{"id":17320,"date":"2025-04-09T05:25:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T05:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=17320"},"modified":"2025-04-09T05:25:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T05:25:47","slug":"china-updates-tax-refund-policy-for-foreign-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=17320","title":{"rendered":"China updates tax refund policy for foreign tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>China has updated its tax refund policy for foreign tourists, shifting from a refund-upon-departure model to a refund-upon-purchase model, the State Taxation Administration (STA) said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the new refund-upon-purchase policy, foreign visitors can instantly claim value-added tax (VAT) rebates at tax-free stores, enabling them to reuse the refunded amount in real time for further shopping. Previously, VAT rebates were only available for withdrawal upon departure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The policy change, initially piloted in Shanghai, Beijing, Guangdong, &nbsp; Sichuan and Zhejiang, has now met all operational requirements for nationwide rollout, according to the STA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An official from the STA emphasized their commitment to strengthening policy guidance and streamlining refund procedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Li Xuhong, vice president and professor at the Beijing National Accounting Institute, said that nationwide implementation of this service initiative would elevate China&#8217;s tourism service standards and foster a &#8220;friendly, efficient and convenient&#8221; tourism environment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reference Link:- <a href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20250408\/8daebc40ab324cb78893688e93ee0192\/c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20250408\/8daebc40ab324cb78893688e93ee0192\/c.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has updated its tax refund policy for foreign tourists, shifting from a refund-upon-departure model to a refund-upon-purchase model, the State Taxation Administration (STA) said on Tuesday. Under the new refund-upon-purchase policy, foreign visitors can instantly claim value-added tax (VAT) rebates at tax-free stores, enabling them to reuse the refunded amount in real time for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[29,15871,132,105,15868,15869,15870,7165],"class_list":["post-17320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-china","tag-china-updates-tax-refund-policy-for-foreign-tourists","tag-economy","tag-geopolitics-2","tag-tax-policy","tag-tax-refund-for-foreigners","tag-tax-refund-on-departure","tag-tourists"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17322,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17320\/revisions\/17322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}