Stamp duty is a kind of tax levied on the behavior of writing and receiving legally binding documents in economic activities and economic transactions. It is named after the use of stamp duty stamps affixed to taxable documents as a sign of tax payment.
The taxpayers of the stamp duty refer to the units and individuals who have written and received the vouchers listed in the Provisional Regulations on Stamp Duty within the territory of China. Specifically, they include all kinds of domestic enterprises, institutions, organs, groups, troops, as well as Chinese-foreign joint ventures, Chinese-foreign cooperative enterprises, foreign-funded enterprises, foreign companies (enterprises) and other economic organizations and their institutions in China.
Stamp duty according to the different types of vouchers **** set up 13 tax items. Including purchase and sale contracts, processing contract, construction engineering survey and design contracts, construction and installation engineering contract, property lease contracts, contracts for the carriage of goods, warehousing and storage contracts, loan contracts, property insurance contracts, technology contracts, property rights transfer documents, business books and rights, licenses and photographs.
Laws and Regulations
"Provisional Regulations on Stamp Duty of the People's Republic of China"
Article 3: Taxpayers shall calculate the amount of tax payable on the basis of proportional tax rate or flat rate per piece according to the nature of the taxable documents. The specific tax rate and tax amount shall be determined in accordance with the Table of Stamp Duty Items and Rates annexed to these Regulations.
The taxable amount is less than 10 cents, exempt from stamp duty.
If the taxable amount is more than 10 cents, the tax ending less than 5 cents shall not be counted, and if it is more than 5 cents, it shall be paid according to 10 cents. Article 4 The following vouchers are exempted from stamp duty:
(1) copies or transcripts of the vouchers on which the stamp duty has been paid;
(2) documents made by the owner of the property who gives the property to the government, social welfare units or schools;
(3) other vouchers approved by the Ministry of Finance to be exempted from stamp duty. Article 5: Stamp duty shall be paid by the taxpayers by calculating the taxable amount on their own according to the regulations and purchasing and affixing the full amount of stamp duty stamps (hereinafter referred to as decal) at one time.
In order to simplify the decal procedures, the taxpayer may apply to the tax authorities to take the payment letter instead of the decal or to pay the payment on a summarized basis if the taxable amount is large or the number of times of decal is frequent.