used in business household registration
According to Circular 43/2025/TT-BTC issued by the Ministry of Finance on June 17, 2025 on the list of forms used in the field of state management for business households, cooperatives, cooperative unions, and cooperative unions when organizing local governments at 2 levels, 23 forms used in the registration of business households under local governments at 2 levels include:
(1) Proposal to register a business household
(2) Notice of changes in business household registration content
(3) Notice of change of business owner
(4) Notice of temporary suspension of business/continuation of business before the notified time limit of the business household
(5) Notice of termination of business household operations
(6) Proposal to reissue Business Household Registration Certificate
(7) Proposal to supplement and update business household registration information in the business household registration information system
8.3 Business Household Registration Certificate
9.9 Notice of tax authority directly managing business households
10. Notice of tax code and tax authority directly managing business location of business household
11.1 Business Household Registration Certificate (used in cases of reissuance due to loss, fire, tear, destruction or destruction in other forms)
(6) Notice of amendment and supplementation of business household registration documents
(3) Notice requiring business households to report on compliance with the provisions of the Decree on business registration
(14) Notice of violation of business households subject to revocation of Business Household Registration Certificate
15. Notice of termination of business household operations
16.16 Decision on revoking the Business Household Registration Certificate
(17) Decision on canceling the content of registration to change the content of business household registration
18.18 Decision on canceling the decision to revoke and restore the Business Household Registration Certificate
19.19 Certificate of receipt of business household registration documents
20. Minutes of receipt of business household registration documents via electronic information network
1) Notice of request for business households to temporarily suspend business in conditional investment and business activities
(22) Certificate of registration of business household temporarily suspending business/continuing business before the notified time limit
(32) great announcement about the validity of the Business Household Registration Certificate
Instructions for registering business households via electronic information networks
According to the provisions of Article 5e of Circular 01/2021/TT-BKHDT (Supplemented Clause 2, Article 1 of Circular 02/2023/TT-BKHDT), the registration of business households via the electronic information network is done as follows:
- Registering a business household via the electronic information network is the practice of the founder of a business household or business household carrying out the procedures for registering a business household according to the provisions of Decree No. 01/2021/ND-CP on the information system on business household registration under the National Information System on business registration through the National Information Portal on business registration.
- The person submitting the business registration dossier declares information, downloads electronic documents, and uses a digital signature to authenticate the business registration dossier according to the process on the business registration information system.
- The business registration agency returns the receipt of the application and the results of the business registration procedures to the dossier submitter via the electronic information network according to the process on the business registration information system.
