{"id":4460,"date":"2015-07-09T09:37:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T08:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecovis.com\/focus-china\/?p=4460"},"modified":"2021-09-06T15:01:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T13:01:19","slug":"grace-shi-interview-chinas-developing-tax-system-taxlinked-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecovis.com\/focus-china\/grace-shi-interview-chinas-developing-tax-system-taxlinked-net\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace Shi in an Interview about China\u00b4s developing tax system with taxlinked.net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>By<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/ecovis-beijing.com\/index.php\/en\/team-en\">Grace Shi<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecovis.com\/beijing\">ECOVIS <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecovis.com\/beijing\">Beijing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecovis-beijing.com\/index.php\/en\/team-en\">Grace Shi<\/a>, partner at ECOVIS Beijing, was invited for an interview by <a href=\"https:\/\/taxlinked.net\/join\">Taxlinked.net<\/a>, an online platform for lawyers, accountants as well as trustees, which allows professionals to connect, interact, exchange knowledge, find solutions together and most important build a valuable worldwide network.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Grace Shi has over fifteen years of experience in accounting, audit and tax advisory in international accounting firms and large domestic corporations. She is a Chinese Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Chinese Certified Taxation Agent (CTA). Before joining Ecovis, Grace was the head of a leading international firm in Beijing for more than six years and the CFO of a local company with more than 1,000 employees.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview Grace Shi reveals important information regarding the newest developments of the Chinese tax system such as unifying the current dual turnover tax system consisting of business tax and value added tax into one overall VAT system. Moreover, Grace underlines the recent efforts of China to adapt their national tax legislation further to international tax principles. In order to do so China entered new tax treaties with Switzerland, France, Netherlands and Ecuador last year and is more actively fighting tax evasion.<\/p>\n<p>Conclusively speaking, despite the new developments it is still important for international companies to pay attention to their tax compliance status as multiple new rules have been established and investigations by the local tax authorities, especially on foreigners and foreign-owned enterprises, have been increasing.<\/p>\n<p>See the full <a href=\"https:\/\/taxlinked\/spotlights\/essential-preparation\">interview<\/a> here!<\/p>\n<table style=\"max-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 5px; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;\" border=\"2\" frame=\"box\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"15%\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecovis.com\/focus-china\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/grace-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4104\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ecovis.com\/focus-china\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/grace-2.jpg\" alt=\"grace 2\" width=\"103\" height=\"103\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>Grace Shi is a partner at ECOVIS Beijing China. She has over 12 years of experience in accounting, auditing, and tax advisory services in both international accounting firms and large Chinese corporations. She has an international MBA and a US Global Finance Master&#8217;s degree. Since 2001, she is a Chinese Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and, since 2002, a Chinese Certified Taxation Agent (CTA). Mrs Shi is one of the founders of ECOVIS R&amp;G Consulting Ltd. (Beijing). She has perfect skills in written and spoken English and Chinese. For more information, please contact: grace.shi@ECOVIS.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">Ecovis Beijing is the trusted tax and legal advisor of several embassies and official institutions in China. It specializes in mid-sized international companies and is focused on tax &amp; legal advisory, accounting and auditing. 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