Taobao trading personal use of the country's first case of tax evasion and sentenced recently in Shanghai, the main owner of baby products online shop Zhang Huoxing 2 years, was fined 60,000 yuan. She is also a network of trading due to tax evasion was a national first person prosecuted for criminal responsibility. In the amount of tax evasion has almost become the unspoken rules of the status quo Online Shop business, this case is undoubtedly no small inspiration and even a warning.
E-commerce transactions is to imagine the speed of space to expand, more and more people are willing consumers in the network of shops. Easy to see that a lot of network transactions, buyers and sellers, in particular, individual buyers and individual sellers, tacitly formed a consensus: avoid the tax in order to reduce their costs. Online shopping, with very few buyers to request an invoice, the same, few sellers take the initiative to provide invoices. It that Zhang is but a tax evasion online shop operators in the "unlucky" that one.
From the perspective of commodity circulation, online shop, and there is no fundamental difference between real shop, so starting an online shop to pay taxes is beyond doubt. According to China's tax law, if there is a transactions tax would have. Only difference is that operational details, such as a VAT or sales tax, what tax rate paid by other. But the problem is that China has not yet promulgated the Basic Law, e-commerce, based on the lack of higher-level laws, online trading tax in the regulations, the management is in vacuum. Web store with a large number are C2C (person to person) transactions, business location, mode of operation, the transaction means to have hidden, making regulators more difficult to find and master the sources of tax revenue. On the other hand, online shop owners are not using the loopholes of this administration to take the initiative to declare, making the network of tax evasion as "unwritten rules."
While in March this year, the Ministry of Commerce issued a "guidance on online transactions (temporary)", but also that "the main contract for online transactions, payment and platform operators such basic aspects, not yet involved in the process of trade credit management, safety certification, taxation, privacy protection and other issues to guide and regulate. " Experts believe that "too rigid and stringent regulations will affect businesses and individuals to conduct online transactions enthusiasm, it will hinder the development of online transactions."
It should be noted that some countries do hold C2C transactions latitude, but you know, an online shop not only limited to monitoring tax issues, such as college students this year take place in a poisoning case, in which perpetrators used the toxic chemical Products purchased from the network on. Face up to new trading patterns, the traditional regulatory approach has appeared to be inadequate, if not promptly follow up on relevant laws and regulations, not only tax evasion Online Shop can not be effectively controlled, even more likely to breed other hidden dangers and problems.