The Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council issued draft implementation regulations for the Labour Contract Law on May 8 to solicit public opinions.The…
The United States Trade Representative (USTR) has issued the 2008 Special 301 Review of its trading partners' levels of IP protection.The report focused…
On April 18 2008, the CSRC promulgated the Administrative Rules on Material Asset Restructuring of Listed Companies. This represents another major move to improve the basic system of the domestic stock market in China, and signifies that the M&A and restructuring of China's listed companies has entered a new era of standardization and development.
The Circular allows commercial banks to engage in gold futures trading and specifies the conditions such as having the qualifications to trade in derivatives.
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Earlier this year the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation issued a circular containing new Measures on HNTE Recognition. These measures, along with a Catalogue of supported industries, detail HNTE recognition requirements and necessary administration procedures under the PRC Enterprise Income Tax Law.
The Measures set forth the criteria for recognition as a hi-tech enterprise. After obtaining qualifications as a hi-tech enterprise, the enterprise is entitled to tax reduction or exemption.
A material asset reorganization shall be constituted when the purchase or sale of assets by a listed company and by the companies in which it has a controlling interest or that it controls reaches any of the specified benchmarks