(Comprehensive news from Beijing) The tax turmoil in China's showbiz circles has resurfaced. The popular actor Wu Jing, who starred in the action military movie Wolf Warrior 2, has to pay taxes after being exposed.
According to media reports last week, 17 first-line celebrities have been interviewed by the Chinese tax authorities, including Wu Jing.China Business Network quoted a number of authoritative sources in the film and television industry yesterday as saying that Wu Jing has indeed been involved in tax issues recently.
Wolf Warrior 2 has achieved a total box office of 5.68 billion yuan (RMB, the same below, 1.132 billion Singapore dollars).According to the general sharing rules of Chinese movie box office, after deducting 5% of the national film special fund and 3.3% business tax from the total box office, the net box office revenue of Wolf Warrior 2 is 5.21 billion.According to the usual share ratio between producers and publishers, producers such as Wu Jing's Beijing Dengfeng received about 1.89 billion yuan in box office share with Wolf Warrior 2.
The tax department's previous notice pointed out that the star studio's supplementary tax payment needs to be calculated at about 20% of its total income.According to calculations by people in the circle, Wu Jing has to pay at least 200 million yuan in back taxes.
So far, Wu Jing and relevant parties have not yet responded.
In addition to the tax issues involved, Wu Jing's plan to start filming Wolf Warrior 3, the follow-up to Wolf Warrior 2, also seems to have encountered obstacles.Wang Hailin, a well-known Chinese screenwriter, broke the news on Weibo a few days ago that Wolf Warrior 3 has been canceled.The outside world speculates that this is related to an unconfirmed internal sharing document of the General Administration on the content of film and television themes, which requires that the artwork is not political propaganda.Having weapons should not be advertised too much, and do not regard Western enemies as your imaginary enemies.
Previously, Wu Jing and many other film and television stars registered their studios in Khorgos, a tax haven in Xinjiang, and film and television parks that have introduced various tax relief policies, exempting them from paying part of the tax.Now China's tax authorities require some local registered stars, screenwriter studios and film and television companies to pay back the taxes that were exempted in the past three years.This means that the preferential tax policies for the film and television industry set by these film and television parks no longer exist.
