An Introduction To China S Taxation

This excellent introductory book, tailor-made for executives, practitioners and professionals who want to understand the tax system of China aims to provide a comprehensive explanation and analysis covering the latest changes in China's tax system.

This guide is a practical overview for the international businessman to understand the rules, regulations and management issues regarding taxes in China. It is written very much from practical experience. We will help you to understand the implications of what can initially appear be a complicated and contradictory subject. This book tells you the basics of what you need to know, and point you at the structures you should use to enable your China business to be both in compliance and as tax efficient as possible.

A concise, yet comprehensive, introductory guide to China's increasingly complex tax system as it affects foreign businesses and individuals. Major areas covered include: Taxation in special investment areas, including the Pudong New Area, the Special Economic Zones, and the High-tech Zones;individual income tax; customs duties and related taxes; stamp tax; and consolidated tax and related taxes. The book's English translations of key tax laws, samples of taxation forms, and comparative chart of China's bilateral tax treaties are especially valuable to professionals and businesspeople.New to this edition:The new edition has been fully updated to take account of the substantial revamping of the Chinese tax regime applicable to foreign companies and investment enterprises. It explains the new Unified Tax structure for equity joint ventures, co-operative joint ventures, wholly foreign-ownedenterprises, and foreign companies operating in China.

This user-friendly book aims to summarize the principal topics of Chinese Taxation and offers readers a general overview of the Chinese Taxation and informative updates on tax changes. The book provides a variety of facts, figures, graphs and data in an easy-to read table format. Firstly, the book proposes an introduction to taxation and to the Chinese tax system, secondly, it focuses on direct taxes, indirect taxes and other taxes and, in the end, it covers international taxation. Moreover, the book offers a quick overview of the Chinese M&A taxation and of the Chinese Free Trade Zones.

This is a chapter of the book that provides a rich context for discussing the Chinese international tax system. It emphasizes the importance of cultural and institutional differences between China and Western democratic countries in understanding the Chinese international tax system.

Tax administration improvements have contributed significantly to a doubling of China’s tax-to-GDP ratio and the substantial reduction in taxpayers’ compliance costs since the mid-1990s. This paper describes the key features of China’s tax administration and their evolution over the last 20 years. It also identifes emerging challenges to the tax system and areas where further tax administration improvements are needed to sustain tax revenue and reduce taxpayers’ compliance costs in the future.

Studies how the Chinese Communist Party uses and reforms its taxation institution to promote economic growth and governance quality while limits the emerging capitalists' political demand

In this volume Guo Yongqin provides an overview of land and labor taxes in Imperial Qing China (1644-1912). The previously unpublished fiscal sources and detailed introduction will be a valuable for resource on how the standardized tax system performed and affected the Qing regime.