Saigon Tax Trade Centre

Saigon Tax Trade Centre (Vietnamese: Trung Tâm Thương mại Thương xá Tax or simply Thương xá TAX) was a department store in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It was located at 135 Nguyen Hue Boulevard and 39 Le Loi Boulevard, in Bến Nghé ward (now is Saigon ward), at the corner of a roundabout of the intersection of both boulevards. It was closed in late September 2014, and demolished in October 2016 for beinf redeveloped into a 40-floor complex skyscraper building named Satra TAX Plaza, with the department store podium of the tower will keep almost the same design with the former trade centre.

The building was originally built in 1924 as the Grands Magasins Charner department store.^[1] Currently, it is still an empty plot with the ventilation of the HCMC Metro Line 1 there on the side of Lê Lợi Boulevard with the Entrance 3 of the Opera House station nearby.

Nowadays, Saigon Tax Trade Center is a member of Saigon Trading Corporation (SATRA) and is operating with a model of 7 retail stores selling handicrafts, Vietnamese specialties, souvenirs and F&B, all are still well-known by domestic and foreign customers. All the stores are also locating of the area of District 1 and not too far from the original buildings, those are on the streets of Nguyễn Huệ, Lê Lợi, Đồng Khởi and Phan Chu Trinh. Addresses of all the stores:

• 9–11 Phan Chu Trinh Street, Bến Thành
• 15–17 Phan Chu Trinh Street, Bến Thành
• 74–74B Lê Lợi Blvd, Bến Thành
• 107 Nguyễn Huệ Blvd, Bến Nghé
• 103 Nguyễn Huệ Blvd, Bến Nghé
• 45 Nguyễn Huệ Blvd, Bến Nghé
• 32 Đồng Khởi Street, Bến Nghé

• Overall interior of Saigon Tax Trade Centre
• Main hall with the iconic mosaic staircase
• The plot of Tax Trade Centre in 2022, seen from Lê Lợi Blvd

• Saigon Trade Center
• Saigon Centre
• Rex Hotel

• Saigon Tax Trade Centre