Mr. Chen, who runs an electronics business in Dongguan, reported a profit of 1.8 million HKD for his Hong Kong company last year. He was originally paying taxes at a rate of 16.51% (TP3T), which came to nearly 300,000 HKD. Later, his accountant helped him apply a two-tier tax rate, where the first 2 million was taxed at only 8.251% (TP3T), saving him half the amount in one fell swoop. He said, “I knew Hong Kong’s tax rates were low, but I didn’t realize they could be this low when applied properly.”

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“We’ll wait until the business grows before getting an audit”—this is the mindset of many Hong Kong business owners. While this approach may seem like a “cost-saving” measure in the early stages of a business, when problems erupt all at once, you’ll find that the audit fees you saved are nowhere near enough to cover the costs resulting from those problems.

Business owners in the cross-border e-commerce sector often operate more than one store—one on Amazon, one on eBay, one on a standalone website, and possibly others on Temu or TikTok Shop. When you plan to use a Hong Kong company as the legal entity for these stores, a new question arises: Should a single Hong Kong company be linked to all of them, or should each store have its own Hong Kong company?