Last year, tax authorities inspected high-risk individuals in entertainment and live streaming sectors, recovering 7.1 billion yuan in additional income.

Beijing News reported (reporter Jiang Huizi) On April 1, the State Taxation Administration held a press conference, where it was introduced that in the past year, tax authorities inspected 4,223 high-risk individuals in areas such as equity transfers and entertainment/livestreaming, and recovered and remitted 7.1 billion yuan in income.

According to the release data, in 2025, tax authorities focused on high-risk industries, sectors, and individuals, and handled a number of tax evasion cases in accordance with law. Over the whole year, they inspected a total of 5,006 refined oil enterprises, including gas stations, and recovered and remitted 7.5 billion yuan in income; inspected 4,865 enterprises that fraudulently obtained or improperly benefited from tax incentives, and recovered and remitted 19.0 billion yuan in income; inspected 4,223 high-risk individuals in areas such as equity transfers and entertainment/livestreaming, and recovered and remitted 7.1 billion yuan in income.

First-level inspector Yu Haichun of the Investigation Bureau of the State Taxation Administration said that in the next step, tax authorities will continue to seriously crack down on tax-related illegal acts such as issuing fake invoices and tax evasion in traditional areas. At the same time, they will continue to strengthen tax supervision over emerging areas such as the platform economy, especially tax-related illegal issues in the “invoicing economy.” They will also further increase efforts to investigate and handle tax-related illegal acts by high-risk individuals, and, in accordance with the law, crack down on illegal and non-compliant acts by tax intermediaries.

Meanwhile, they will continue to leverage the eight departments’ normalized joint crackdown mechanism for tax-related illegal crimes, strengthen efforts to target professionalized, networked, and cross-regional criminal gangs, and maintain a high-pressure posture against serious tax-related illegal crimes such as issuing fake invoices and fraudulently obtaining export tax rebates. In 2025, this mechanism inspected 76,000 enterprises suspected of issuing and fraudulently using fake tax invoices, identified 3.324 million VAT invoices as deemed to be outwardly issued, and verified that the amount of fraudulently obtained and improperly claimed export tax rebates exceeded 10 billion yuan.

Editor Bai Shuang

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