Practices

Tax

Basic Overview

Zhonglun W&D Law Firm’s tax-related legal services are deeply rooted in tax law practices and focus on the core needs of enterprises throughout their lifecycle and the tax planning requirements of high-net-worth individuals. We aim to ensure tax compliance for clients’ transaction security and asset appreciation by delivering precise, efficient, and practical legal services. We maintain an in-depth grasp of evolving tax policies and administration trends. Drawing on our team’s solid legal expertise and extensive practical experience, we seamlessly integrate legal compliance with tax optimization to deliver comprehensive legal services. Our offerings cover all key practice areas, including tax-related dispute resolution, criminal defense, inspection responses, transaction structuring, daily consultation, transfer pricing management, tax planning, and tax management for high-net-worth individuals. All team members are graduates of renowned domestic and international law schools. Equipped with solid expertise, hands-on experience, and cross-disciplinary capabilities, they excel at precisely addressing complex tax challenges, assisting clients in reducing tax costs and securing their wealth on a fully legal and compliant basis.

Services

  • Legal Services for Tax-related Dispute Resolution

    We offer comprehensive legal services covering tax administrative reconsideration, tax administrative proceedings, tax-related civil litigation, and tax mediation. For disputes involving various taxes such as Value-Added Tax (VAT), Corporate Income Tax (CIT), Individual Income Tax (IIT), Land Appreciation Tax (LAT), and Stamp Duty—including tax payment disputes, tax refund disputes, and disputes over the application of tax incentives—we deliver services covering dispute analysis, evidence collation, legal argumentation, hearing representation, and courtroom defense, so as to effectively protect clients’ legitimate tax-related rights and interests.

  • Legal Services for Tax-related Criminal Defense and Criminal Risk Prevention

    We represent entities and individuals facing allegations of tax-related offenses, including falsely issuing special VAT invoices, falsely issuing invoices, tax evasion, anti-tax, and evading the recovery of arrears of taxes. Our services cover pre-litigation representation during the investigative phase, application for bail pending trial, cross-examination of evidence, and courtroom defense. Additionally, we offer tailored services to help enterprises mitigate tax-related criminal risks through compliance reviews, internal control enhancements, and employee training programs.

  • Legal Services for Tax Inspection Risk Management

    We assist enterprises in proactive risk prevention before tax inspections through offerings such as tax compliance self-assessments, risk identification, and standardization of tax procedures. We offer professional legal services in response to tax authorities’ actions, from case filing, evidence gathering, to tax ruling. We also facilitate client communications and liaisons with tax authorities, clarify the legal basis for inspections, file well-founded objections, and minimize clients’ exposure to penalties and sanctions.
  • Legal Services for Tax-related Transaction Structuring

     We offer comprehensive tax-structuring services for various commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, investments and financing, equity transfers, asset disposals, cross-border transactions, and related-party transactions. By aligning the transaction arrangements with tax policies, we streamline transaction workflows, rationalize the structuring of taxpayers, transaction models, and payment mechanisms to mitigate tax-related risks and maximizing tax efficiency across the entire transaction.

  • Legal Services for Tax-related Consultation and Contract Management

    We offer tax compliance consultation services to enterprises, addressing common tax-related inquiries such as VAT invoice management, tax filing, tax incentive application, and disbursement deduction. We assist enterprises in establishing and improving management systems for tax compliance, review and optimize tax clauses in various contracts (including procurement, sales, and service agreements), and mitigate tax-related risks during contract performance.

  • Legal Services for Transfer Pricing and Tax Planning

    We offer transfer pricing services for multinational and affiliated enterprises, covering the formulation of transfer pricing policies, preparation of contemporaneous documentation, handling transfer pricing investigations, and applying for advance pricing agreements. Based on clients’ business operations and tax policies, we deliver fully compliant tax planning services, encompassing overall tax planning, optimization of tax strategies for business initiatives, utilization of regional tax incentives, and application for industrial support policies—all designed to help clients achieve legitimate and reasonable reductions in tax costs.

  • Legal Services for Wealth Management for High-Net-Worth Individuals

    We provide tax planning services for high-net-worth individuals across key scenarios including wealth succession, investment returns, equity gains, real estate holdings, and cross-border asset allocation. Our services cover personal income tax planning, tax structure design for family trusts, cross-border estate tax planning, and tax due diligence for investment projects. We assist high-net-worth clients in achieving tax compliance and risk mitigation during the accumulation, succession, and appreciation of their wealth.

  • Cross-Border Tax Legal Services

    For cross-border activities such as corporate overseas investments, import-export trade, cross-border services, and repatriation of overseas profits, we offer cross-border tax compliance consulting, analysis of international tax treaty applicability, cross-border tax planning, risk mitigation for permanent establishment identification, and cross-border tax dispute resolution. We assist businesses in navigating the complexities of international taxation and ensuring compliance while maximizing benefits from available tax incentives.

  • Legal Services for Tax Incentive Applications and Tax Compliance

    We assist enterprises in securing various tax incentive qualifications, including those for high-tech enterprises, micro and small-sized enterprises, software enterprises, and energy-saving or environmental protection enterprises. Our services cover guidance on qualification certification, preparation of application materials, and coordination with regulatory authorities. Furthermore, we provide tax compliance services to ensure that enterprises maintain their eligibility for tax incentives and mitigate risks associated with incentive utilization.

Service Performance

Providing legal services for a listed tech company in Beijing in tax dispute resolution regarding an value adjustment mechanism for investment attraction
Providing legal services for a renowned Beijing-based real estate company in preferential tax refunds dispute against a Tianjin development zone
Providing legal services for a major Chinese oil company in dispute resolution regarding alleged false invoicing
Providing legal services for a Beijing-based manufacturing company in dispute resolution regarding alleged false VAT invoicing 
Providing legal services for a large Beijing-based pharmaceutical company in dispute resolution regarding alleged false VAT invoicing
Providing legal services for a maritime group in tax dispute resolution regarding crew salary planning 
Providing legal services for a central state-owned enterprise in tax dispute resolution regarding its bearing sales model 
Providing legal services for a listed company in dispute resolution regarding tax incentives for stock reduction
Providing legal services for a Japanese listed company’s China representative office in employee job occupation and other tax-related issues
Providing legal services for a large Chinese steel enterprise in tax dispute resolution for financing trade with a listed company in Shanxi province
Providing legal services for a real estate group in Xinyang, Henan province in land VAT disputes resolution
Providing legal services for the legal representative of a company in Shandong province accused of issuing false VAT special invoices 
Providing legal services for a Beijing-based company in tax dispute resolution for the sale of equity of a Shandong company
Providing legal services for a foreign trade company in Xiamen in tax dispute resolution for suspected false invoicing
Providing legal services for Wu in Zhangzhou in tax dispute resolution for private lending