UBER TAXI IS AN INTERMEDIARY ACTIVITY IN COMMERCE TRADE OR BUSINESS ACTIVITY IN PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION SERVICES IN VIETNAM LAW?


Launched in 2009 in the US, Uber officially appeared first time in San Francisco in 2010. Uber help people in need look for or accompany a driver to route in which they share the cost of travel.

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Uber taxi shall be considered as a commercial activity due to having the common features of commercial activity:

1) The participation of traders – Uber firm.

2) Activities for purposes of profit. Company Uber aims to profit from the carrier on each driver on their connected transactions with customer according to agreement, the transporter aims to profit from freight trip.

3) To carry out an independent, permanent occupation.

4) Providing a stable source of income for traders.

However, the operation of the vehicle is made by the trader not by the owner, only owns technological applications calling for car parts not manage them. Thereby, there are two main points: The first point that Uber Taxi operations are intermediary commercial activities, the second point determines this activity is business passenger transport services.
  
Should we see this as an intermediary commercial activities. Because, on the subject of this activity, there are 3 entities. The commercial broker is Uber company - owning app ordering function, receiving and coordinating car. Principals can be broker business, cooperative business, other transportation services, who are the owners of vehicles to manage and use the service for business operations transportation. As a user, client installs app on the mobile phone that the broker provides to the carrier in line with requirements. In this relation, the carrier (car owners) and companies are independent and vehicle owners participate in the transaction on their own behalf not on behalf of Uber company. About the form of contracts, Uber transporting service contract shall be entered in the form of a data message, which has legal value equivalent documents. This is a mandatory form of e-commerce transactions.

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