Road to a comprehensive IIT system

November 21 2012

The State Council has indicated that a key mechanism of reforming the income distribution regime is to refine the Chinese individual income tax (IIT) system. Vincent Pang and Michelle Zhou examine how this will be done and look at the permanent establishment (PE) implications of cross-border secondment and implication of social security contributions for foreign employees and employers.

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