Lovely country (excepting the smog in HCM) and lovely people. Until recently I had a company whose customers were primarily digital marketers in Vietnam. My anecdotal observation is that tax compliance is generally poor and enforcement is applied unevenly.

While whinging about taxes is a national pastime here in the US, we have one of the highest tax compliance rates in the world. These might be related. And it's not true that you can make taxes go away with accounting magic, although there seems to be a growing sentiment that "the other guy is doing it". Example: Bourdain's comment about avoiding taxes by living abroad is nonsense.