New Legal Developments for Ride Hailing in Vietnam
Vietnam
December 14 2020
Last week Grab drivers in Hanoi went on strike, shutting off their Grab accounts and refusing to respond to requests for rides or deliveries. Dressed in the now familiar green and white jackets and helmets they wear to identify them as Grab drivers, they gathered outside the company’s local offices to voice their displeasure over a change in the fee scheme that resulted in a reduction of the drivers’ share of fees collected from customers. The change came from a decree on tax that went into effect on December 5 and imposed VAT taxes on the entire fee collected from passengers rather than just the portion of the fee collected by the ride hailing company.