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China enforces tax law for citizens abroad

Citizens and companies must pay taxes on their entire worldwide incomes, not just on what they earn in China

Hong Kong

AS Chinese individuals and companies head overseas in greater numbers, the country's tax authorities are starting to follow.

The Beijing billionaires who set up cryptically named companies in the British Virgin Islands to hold their fortunes are in the cross hairs. So are the Guangdong salesmen living and working in Africa and Latin America. China's tax officials are now demanding that citizens start reporting exactly how much money they earn overseas.

In asking for this information, national and municipal tax agencies in China are quietly beginning to enforce a little-known and widely ignored regulation: Citizens and companies must pay domestic taxes on their entire worldwide incomes,...

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