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Under the Hong Kong salaries tax system, both employers and employees/directors are obliged to report the employment remuneration/directors’ remuneration to the HK-IRD by filing annual employer’s returns and individual tax returns respectively.
Mainland China and Hong Kong have entered into their Fifth Protocol to their Comprehensive Avoidance of Double Taxation Arrangement.
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 focus… Continue reading Hong Kong 2020-21 Budget
Income recipients are usually required to obtain a certificate of resident status (“CoR”) from the relevant tax authority. As such, the CoR is one of the most important documents for the purpose of enjoying the tax benefits offered in the DTAs. This is necessary n order to be entitled to certain tax benefits granted under… Continue reading Certificate of Tax Resident Status – Is Your Company Able To Obtain It?
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 latter… Continue reading Global Mobility Issues from a Corporate & Income Tax Perspective
One can potentially enjoy a significant withholding tax saving on the distribution/payment of dividends, interests or royalties from out of Mainland China by applying the Mainland China DTAs, subject to certain conditions.
This Budget has been prepared with a Focus on supporting enterprises, safeguarding jobs, stabilising economy and strengthening livelihoods in contrast with the previous Hong Kong 2018-2019 Budget.
Due to global implementation of common reporting standard (CRS) and automatic exchange of information (“AEOI”), financial institutions (“FIs”) are required to conduct due diligence on tax residency certificate holders to ascertain their tax residency, and accordingly whether certain information of the financial accounts of the account holders is required to be exchanged to foreign tax… Continue reading Erroneous Tax Residency Risks
The Individual Income Tax Law (‘IIT Law’) of Mainland China was introduced in 1980 and has been amended 6 times since.
In order to improve the implementation of double tax treaties between Mainland China and other tax jurisdictions, the State Administration of Taxation of Mainland China (“SAT”) released in February 2018 a Public Notice [2018] No. 9 (“Public Notice 9”), providing further and clearer guidelines/rules in assessing the Mainland China beneficial ownership (“BO”) status for the… Continue reading Mainland China Beneficial Ownership
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