加盖印花的租约-香港印花税(1)

应支付的邮资租赁
租约、租约、租赁协议及其他具有类似效力的文件。包括其副本和副本的是租赁协议。加盖印花的租约须缴付印花税。业主、租客及任何签署租约的人士均须缴付印花税。合法租约须在签立日期起计30天内盖章。
如何申请加盖印花租约
1/通过互联网最方便的方法是透过“香港政府一站通”的互联网递交加盖印花申请。
2 /邮寄
你可以邮寄纸张表格[IRSD111(E)]，要求加盖印花。另外，你也可以在申请表上附上付款支票。支票抬头应写“香港特别行政区政府”及划线。
3亲临印花税署
你可亲临印花税署，在柜位出示租约正本，以便加盖印花。请注意，在大流行期间，服务时间可能会有所不同。
如需进一步信息，请与我们联系。

香港加强防疫保持社交距离

应对欧米克隆变种疫情的新防疫措施
行政长官林郑月娥宣布政府将进一步收紧社交距离措施。鉴于新冠肺炎疫情形势。禁止两户以上家庭在私人场所聚集等防疫措施。
疾病预防控制条例
新规定将在《疾病预防控制条例》下执行。在公共场所集体集会的人数上限为2人。此外，对任何不符合强制检测要求的人的定额罚款将增加一倍。即从5000港币到10000港币。
扩大预定经营范围
根据《预防及控制疾病(规定及指示)(业务及处所)规例》(第599F章)，现时有17类附表处所。此外，从2022年2月10日至24日，礼拜场所和美发沙龙将关闭。此外，从2022年2月24日起，预定场地将扩大到以下:
宗教活动场所的
购物中心
百货商店
超市
菜市场
美发沙龙
2022年2月24日起采取防疫措施?
从2月24日起，人们进入所有预定场所，包括六个新的类别。他们必须使用LeaveHomeSafe移动应用程序，并出示自己的接种记录，以遵守疫苗通行证安排。此外，疫苗通行证的安排亦会适用于学校、大学、政府资助单位和公营机构的办公室。

如需进一步信息，请与我们联系。

第六轮防疫基金提案

政府现正寻求立法会财务委员会批准向第六届防疫基金注资二百七十亿元。该委员会将于2022年2月15日讨论资助提案。
提出第6轮AEF的理由
政府完全理解疫情和加强社交距离措施给社区带来的影响。因此，政府迅速推出了第6轮AEF。此外，第六轮的“香港就业基金”旨在保障就业和维持香港的经济实力。只有这样，香港才能在新冠肺炎大流行的欧米克隆(omicron)浪潮消退时尽快恢复。
什么是新的吗?
总财务承诺的60%以上用于资助个人。
第6轮失业救济计划引入了临时失业救济。
什么是临时失业救济?
临时失业救济计划将提供一次性、固定费率的1万美元补贴。无论该雇员是全职或兼职，并在被解雇前月薪不超过30,000元。自第五波大流行开始以来，这些工人已经失去了工作，并且在申请登记时已经失业至少一个月。

谁有资格领取临时失业救济?
各种职业:全职、兼职或自雇;
自2022年1月起失业1个月以上;
不是第六轮综援计划下的综合社会保障援助或其他措施的受助人。
不过，这只是建议，还有待立法会的最终批准。

如需进一步信息，请与我们联系。

外商独资企业在中国电子商务业务的逐步建立

什么是外商独资企业电子商务业务？
外商独资企业电子商务业务代表外商独资的电子商务业务。外国个人或法人在中国独资注册的实体。实际上，外商独资企业是非中国公民或非中国公司实体在中国大陆注册成立外资有限责任公司的需要时所采用的常见业务。在过去的两年中，越来越多的外籍人士开始关注中国的消费市场。与传统的零售商店业务相比，它是基于电子商务的，具有更高的成本效益和更易于管理，并且由于所有旅行限制下，电子商务业务允许业主在世界任何地方运营业务。
2020年，双十一购物节单日的销售额突破4,938亿元的新纪录。与去年相比，由于疫情的原因，越来越多的消费者熟悉网上购物以及网上商店的特价商品和特价商品，在销售活动的高峰期，每秒钟大约下达583,000个订单。并且从午夜开始，有数以亿计的购物者登录该网站，为获得额外的折扣。
如何在中国建立外商独资企业电子商务业务？
最近，我们许多客户都在咨询如何建立电子商务业务，他们注意到许多电子商务都是通过淘宝和阿里巴巴等平台建立的，企业家还需要建立一个中国支付帐户，以符合中国市场的需求。
以下我们列出了外商独资企业的设置过程的步骤：
检查公司名称是否可用
检查并签署办公场所的租赁协议
经中国批准的公证机构公证的董事/股东姓名的翻译
公司注册（取得五合一营业执照）
公司银行开户
个人银行开户
设置微信中国公司帐户
在中国公开展示的网站上注册持有中国外商独资企业证书。
注册淘宝，阿里巴巴，京东等…
如想了解更多信息，请与我们联系。
您可能想要了解：外商独资​​注册办事处的要求是什么？

EXEMPTION FROM COMPULSORY HOTEL QUARANTINE WHEN GOING INTO CHINA

Nowadays, compulsory quarantine at hotel seems to be a protocol when travelling. However, if you are under certain category and fulfilling certain criteria. Then you may exempt from compulsory hotel quarantine when heading back to Hong Kong.

Who can be exempted?

Under section 4(1) of the Compulsory Quarantine of Persons Arriving at Hong Kong from Foreign Places Regulation (Cap. 599E) (the Regulation), made under the Prevention and Control of Disease Ordinance (Cap. 599), the Chief Secretary for Administration may designate any person or category of persons fulfilling certain criteria for exemption that –

  1. the person’s or persons’ entry into Hong Kong is necessary for –
    1. The supply of goods or services required for the normal operation of Hong Kong or the daily needs of the people of Hong Kong;
    2. Governmental operation;
    3. The protection of the safety or health of the people of Hong Kong or the handling of the public health emergency within the meaning of section 8(5) of the Ordinance concerning the specified disease;
    4. Or, because of the exceptional circumstances of the case, otherwise serves the public interest of Hong Kong; or
  2. the person’s or persons’ travelling is necessary for purposes relating to manufacturing operations, business activities or the provision of professional services in the interest of Hong Kong’s economic development.

Which categories can be exempted?

In accordance with section 4(1) of the Regulation, the Chief Secretary for Administration has exempted the following categories of persons from the compulsory quarantine requirement. For the latest arrangement of respective exemption categories, please approach the supporting policy bureau or departments direct for details.

  1. Crew members of aircraft who need to commute to and from foreign places for performance of necessary duties.
  2. Crew members of
    1. Goods vessels with cargo operation
    1. Goods vessels without cargo operation which have not called the ports of “Group A specified places” (High Risk) under the Prevention and Control of Disease (Regulation of Cross-Boundary Conveyances and Travellers) Regulation (Cap. 599H) during the 21 days prior to arrival in Hong Kong purely for shipping services (excluding ship repair)
  3. Government officials carrying out government duties

Last but not the least, the Prevention and Control of Disease Ordinance maybe varied according to the situation. Please check with Centre of Health Protection https://www.coronavirus.gov.hk/eng/index.html

For further information, please contact us.

You may read: CROSSING BORDER FROM CHINA DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

https://centreo.hk/china-return-hong-kong/

CHINA-HONG KONG BORDER SCHEUDLES TO REOPEN

Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced on 7th December 2021, there is a schedule to reopen China and Hong Kong border. The government is working to set quotas for business people in different sectors. And Hong Kong will prioritize quarantine-free travel for business people when its China border reopens. However, the actual schedule and the plan is not rolled out yet.

Border Control Points

Meanwhile, most of the border control points are closed. The Security Bureau will consider the usage of relevant border control points in deciding whether

  • to extend the opening hours, and
  • to reopen more points

Furthermore, the Security Bureau will use the existing Road-Based Land Crossing ports. While the Rail-Based ports are still suspending.

Hong Kong Health Code

With the Hong Kong Health Code set to open for registration on Friday. Lam also called on citizens not to register for it unless there is an urgent need.

Start on 9th December, Hong Kong people are compulsory to use LeaveHomeSafe app to record your visits. And the record had fulfilled the basic conditions to restart cross-border travel. Afterward, Hong Kong will introduce a mainland-style Hong Kong health code.

In the meantime, the Omicron variant has spread all over the world. However, Hong Kong takes an aggressive approach to ban the virus flowing into the community.  Thus, there is no effect on quarantine-free travel plan.

For further information, please contact us.

You may want to read: CROSSING BORDER FROM CHINA DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

CHANGE OF COMPANY NAME WITH YOUR HONG KONG LIMITED

Change of Company Name can be done by passing a special resolution. You have to notify the Company Registry within 15 days after the date of passing the special resolution. You have to submit a Form NNC2 of the change of company name under section 107(2) of the Companies Ordinance.

Any document you need to submit for Change of Name ?

If you are just to Change the Company Name and everything else remains the same. Then the Registrar for registration under section 622 of the Companies Ordinance does not apply to change of name cases. Thus, you don’t need to the delivery of a notice of alteration of articles and a certified copy of articles as altered under section 88(5) of the Companies Ordinance

For further information, please contact us.

You may want to read: What’s in a Name? (Or How to Change the Name of Your Business)

GOOGLE DRIVE SPEEDUP YOUR ACCOUNTING & AUDITING MATTER

The peak season for Accounting and Auditing is arriving soon! Unlike the monthly bookkeeping, it is impossible to remember what you have done throughout the year. So, setting up a good system on your google drive. Definitely can save your time and provide accurate information to your auditor.

Paper Vs Digital?

As a small business owner, it’s easy to handle digital documents instead of paper documents. You can imagine after a year of operation, daily documents such as quotations, contracts, bills and invoices are spreading everywhere. How many times have you been looking for a paper that you just know is somewhere. No matter how hard to try, you can’t find it? Thus, you better keep all document in digital version.

What is Google Drive?

Google Drive is a cloud-based storage solution, you can access it with Wi-Fi connection. Also, you can share your files with your colleagues and trading partners. For instance, accountant and auditor. Then everyone in your company can make contribution for the daily record as well.

How to set up your Google Drive?

You can add a few New Folders to separate the docs per below arrangement

1. Company Name eg. My Company (You can have more than 1 company Limited)

2. Set up Monthly Folder: 2022-01 / 2022-02 / 2022-03 (Year-Month)

3. Under Monthly folder, you can create new folder to separate your bill, revenue and bank statements

  • Bills & Expenses
  • Sales Invoices & Revenue
  • Bank Statements
  • Contract & Agreements

Under the bank statement folder, you can create another folder to keep your difference kinds of statement

  • HSBC Saving and Current Account Statement
  • HSBC Credit Card Statement
  • PayPal (Or other payment gateway) if applied

Under the Contract & Agreements folder, you can keep agreement such as employment contracts, MPF Statement, Freelance Contacts, mobile bill service agreement, tenancy agreements and so on….

For February, you can repeat what you have done in January.

What are the tips?

As you are using digital filing, then naming a proper file name is very essential. Computer sorts files in a systematic logic. So, if you name a file in the same mindset. It makes your life easier. You can put [Date]-[Company name]-[Number] as a file name, then by reading the file name, you know what is the file is about. For example: 20220121-ABC Company-789. When all your bills and invoices are saving in this format. Once you open your folder, you will find your bills and invoice or documents are sorted in sequence.

With the above-mentioned system, obviously you can answer every question from your auditor without any hesitate.

For further information, please contact us.

You may want to read: Benefits of using Cloud Accounting

香港有限公司更改公司名称

更改公司名称可通过一项特别决议来完成。你必须在特别决议通过之日起15日内通知公司注册处。根据《公司条例》第107(2)条，你必须提交公司名称更改表格NNC2。

更改名称需要提交什么文件?
如果您只是更改公司名称，而其他一切保持不变。那么，根据《公司条例》第622条办理注册的注册处长不适用于名称更改的案件。因此，你无须递交更改物品通知书及根据《公司条例》第88(5)条更改物品的核证副本

如需进一步信息，请与我们联系。

中国香港边境将重新开放

行政长官林郑月娥于2021年12月7日宣布，有重新开放中国内地与香港边境的时间表。政府正致力于为不同行业的商务人士设定配额。中国边境重新开放后，香港将优先考虑商务人士的免检疫旅行。然而，实际的时间表和计划还没有推出。
边界控制点
与此同时，大多数边境检查站已经关闭。保安局会考虑有关边境管制站的用途，以决定是否使用
延长开放时间，以及
重新开放更多地点
此外，保安局会使用现有的陆路口岸。而以铁路为基础的港口仍在暂停
香港健康守则
香港健康守则将于周五开放登记。林还呼吁市民不要注册，除非有紧急需要。
从12月9日开始，香港人必须使用LeaveHomeSafe应用程序来记录你的访问。并且记录已经满足了重启跨境旅行的基本条件。之后，香港将推出内地式的香港卫生代码。
与此同时，欧米克隆的变种已经遍布世界各地。但是，香港采取了积极的措施，禁止病毒流入社区。因此，对无隔离旅行计划没有影响。
如需进一步信息，请与我们联系。