Taxation on a Foreign Enterprise without a Physical Office in China: Are You Obligated to Pay?
- posted: May 11, 2020
- Foreign Direct Investments, Legal Updates
Foreign enterprises often come across a baffling issue when providing technical or consulting services by dispatching employees to its Chinese partners or affiliates. They are mandated to pay enterprise income Read More
A Silver Lining in A Dark Cloud Under the Compact of Coronavirus – Cross-border Franchising in China
- posted: Apr. 27, 2020
- Business In China, Foreign Direct Investments, COVID-19
First identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, the capital of China’s Hubei province, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spread throughout the world within the weeks that followed. The ongoing coronavirus Read More
Impact of Coronavirus on Foreign Investment in China
- posted: Apr. 22, 2020
- Business In China, Foreign Direct Investments, COVID-19
On March 11, 2020, the Chinese government announced that the number of new novel coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in the country were falling for the first time since the virus was Read More
The Challenges of Franchising in China
- posted: Oct. 30, 2019
- Business In China, Foreign Direct Investments
The franchising concept is relatively new to China. In fact, as recently as the mid-1990s, the Chinese language didn’t even include a direct translation of the word “franchise.” Nevertheless, in Read More
Investors Fear China Might ‘Weaponize Its Currency” in the Trade War
- posted: Oct. 15, 2019
- Foreign Direct Investments, Outbound Foreign Investments
The US Council on Foreign Relations lists the US-China trade war as the most significant world event of 2018 – and it seems more than plausible that this event will Read More
A Series on the 2019 Foreign Investment Law: First Discussion: What Are The Highlights?
- posted: Apr. 15, 2019
- Business In China, Foreign Direct Investments
By Thomas Mattei and Anna Huang*IPO PANG XINGPU ATTORNEYS AT LAW Introduction Approved at the Second Session of the 13th National People’s Congress on March 15th, 2019, the high-profiled Foreign Investment Law Read More
Beware the Ides of March? China’s New Foreign Investment Law Passed on March 15, 2018
- posted: Mar. 15, 2019
- Home, Business In China, Foreign Direct Investments
By Peter Pang* Foreign investment is big business in China. According to China’s state news agency, Xinhua, as of October 2018, nearly a million foreign-invested companies were registered to do business Read More
Publication – Leveraging international investment opportunities
- posted: Nov. 10, 2017
- Business In China, Foreign Direct Investments, Legal Updates
Mr. Pang, founder, and principal of the firm recently participated in a joint-publication with fellow IR Global members. In this piece, members discuss respective investment opportunities and pitfalls they encounter Read More
The 2017 ‘Negative List’ Has Been Officially Issued
- posted: Jul. 05, 2017
- Business In China, Foreign Direct Investments, Legal Updates
China’s infamous attempt at exercising control over its inbound foreign investments is embodied by the yearly issuance of the Catalogue for the Guidance of Foreign Investment Industries (the Catalogue). For Read More
Administrative Law in China: What You Need to Know
- posted: Jun. 14, 2017
- Arbitration and Litigation, Foreign Direct Investments
Like many countries, China has numerous state agencies that make decisions that affect Chinese companies, consumers, and citizens on a daily basis. These agencies decide on various matters such as Read More
