China Law Blog - Setting Up Your China Rep Office. What It Really Takes. - Comments http://www.chinalawblog.com/ China Law for Business en Copyright 2011 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:36:33 -0800 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:36:33 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Mao Ruiqi Dumb question, but relative to number 4--paying income taxes on a monthly basis, what income can a rep office earn when it specifically cannot conduct meaningful business in China?

]]> http://www.chinalawblog.com/2010/04/setting_up_your_china_rep_offi.html#16319 http://www.chinalawblog.com/2010/04/setting_up_your_china_rep_offi.html#16319 China Business Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:18:01 -0800 Dan Leon Koh Happened to surf into your blog randomly while I was researching for some china government offices

you post great information~

I’ll come back to see what you post next!

Greetings from a fellow blogger.

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]]> http://www.chinalawblog.com/2010/04/setting_up_your_china_rep_offi.html#16321 http://www.chinalawblog.com/2010/04/setting_up_your_china_rep_offi.html#16321 China Business Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:18:01 -0800 Dan Franklin Roberts Great post. It is posts like this that keep me coming back. Thanks.

]]> http://www.chinalawblog.com/2010/04/setting_up_your_china_rep_offi.html#16322 http://www.chinalawblog.com/2010/04/setting_up_your_china_rep_offi.html#16322 China Business Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:18:01 -0800 Dan robertb @Ruiqi, she means the chief representative's individual income tax.

]]> http://www.chinalawblog.com/2010/04/setting_up_your_china_rep_offi.html#16323 http://www.chinalawblog.com/2010/04/setting_up_your_china_rep_offi.html#16323 China Business Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:18:01 -0800 Dan Linford Liu Normally, the expenses of a rep office will be converted into income, upon which the tax will be levied.

Also, it's worth mentioning that the real work (paper and registration) is far more complicated than indicated in the 10 points.

]]> http://www.chinalawblog.com/2010/04/setting_up_your_china_rep_offi.html#16324 http://www.chinalawblog.com/2010/04/setting_up_your_china_rep_offi.html#16324 China Business Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:18:01 -0800 Dan Joe I don't know why anyone would assume that you could go into a foreign country to do business without some sort of legal guidance.

]]> http://www.chinalawblog.com/2010/04/setting_up_your_china_rep_offi.html#16325 http://www.chinalawblog.com/2010/04/setting_up_your_china_rep_offi.html#16325 China Business Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:18:01 -0800 Dan Edward Lerner We set up our operations in Beijing last year and I just wish I had read something like this before we embarked on it. Very helpful.

]]> http://www.chinalawblog.com/2010/04/setting_up_your_china_rep_offi.html#16326 http://www.chinalawblog.com/2010/04/setting_up_your_china_rep_offi.html#16326 China Business Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:18:01 -0800 Dan robertb @Ruiqi, what they want to do is tax the income earned by your home office from the activities of your representative office in China (income originating from China). There are different ways of assessing that, and some types of rep offices have to prove actual income, but most just use the cost method. Under the cost method, that income is imputed, using the operating expenses of the representative office as a crude measure of the scope of your taxable business activity. A function is applied to your operating expenses to determine [imputed] taxable income.

But that monthly assessment she's talking about is probably the representative's personal, individual income tax.

btw, I'm not affiliated in any way with Dan or his firm. Take anything you read in these comments with a grain of salt and always ask a Chinese CPA.

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