On January 16, the Companies Registry of the HKSAR Government announced the latest figures: by the end of 2025, the total number of locally registered companies in Hong Kong will reach 1,557,103, with an annual increase of more than 195,000 companies, both of which are record highs.

For the majority of cross-border e-commerce sellers, tax compliance has recently become a difficult and focal point of operation. People generally face several core troubles, including the compliance declaration of multi-store model, difficult deduction of overseas platform expenses, procurement without invoice, and income tax cost expensing.

Recently, in the cross-border e-commerce circle, the word "Hainan" has been unabated. Behind are two clear lines of logic: on the one hand, the domestic tax environment continues to tighten, compliance costs rise, profit margins are squeezed. On the other hand, Hainan has recently (December 18, 2025) closed the entire island, a set of independent of the mainland's new system of trade and taxation is surfacing.

Against the backdrop of tightening compliance regulation and normalization of tax audits, many enterprises are facing common problems such as missing cost tickets, non-compliance of social security, and difficulties in dealing with large sums of money. Recently, Enterprise Caiying Group has provided in-depth services to customers from different industries, such as automobile marketing, decoration engineering, culture and media, and successfully helped them to build a compliance structure, optimize tax costs and resolve potential risks.

It is reported that Lazada Cross Border Store has issued an important announcement that according to the latest regulations of the Thai government, all imported goods with a value of not less than 1 baht (based on CIF value) will be subject to import tariffs on top of the original VAT as of 0:00 on January 14, 2026.