CIRCULAR ON THE QUESTION CONCERNING THE HANDLING OF TAXATIONRELATED TO THE DRAWING AND USE OF HOUSING PUBLIC ACCUMULATION FUNDS BYENTERPRISES WITH FOREIGN INVESTMENT AND THEIR EMPLOYEES
CIRCULAR ON THE QUESTION CONCERNING THE HANDLING OF TAXATIONRELATED TO THE DRAWING AND USE OF HOUSING PUBLIC ACCUMULATION FUNDS BYENTERPRISES WITH FOREIGN INVESTMENT AND THEIR EMPLOYEES
(State Administration of Taxation: 26 July 1994 Coded Guo Shui Fa[1994] No. 165)
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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:
In line with the unified planning of the State Council,
implementation measures for reform of the housing system have been
published one after another in various localities. The question concerning
taxation handling related to the drawing, receiving and use of various
housing subsidies or housing public accumulation funds by enterprise with
foreign investment (hereinafter referred to as enterprises) and the
employees of the Chinese side (hereinafter referred to as individuals) is
hereby clarified as follows:
I. The handling of taxation related to the drawing of various housing
subsidies or housing public accumulation funds (including voluntary
housing public accumulation funds) by enterprises and individuals in
accordance with relevant stipulations as set in the housing system of
national or local government.
(1) In areas which have not as yet carried out reform of the housing
system, the housing subsidies drawn by enterprises in accordance with the
original stipulations of financial department and labor department may be
regarded as the deducting items for calculating the enterprise's current
payable tax on the income amount and be itemized in the current cost
expenses.
(2) In areas where reform of the housing system has been introduced,
when an enterprise has drawn various kinds of housing public accumulation
funds in accordance with the proportion set by the national or local
government, if an enterprise has drawn various types of workers' welfare
funds in accordance with related regulations before the calculation and
collection of enterprise income tax, the book balance of that workers'
welfare funds drawn each year by the enterprise, after paying for the
expenditures for other stipulated purposes than paying for workers'
housing expenditures shall be turned into housing public accumulation
funds; when there is no book balance or the book balance is not enough to
carry down the housing public accumulation funds drawn in the current
year, only then can the deficiency be itemized as the period costs and
expenses before income tax is calculated and collected.
(3) The housing public accumulation funds drawn by an enterprise and
an individual in accordance with the proportion stipulated by the national
or local government and actually paid to a designated organization may not
be included in the individual's current wage and salary income when
individual income tax is calculated and levied.
II. The handling of taxation related to an enterprise and an
individual who use the housing subsidies or housing public accumulation
funds as referred to in Article 1 of this Circular
(1) The housing expenditures such as the expenses on housing purchase
and construction, expenses on housing repair and expense on rentals
actually paid by the enterprise to individuals shall be itemized in the
individual's housing subsidies or housing public accumulation funds that
have been drawn.
(2) The already drawn housing public accumulation funds received by
an individual (including the part drawn by the enterprise and the part
drawn by an individual) shall be included in the individual's current wage
and salary income in accordance with the amount actually received for the
calculation and payment of individual income tax. But the various housing
expenditures actually paid by an individual (including expenditures on the
purchase and construction of houses and expenditure on rents), which
conform with the uses stipulated by the national and local governments and
for which effective and legal payment certificates can be provided, after
examination and verification by the competent tax authorities, may be
deducted from the amount actually received, the part that exceeds the
amount actually received cannot be deducted from the current wage and
salary income.
III. The handling of taxation related to the drawing and use of
various housing subsidies or housing public accumulation funds by an
enterprise and an individual, that exceed the proportion stipulated by the
national or local government
(1) The various housing subsidies or housing (supplementary) public
accumulation funds drawn by an enterprise itself, that exceed the
proportion as set by the national or local government cannot be listed and
spent as the enterprise's current costs and expenses.
(2) If the housing expenditures such as expenses on housing purchase
and construction, housing repair expense and rental expense actually paid
by the enterprise to individuals are not enough to be itemized in that
individual's housing subsidies or housing public accumulation funds drawn
in accordance with the proportion stipulated by the national or local
government, the expenditure paid by the enterprise in accordance with the
resolution of the board of directors of the enterprise may be included in
the enterprise's current costs and expenses in light of an effective and
legal payment certificate. But at the same time, it should be included in
the individual's current wage and salary income for the calculation and
levying of individual income tax.
(3) The housing public accumulation funds drawn by an individual that
exceeds the proportion set by the national or local government cannot be
deducted from the individual's current wage and salary income when
individual income tax is calculated and paid.
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