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  • China will rationalise the Resource Tax regime and use tax policies to discourage environment pollution and promote renewable energy. Businesses should closely monitor developments in this regard and anticipate the risks and opportunities created by new fiscal measures, say Jean Li, Jonathan Jia and Shirley Shen of KPMG
  • Taxation is a major tool for the central government of China to tackle the issue of increasingly heated property markets in China. It is likely that the central government will revamp the real estate tax regime in the coming years to make the taxation tool more effective. Property owners, developers and investors such as real estate funds will directly or indirectly be affected by the change, warn Lewis Lu, Chris Abbiss and Jennifer Weng of KPMG
  • Under the prevailing tax regulations in China, the conditions for corporate restructuring reliefs are either over-stringent or highly ambiguous. The 12th Five Year Plan has brought hope that things might get better on this front because the plan encourages industrial consolidation to improve domestic enterprises’ global competitiveness. The Chinese tax authorities may therefore see the need to relax or clarify the rules, point out Grace Xie, Vincent Pang and Abe Zhao of KPMG

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