Net Shop To Pay Tax? "The Wolf Is Coming."

Recently, a news came from Wuhan that the shopkeeper and online shopper were at a loss.

Wuhan city tax bureau has paid 4 million 222 thousand and 500 yuan to a woman's clothing shop on Taobao, which is called "the first tax net of personal online shop" in China.

Subsequently, the local tax authorities clarified that the online shop that was taxed was a real business entity.

However, the shopkeepers exclaimed "wolf" and worried about it.

The shopkeeper lives at 6 in the morning and sleeps at 1 in the morning.

Dahl is 41 years old, originally engaged in furniture engineering.

6 years ago, influenced by his wife, he began to contact online shopping and pformed from consumer to shopkeeper.

It is understood that at present, the seller who earns money on Taobao is almost full time shopkeeper. "The same commodity may have hundreds or thousands of online stores selling. If you want consumers to buy your stuff, look at the price, two look at the service."

A part-time shop owner can't do well in service. "

Dahl said, "the online shopping industry is becoming more and more difficult.

Sometimes, I can only earn 10 yuan for five hundred or six hundred yuan. "

Dahl roughly counted, excluding goods.

Last year, Dahl hired a salesperson and opened a physical store in Guangzhou.

"The same product sells for 50 yuan in the online store, and it can sell 100 yuan to 150 yuan in the physical store."

Although the shop has rent, labor and taxes, Dahl calculates that the profit margin of the entity store is still higher than that of the online store.

Net tax effect is the treasurer's intention to move out of Wuhan.

After the news of Wuhan's IRS's "one percent of my tax collection" came out, the cabinet of the whole country reacted strongly.

Subsequently, the person in charge of the State Administration of Taxation of Wuhan clarified: "according to the state tax policy, we must levy taxes as long as the paction reaches the tax threshold, that is, the monthly sales income of the self-employed household is more than 5000 yuan.

Instead of judging the tax according to the level and credibility of the Internet.

In fact, the monthly sales income of low-level online stores is more than 5000 yuan.

With "5000 yuan" as the watershed for tax payment, the "attack side" is even bigger.

If so

"In my circle of friends, only five or six treasurers are leaving Wuhan to move to another city."

There is shop shopkeeper sigh.

The entity that has been taxed is the shop entity.

Just as the vast majority of shopkeeper hesitated, Wuhan's Internal Revenue Bureau made "final clarification": the "one percent of my tax" that was taxed was attributable to the entity enterprise Wuhan claw Na Clothing Co., Ltd. (Note: hereinafter referred to as "claw clothing"), and the tax department of the state tax department aimed at its entity enterprises rather than online stores.

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According to the IRS, in 2009, claw's dress was registered in the IRS, engaged in the production and operation of clothing business, and was a small-scale taxpayer with vat.

According to tax inspection, claw clothing sells women's clothing mainly through physical stores and online stores, and sales revenue reached 105 million yuan in 2010.

In accordance with the Provisional Regulations on value added tax in People's Republic of China, the Wuhan State Administration of Taxation believes that clad clothing as a physical store should bear the duty of paying taxes.

Therefore, the state tax department affirms that the taxpayer should pay a value added tax of 3 million 163 thousand yuan, an enterprise income tax of 1 million 59 thousand and 500 yuan and a late fee of 4 million 307 thousand and 900 yuan in 2010.

The IRS specifically pointed out that "no previous tax payable on claw clothing".

Reporters found that although the shop is self-employed, but "one percent of my" business scale and speed of development has exceeded the general user's knowledge of online stores.

The shop sold 178 thousand garments last month.

More news is that the store is expected to get tens of millions of dollars of capital injection from an internationally renowned venture capital this year.

Experts say the shop tax is not yet mature.

Although the online tax levy seems to have settled, the online shop can not always live in a "tax free" zone.

Almost at the same time, at the end of June, the Wuhan online commodity trading supervision network was put into operation.

According to the relevant person in charge of the Wuhan industry and Commerce Bureau, the online shop operator who has been registered for business registration can log in to the website for free to apply for the electronic identification of the business license and affix it to its own online shop.

Although electronic labeling is based on voluntary application, there is no direct relationship with tax revenue, but the trend of government departments to normalize online stores is very clear.

Mao Zhibin, an e-commerce expert at Hubei University of Economics, thinks that from the perspective of industry, taxation is indispensable, but the conditions are not yet ripe.

Online shopping is a virtual economy. At present, the tax department can only deduce the amount of online store pactions according to the electronic payment tools such as Alipay; but this is not rigorous, and there is a large number of online payment, and there are few users who ask the shopkeeper for invoices.

Yan Qiao, Taobao's public relations department, said in an interview with the media that there are three kinds of Taobao shops: one is the individual seller who has not registered for business registration, the other is the personal online shop of the registered company, and the three is the online shop of the physical shop.

The latter two are different from the entity companies under the line. They should pay taxes according to law.

But for the first one, that is, the "pure individual shop", China has not yet introduced specific measures for levying taxes.

However, there are entity operators who believe that whether they are online stores or physical stores, as long as they are selling goods, they should pay VAT according to the Provisional Regulations of the People's Republic of China on value added tax.

If the private sellers who do not have business registration do not pay taxes, it is obviously unfair for the self-employed individuals who are paying taxes in small businesses.

Mao Zhibin said that at present, different provinces and cities have different attitudes towards online stores, and Hangzhou and other provinces do not collect taxes on Internet stores. Wuhan should be cautious when introducing policies in this area.

Under the circumstances of "difficult employment" for young people, we must attach importance to the policy of "starting employment with entrepreneurship", while online shops have great pulling effect on employment, consumption, logistics and other industries. We should see the pulling effect of online shopping on China's economy from the macro level.