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The Chinese Enterprise Income Tax, Wei Cui
The Chinese Enterprise Income Tax, Wei Cui
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China’s Enterprise Income Tax (EIT) is the world’s largest corporate income tax by revenue, contributes a significant share to China’s total tax revenue, and is clearly the most substantial component of capital taxation in China. Yet scholarly research on the EIT is still limited. This overview chapter outlines the EIT’s main components from a legal perspective, while referring to empirical economic and accounting research that sheds light on these components. It discusses the personal scope of the EIT, so as to identify the significance of the pass-through and the tax-exempt sectors relative to the taxable corporate sector. It then examines …