In 2026, tax compliance in the cross-border e-commerce industry is entering the “deep water zone.”
Recently, while many sellers have received notification reminders from the tax bureau, many listed companies in the A-share market have issued tax payment announcements.
On June 5, Xinghui Shares issued an announcement regarding the back payment of taxes by its subsidiaries.
The announcement shows that in accordance with tax regulatory requirements, Qingyuan Xinghui, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Xinghui Co., Ltd., recently conducted a self-examination on tax-related matters.
After self-inspection, Qingyuan Xinghui needs to pay back corporate income tax of 1.2379 million yuan and late payment fees of 679,500 yuan from 2020 to 2023, totaling 1.9174 million yuan, accounting for 39.43% of the company’s audited net profit in the most recent fiscal year, and will be included in the current profit and loss in 2026.
As of June 5, all taxes and late fees mentioned in the announcement have been paid, and this back payment does not involve administrative penalties.
According to its latest financial report, in the first quarter of 2026, Xinghui Shares achieved revenue of 352 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.13%; net profit was 3.22 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 213.32%, and has successfully turned losses into profits.
For this reason, the industry generally believes that although the back taxes paid are not large, it may still cause considerable performance pressure for Xinghui Shares, which has just emerged from the quagmire of losses.
It is worth mentioning that Xinghui Shares is not the only A-share listed company that issued an announcement on back payment of taxes this time.
According to media reports, as of the first half of 2026, nearly 70 listed companies have issued tax repayment announcements, and the cumulative total of back taxes, late fees and fines has exceeded 5 billion yuan.
According to incomplete statistics in the industry, in early June alone, eight A-share listed companies issued announcements to pay back taxes.
Among them, in addition to Xinghui Co., Ltd., which is mainly engaged in cross-border e-commerce, there are 6 companies whose business involves export trade: including China Construction Environmental Energy, Hongchang Electronics, Forest Packaging, and Kaisheng Technology, which have a small amount of traditional foreign trade export trade; Green Island Wind, which focuses on traditional foreign trade and has begun to deploy cross-border e-commerce; and Aishide, a sales service provider for the Honor brand in overseas markets.
Judging from the announcement, the amounts of back taxes paid by these companies vary: Aishide 308 million yuan; Hongchang Electronics 40.4191 million yuan; Kaisheng Technology 18.3671 million yuan; Forest Packaging, Green Island Wind, China Construction Environmental Energy and Xinghui Shares are 7.7506 million yuan, 6.9037 million yuan, and 3.2823 million yuan respectively. All of them have completed rectification and payment.
The signal behind it is that the tax department’s compliance inspection of enterprises has entered a substantial stage, and historical issues may be “settled later.” For example, Xinghui Shares was required to pay taxes and late fees from 2020 to 2023.
However, for now, this round of concentrated tax repayment mainly requires enterprises to declare and pay repayments on their own. None of the relevant enterprises has been subject to administrative penalties from the tax department. The overall focus is on compliance, rectification and error correction.
Therefore, industry insiders believe that this more means that relevant domestic departments are continuing to tighten tax supervision, with the purpose of guiding companies to proactively clean up historical accounts and pave the way for comprehensive audit and collection in 2026.
And this has once again sounded the alarm on tax compliance for many cross-border sellers.
According to industry sources, while A-share listed companies are collectively paying taxes recently, cross-border sellers in many places are also stepping up their efforts to process approved collections to complete the low-cost settlement of old accounts.
Judging from industry news, this round of reminders still mainly targets tax-related information in the third and fourth quarters of 2025, but what is different from the past is that this time many cross-border sellers have been limited to correction dates.
Therefore, as the number of cross-border sellers who received the reminder increased, the news quickly aroused heated discussion in the circle.
Some sellers believe that this is likely to be an “ultimatum” issued by the tax bureau to sellers who have not made compliant declarations; at the same time, some sellers revealed that while issuing reminders, many local tax bureaus have officially implemented approved collection policies for cross-border e-commerce companies.
Judging from industry news, cross-border sellers of different sizes in Longhua, Bantian and Baoan Districts of Shenzhen have passed the assessment and collection: corporate income tax will be assessed and levied at a taxable income rate of 2% in the third quarter of 2025, and 4% in the fourth quarter of 2025.
But the joys and sorrows between people are not the same.
Also in Shenzhen, there are still sellers in Fuhai and Nanshan District who say they cannot get through the approved collection.
Some sellers revealed that the Fuhai Taxation Bureau has qualification requirements for cross-border enterprises that approve tax collection, and those with less than 1,000W will not be approved.
Judging from the current situation, the implementation standards for the assessment and collection of cross-border e-commerce taxes by local tax bureaus are slightly different.
However, regardless of the implementation details, all regions have unanimously emphasized that the approved collection is only available in Q3-Q4 of 2025 and will be completely canceled starting in 2026. Enterprises must be prepared for audit and collection in advance.
I would like to remind all sellers that it is inevitable that cross-border e-commerce companies will face comprehensive audits and collections in 2026. In the era of tax compliance, you must abandon the “lucky mentality” and regard tax compliance as the core competitiveness of the company’s sustainable development.
