Today, the Taxation Department of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province announced the handling of the case of tax evasion by the network anchor Huang Wei (screen name: Wei Ya).

The State Administration of Taxation stated that it resolutely supports the Hangzhou taxation department in handling Huang Wei's tax evasion cases in accordance with the law, and requires tax authorities at all levels to strictly investigate and punish various tax evasion activities in accordance with the law, resolutely maintain the authority of the national tax law, and promote social fairness and justice .

　　According to investigations, between 2019 and 2020, Wei Ya evaded 643 million yuan in taxes by concealing personal income, fictitious business conversion to false declarations of the nature of income, etc., and underpaid taxes by 60 million yuan.

In accordance with relevant laws and regulations, the Inspection Bureau of the Hangzhou Municipal Taxation Bureau imposed a fine of 1.341 billion yuan on Wei Ya's recovery of taxes, plus late fees.

　　Behind the investigation of Wei Ya's tax evasion case, what warnings did it bring to all walks of life?

One: Regardless of fame, no matter how much traffic

　　In recent years, new economic and new business formats including webcasting have developed rapidly. While protecting the vigorous vitality of new business formats, the taxation department has always attached importance to and continued to regulate the taxation order of the webcast industry, and constantly used tax big data to impose tax risks on the webcast industry. Verification.

　　In September of this year, the General Office of the State Administration of Taxation issued a notice requesting to further strengthen the taxation management of webcast practitioners, and clearly stated that webcasters with tax-related risks should be reminded of one-to-one risks and urged for rectification.

　　In other words, regardless of fame or traffic, compliance with laws and regulations is the only criterion.

　　According to the relevant person in charge of the Inspection Bureau of the Hangzhou Taxation Bureau, the taxation department found that some online anchors have certain tax-related risks, and carried out a timely risk inspection, prompting and counseling relevant online anchors to pay taxes in accordance with the law.

After analyzing and evaluating taxation big data, it was found that Huang Wei was suspected of major tax evasion, and the rectification was not thorough after repeated reminders and urges by the tax authorities, so she filed a case in accordance with the law and carried out a comprehensive and in-depth tax inspection.

Two: What should the webcasters do?

　　The live broadcast e-commerce industry is developing rapidly. The report "Live Streaming E-commerce Toward a Trillion Billion Market" released by KPMG and Alibaba Research Institute shows that the overall scale of live e-commerce will reach 1.05 trillion yuan in 2020, and this scale will be expanded to 2 trillion yuan.

According to data previously released by the Ministry of Commerce, the number of active live broadcasters of e-commerce live broadcasts across the country exceeded 400,000 in the first half of 2020.

　　What does it mean for them to be fined for the "big sister" in the industry?

　　This is a resounding alarm bell. It strikes every network anchor and makes them realize that tax evasion in the past should be actively rectified at the first time. Don't try to play "peek-and-see" in the tax system.

　　This is a serious rule of law class, which educates every webcaster that their tax law compliance must be able to keep up with the rapidly growing wealth. In the answers to reporters’ questions by the relevant person in charge of the taxation department, the factual basis and punishment for violations The legal basis for this is clear at a glance. A good delivery person should first be a qualified and compliant taxpayer.

　　This is a bottle of potential catalyst that promotes the webcast industry to strengthen industry self-discipline, gradually form industry disciplinary measures and mechanisms, and lay a key cornerstone for the healthy and stable development of the live broadcast industry in the future.

　　In the process of regulating the taxation order of the webcast industry, the taxation department has always adhered to the attitude of both leniency and strictness, and opened a window for webcasters to "self-redemption". The above-mentioned notice issued by the State Administration of Taxation clearly pointed out that the Those who can proactively report and promptly correct tax-related issues may be given a lighter, mitigated, or exempted punishment in accordance with the law.

It is reported that thousands of people have taken the initiative to self-check and pay taxes.

　　It must be admitted that over the past period of time, the issue of online anchor taxation has been heating up in the public opinion field. After this major case has surfaced, online anchors do not need to put everyone at risk. Instead, they should face up to the positive effects brought about by negative teaching materials. Industries, platforms and other parties will work together to build a long-term and good taxation ecosystem for the webcast industry.

Three: What is the impact of strengthening the taxation supervision of webcasting?

　　The webcast industry is not a "tax blind zone". It will become the norm to maintain zero tolerance for tax-related violations. Strengthening supervision will be beneficial to the overall platform economy and ordinary people.

　　From the perspective of the platform economy, invisibly, tax evaders increase the tax burden of honest taxpayers in disguise, making honest taxpayers at a disadvantage in market competition compared to tax evaders.

　　What is even more frightening is that the actual unfair tax burden caused by tax evasion may drive other taxpayers in society to follow suit, resulting in fewer and fewer honest taxpayers, and the entire market will change as bad money drives out good money. It's a miasma.

　　Regulatory authorities have always adhered to both regulation and development of the platform economy. The rectification and investigation of tax-related issues of network anchors will help create a tax environment of fair competition.

　　Taxes are taken from the people and used for the people.

Public infrastructure and improvement of people's livelihood and welfare all require a large amount of capital investment. Tax evasion directly reduces the country's fiscal revenue and reduces the country's sources of investment in public utilities. Eventually, it will "steal" the social public services that we should have enjoyed.

　　One of the important functions of taxation is to adjust income distribution. Different income groups have different personal income tax rates. High-income earners pay more and low-income earners pay less. This helps to narrow the income distribution gap in the secondary distribution and promote society. fair.

　　(Source: "The country is a through train" WeChat public account author: Xia Bin)