Recently, eBay quietly went live with a new feature.

Not a selection tool, not an ad optimization, but - an AI financial assistant.

The core of the function is simple: to give financial analysis to sellers and provide advice on market trends.

A platform that sells goods is starting to help sellers manage their finances.

This is a signal that deserves some serious thought from every boss who does cross-border:

If even the platform is worrying about your finances for you, shouldn't you, yourself, take this more seriously?
Today's article, an article to explain: the financial management of overseas sellers, in the end, where is the difference? How to upgrade from ”bookkeeping” to ”financial management”?

Recently, a lot of seller friends doing Amazon came to me and asked, ”My store is registered with a Hong Kong company, why did I also receive a tax data reporting notice?” “Isn't it said that offshore subjects can avoid tax? How come even US companies are now reported to Chinese tax authorities?”

If you have the same question, this article is a must-read.Starting in the fourth quarter of 2025, Amazon officially reported the tax-related data of Hong Kong subjects and U.S. subjects to China's tax authorities. This means that the era of tax compliance for Amazon with offshore companies has come. Today's article tells the whole story: why should Amazon report the data of overseas subjects? Which sellers will be affected? And most importantly - what you should do now to be compliant and not step in the pit.

In the first half of 2025, the total import and export value of China's cross-border e-commerce reached 1.37 trillion yuan, an increase of 10.3% year-on-year, accounting for the proportion of the total value of import and export of trade in goods to 6.3%.However, behind the industry's rapid growth, a profound storm of fiscal compliance is brewing.

Between June and July 2025, the State Administration of Taxation ("SAT") intensively issued a number of new tax regulations, including Circular 15 and Circular 17, which require internet platform enterprises to report quarterly the identity information and income data of operators on the platform. Starting from the third quarter of 2025, mainstream cross-border e-commerce platforms, such as Amazon, Walmart, and Sizzler, have reported the relevant data to the Chinese tax authorities in strict compliance with the regulations.

This means that your store company sold how much goods, how much money, the tax authorities know exactly. If you are still using the “zero declaration”, with personal card receipts, with “buy single export” ...... then, you are likely to have been the tax system “stared at! ”The most important thing to remember is that you have to be able to get the best out of it.

Today an article to give you a thorough: the new tax regulations in the end changed what? What is the impact on cross-border e-commerce sellers? What should you do now?

The VAT Act 2026 and implementing regulations are officially in force, bringing about the biggest adjustments in the last decade. For financiers, the familiar deduction rules of the past have changed.

A seller in Shenzhen, due to the platform income of 230 million only declared 170 million, the remaining funds through the personal card receipts, and ultimately be investigated for back taxes and penalties totaling 95 million

Recently, many cross-border e-commerce sellers in Shenzhen received a risk alert text message from the Tax Bureau, the content of which is mostly related to "inconsistency between declared sales revenue and data reported on the platform".

This is not a drill.On January 1, 2026, the Value-added Tax Law of the People's Republic of China came into force, and the era of "tax by numbers" in the fourth phase of the Golden Tax has fully arrived. The tax authorities rely on big data to realize the regulatory upgrade of "platform data - customs data - enterprise declaration data", and the cross-border e-commerce industry is accelerating towards the stage of financial and tax compliance.

Today's article gives you the full picture: why do you receive notices from the IRS? What are the key points of verification? What should you do now?