Editor's Note: Recently, A-share listed companies have intensively disclosed tax repayment announcements, drawing high attention from the capital market. According to incomplete statistics, as of the end of April, nearly 60 listed companies had issued tax repayment announcements with a total tax repayment amount exceeding 3.5 billion yuan. The concentrated tax repayment by listed companies is not an isolated occasional tax-related incident, but a combined outcome of the implementation of new tax collection and administration policies, intensified normalized supervision, and accumulated historical tax-related risks of enterprises. Based on the public tax repayment announcements of listed companies, this paper analyzes from four dimensions: typical case studies, tax supervision environment, main manifestations of tax-related risks, and tax compliance management suggestions, to provide references for all market participants to strengthen tax compliance management.

Editor’s Note: In the chain-based collection and administration system of value-added tax (VAT), the right to deduct input VAT is one of the most fundamental tax rights of buyer enterprises. In practice, however, some seller enterprises fail to fulfill their tax declaration obligations after issuing special VAT invoices and subsequently flee and become untraceable. The invoices they issued are classified as abnormal VAT deduction vouchers by tax authorities, forcing buyer enterprises to transfer out the input VAT they have lawfully deducted and suffer corresponding tax losses. This paper takes the case of (2019) Zhejiang 01 Civil Final Appeal No. 6876 as an entry point for analysis, so as to provide practical references for enterprises trapped in similar dilemmas.

On April 17, the State Taxation Administration publicly exposed eight tax evasion cases involving consumption tax investigated and handled by local tax authorities in recent years, six of which involved consumption tax evasion in the retail of gold jewelry. This sends a clear signal that the state is strengthening supervision over the gold jewelry industry and the consumption tax. In addition to consumption tax, the gold jewelry retail industry also faces significant tax risks in invoice management. This article analyzes the tax risks and preventive measures in respect of consumption tax on gold jewelry retail and invoice management for readers’ reference.

Recently, the State Taxation Administration publicly exposed eight consumption tax evasion cases investigated and handled by local tax authorities in recent years, covering sectors such as gold, silver and jewelry, liquor, and refined oil. The total supplementary taxes and fines amounted to nearly 100 million yuan, sending a signal that the state is strengthening tax supervision over consumption tax. Based on these eight cases, this article summarizes the methods used to evade consumption tax obligations and alerts corresponding tax risks for readers’ reference.

Editor’s Note：With the full implementation and in-depth operation of Golden Tax Phase IV, China’s tax administration has achieved a fundamental transformation from tax administration by invoices to tax governance by data, marking a new stage of data-driven tax governance, data penetration, and all-dimensional intelligent supervision. Relying on cross-departmental data interconnection and the collection of all tax-related information, combined with precise risk control models built on big data and artificial intelligence, tax authorities have achieved a leapfrog upgrade in their ability to monitor, verify, and issue early warnings for enterprise tax risks. Tax early warning indicators, as quantitative criteria for risk prompts, serve as the core basis for tax authorities to identify tax-related risks and push risk alerts, and also an important reference for taxpayers to conduct self-inspections and proactively prevent potential tax risks. This paper sorts out the common types of tax early warning indicators in practice, analyzes the causes of tax risks, and provides professional references for taxpayers to carry out tax compliance reviews.

Editor’s Note: When tax authorities conduct tax inspections on enterprises that engage in illegal activities such as off-book business operations and concealed income, they usually adopt the deemed collection method to assess and recover underpaid Corporate Income Tax (CIT) on the enterprises’ off-book income. During the defense and explanation process in response to such inspections, enterprises often have disputes and disagreements with tax authorities over issues including whether off-book income and book-recorded income should be taxed separately or deemed collectively for collection, whether taxable income increased upon tax inspection may be used to offset prior-year losses, and whether annual taxable income after inspection adjustment is eligible for preferential tax treatment for small and micro enterprises. Based on a specific case, this article analyzes these three difficult controversial issues.

Editor's Note: Under China's VAT chain-based tax administration system, once an upstream company absconds, goes missing, or is characterized as having engaged in fraudulent invoicing, the risk readily propagates downstream along the invoice chain. Invoices obtained by downstream recipient companies are frequently classified as abnormal tax deduction vouchers or fraudulent invoices, triggering a cascade of consequences — including reversal of input VAT credits, disallowance of pre-tax deductions for corporate income tax, characterization as tax evasion, and even criminal prosecution. Drawing on current tax regulations and practical experience, this article analyzes the criteria for characterizing upstream absconding and fraudulent invoicing, the risk transmission mechanisms involved, and the primary tax risks faced by downstream companies. It also offers actionable compliance strategies for invoice recipient companies.

Editor's Note: Recently, a number of well-known listed companies have been subject to tax adjustments by tax authorities on the grounds that their equity and asset transfers by book-entry fail to meet the conditions for special tax treatment. According to the disclosed case details, the core challenge from tax authorities focuses on the following: the transferor, which received equity payment in the transfer, transferred the acquired equity to a third party within 12 months after the completion of the equity transfer, resulting in a change in the equity structure. Then, does the statutory condition for special tax treatment on equity and asset transfer by book-entry include the continuity of shareholder interest principle? Will the transfer of the acquired equity by the transferor within 12 months after the transfer disqualify the restructuring transaction from special tax treatment? The author conducts an analysis based on a typical case.