Beware: Foreign Shipping Companies Should Use Caution When Applying Treaty Exemptions
Introduction Under Guo Shui Fa (1996)(87), Guo Shui Han (2008)(952) and the revised Business Tax Law, China imposes a 4.25% outbound shiptax—consisting of 1.25% enterprise tax and 3% business tax—on foreign companies’ gross income from transporting goods and passengers out of China. Chinese ship agents are the withholding agents responsible for remitting the shiptax to…
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