China has issued changes to the Companies’ and Branch Offices’ tax return forms effective Jan 1, 2012.

1. New Tax Compliance Amendments in China
((Sunnyvale, CA) – China has issued changes to the Companies’ and Branch Offices’ tax return forms effective Jan 1, 2012.
The Corporate Income Tax (CIT) return forms that have been revised are:
•(Form A) for monthly/quarterly provisional corporate income tax returns
•(Form B) - monthly/quarterly and annual corporate income tax returns
•TPAR Form–for tax payment allocation return meant for companies with branches with independent business operations
Changes to monthly/quarterly provisional income tax returns (Form A)
The new Form A includes the following clauses:
•The taxable income of ‘specific businesses,’ such as the monthly and quarterly deemed profit calculated as per the deemed gross profit rates
for property developers for the sale of property still under development.
•Non-taxable income
•Tax-exempt income
•Tax Losses (allowable) which are brought forward
•The independent production and business operation division of the headquarters will be taxed
•Any income tax overpaid in the previous years will be set off against the current period’s CIT liability. Overpaid CIT which has not been
refunded will also be considered to reduce the CIT payable for the current period.
•Fixed allocation ratios for provisional CIT payment of headquarters are not indicated in the new Form A, because the allocation ratios for a
taxpayer with business branches in operation in the same province as the headquarters would be determined in accordance with the
regulations in each province
Changes to the Monthly/Quarterly and Annual CIT return (Form B)
•Deemed taxable income needs to be calculated on total revenue and include "deduction of non-taxable income" and "deduction of tax-
exempt income" in the total revenue.
•The new Form B includes CIT payable deemed by the tax authority. Calculation of deemed taxable income will not be based on total
expenditures any more.
•The "CIT reduced or exempted" clause has been removed from the section where CIT payable is calculated.
Changes to TPAR Form
A significant change to the new TPAR Form involves the removal of details on total revenue, total salary and total assets of the headquarters from
the "information of headquarters" section. Explanatory notes to the TPAR form under Announcement 64 state that such information may be
included in ‘information of branches’ section. This section will also need to contain information regarding each branch except that of the
headquarters.
Please call/email for more details.
About Nair & Co.
Nair & Co. provides you with your one touch outsourced finance, internal audit compliance, HR and legal department for your international
operations. If you are expanding abroad for the first time, our turnkey solution will help you do so with minimal risk, stress and cost. We currently
support more than 1000+ client operations in over 50 countries and have core offices in U.K., India, China, U.S., Japan and Singapore. Nair & Co.
was named among the top 100 outsourcing services providers in the world by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP).
Learn more at www.nair-co.com
Know More - expat tax advice, doing business overseas, international accounting, regulatory filing requirements