South China Morning Post·4 min read·hard
China cracks down on offshore trusts with new tax rules for the wealthy
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Zhang Shidong
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China has implemented new tax rules targeting offshore trusts to increase transparency and revenue from the country's wealthiest families. The move aims to close loopholes that allowed billionaires to avoid domestic taxes by shifting assets into overseas accounts.
China is moving to heighten the scrutiny of overseas assets controlled by the country’s richest families by imposing personal-income taxes on their offshore trusts, plugging a loophole long leveraged by the wealthy to eschew tax payments and alleviating fiscal stresses brought on in part by a perennial downturn in home prices.
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