RSM Vietnam review: services, fees, pros and cons

RSM Vietnam Auditing & Consulting Company Limited was founded in Ho Chi Minh City in 2001 and joined the RSM International network in 2012. RSM International is one of the world's largest networks of independent audit, tax and consulting firms, with member firms across more than 120 countries. Like every RSM member firm, RSM Vietnam is a locally owned company — not a branch office of a single global partnership — operating under a shared brand, methodology and quality framework.

In Vietnam, the firm runs three offices — Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi and Da Nang — with around 400 staff serving mid-to-large multinational, publicly listed and private clients across sectors such as manufacturing, retail, financial services and real estate. RSM Vietnam has also picked up internal recognition inside the network, including a Great Place to Work Certification in 2025 and an RSM Member Firm of the Year distinction in 2024 — credentials worth noting, though they speak to workplace culture and network standing rather than to any track record on individual property transactions.

RSM Vietnam does not sell property, negotiate contracts or hold client deposits — its relevance to a foreign buyer sits on the tax and compliance side of a purchase, before and after signing. Buying as an individual, the firm can handle your tax identification number registration and ongoing tax return filings, and — once you start renting the unit out — the recurring tax due on that income: 5% VAT plus 5% personal income tax under Circular 92/2015/TT-BTC, administered by the General Department of Taxation (see our taxes and fees guide for the full breakdown). Buying through a Vietnamese company or a foreign-invested enterprise is a closer fit for its core business — audit, corporate tax and outsourced accounting — and its office network in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City means the relationship is not purely remote.

Where the firm is genuinely differentiated from a boutique local bookkeeper is cross-border structuring: coordinating the transfer of funds into Vietnam for the purchase itself, repatriating rental income abroad, and preparing your tax position ahead of an eventual resale as a foreign owner. Service is available in English as well as Vietnamese, which matters given how much of Vietnamese tax administration remains Vietnamese-language only.

The rental-income tax rate cited in this review (5% VAT + 5% personal income tax) is set by Circular 92/2015/TT-BTC and administered by Vietnam's General Department of Taxation. Facts about RSM Vietnam itself — founding date, offices, staff numbers and network membership — are drawn from RSM Vietnam's own public corporate disclosures and RSM International's public network reporting, cross-checked against independent business directories (AmCham Vietnam, EuroCham Vietnam). This review is an independent editorial assessment and was not reviewed or approved by RSM Vietnam before publication.