The actress and related companies were ordered to pay more than 850 million yuan in fines and unpaid taxes, but as long as she pays within the prescribed time limit, she will be exempted from criminal punishment.

Fan Bingbing, the highest -income actress in China, was fined hundreds of millions of yuan for tax evasion. After disappearing from the public sight for several months, she became the focus of attention.

According to an official Xinhua News Agency, Fan Bingbing personally fined 479 million yuan ($ 70 million) after the actress and her company had paid less than 255 million yuan in taxation in the relevant Chinese departments.She and relevant companies were ordered a fine of more than 850 million yuan in fines and unpaid taxes.

It is reported that if Fan Bingbing pays within the prescribed time limit, she will not be held criminally accountable.

I was deeply ashamed and guilty about what I did, and Fan Bingbing said in an apology letter published on his Weibo account on Wednesday.This is the first comment she shared with 63 million fans in the past three months.

Fan Bingbing also said that she completely accepted the punishment and emphasized that she had no good policies of the party and the country, and without the love of the people, and there would be no Fan Bingbing.

Fan Bingbing's last appeared in public occasions on July 1 to visit a children's hospital.

Fan Bingbing is a household name in China, just like the popularity of Hollywood movie star Jennifer Bull; Jennifer Lawrence in the United States.Fan Bingbing also appeared in the 2014 blockbuster X-Men: reversed the future (X-Men: Days of Future Past).

A survey on Fan Bingbing's taxation found that she was in the contract with Bruce Will in the United World War Ibreakable Spirit, and she declared 10 million yuan in taxable income for 10 million yuan, while another 20 million yuanThe income did not declare, thereby evading the income tax of 6.2 million yuan.

Because the practice of the yin and yang contract not only exists in the entertainment industry, the punishment will also have a deterrent effect in other industries. Zhu Chuanfan, a tax lawyer and partner of Beijing Zhonglun Wende Law Firm.(Rich) Individuals will continue to become the goal of national tax audit, and I believe that similar cases will continue to explode.However, he pointed out that the amount issued by the relevant departments is lower than the legal maximum limit.

According to Xinhua News Agency, Fan Bingbing's agent was detained for suspected destroying accounting documents, and the crime was suspected of obstructing the investigation.

Jonathan Sullivan, an expert at the University of Nottingham of Notting, said that China has increased pressure on celebrities and requires them to play an example in terms of moral standards to follow the public and Fan Bingbing.The tax case seems to show that this pressure has now extended to their financial arrangements.

The State Administration of Taxation also ordered the film and television industry to conduct self -examination, stating that the problem of self -correction will be exempted from punishment and will not be fined.

In late May, when Chinese TV host Cui Yongyuan accused Fan Bingbing of tax evasion online, the rumors about Fan Bingbing broke out, resulting in the actress Zhejiang Tangde Film Co., Ltd., which holds a small amount of equity,Stocks are sold.

Cui Yongyuan later released a document that is said to be a yin and yang contract on the Internet. This type of contract has a version that lists the pay for tax requirements, and a version lists higher actual film pay.

According to a person familiar with the matter, the government apparently investigated Fan Bingbing in June. At that time, officials ordered the organizer of the Shanghai Film Festival not to release the actress's movie, nor did she mention her in the promotional materials.

In China, well -known figures often disappear mysteriously from public sight before being officially announced by the investigation.

Liu Xiaoqing, a well -known actress in the 1980s, was imprisoned for more than a year for taxation in 2002.

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Translator/He Li