近日，深圳市创客协会执行会长李秀携秘书处密集开展企业走访调研，走进多家优质企业与标杆商协会平台，以“摸实情、听真话、找痛点、链资源”的务实姿态，持续推动营商服务生态优化升级。

“The store’s been shut down—they’re not going to come after me now, are they?”

This is a thought that many online store owners keep to themselves.

Ren Wei, the actual operator of a cosmetics online store in Liaocheng, feels the same way.

In July 2024, he closed his business. No one could be found at the registered address, and the phone number was disconnected. It was as if he had vanished without a trace.

But he was dug up anyway.

The tax authorities obtained his bank transaction records—from two accounts, totaling more than 30,000 transactions—all of which were payments from e-commerce platforms.

The platform sales figures, the amounts deposited into the account, and the number of shipments made by the store—when these three sets of data were cross-checked, they all matched perfectly.

Ultimately, Ren Wei was ordered to pay back taxes, late payment penalties, and fines totaling 9,712,900 yuan.

In the past, when tax evasion was uncovered, the amount of the fine depended largely on which province you were in—for the same amount of tax owed, some places would impose a fine of one times the amount, while a neighboring province might impose a fine of three times the amount. This situation is about to come to an end.

This Issue’s Highlights: Xiamen Tax Bureau Exposes Three Cases of Fraudulent Export Tax Rebates; Over 100 Listed Companies Pay 9.6 Billion in Back Taxes in Six Months; Volkswagen Plans to Close Four German Plants; Finance and Tax News: Xiamen […]

As of July 2, 108 A-share listed companies had issued announcements regarding back taxes for the first half of 2026, totaling 9.641 billion yuan. Both the number of companies and the total amount of back taxes paid have already exceeded the figures for the entire year of 2025—including a one-time payment of 1.41 billion yuan by Beidahuang, a payment of 524 million yuan by Aier Eye Hospital, and three separate payments totaling nearly 120 million yuan within half a year by Enjet Co., Ltd., a leading manufacturer of lithium-ion battery separators.

The hundreds of millions in back taxes aren’t the main issue. The key point is this: despite having full-fledged finance teams and auditing firms, these companies still revealed a large number of problems during their tax self-inspections. If even publicly listed companies cannot withstand the thorough scrutiny of this round of ”data-driven tax administration,” then the tax compliance pressure on cross-border e-commerce sellers—who face issues such as uninvoiced purchases, complex payment chains, and multiple entities and platforms—will only intensify.

This article breaks down the three underlying reasons behind this wave of tax reassessments, reviews two typical cases, and outlines four self-assessment steps that cross-border e-commerce companies must take.