CIRCULAR ON QUESTION CONCERNING THE HANDLING OF TAX RELATED TOFOREIGN EXCHANGE BUSINESS OF ENTERPRISES WITH FOREIGN INVESTMENT
CIRCULAR ON QUESTION CONCERNING THE HANDLING OF TAX RELATED TOFOREIGN EXCHANGE BUSINESS OF ENTERPRISES WITH FOREIGN INVESTMENT
(State Administration of Taxation: 21 April 1994 Coded Guo Shui Fa[1994] No. 107)
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To the tax bureaus of various provinces, autonomous regions and
municipalities, the tax bureaus of various cities with independent
planning, and various sub-bureaus of the Offshore Oil Tax Administration:
Due to the merger of exchange rates after reform of the state foreign
exchange control system, enterprise with foreign investment shall adjust
their foreign exchange accounts in accordance with related accounting
system. Questions related to the handling of tax are hereby clarified as
follows:
I. An enterprise which has received the capital funds and has entered
them in the related capital account in accordance with the specified
account exchange rate shall not adjust the book balance of the capital
account just because of the merger of fluctuation of exchange rates.
II. The early year balance of the enterprise's related foreign
exchange account (including foreign cash, foreign currency bank deposits
and creditor's right and debt settled in foreign currency) shall be
adjusted in accordance with the market exchange rate published on January
1, 1994 by the People's Bank of China and be converted into balance of
account standard money. The difference between the converted account
standard money and the book balance of the original account standard money
shall be reflected independently and shall be dealt with in accordance
with the following methods when calculating the taxable amount of the
enterprise's income:
(1) The net loss, if any, may be amortized on an average within five
years beginning from 1994, if the remaining operational period is less
than five years, the net loss shall be amortized on an average within the
remaining operational period. If the amount of the net loss is small and
does not have much effect on the calculation of the enterprise's current
taxable amount of income and so needs to be amortized lump sum in the
current year of 1994, or if the amount of the net loss is huge and indeed
needs to be amortized in a period of over five years, the enterprise shall
file an application and report it to competent tax authorities for
verification and approval.
(2) The net profit, if any, may be written off on an average in light
of a five-year period, or be used to make up the annual loss, the balance
may be incorporated into the enterprise's clearing income.
dard money and the book balance of the original account standard money
shall be reflected independently and shall be dealt with in accordance
with the following methods when calculating the taxable amount of the
enterprise's income:
(1) The net loss, if any, may be amortized on an average within five
years beginning from 1994, if the remaining operational period is less
than five years, the net loss shall be amortized on an average within the
remaining operational period. If the amount of the net loss is small and
does not have much effect on the calculation of the enterprise's current
taxable amount of income and so needs to be amortized lump sum in the
current year of 1994, or if the amount of the net loss is huge and indeed
needs to be amortized in a period of over five years, the enterprise shall
file an application and report it to competent tax authorities for
verification and approval.
(2) The net profit, if any, may be written off on an average in light
of a five-year period, or be used to make up the annual loss, the balance
may be incorporated into the enterprise's clearing income.
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