Affiliated transactions are common transactions between group companies, and business transactions such as equity transfer, capital lending and borrowing, and purchase and sale of goods or services between affiliated enterprises are relatively common. At present, China's legislation on anti-avoidance procedures between related enterprises is mainly based on the field of cross-border related transactions, and has already formed a more professional and complete methodology as well as handling procedures, but how to investigate and adjust related transactions of domestic enterprises has not yet been formed into clear provisions. In practice, there are certain disputes on whether the special tax adjustment procedures can be applied to domestic connected transactions, and there are different views on whether the transactions between connected entities with the same effective tax burden in China can not be adjusted. Based on the recent case of a listed company's subsidiaries being adjusted to pay back tax, the author analyzes the common controversial issues of domestic connected transactions and puts forward risk prevention suggestions.

Due to the operating characteristics of the coal industry, a large number of coal enterprises have the chronic problem of separation of invoices and goods at the purchasing end. In the past, due to the false VAT invoices legislation adopts a simple crime, the judicial authorities that there is a false invoicing that constitutes the crime, the coal industry, the separation of votes and goods belongs to the original judicial interpretation of the false invoicing, but also the false invoicing of the crime of criminal responsibility. Recently, the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate issued the "Interpretation of Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law to the Handling of Criminal Cases of Endangering the Administration of Tax Collection" (Law No. 4 [2024] ), which makes clear provisions on the elements of the crime of false invoicing, and at the same time, also makes clear that false invoicing that does not aim at fraudulently offsetting the taxes and does not result in fraudulent loss of tax due to the offsetting should be out of the crime. For cases involving invoices in the coal industry in which the court trial process directly qualifies the offence of fraudulent invoicing without examining the subjective purpose of the perpetrator or the objective harmful consequences of the act, a complaint may be actively lodged.

It is a common structural arrangement for most enterprises to implement equity incentive to build a shareholding platform through partnerships, limited liability companies and other organizational forms. The shareholding platform has great advantages in controlling the number of direct shareholders, ensuring the founder's control rights and improving the convenience of changes in equity. In addition, in the past, some places adopted the approved levy policy for shareholding platforms, which greatly reduced the tax burden compared with direct shareholding. However, in recent years, there have been cases of tax evasion by using the approved collection policy to split income and transfer profits. The "tax depression" formed based on the approved collection policy has also been controversial because of its lack of legal basis, undermining fair competition in the market and leading to competition for tax sources. In 2021, in the interpretation of Opinions on Further Deepening the Reform of Tax Collection and Management, State Taxation Administration of The People's Republic of China Inspection Bureau pointed out that the use of "tax depressions" to evade taxes was one of the key areas to be cracked down. At the end of 2021, the Announcement on the Collection and Management of Personal Income Tax from Equity Investment Management made it clear that all equity investment partnerships are subject to audit and collection, and recently, auditing and taxation departments have also clearly put forward the "small policy" to clean up the irregularities in attracting investment. Based on the aforementioned collection and management situation, the application space of the approved collection policy has been tightened, and the tax burden advantage of building a shareholding platform through partnerships and limited liability companies is no longer available. Therefore, in recent years, there have been many transactions that cancel the shareholding platform and change to direct shareholding. In the cancellation of shareholding platforms such as partnerships or limited liability companies, many issues such as whether the non-trading transfer of shares requires tax, and the joint liability of shareholders when the cancelled enterprises owe taxes have caused heated discussions. Based on two cases of dismantling the shareholding platform, this paper analyzes the tax liability and tax-related risks of non-transaction transfer for readers' reference.

The State Administration of Taxation (SAT) proposed on April 9 at the "Symposium for Promoting Large-scale Equipment Renewal and Consumer Goods Trade-in" that "reverse invoicing" for resource recovery enterprises should be realized by the end of April, and stated: "Further smooth the VAT ded uction chain through the implementation of "reverse invoicing", and give resource recycling enterprises standardized and legal pre-tax deduction vouchers for enterprise income tax ". If the news of the above-mentioned symposium is accurate, will the reverse invoicing of renewable resources have the dual functions of VAT deduction and pre-tax deduction, thus realizing a similar system design as the current purchase invoices for agricultural products?

This year, the State Council has repeatedly issued documents to promote the construction of a waste recycling system, accelerate the green transformation of the development mode, "on accelerating the construction of a waste recycling system of opinions" (State Council [2024] No. 7) pointed out that we should promote the fine management and effective recovery of waste, improve the level of waste resourcing and reuse, and cultivate and grow the resource recycling industry; "to promote the large-scale The Action Program for Promoting Large-scale Equipment Renewal and Consumer Goods Trade-in (Guo Fa [2024] No. 7) improves the quality and level of recycling in the national economy by implementing the four-pronged initiatives of equipment renewal, consumer goods trade-in, recovery and recycling, and standard upgrading. At the local level, Sichuan Province issued the "Sichuan Province Renewable Resources Recycling Industry Development Plan (2023-2025)", Hefei City issued the "Hefei Waste Material Recycling System Construction Implementation Plan" and other documents to promote the construction of waste material recycling system. The resources recycling industry is of great significance in improving the level of resource recycling and promoting green, low-carbon and recycling development, and it is an industry field that governments around the world attach importance to and encourage the development of. In terms of taxation, the recycling of renewable resources, comprehensive utilization of the field of policy changes, in order to promote compliance, improve profit margins, the business model of the resources recycling industry has also been adjusted, and at the same time also accompanied by a number of tax compliance issues. Recently, new tax regulatory developments such as strict investigation of tax rebates and promotion of reverse invoicing have triggered heated discussions in the renewable resources recycling industry. Previously, Hwuason Law Firm has analyzed the tax risks of recycling enterprises, and this article extends downstream of the renewable resources recycling industry to analyze the tax-related risks and compliance suggestions of waste-using enterprises under the new regulatory trends.

Recycling of renewable resources is a key link in the comprehensive utilisation of resources, which is of great significance in promoting the development of circular economy and realising green, low-carbon and high-quality development. However, for a long time, the lack of "invoices at source" has led to a heavy tax burden for recycling enterprises, which restricts the sustainable and healthy development of the renewable resources industry. No. 40, hereinafter referred to as "Document No. 40"), stipulating that renewable resources recycling enterprises may choose to apply the simplified tax calculation method to calculate and pay VAT in accordance with the 3% levy rate, which to a certain extent alleviated the problem of high VAT burden of renewable resources recycling enterprises, but the problem of pre-tax deduction vouchers has not been solved, and the tax dilemma and tax-related risks of the recycling enterprises still exist. However, the problem of pre-tax deduction vouchers has not been solved, and the tax predicament and tax-related risks of recycling enterprises still exist. This year, the deputies to the National People's Congress of the two sessions of the National People's Congress put forward four proposals to solve the problem of "source invoicing" in the recycling industry, and more importantly, the State Council issued the "Action Programme for Promoting Large-scale Equipment Renewal and Consumer Goods Replacement with New Goods" (No. 7 of the State Council [2024], hereinafter referred to as "No. 7 More importantly, the State Council issued the Action Programme for Promoting Large-scale Equipment Renewal and Consumer Goods Replacement (Guo Fa [2024] No. 7, hereinafter referred to as "Document No. 7"), which proposes to "promote the practice of 'reverse invoicing' by resource recycling enterprises to sellers of end-of-life products to natural persons," in order to improve the supporting measures for the collection and management of income tax. Can the above proposal solve the problem of "invoicing at source" in the recycling industry? The text is to be discussed.

At the conference of the judicial interpretation on criminal cases endangering tax collection and management issued by the two high authorities, the relevant leaders of the Supreme Prosecutor's Office suggested that agricultural products have always been the industry that the Supreme Prosecutor's Office is concerned about, and that it has jointly issued the minutes of the meeting on the criminal cases of tax fraud using agricultural products exported with the Ministry of Public Security. As an important member of the Eight Sectors' Working Mechanism for Jointly Combating Tax-Related Crimes, such a statement by the Supreme Prosecutor indicates that the supervision of agricultural products will be increasingly strengthened. Cases of tax fraud on agricultural products have also broken out one after another. In view of this, this article analyses the risk points of agricultural products export and puts forward relevant compliance suggestions for the benefit of readers.

On 15 March 2024, the Supreme People's Court (SPC) and the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) issued the Interpretation on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in Handling Criminal Cases of Endangering Tax Collection and Administration (Fa Shi [2024] No. 4). Surprisingly, the two high court judicial interpretations have made a major breakthrough in criminal compliance policy, completely dispelling the concern of whether the court system can and should apply criminal compliance in the field of tax-related crimes, and the importance of criminal compliance will be greatly enhanced. At the same time, the legal effect of applying criminal compliance to tax-related crimes is still in doubt, pending further improvement of the legislation. This paper will analyse the future application of criminal compliance in tax-related crimes in conjunction with the judicial interpretations of the two high courts, and put forward sugg