(State Administration of Taxation: 3 December 1993 Coded Guo ShuiFa [1993] No. 139)
(State Administration of Taxation: 3 December 1993 Coded Guo ShuiFa [1993] No. 139)
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To the tax bureaus of various provinces, municipalities and
autonomous regions, the tax bureaus of various cities with independent
planning and various sub-bureaus of the Offshore Oil Tax Administration:
In accordance with the stipulations of the Circular of the State
Administration of Taxation on the Shareholding System Pilot Enterprises
Applicable Taxation Legal Question, a document Coded Guo Shui Fa [1993]
No. 087, we hereby clarify as follows the taxation policy question related
to shareholding enterprises which pay various taxes in light of the
external tax law:
I. The taxation handling of asset revaluation and variable- value
(1) With regard to enterprise with foreign investment which are
reorganized or merged with other enterprises into shareholding
enterprises, and the original enterprise with foreign investment which
have cancelled registration with the administrative department for
industry and commerce, their changed value of subscribed shares used as
investment and their book value shall be included in gains and losses of
the original enterprise with foreign investment, and on the basis of which
enterprise income tax is calculated and paid.
(2) If the original enterprise with foreign investment has conducted
taxation handling in accordance with the stipulations of the above clause,
the newly organized shareholding enterprise may re-evaluate the assets of
the original enterprise with foreign investment and affirm their value and
enter it as investment into the account book and, on the basis of which
calculate the depreciation or amortization of the assets; if the original
enterprise with foreign investment has not conducted taxation handling in
accordance with the stipulations of the above clause, that changed value
of the assets of the original enterprise with foreign investment, which is
reassessed by the newly organized shareholding enterprise, shall be
readjusted in light of the method stipulated in Clause (3) of this
Article.
(3) If the shareholding enterprise sells shares to society or
increases the issuance of shares and carries out revaluation of various
assets in accordance with related stipulations, the changed value, when
the enterprise declares payment of enterprise income tax, shall not be
included in the enterprise gains and losses and the book value of the
enterprise assets shall not thereby be readjusted. If the enterprise has
made account readjustment in its account book of the changed value of the
re-evaluated assets and has calculated and drawn depreciation or
amortization in accordance with the readjusted number of the account book,
or has charged to cost and expenses by other methods, the enterprise
shall, while declaring annual tax payment, make readjustment by the
following methods:
1) Making yearly readjustments as things really are. The current cost
and expense which are counted more or less than what they should be by the
method of depreciation or amortization in each tax-paying year resulting
from the changed value of the revaluation of assets made by the enterprise
shall be readjusted in the current cost and expense column of the yearly
tax-paying declaration form, the taxable amount of income shall be
increased or decreased correspondingly.
2) Comprehensive readjustments. For the part of change resulting from
the reassessment of the enterprise assets, readjustments may be made to
the current cost and expense items declared for annual tax payment on an
average 10-year period basis without distinguishing the asset projects,
the taxable amount of income shall be increased or decreased
correspondingly.
The enterprise may choose either one of the above-mentioned two
methods and report to local competent tax authorities for use after
receiving approval. When declaring for annual tax payment, the enterprise
shall send related calculating materials together to local competent tax
authorities for examination and approval.
II. Questions concerning enjoying regular preferential income tax
reduction and exemption
(1) The regrouping of enterprise with foreign investment or merging
with other enterprises into shareholding enterprises. When the original
enterprise with foreign investment which have performed the procedures for
cancellation of registration with the administrative department for
industry and commerce, the newly organized shareholding enterprise which
simultaneously conform with the following conditions may enjoy regular
preferential tax reduction and exemption in accordance with the
stipulations of Article 8 of the Income Tax Law on enterprise with foreign
investment and Foreign Enterprises (hereinafter referred to as Tax Law).
1) The original enterprise with foreign investment has carried out
tax handling of its reassessed assets in accordance with the stipulations
of Clause (1) of Article 1 of this Circular.
2) The original enterprise with foreign investment whose actual
operational period has not reached the operational time limit for enjoying
related regular preferential tax reduction and exemption as stipulated in
the Tax Law, but it has repaid the already exempted and reduced enterprise
income tax.
If it does not meet the above conditions, the newly organized
shareholding enterprise shall not re-enjoy the regular preferential tax
reduction and exemption as stipulated in Article 8 of the Tax Law. But if
the original enterprise with foreign investment which has not started or
the period has not expired for enjoying regular preferential tax reduction
and exemption in accordance with the stipulations of Article 8 of the Tax
Law, the newly organized shareholding enterprise may continue to enjoy the
above-mentioned preferential tax treatment till expiration of the period
in accordance with the stipulation of the Tax Law.
(2) The shareholding enterprise established by a enterprise with
foreign investment or a foreign investor who invests in the capacity of a
shareholder may enjoy regular preferential reduction and exemption of
enterprise income tax in accordance with the stipulations of Article 8 of
the Tax Law.
III. Tax handling related to the issuance of stocks at a premium For an
enterprise which issues stocks, the part of premium resulting from the
price of the stock issued being higher than the face value of the stocks
is regarded as the rights and interests of the enterprise shareholder, and
not as business profits on which enterprise income tax is to be levied;
during enterprise liquidation, this part shall not included in the taxable
liquidation income.
IV. Questions concerning the treatment of applicable reinvestment tax
reimbursement
In the case of a foreign investor who uses the profits (dividends)
gained from a enterprise with foreign investment or a shareholding
enterprise to buy shares (including secondary shares) of the enterprise,
or shares of any other enterprise, it is not applicable to the
preferential regulations concerning the refunding of tax as set in the Tax
Law.
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