China Tax Accountant Firms Indepth Research and Investment Strategy Planning Report, 2013-2017

The most distinctive characteristics of this report is forward-looking and timeliness. Through analyzing forward-looking characteristic of abundant first-hand market data, we deeply and objectively dissect China current tax accountant firms’ development influencing factors and competitive landscape. Furthermore, based on future development tracks and years’ practice experience of tax accountant firms, we analyze the substantial factor of the development of tax accountant firms and conduct prudent analysis and forecast for tax accountant firms’ future development trend.

A tax accountant firm is a professional tax agency. In some foreign economic developed countries or areas, the implementation of tax agent regulations has many years of history. At present, the services related to tax are very extensive in world’s economic developed countries. According to statistics, 80% of Japanese commission tax accountants to deal with tax matters for them, moreover, the ratio is approaching to full 100% in some areas; in America, 50% of enterprises and 100% of individuals commission tax accountants to declare tax. In addition, foreign tax accountants, sometimes, will receive businesses, like governmental tax inspection and so on.

With the opening up, China tax accountant firms develop as a emerging service industry, which are in charge of tax services and tax-related authentication services. They play an important role in protecting the national tax revenue growth, reducing the loss of tax revenue, ensuring the correct implementation of national tax laws and regulations, as well as deepening the reform of tax collection, establishing tax services system and ensuring the steady growth of national tax revenue.

According to statistics, as of December 31st 2010, there were 4,335 operating tax accountant firms (including their branches in local or other regions), with an increase of 305 firms compared to the number of 4,030 in 2009. Compared to the employee number of 77,767 in 2009, there is an increase of 6,596 employees in 2010; the registered capital of tax accountant firms was 2.216 billion Yuan; the operational capital was 131 million Yuan; the assets amount was 6.890 billion Yuan; the client number was 2.0788 million. In 2010, the total operational volume of registered tax industry was 8.045 billion Yuan, among which there were 7.864 billion Yuan of main business income, accounting for 97.75% of the total volume. With the number of 6.721 billion Yuan of registered tax industry’s operational volume in 2009, the income amount increased 1.324 billion Yuan, with an increase of 19.70%, and the total industry’s profit was 221 million Yuan.

Compared with other countries, China’s registered tax industry is still in an initial phase. The tax accountant firms industry develops in the short term in China, which still belongs to an emerging industry. At present, there are less 10% of commercial enterprises commissioning tax accountant firms to do tax agent, while there is almost 0% of individuals commissioning tax accountant firms to do tax agent. However, with the gradual improvement of tax system, the tax scale and the number of taxpayers continue to expand. With the development of foreign multinationals and China’s enterprises, the enhancement of civil tax paying consciousness and right protection consciousness, China’s demand for tax verification and tax services will gradually increase.

According to the “Registered Tax Industry Development Goals, 2008-2012”, released by China Certified Tax Agents Association, the four years development of registered tax industry should reach the size of 8-10 billion Yuan. Nationally, the operational revenue of registered tax industry was 8.045 billion Yuan, which was near the goal in the plan. It’s predicted the industry operational revenue will reach 8.66 billion Yuan in 2011, and it will approach to 10 billion Yuan in 2012.

Besides, since China’s tax accountant firms are relatively small; their business scope is narrow; they lack of high-end professionals; the tax accountants’ practice standards and ethical standards need to be improved; as well as the industry laws and regulations are not completed, the development of China’s tax accountant firms will be disturbed.

With Forward’s long-term tracking and collecting market data of tax accountant firms, we mainly analyze the market environment of domestic and international tax accountant firms; the operational conditions of tax accountant firms; the key business segmentation of tax accountant firms; the key regional competitiveness of tax accountant firms; as well as the leading corporations’ operational conditions in tax accountant firms. Meanwhile, with comprehensive and specific first-hand market data over the past 5 years, Forward helps you to grasp the market and development trends of tax accountant firms, so as to win advantages from competition!

The most distinctive characteristics of this report is forward-looking and timeliness. Through analyzing forward-looking characteristic of abundant first-hand market data, we deeply and objectively dissect China current tax accountant firms’ development influencing factors and competitive landscape. Furthermore, based on future development tracks and years’ practice experience of tax accountant firms, we analyze the substantial factor of the development of tax accountant firms and conduct prudent analysis and forecast for tax accountant firms’ future development trend. This report helps tax accountant firms and related investment institutions to precisely grasp current latest developments of the industry. Afterwards, they can make wise operating decisions and define enterprises’ development directions.

Here, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to the China Certified Tax Agents Association, Bureau of Statistics of China, International Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, Tsinghua University Library, Development Research Center of the State Council and Beijing Essence Forward Research Center, for their great support when we conduct this report!

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Qianzhan Business Information Co., Ltd. Industry Research Center
Research Team of Tax Accountant Firms