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 […]
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 […]
