This invention relates to a method for producing a carboxylic acid chloride, which efficiently decomposes a Vilsmeier reagent type compound in a carboxylic acid chloride lacking a thermal stability or a carboxylic acid chloride hardly distilled in practice due to a high boiling point with a simple operation and has no adverse effect on a subsequent step, and more particularly to a method for producing a carboxylic acid chloride, characterized by comprising reacting a carboxylic acid with a chlorinating agent in the presence of a catalyst, removing the excessive chlorinating agent from a reaction system after the reaction, and then further adding 1.0 to 3.0 equivalents of the starting carboxylic acid based on the catalyst to the reaction system to decompose a Vilsmeier reagent type compound remaining in the reaction system.