Introduction Watch out! Are you receiving certain fringe benefits, such as housing benefits, share option benefits and share award benefits from your employer? Did you and your employer both report the fringe benefits to the Hong Kong Inland Revenue Department (“HK-IRD”) correctly in order to avoid any over-charge of your own Hong Kong salaries tax… read more

Introduction Mainland China and Hong Kong have entered into their Fifth Protocol (“Fifth Protocol”) to their Comprehensive Avoidance of Double Taxation Arrangement (“CN/HK-DTA”), which has officially come into operation in Mainland China since 1 January 2020 and will apply in Hong Kong as from 1 April 2020. The major contents of the Fifth Protocol are… read more

Introduction On 26 February 2020, the Financial Secretary of Hong Kong announced the Budget for the fiscal year 2020-21. The forecast is that for the fiscal year 2019-20, there will be a deficit of around HKD 37.8 billion, and that the fiscal reserves are expected to become HKD 1,133.1 billion by 31 March 2020. The… read more

Introduction Global mobility has allowed more and more companies to request their personnel to carry out work duties outside the companies’ home tax jurisdiction. In the past, most working arrangements abroad were rather permanent, nowadays jobs are also performed on an assignment/secondment basis or on a commuter basis or even as a combination of these… read more