Foreign Investment Consulting Enterprise

Transformation and upgrading of Chinese enterprises have brought plenty of business opportunities to the advisory service industry. To support the industry to develop, Chinese government has cancelled geographical restrictions on foreign investments, and also provided considerable supports to the establishment and taxation of the advisory service industry. Extensive business scope and flexible operation have made this type of industry a valuable choice for foreign enterprises to invest in the Chinese market.

Registered Capital

No specified requirement (except specific industry)

Type of Business

• Information consulting business
• Technical development business
• Investment consulting business

Scope of Business

• Enterprises engaging in information consulting business
  • Economic information consulting
  • Commercial/ business information consulting
  • Information technology consulting
  • Marketing information consulting
  • Corporate image planning
• Enterprises engaging in technical development business
  • Technical development in the fields of network technology or electronic technology
  • Technical consulting
  • Technical development for computer software and hardware
  • Technical services and technical transfer
• Enterprises engaging in investment consulting business
  • Corporate investment consulting
  • Project investment consulting
  • Marketing planning
  • Investment management
  • Investment information consulting

Required Information and Documents

• Investor's qualification certificate of entity or natural person's ID card
• Directors, supervisors and mangers' appointment documents and ID cards
• Legal representative's appointment document and ID card
• House lease contract or ownership certificate

Required Time

About 35 workdays

Taxes Involved in Operation of Foreign Investment Consulting Enterprises

• Value-Added Tax
  • Small-scale Value-Added Tax Payers pay VAT at 3%
  • General Value-Added Tax Payers pay VAT at 6%

Corporate Income Tax

• Corporate income tax rate is 25%
• Small-scale and small profit companies are subject to corporate tax rate of 20%

Criteria for a small-scale and small profit company: a company with annual taxable profit does not exceed RMB 1,000,000, with staff less than 80 and total assets not exceeding RMB 10 million shall not engage in business restricted and prohibited by the PRC government

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