Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Tax Collection and Management Law.
Article 1 This Law is formulated with a view to strengthening the administration of tax collection, standardizing tax collection, safeguarding national tax revenue, protecting the legitimate rights and interests of taxpayers and promoting economic and social development.
Article 2 This Law is applicable to the collection and management of various taxes collected by tax authorities according to law.
Article 3 The collection, suspension, reduction, exemption, refund and supplementary payment of taxes shall be carried out in accordance with the law. Where the State Council is authorized by law, it shall be implemented in accordance with the administrative regulations formulated by the State Council. No organ, unit or individual may, in violation of the provisions of laws and administrative regulations, arbitrarily make decisions on tax collection, suspension, tax reduction, exemption, tax refund, overdue tax and other decisions inconsistent with tax laws and administrative regulations.
Article 4 Units and individuals that are obligated to pay taxes according to laws and administrative regulations are taxpayers. Units and individuals that have the obligation to withhold and pay taxes according to laws and administrative regulations are withholding agents. Taxpayers and withholding agents must pay taxes, withhold and remit taxes and collect and remit taxes in accordance with the provisions of laws and administrative regulations.
Article 201 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) * * * A taxpayer who makes false tax returns or fails to make tax returns by deception or concealment, and evades paying a large amount of tax, accounting for more than 10% of the tax payable, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall also be fined; If the amount is huge, accounting for more than 30% of the tax payable, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years and shall also be fined.
If the withholding agent fails to pay or underpays the tax withheld or collected by the means listed in the preceding paragraph, and the amount is relatively large, it shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
If the acts mentioned in the preceding two paragraphs are carried out many times without being dealt with, they shall be calculated according to the accumulated amount.
Whoever commits the act mentioned in the first paragraph, after the tax authorities have issued a notice of recovery in accordance with the law, pays back the tax payable and the overdue fine, and is subject to administrative punishment, shall not be investigated for criminal responsibility; Except for those who have received criminal punishment for tax evasion within five years or have been given administrative punishment by tax authorities for more than two times.