Nearly 8,200 platform companies have reported tax-related information

Yuan Bo

This Daily, April 2, Beijing (Reporter Wang Guan) On April 1, the reporter learned from the State Taxation Administration: nearly 8,200 domestic and overseas internet platform companies have already submitted tax-related information to tax authorities.

In accordance with the “Regulations on the Submission of Tax-Related Information by Internet Platform Enterprises,” starting October 2025, platform enterprises shall submit, on a quarterly basis, the identity information of platform operators and practitioners, as well as the income information of platform operators and practitioners in the previous quarter, to tax authorities. On April 1, the submission of tax-related information by platform enterprises for the first quarter began.

The implementation of the regulations has brought about positive effects. Judging by the submission of tax-related information for the fourth quarter of 2025, most platforms significantly advanced their timeline compared with their first submission (the third quarter of 2025); the number of platform operators and practitioners, as well as the scale of revenue, submitted by each platform increased quarter-on-quarter by more than 10%; and the quality of submitted information was further improved. Tax payment by merchants on the platform was clearly more regulated. After the regulations took effect, most merchants on the platform made tax filings in accordance with the law and truthfully; some merchants, due to compliance needs, began to require their suppliers to issue invoices. In the fourth quarter of 2025, the amount of invoices obtained by small-scale taxpayers on the platform increased year-on-year by 28%; the role of tax-related information submission in promoting compliance coordination across the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain continued to be clearly demonstrated. The number of merchants on the platform that paid taxes increased by 32% compared with before the regulations were implemented, and the gap in average tax burden between online merchants and offline merchants narrowed significantly.

“The submission of tax-related information makes the platform’s operating data visible; the space for illegal conduct on the platform—such as operators who have not registered when required to do so, and concealing income, splitting income, or changing the nature of income—has been greatly compressed. Meanwhile, violations in operation such as false marketing, malicious order-prompting, and low-price dumping have started to decrease, and the ‘anti-overcompetition’ effect brought by tax-related information submission on the platform economy has continued to show.” Lian Qifeng, Director of the Administration and Technology Development Department of the State Taxation Administration, said that tax authorities will continue to provide consultation and guidance as well as technical support, strictly verify the quality of platform-reported data, further deepen the application of tax-related information analysis, identify tax risk of merchants on the platform, and carry out reminders for compliant filings.

《 People’s Daily 》( 2026年04月03日 02 edition)