The impact of new China enterprise income tax law act on Taiwanese businessman

• Main Author: 薛振宇
• Other Authors: 許崇源
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55204907451027531015

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 會計研究所 === 98 === Since the reform and opening-up in China began, more and more policy to attract foreign direct investment has been continually proposed in China. By 2009, the amount of the foreign direct investment in China has reached 90.033 billion U.S. dollars, surpassing the U.S. and any other countries in the world. Nowadays, China attracts the largest amount of the foreign direct investment in the world. On March 16, 2007, a new law— “Enterprise Income Tax Law of the People’s Republic of China”– was eventually approved in China. Later, implementation clauses of this law were announced on December 16, 2007, and then implemented on January 1, 2008. As a result, numerous tax incentives, which were applied in the past, now need to be changed to fulfill these new requirements. The statistics provided by Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs shows that, Taiwan’s foreign investment was mainly invested into China; moreover, in Taiwan’s total foreign investment in 2008, the percentage of Taiwanese investment in China is up to 58 percent. According to the previous finding, it shows that tax preferences is one of the major incentives to motivate Taiwanese businessmen to invest in China. Therefore, after the new Enterprise Income Tax Law is issued, a wide range of Taiwan companies will lose their advantages in tax breaks and low tax rates. It is obvious that the new Enterprise Income Tax Law of China greatly influences Taiwanese businessmen. Therefore, this study aims to investigate whether the new China Enterprise Income Tax Act has an impact on Taiwanese businessmen. The empirical study of this survey shows two findings: first, China’s provisions of the new enterprise income tax law will diminish Taiwan businessmen's investment in China, and the proportion of Taiwanese investment in China has been decreased since China announced new enterprise income tax law in 2007; second, the implementation of China new tax law does not affect Taiwanese electronics industry. To sum up, the results of this study have agreement with the view of previous literature about China new enterprise tax law. That is, China tax-related incentives is one of the factors to affect the motivation of Taiwan investment in China. Provisions of the new enterprise income tax law will discourage Taiwan businessmen’s will to invest in China.