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Significant Regulatory Proposals Solicit Public Opinion! Tax Lawyers Interpret the Provisions on Tax Information Reporting for Internet Platform Enterprises
829ViewsDec. 23, 2024, 3:23 p.m. -
Big Case Release: Hwuason Law Firm Represented a 1.5 Billion Refined Oil Special Invoice Fraudulent Invoicing Case Convicted of Illegal Purchase of VAT Special Invoice with Probation and Concluded the
1615ViewsDec. 23, 2024, 10:32 a.m.
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The phenomenon of expanding the application of the crime of illegal sale of VAT invoices in some places should be curbed as soon as possible after the issuance of tax-related judicial interpretations
The Supreme Law and the Supreme Prosecutor's Judicial Interpretation on Taxes Involving (Legal Interpretation [2024] No. 4) has "inadvertently" allowed the crime of illegal sale of VAT invoices to "resurface" while restricting the crime of false issuance of VAT invoices, and the issue of the application of this crime has triggered certain concerns and heated debates. The issue of the application of this crime has aroused certain concerns and heated discussions. In the author's opinion, in the case that handwritten VAT invoices have been completely replaced by machine-printed invoices and completely withdrawn from the stage of history, the judicial interpretations of the Supreme Court and the Supreme Prosecutor's Office relating to taxes have limited the crime of false invoicing but at the same time, they have forced some local judicial organs to reactivate the crime, which resulted in the confusion of the expanded application of the crime, and this inappropriate trend needs to be corrected and curbed urgently.836ViewsDec. 17, 2024, 11:43 a.m. -
Network freight transportation platforms were convicted of false or illegal sales, triggering a series of tax administrative risks for the invoiced enterprises
In recent years, as the country continues to promote structural reform of the supply side of logistics, and promote the logistics and transportation industry "cost reduction and efficiency", the logistics and transportation industry has emerged as a new mode of transportation, such as car-free transport and network freight platform, which relies on the mobile Internet and other technologies to build a logistics information platform to effectively improve the efficiency of the transportation organization, and has been welcomed by the market. The market is welcome. However, at the same time, some network freight platform enterprises deviated from the business track, using the tax policy given by the state, false purchase of refined oil, ETC invoices to offset the input wantonly to the downstream enterprises of false invoicing, the main body involved in the case was ultimately convicted and sentenced by the court for the crime of false opening of VAT invoices or the crime of illegal sale of special invoices. As the dust settles on the suspected false invoicing case of the network platform enterprise, what kind of tax administrative risks will the related invoiced enterprises face and how should they respond? This article is intended to reveal and provide a brief response idea for the invoiced enterprises.502ViewsDec. 17, 2024, 11:17 a.m. -
How to effectively handle and minimize the loss of the invoicee when obtaining abnormal VAT deduction vouchers?
It is common in practice for upstream suppliers to escape and lose contact with each other, to be recognized as non-normal households, and to be characterized as false invoicing, etc. The invoices obtained by downstream enterprises receiving invoices are usually recognized as abnormal value-added tax deduction vouchers (hereinafter referred to as abnormal vouchers), and they are faced with the problems of input reversal and back tax payment. This paper analyzes the key points of the application for verification of abnormal vouchers from the scope of identification of abnormal vouchers and puts forward risk prevention and control suggestions for readers' reference.1053ViewsDec. 12, 2024, 11:26 a.m. -
Flexible labor platforms are suspected of fraudulent VAT invoicing, and salespeople are not necessarily culpable! Editor's Note: In the wave of digitization, the flexible labor industry is developing
In the wave of digitization, the flexible labor industry is developing rapidly, but tax compliance risks are also following. Recently, a flexible labor platform's tax financing business has been transferred to the public security for suspected false VAT invoices. This article takes this as an example and discusses whether the platform enterprise constitutes "issuing invoices in good faith and accepting invoices in bad faith", as well as the definition of the responsibility of sales staff, aiming to provide professional legal analysis and advice for flexible labor platforms and their employees when they face tax risks. The purpose of this article is to provide professional legal analysis and suggestions for flexible labor platforms and their employees when they face tax risks.1215ViewsDec. 9, 2024, 11:40 a.m. -
Nearly 3,000 high-tech enterprises have been disqualified this year, and the tax risk of high-tech enterprises continues to be heightened
High-tech enterprises are the state's key support for enterprises, not only can enjoy the enterprise income tax rate of 15% preferential tax rate, can also enjoy the loss carry-forward years to extend the tax incentives, the enterprise's technical staff to obtain the transformation of scientific and technological achievements of the equity awards can also enjoy the policy of installment payment of personal tax. This year, many high-tech enterprises to identify institutions to increase the supervision of high-tech enterprise qualification, issued one after another to cancel the high-tech enterprise qualification announcement, for enterprises sounded the alarm. In practice, what circumstances will be canceled high-tech enterprise qualification, what kind of tax risk enterprises face? This article is intended to reveal and provide ideas for prevention and response.1981ViewsDec. 2, 2024, 3:31 p.m. -
The crime of illegal sale of VAT invoices only refers to blank invoices, and the undue expansion of the scope of application of the crime should be guarded against.
After the introduction of the new judicial interpretation of the Supreme Law and the Supreme Prosecutor's Office (Legal Interpretation [2024] No. 4), there are cases in judicial practice in which the crime of falsely issuing special invoices has been reclassified as the crime of illegal sale, which in turn triggered a heated discussion on the application of the crime of illegal sale of special invoices for value-added tax (VAT). In the author's opinion, from the perspective of the historical origin and legislative background of the crime of illegal sale of VAT invoices, the object of the crime only includes blank VAT invoices, and the legal interest infringed by the crime is the franchise of invoices, which cannot be simply understood as illegal sale of false invoices by charging the invoicing fee, and the undue enlargement of the application of the crime should be guarded against, or it will be contrary to the spirit of the Supreme Court and Supreme Prosecutor's restriction of the circle of crimes, and will cause confusion in the criminal law system.1546ViewsNov. 28, 2024, 11:56 a.m. -
Upstream enterprises and transport platforms' false driving cases trigger tax administrative and criminal risks for coal enterprises
On 18 March 2024, at the press conference on the judicial interpretation of the "Two High Commissions", the spokesperson of the Supreme Prosecutor's Office explicitly pointed out that "petrochemical, coal and other industries are still the high incidence of the crime of fraudulent invoicing of taxes". Under the background of coal mining quota system, coal mining enterprises usually adopt off-the-books operation and other ways to sell coal mined in excess of the quota, and it is difficult for downstream coal trading enterprises to obtain legal certificates for VAT input tax deduction and EIT deduction when purchasing coal from them, so some of them make use of third-party invoices to obtain input invoices on behalf of the enterprises. In addition, the traditional transport mode of individual drivers also brings the problem of obtaining invoices for coal trading enterprises, and the emergence of new vehicle-less transport modes relieves this problem and brings new tax risks at the same time. This paper will take the predicament of coal trading enterprises as the starting point and briefly analyse the administrative and criminal tax risks faced by coal trading enterprises under the new situation.1258ViewsNov. 25, 2024, 10:18 a.m. -
CSO fraudulent opening cases erupt in many places, triggering tax administrative and criminal risks for pharmaceutical companies
n the past, the pharmaceutical industry, the business model of drug sales for the layers of distribution, due to the long business chain, to a certain extent, played the role of risk isolation, invoice risk transfer to the pharmaceutical companies less likely. After the "two-invoice system", pharmaceutical companies can only issue two invoices to medical institutions, the original business model is difficult, a large number of distributors have changed their identity to CSO and other promotional service providers, the business model has changed accordingly to the drug promotion model, the business chain is greatly shortened, even if the pharmaceutical companies really purchased promotional services, promotional service providers do not know the behavior of false invoicing. Even if the pharmaceutical company really purchased the promotion service, the behavior of false in......1607ViewsNov. 21, 2024, 10:14 a.m.