(State Administration of Taxation: 27 January 1994 Coded Guo ShuiFa [1994] No. 019)
(State Administration of Taxation: 27 January 1994 Coded Guo ShuiFa [1994] No. 019)
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To the tax bureaus of various provinces, autonomous regions and
municipalities and to the tax bureaus of various cities with independent
planning:
Recently, our Administration has continuously received letters from
tax bureaus of some provinces and cities, saying that some foreign or Hong
Kong, Macao and Taiwan non-air transport enterprises which come to China
and the Chinese mainland to engage in international transport business by
means of chartered planes, demanding that our Administration clarify
related questions concerning taxation. After study, we hereby issue the
following circular:
I. Enterprises of foreign countries or of Hong Kong, Macao and
Taiwan, although not belonging to air transport enterprises, their
chartered planes, however, have income earned from passenger tickets for
carrying and transporting passengers, goods and mails, income from
transporting goods and income from overweight luggage, shall all pay taxes
in China, in Chinese mainland according to law irrespective of whether
they sell tickets or performing the procedures for carrying and
transporting in China and the Chinese mainland. With regard to the
concrete method of taxation, the matter shall be carried out in accordance
with the related stipulations of the document of May 14, 1993 coded Guo
Shui Fa [1993] No. 097 concerning the taxation question related to
engaging in international air transport business in the form of chartered
planes.
II. In view of the fact that consolidated industrial and commercial
tax and the detailed rules for its implementation have been annulled,
according to the Provisional Regulations On Business Tax and the Detailed
Rules for Its Implementation, the applicable tax rate of communications
and transportation business tax is 3 percent. Therefore, beginning from
January 1, 1994, for foreign enterprises or enterprises from Hong Kong,
Macao and Taiwan which engage in international air transport business and
have income earned from transporting passengers, goods and mails in China
and the Chinese mainland, before there are separate stipulations, tax
shall be calculated and levied in accordance with the composite rate of 4.
65 percent.
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