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Tax evasion in China：Yin and yang

Film studios and financial firms flock to new Chinese tax havens

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It is hard to go a day in China without seeing FanBingbing.

The doe-eyed starlet gazes from film posters (she has averaged fourfilms a year for the past decade),

airbrushed ads for global brands and glossy magazinecovers.

But in the pastweek she has graced articles about tax evasion.

Shares in a film-production firm 

that she partly owns fell by10% 

on fears that it might be ensnared in a scandal

in which actors have allegedly concealed their salaries.

Ms Fan has denied wrong doing.

On June 3rd the government began a probe into tax compliance in the entertainment industry.

02

The controversy began when Cui Yongyuan, a TV presenter, described two anonymous contracts on Weibo, a micro blog,

one for 10m yuan ($1.6m) and another, linked to the first, for 50m yuan.

He said it was a case of the “yin-and-yang” payments prevalent in the film business:

reporting a low salary for taxation and pocketing a larger sum.

Share prices of big film firms, such as Huayi Brothers, also plunged.

03

Yin-and-yang contracts are illegal but common, from the property sector to football clubs.

For years the government has tried to crack down on them.

In one high-profile case, Liu Xiaoqing, a popular actress, was imprisoned in 2002.

But the emergence of tax havens inside China is now complicating matters.

Film studios have been among the most aggressive in taking advantage of them.

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词汇

✅ Tax evasion  逃税

Tax evasion is the crime of not paying the full amount of tax that you should pay. 

✅  flock to 云集于

 If people flock to a particular place or event, a very large number of them go there, usually because it is pleasant or interesting. 

✅  Compliance with 遵从

Compliance with something, for example a law, treaty, or agreement, means doing what you are required or expected to do.

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