In Wuhan, Hubei Province A consular officer from the U.S. Embassy will be available for American Citizen Services on Thursday, December 16, 2010 in Wuhan, Hubei Province. Please note that only adding passport pages and acceptance of passport renewal applications will be offered at this program . The officer will answer other questions related to …
The superior court issued a guideline this week establishing a final procedure on how to put an end to long-running petition cases. Its contents are not accessible to the public with only glimpses available through reports by Xinhua. The guideline supposedly sets down a procedure for the courts to declare that a repeatedly petitioned case …
Beijing , China –November25, 2010 On november10, 2010, Amicorp gives an overview on the purposes, tax implications and value of foreign trust structures for Chinese citizens. Although there is no estate tax in China, many Chinese high net worth individuals are using foreign trusts to structure their assets. Chinese investors owning or purchasing assets outside …
Beijing , China –November25, 2010 The National Tourism Administration has recently published the Compensation Standards for Service Quality of Travel Agencies (Consultative Draft) to consult the public from 10 November 2010 to 17 November 2010. The Standards provide that where a travel agency forces, or forces in any disguised form, any tourist to buy any …
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When you initiate a lawsuit, you want to know and control the length of the court proceeding. Generally, a country’s procedure laws, civil, criminal or administrative, will provide for a time limit within which the relevant litigious proceeding shall be completed, i.e. a judgment therein shall be delivered. Under China Civil Procedure Law, a domestic …
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On Oct. 28, 2010, the National People’s congress promulgated the fist statute on conflict rules, the Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Application of Law on Civil Relations Involving Foreign Interests, which shall come into force as of April 1, 2011. The most significant development of this new statute, we thought, is …
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We are here to memorize Professor CAI Dingjian, one of our old friends, director of the Institute for Study on Constitutionalism at China University of Political Science and Law, who has passed away early this morning on November the 22nd. Professor Cai was a kind man, impactful reformer and a pioneering scholar. Nothing I or …
New tax policy was recently promulgated by the State Administration of Taxation. It includes the relevant issues of value-added taxes of seed production enterprises for selling seeds. Seed production enterprises producing and selling seeds in the following manufacturing modes are classified as agricultural producers selling self-produced agricultural products, where relevant value added taxes shall be …
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The State Council recently promulgated a circular to unify the urban maintenance and construction tax for domestic and foreign enterprises and individuals and the education surtax system: from 1st December 2010, the Provisional Regulations of the People’s Republic of China on City Maintenance and Construction Tax released in 1985 by the State Council and Provisional …
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To a certain degree, change is already underway. In real terms, Chinese spending has picked up and is growing annually at around 10%. Even before Hu’s speech, the Chinese government was already attempting to facilitate this process, spending more on social projects to help build social welfare systems. These safety nets are desperately needed. Most …
