Nearly 8,200 platform companies have reported tax-related information

Zhang Huawei

BEIJING, April 2 (Reporter Wang Guan). On April 1, the reporter learned from the State Taxation Administration that nearly 8,200 domestic and overseas internet platform enterprises have already submitted tax-related information to tax authorities.

In accordance with the requirements of the “Regulations on the Reporting of Tax-Related Information by Internet Platform Enterprises,” starting in October 2025, platform enterprises shall submit, on a quarterly basis, the identity information of platform operators and practitioners within the platform, as well as the income information for the previous quarter, to the tax authorities. On April 1, the tax-related information reporting work for the first quarter began.

The implementation of the regulations has produced positive effects. Judging from the tax-related information reporting for the fourth quarter of 2025, most platforms started reporting at significantly earlier times than their initial reporting (the third quarter of 2025). The number of platform operators and practitioners and the revenue scale reported by each platform, both increased by more than 10% quarter-over-quarter; the quality of the submitted information was further improved. Tax payments by merchants on the platform are becoming clearly more standardized. After the regulations were implemented, most merchants on the platform made tax filings in accordance with the law and as the facts require, while some merchants began to require their suppliers to issue invoices in order to operate compliantly. In the fourth quarter of 2025, the amount of invoices obtained by small-scale taxpayers on the platform increased year-over-year by 28%. The role of tax-related information reporting in promoting integrated compliance across the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain continued to become increasingly evident. The number of merchant taxpayers on the platform that paid taxes increased by 32% compared with before the regulations were implemented; the difference in average tax burden between online merchants and offline merchants narrowed significantly.

“Tax-related information reporting makes platform operating data visible, greatly reducing the space for illegal practices on the platform such as operators who should have been registered but weren’t, concealing income, splitting income, and converting the nature of income. Violations in business operations on the platform, such as false marketing, malicious order-filling, and predatory low-price dumping, have started to decrease. The effect of tax-related information reporting in helping the platform economy ‘push back against involution’ continues to be clearly demonstrated.” Lian Qifeng, Director of the Department of Tax Administration and Technology Development of the State Taxation Administration, said that tax authorities will continue to do a good job in consultation and guidance and technical support, strictly verify the quality of platform-reported data, further deepen the analysis and application of tax-related information, identify tax-related risks of merchants on the platform, and carry out reminders for compliant filings.

《 People’s Daily 》( 2026-04-03 Page 02 )