The State Administration of Taxation (“SAT”) issued Notice on the Matters regarding Enterprise Income Tax under the Development Strategy for Western Region (hereinafter referred to as “Notice”) which provided certain important clarifications for the implementation of Enterprise Income Tax (“EIT”) preferential policies and set out the relevant applications and approval procedures. The Notice takes retrospective effect from January 1st 2011.

Main Points

The State Administration of Taxation has issued the Provisional Measures of Applying the Exempt, Credit and Refund Method to Zero-rated Value-added Tax Services in Their Transformation from Business Tax to Value-added Tax under the Pilot Program (the “Provisional Measures”) on April 5th, 2012, which has retrospectively become into effective since January 1st, 2012.

The main contents of the Provisional Measures are as follows: