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BEIJING, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) – Chinese actress Fan Bingbing has been ordered to pay taxes and fines amounting to hundreds of millions of yuan for tax evasion, according to the country's tax authorities, Wednesday .
The State Tax Administration and its Jiangsu Province Tax Department said it opened an investigation into Fan in early June after receiving information from the public accusing it of escaping tax evasion by engaging in contractual fraud.
The investigation revealed that it had escaped about 7.3 million yuan (1.07 million US dollars) in personal income tax and taxes during its work in the Chinese film "The Bombing" .
The investigators discovered that Fan and the companies of which she is the legal representative had arrears amounting to 248 million yuan, of which 134 million were evaded.
The sanctions, established in accordance with Chinese laws, were announced as follows:
– Fan and businesses must pay 255 million yuan of tax and 33 million yuan late surtax;
– Fan must pay a fine of 240 million yuan for concealing real incomes related to contractual fraud and another fine of 239 million yuan for using the accounts of his studio to conceal personal income;
– Companies must pay a fine of 946,000 yuan for failing to record their income in their books of account in order to avoid taxes;
– One company has to pay 51 million yuan for failing to pay personal income tax on Fan 's behalf and another has to pay 65 million yuan for providing illicit assistance in the event of failure. tax omission.
Tax officials in Jiangsu officially imposed a fine on Fan on September 30th.
Fan, who has received an administrative sanction for tax evasion for the first time and has never been subject to a criminal penalty for tax evasion, will not be prosecuted for criminal liability if it reimburses taxes and fines within a specified period .
The case, however, will be transferred to the police if it does not comply.
The tax authorities said that during their investigation, Fan's agent, surnamed Mou, hindered the process by encouraging employees to deliberately conceal and destroy the accounting records of the companies involved. Suspecting to commit criminal offenses, Mou and other staff members were subjected to mandatory measures on the part of the police investigating.
The state tax administration ordered its Jiangsu Province Tax Department to punish tax officials responsible for tax evasion.
The authorities have indicated that other film and television production companies, as well as competent staff subject to self-examination and making corrective payments to the tax authorities by 31 December, will be exempted from administrative sanctions.
