NOTICE CONCERNING THE LEVY OF CONSOLIDATED INDUSTRIAL ANDCOMMERCIAL TAX IN ACCORD WITH INTEREST DIFFERENCE ON INTEREST INCOMES FROMFOREIGN EXCHANGE LOANS OF FOREIGN-FUNDED AND SINO-FOREIGN JOINT FINANCIALINSTITUTIONS
NOTICE CONCERNING THE LEVY OF CONSOLIDATED INDUSTRIAL ANDCOMMERCIAL TAX IN ACCORD WITH INTEREST DIFFERENCE ON INTEREST INCOMES FROMFOREIGN EXCHANGE LOANS OF FOREIGN-FUNDED AND SINO-FOREIGN JOINT FINANCIALINSTITUTIONS
(State Administration of Taxation: 20 January 1993 Guo Shui Fa[1993] No. 011)
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To tax bureaus of various provinces, autonomous regions and
municipalities, to tax bureaus of various cities with separate planning,
and to sub-bureaus of offshore oil tax administrative bureaus:
In order to further promote opening to the outside world and
facilitate the attraction of foreign funds, with approval from the State
Council, stipulations are hereby laid down as follows on the levy of
consolidated industrial and commercial tax on the incomes gained by
foreign-funded and Sino-foreign joint financial institutions (including
financial companies):
I. Consolidated industrial and commercial tax is levied at a 5
percent rate on interest incomes from foreign-exchange loan business by
calculating the balance after subtracting interest expenditure.
II. Consolidated industrial and commercial tax is levied in full
amount of the incomes from other financial businesses than foreign
exchange loan business at a 5 percent tax rate; consolidated industrial
and commercial tax is levied on the incomes from the above-mentioned
business gained by foreign-funded and Sino-foreign joint financial
institutions set up in special economic zones at a 3 percent tax rate.
III. Accounts must be kept separately for interest on which tax is
calculated on the basis of interest balance, if the division is unclear,
consolidated industrial and commercial tax shall be levied by calculating
business income in full amount.
IV. For foreign-funded and Sino-foreign joint financial institutions
set up in special economic zones which need to be granted preferential
treatment of tax reduction and exemption for a period of five years
beginning from the day of starting business, the matter shall be decided
by the people's government of the special economic zone; if the period
exceeds five years, the matter shall be reported to the State
Administration of Taxation for examination and approval. For those who are
previously granted the preferential treatment of tax reduction and
exemption with the approval of the people's government of the special
economic zone, no readjustment may be made to their period of tax
reduction and exemption.
V. The Stipulations comes into effect on January 1, 1993.
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