Opportunities and Challenges to the Real Estate and Construction Sectors

In brief

On 24 March 2016, the Ministry of Finance (MoF) and the State Administration of Taxation (SAT) jointly released Caishui [2016] No. 36 on the Comprehensive Roll-out of the B2V Transformation Pilot Program (“Circular 36”), under which the real estate and the construction industry will be transformed from business tax (BT) to value-added tax (VAT) (“B2V Reform”) starting on May 1^st 2016 (“expansion date”).Read More »