On July 28, the State Council Information Office held a series of themed press conferences on the launch of the 15th Five-Year Plan.

Wang Daoshu, Deputy Director of the State Taxation Administration, released a set of data at the meeting:

In the first half of this year, authorities nationwide investigated and dealt with various tax-related violations in accordance with the law, recovering 180.6 billion yuan in tax losses, a year-over-year increase of 20.8%.

Among these, more than 3,200 enterprises were investigated and penalized for fraudulently obtaining or improperly claiming tax incentives, resulting in the collection of 12 billion yuan in back taxes; 32,400 enterprises suspected of issuing fraudulent invoices to evade taxes were investigated, recovering 4.6 billion yuan in lost export tax rebates; and more than 500 tax-related intermediaries were investigated for violations.

180.6 billion, up 20.81 TP3T year-over-year—when viewed together, these two figures send a very clear signal: the intensity of tax audits continues to increase.

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香港审计师翻完你的账本，说了一句话：

“这些成本，全部无效。”

你花了500万进货，付了80万物流费，投了30万广告。你觉得自己花了这么多钱，总该算成本吧？

但审计师只看凭证——你的采购只有个人微信截图，物流单没有订单号对应，广告费是截图不是正式账单。

按照香港会计准则，这些东西一笔都不认。

很多人收到这句话的第一反应是：“我花了这么多钱，怎么可能不是成本？”

但香港审计师只看凭证，不看你花了多少钱。

结果就是：你的真实利润只有150万，但账面利润被算成650万。香港利得税首200万按8.25%、超过部分按16.5%——你要交的税，直接翻了3倍。

这不是段子。这是我们一位客户真实经历的事。

Nine out of ten sellers running their own online stores have had this thought:

“I registered a company in Hong Kong, and the money goes through PayPal and AirPay—it doesn’t go into a mainland account. I probably don’t have to pay taxes, right?”

“Our Hong Kong company has always filed zero-revenue tax returns—no one checks anyway, so we save wherever we can.”

“Offshore exemptions? That sounds complicated. Never mind, I’m not going to bother with it.”

Mr. Wang, a seller who runs an independent online store, used to think the same way.

His Hong Kong company had been registered for over half a year and had consistently filed zero-revenue tax returns. But business was slowly picking up—transactions through PayPal and AirPay had reached several hundred thousand, and he also had a mainland company operating in Shenzhen; funds for his independent e-commerce site were routed through personal accounts and his Hong Kong account.

It wasn’t until one day, when a friend told him about “cases where Hong Kong companies filing zero tax returns were audited and ordered to pay back taxes,” that he began to worry: “If I keep filing zero tax returns like this, will I be targeted one day, too?”

The following content is based on real-life case studies of clients we have served; the data has been anonymized.

If you also own a Hong Kong company, are running an independent e-commerce site or engaged in cross-border e-commerce, have consistently filed zero tax returns but have actual revenue, and are unsure how to handle this in compliance with regulations, you can add us on WeChat and send us your basic information—Qicaiying will help you make a preliminary assessment.

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