China is assessing the introduction of tax on E-sales (online) of goods in 2015. The new plan would contain a tax system administered through E-commerce platforms in the biggest online shopping economy all over the world. There is wide scale nondisclosure of taxable revenues by Chinese traders on E-commerce web sites and Chinese State Administration of Taxation want to remove this wide scale tax evasion through a tax around payments. This will require web site and e-commerce platforms to incorporate tax calculations and potentially act as the state’s tax collector on E-retailers.
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