China: VAT law enacted

Law becomes effective January 1, 2026

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December 30, 2024

The National People’s Congress on December 25, 2024, passed the value added tax (VAT) law, which was the third draft VAT law.

The VAT law aims to retain the existing basic VAT regime framework and not create any additional tax burden for taxpayers, but there are some noteworthy changes in the areas of taxable acts, tax jurisdiction, deemed sales, non-taxable items, simplified taxation, withholding agents, input taxes, non-creditable input taxes, mixed sales, and input credit carry-forward and refund. 

In addition, the law adopts elements of the OECD international VAT/GST guidelines, in particular (1) the place of consumption approach in determining whether a transaction has a place of supply within China, and (2) allowing refunds of excess input VAT credits.

The VAT law becomes effective January 1, 2026. 

Read a December 2024 report prepared by the KPMG member firm in China

For more information contact a KPMG tax professional:

David Ling | davidxling@kpmg.com

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