KPMG Vietnam review: services, fees, pros and cons

KPMG is one of the "Big Four" global professional-services networks, alongside Deloitte, PwC and EY — though by FY2025 global revenue (US$39.8 billion) it is the smallest of the four. The network is coordinated by KPMG International Limited, an English private company limited by guarantee that re-incorporated in the UK in 2020 after decades of global coordination run from Amstelveen, Netherlands. Member firms remain separately owned and licensed in each country, and Vietnam is no exception: the local practice operates as KPMG Limited, a Vietnamese one-member limited liability company.

Partners were active in Vietnam from the early 1990s, as the country reopened to foreign investment, and the member firm was formally incorporated in 1994 — one of the longest continuously operating Big Four practices in the country. Today it runs three offices, in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang, reports roughly 2,000 staff and 62 partners, and describes itself as Vietnam's largest professional-services firm by client count, serving more than 8,000 clients. Chairman and CEO Warrick Cleine, MBE, has led the Vietnam and Cambodia practice since 1997, giving the firm unusually long institutional continuity through Vietnam's shifting property and tax rules.

KPMG does not sell property, negotiate a Sale & Purchase Agreement, or file the Pink Book (Sổ hồng) on your behalf — those remain the job of your appointed agency and a licensed conveyancing lawyer, such as the practice covered in our Baker McKenzie Vietnam review. Where KPMG is genuinely relevant to a foreign buyer is around the transaction: its Tax practice handles personal income tax compliance for individuals with Vietnamese-sourced income, including obtaining a tax identification number as a foreign taxpayer and filing the annual return on rental income.

Unusually among the Big Four in Vietnam, KPMG also runs an in-house legal practice, KPMG Law, covering market entry, corporate and commercial law, M&A, and employment — a genuine differentiator against peers that route legal work to outside counsel. For a foreign buyer, though, KPMG Law's docket skews corporate: it is built for structuring the entity behind an investment, not for negotiating an individual's contract or checking the 30% foreign-ownership quota under Vietnam's Housing Law 2023 — see our ownership rules guide for how that quota works in practice. Buyers structuring a purchase through a Vietnamese company, or coordinating property tax and rental-income reporting across two jurisdictions, are the closest fit for KPMG's scale.

KPMG does not publish a fixed-fee menu for individual property-related tax work. As with the rest of the Big Four, pricing is set out in a formal engagement letter after a scoping call and know-your-client (KYC) checks — slower to start than walking into a local tax-return shop, and better suited to a mandate with real complexity: a company-structured purchase, several units, or income to reconcile across two tax jurisdictions.

For a buyer weighing the cost, the realistic comparison is not "KPMG vs. doing it yourself" but "KPMG vs. a mid-tier or boutique Vietnamese firm" — see our accounting firms comparison for practices sized to a single annual filing. KPMG's edge is a name a home-country bank, auditor or tax office is more likely to recognise without further verification, which can matter if you are also arranging financing or need clean, internationally standardised paperwork when moving funds via our currency transfer guide.

This review references publicly available information from KPMG's own corporate disclosures, alongside the following legal and administrative sources on Vietnam property ownership and taxation: the Housing Law 2023 (27/2023/QH15), the Land Law 2024 (31/2024/QH15), and the General Department of Taxation for personal income tax administration. KPMG Vietnam's corporate facts (founding year, offices, headcount, leadership) are drawn from KPMG's own public disclosures.