Is "Tmall tax payment" going to force sellers to death for LED small and medium-sized e-commerce companies?

It is said that several companies in Minhang District, Shanghai, have already been interviewed about Tmall’s tax repayment. They have also started in Heze, Shandong and Guilin. I was still not sure before. I went to the tax bureau last week to find out if it was true? On April 27, I called the tax service hotline in Minhang District, Shanghai and asked about e-commerce sellers' tax repayment. At present, the staff said that "no such notice has been received."

Tmall issued a statement on Sina Weibo, saying, "The State Administration of Taxation has never issued policies or notices on tax repayment for Tmall merchants. Tmall also stated that brand owners on the open Tmall platform and Taobao's major sellers have become new tax sources and creators of more tax revenue. With the care and promotion of society and all walks of life, e-commerce will surely grow healthily and become an important industry of tomorrow." Source of tax revenue. "

It is said that the tax bureau has allowed Alipay to settle in Tmall. From the time of Tmall's settlement, there should be many sellers on Tmall who have made tens of millions of sales from the time they opened the store to the present. There are even sellers with sales of hundreds of millions. If you want to pay taxes, you can only apply for bankruptcy... If you can't apply for bankruptcy, you can only go to jail? Jump off a building? escape? ...I can’t imagine it, it feels like a horror movie.

In fact, e-commerce taxation has always affected the nerves of all parties. On the one hand, low-price competition and weak profits have led many sellers to resist imposing taxes on e-commerce; on the other hand, many sellers are indeed small in scale, and once the tax is imposed, they will have no choice but to find another way out. How to tax e-commerce involves a large number of sellers competing for the future business world.

Tax pressure on sellers

It is understood that according to the current tax law, for small-scale taxpayers and individual industrial and commercial households, monthly sales of less than 20,000 yuan are exempt from value-added tax. If the monthly sales exceed 20,000 yuan and the annual sales are less than 800,000 yuan, the value-added tax is calculated and paid at a simple collection rate of 3%. Online stores with annual sales of more than 800,000 yuan should proactively apply to the tax authorities to be recognized as general taxpayers. The value-added tax rate is 17%, but input tax can be deducted. The specific algorithm is output minus input multiplied by the tax rate of 17%.

In addition, the seller's corporate income tax liability is: the total income of each tax year, minus the non-taxable income, tax-free income, various deductions and allowed losses from previous years, multiplied by the applicable corporate tax rate. Typically, the corporate income tax rate is 25%. Enterprises that enjoy preferential tax policies, such as high-tech enterprises, are subject to lower tax rates, and the same applies to their turnover generated through Internet platforms.

It is understood that many Taobao and Tmall merchants started their businesses from scratch. It is not easy to pay the Tmall deposit, and then pay high through-train promotion fees, various fees, various deductions, and various expenses. Now it is a one-size-fits-all approach to make up for all taxes. There are a few Tmall stores that can afford it. Although paying taxes is the obligation of every citizen, it cannot be one-size-fits-all. At the very least, there should be a reasonable tax policy. E-commerce is originally not very profitable, and there are various price wars and all kinds of sales that make money at a loss. According to the current tax policy, there is no way to continue. Moreover, 90% of the goods purchased on Taobao are basically without input. I can’t help but sigh that the 42% tax payment is too shocking.

Huang Jian, CEO of Tmall seller "Yousha Clothing", said that whether a seller will be overwhelmed by taxes depends on the individual. "For those companies that make small profits but quick turnover, their gross profit itself is often only 5% to more than 10%. Once nearly 30% of taxes are added, , will definitely suffer losses. And those brands that take the high-end route have gross profits of 80%-100%, so it will not have a big impact." He also said that Zhejiang Province, where he is located, has not yet imposed taxes on online merchants, but if there is a tax in the future, it is not ruled out that platforms such as Tmall will provide certain subsidies.