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UPDATED: August 2, 2007 NO.24 JUN.14, 2007
Enterprise Income Tax Law of the People's Republic of China
Adopted at the Fifth Session of the 10th National People's Congress on March 16, 2007 and shall go into effect as of January 1, 2008
 
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Article 35 The specific measures for the preferential tax treatments as referred to in the present Law shall be constituted by the State Council.

Article 36 The State Council may constitute special preferential policies on the enterprise income tax in case the national economic and social development so requires, or the business operations of enterprises have been seriously affected by emergencies and other factors, and submit them to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for archival filling.

Chapter V Withholding by Sources

Article 37 The payable income taxes on the incomes obtained by a non-resident enterprise as prescribed in Paragraph 3, Article 3 of the present Law shall be withheld by sources, with the payer acting as the obligatory withholder, who shall withhold the tax amount from each payment or payment due.

Article 38 As regards the payable income taxes on the incomes obtained by a non-resident enterprise within the territory of China from undertaking engineering projects or providing labor services, the payer of the project price or remuneration may be designated as the obligatory withholder by the tax organ.

Article 39 In case the obligatory withholder has failed to withhold the income tax which ought to be withheld according to Articles 37 and 38 of the present Law or is unable to perform the withholding obligation, the taxpayer shall pay them at the place where the income has occurred. In case the taxpayer fails to do so, the tax organ may recover the payable tax of the enterprise from its other income items within the territory of China which ought to be paid by the payer.

Article 40 A obligatory withholder shall, within seven days after the date of withholding, turn over to the state treasury the tax payments which it withholds every time and submit a form of report on the withheld enterprise income taxes to the local tax organ.

Chapter VI Special Adjustments to Tax Payments

Article 41 As regards a transaction between an enterprise and its affiliated parties, in case the taxable revenue or income of the enterprise or its affiliated parties reduces by virtue of the failure to conform to the arms length principle, the tax organ may, through a reasonable method, make an adjustment.

As regards the costs of an enterprise and its affiliated parties for jointly developing or accepting intangible assets, or jointly providing or accepting labor services, they shall, when calculating the taxable income amount, apportion them according to the arms length principle.

Article 42 An enterprise may propose the pricing principles and calculation methods for the transactions between it and its affiliated parties to the tax organ. The tax organ and the enterprise shall, upon negotiations and confirmation, achieve an advance pricing arrangement.

Article 43 When an enterprise files its annual enterprise income tax returns to the tax organ, an annual report on the affiliated transactions between it and its affiliated parties shall be attached.

When the tax organ investigates into the affiliated transactions, the enterprise and its affiliated parties, as well as other enterprises in relation to the affiliated transactions under investigation, shall, according to the related provisions, provide the related materials.

Article 44 In case any enterprise refuses to submit the materials on transactions which happened between it and its affiliated parties, or provides any false or incomplete material, on the basis of which the true information about the affiliated transactions cannot be reflected, the tax organ may determine upon check its taxable income amount.

Article 45 As regards an enterprise which is set up in a country (region) where the actual tax burden is apparently lower than the tax rate as prescribed in Paragraph 1 of Article 4 of the present Law by a resident enterprise or jointly controlled by an resident enterprise and a Chinese resident, in case it fails to distribute the profits or decreases the distribution not by virtue of reasonable business operations, the portion of the aforesaid profits attributable to this resident enterprise shall be included in its incomes of the current period.

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