Chinese Breakfast - Beijing Yiye Cai Yongwei
Cui Yongyuan, a former Chinese CCTV celebrity, broke the news in the past few days that Fan Bingbing and other well-known artists were suspected of huge tax evasion with yin and yang contracts, which ignited public opinion and immediately attracted official attention.
The introduction of this turmoil has to be traced back to 2003.At that time, the movie directed by Feng Xiaogang, written by Liu Zhenyun, and participated by Fan Bingbing was released on mobile phones. The host Yan Shouyi, played by Ge You, had an extramarital affair and suffered from depression in the movie.
Now, the original crew of the mobile phone is starting to shoot the sequel, which obviously ignited Cui Yongyuan's anger again, prompting him to post a screenshot of the contract document with Fan Bingbing's name printed on Weibo at the end of last month, and claimed to have a lot of reporting materials, accusing her of being involved intax evasion.
Did the movie phone 15 years ago allude to Cui Yongyuan?Will the sequel being shot now allude to him?How deep is the personal grievance between Cui Yongyuan, Fan Bingbing and others?These are actually gossips in the entertainment industry, and should not arouse excessive attention from public opinion.
However, after Cui Yongyuan disclosed the content of the contract and pointed out that Fan Bingbing and others may have illegally evaded tax, this dispute caused by personal grievances has evolved into a public incident involving public interests.What's more, Cui Yongyuan also claimed that his drawer was full of many similar contracts, and any party involved would have to go in, and all the big names were involved.
This means that what Cui Yongyuan uncovered so far may only be the tip of the iceberg of tax evasion in the entertainment industry.Cui Yongyuan broke the news again yesterday that there is a celebrity couple involved in yin and yang contracts worth as much as 750 million yuan (RMB, the same below, 160 million Singapore dollars).
Perhaps because of this, the local and national tax agencies responded quickly, which on the one hand reflected the official determination to crack down on tax evasion, and on the other hand also showed the importance of this incident, because if it is not handled properly, it may cause further public grievances.
It is true that public opinion’s attention to the Cui Fan dispute has continued to heat up in the past few days, which shows that this dispute is no longer a pure entertainment farce.A fundamental abhorrence of the reader.
After all, those who are capable of signing yin-yang contracts are generally high-income earners, not ordinary people.The so-called yin and yang contracts are two contracts with different amounts.The yang contract with a small amount is generally external and used for filing and taxation; the other yin contract with a large amount is internal and is an actual contract, which stipulates the specific transaction price between the two parties.
In fact, it is generally believed that neither yang contracts nor yin contracts have legal force.This is because a yang contract is not protected by law as long as it can be proved that it is not the true intention of both parties.Therefore, the risk of signing such a contract is very high, and there are many movie stars who are willing to take this risk to do so, which shows that the temptation of relevant interests is extremely great and irresistible.
To put it simply, the main purpose of entering into two contracts with different contents is to conceal real income and evade tax obligations.Take the yin-yang contract exposed by Cui Yongyuan as an example. The 10 million yuan of the yang contract is after-tax income, and the tax burden has been passed on to Party A; the yin contract involves 50 million yuan. According to the tax law, the parties may be suspected of tax evasion of more than 2000 yuanten thousand yuan.
Personal income tax has the function of income redistribution in the national economic operation.Under the circumstance that low- and middle-income ordinary wage earners have to pay taxes with a monthly salary of several thousand yuan, if the high-income earners evade taxes, and often huge amounts of tax evasion, it will undoubtedly lead to unfair income distribution, and it is easy for the disparity between the rich and the poor to remain large.The serious situation has aroused public outrage in the society.
Some netizens bluntly said that some people have worked hard for the country for most of their lives before they won the highest national science and technology award, which is only 5 million yuan.The public's dislike of stars taking sky-high salaries but not fulfilling their tax obligations is obvious.
Although the dispute between Cui and Fan is still fermenting, the film and television sector has plummeted, indicating that its impact cannot be ignored, and it also highlights people's concerns about the future development of the film and television entertainment industry.However, from a positive point of view, this turmoil is an opportunity to rectify the chaos of star tax evasion and sky-high salary in the film and television industry, and it is also an opportunity to examine and think about the future direction of the entertainment industry and even the pursuit of fame and fortune in today's society.
