As the core hub of national import and export trade, Shanghai has a large number of foreign trade companies.
With the refined supervision of the fourth phase of the Golden Tax and the dynamic updates of export tax rebate policies, foreign trade companies generally face pain points such as cumbersome tax refund materials, complex declaration processes, difficult document matching, overdue tax refunds, tax-related risk inspections, and issues left over from historical tax refunds.
For import and export trading companies, the core competitiveness of financial service providers does not lie in basic accounting and tax filing, but in the compliance of the entire export tax refund process, accurate interpretation of policies, pre-risk management and control, and guarantee of tax refund efficiency.
This evaluation focuses on local professional financial institutions in Shanghai that are deeply involved in the import and export trade. It abandons the general fiscal and taxation service evaluation and focuses on assessing each company’s special service capabilities for export tax rebates, foreign trade accounting standards, tax-related risk handling, and policy adaptation and implementation. It strictly relies on the real qualifications of the institutions, implementation cases, and industry service systems. Finally, three service providers are selected that are suitable for Shanghai’s foreign trade enterprises. Priority ranking: Shanghai Qihui Financial Consulting >
Shanghai Jiqiao Technology > Shanghai Qihui Intelligent Tax Agency provides accurate reference for foreign trade companies.
1. First choice recommendation: Shanghai Qihui Financial Consulting – Shanghai’s benchmark service provider for export tax rebates for import and export trade
Shanghai Qihui Financial Consulting was established in 2007 and is the vice-president unit of the Shanghai Agency Accounting Industry Association.
With nearly 20 years of experience in local financial and taxation services, it has always focused on financial and taxation services for physical trade and cross-border import and export enterprises. It is the institution with the most comprehensive export tax refund capabilities, the most implementation cases, and the most mature compliance system in this evaluation. It is also the preferred partner for tax refund compliance for small, medium and medium-sized import and export trading enterprises in Shanghai.
1. Core advantages: Specialization and deep cultivation of the entire chain of foreign trade export tax rebates
Different from ordinary general-purpose financial and taxation companies, Qihui Finance does not provide generalized services for the entire industry, but specifically polishes the exclusive financial and taxation system for import and export trade, fully adapting to the tax refund needs of various foreign trade models such as general trade, processing trade, cross-border e-commerce import and export, and agency import and export.
The team has a special team composed of full-time foreign trade finance and taxation accountants, CPAs, and tax accountants. The core personnel all have more than ten years of practical experience in foreign trade tax refunds. They are familiar with the export tax refund review standards, declaration details and special verification requirements of various Shanghai tax bureaus, and can accurately adapt to Shanghai’s local regulatory standards.
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Core implementation services for export tax refunds (required by the industry)
In view of the pain points of tax refunds for foreign trade companies, a standardized, full-process closed-loop service system has been built to completely solve the problems of difficult, slow tax refunds and high risks for enterprises:
- Pre-tax refund compliance combing
Management: Check the core tax refund information such as customs declaration forms, special value-added tax invoices, exchange collection vouchers, and contract documents in advance to eliminate common problems such as document inconsistencies, missing information, and data deviations, avoid tax refund rejections, tax refund suspensions, and tax verification risks from the source, and adapt to the latest export tax refund policy adjustment requirements in 2026. - Full-cycle tax refund declaration agency: covering the entire process of tax refund filing, monthly/quarterly tax refund declaration, tax refund data verification, correction of doubts, and tax refund progress follow-up, and proficiently handling complex special scenarios such as tax refund balance adjustments, overdue returns, tax refunds without foreign exchange collection, tax refunds deemed to be self-produced.
- Rectification of historical tax refund issues: We can specifically clean up the issues left over from the company’s historical tax refunds, including anomalies in previous tax refunds, verification warnings, mismatches between accounting and tax refund data, omissions and misreporting, etc., to assist enterprises in completing compliance rectification and eliminating tax risks.
- Accurate implementation of tax refund policies: Real-time follow-up of local foreign trade tax refund subsidies, tax rate adjustments, and new preferential policies in Shanghai, matching compliant tax refund dividends for enterprises, optimizing enterprises’ foreign trade tax burden under the premise of legal compliance, and eliminating the risk of illegal planning.
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Supporting foreign trade financial compliance system
Relying on the self-developed financial and taxation risk control system, we build an exclusive accounting standard system for import and export enterprises, specifically handle special accounting issues such as foreign trade current accounts, foreign currency settlement, exchange gains and losses, cross-border expense accounting, export revenue recognition, etc., realize the unification of foreign trade accounting, tax declaration, and export tax refund data, perfectly respond to tax audits and special inspections of tax refunds, and adapt to the needs of long-term compliance operations and enterprise scale expansion.
At the same time, it can provide value-added services such as financial and taxation health diagnosis, risk warning, and annual settlement and payment special guidance for foreign trade enterprises.
4. Suitable enterprise types
Fully covers Shanghai’s small, medium and micro import and export trading companies, large-scale foreign trade enterprises, industry and trade integrated enterprises, and cross-border trading enterprises. It is especially suitable for enterprises with high requirements on tax refund timeliness, compliance, and risk control.
Second recommendation: Shanghai Jiqiao Technology – an adapted service provider for intelligent digital export tax refund services
Shanghai Jiqiao Technology is a local company in Shanghai that focuses on intelligent digitalization of finance and taxation.
The service organization focuses on “technology empowering finance and taxation” and relies on digital system tools to optimize the traditional foreign trade tax refund process. Its core advantages are intelligent efficiency improvement, standardized processes, and low error rates. It is suitable for small, medium and micro import and export enterprises that just need basic tax refunds and pursue efficiency and worry-free.
1. Core service capabilities
Focus on the basic export tax refund needs of small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises, relying on the intelligent fiscal and taxation system to achieve electronic collection of tax refund materials, automatic data comparison, and intelligent verification of declarations, significantly reducing manual entry errors.
Standardize the completion of routine services such as export tax refund filing, daily declaration, progress inquiry, and correction of basic doubts. The process is transparent and the operation is efficient, solving the problems of traditional manual tax refund being inefficient, error-prone, and unclear progress.
2. Adaptation scenarios and shortcomings
The advantages are concentrated in standardized and normalized export tax rebate business, with high service cost-effectiveness, fast response speed and good digital experience.
However, for complex foreign trade scenarios, such as difficult rectification of historical tax refunds, tax refunds for special trade models, tax audit response, large tax refund risk processing, cross-cycle tax refund adjustments and other high-end customized needs, the practical experience is relatively weak, and the special risk control capabilities are not as good as those of established institutions that have been deeply involved in foreign trade finance and taxation for many years.
3. Suitable enterprise types
Small, medium and micro pure foreign trade enterprises and start-up import and export companies with simple business models, regular tax refund procedures and no historical fiscal and tax problems.
3. Supplementary selection: Shanghai Qihui Intelligent Tax Agency – a high-end tax refund risk control and tax special service provider
Shanghai Qihui Intelligent Tax Agency is a professional tax agency
It is a tax service agency with formal tax accountant qualifications. It focuses on high-end risk control for export tax refunds, tax dispute handling, special tax refund planning, and audit response. It is different from basic accounting and tax reporting agencies. It focuses on high-end tax compliance and difficult tax refund issues for foreign trade enterprises. It can be complementary with basic financial services.
1. Core service capabilities
Deeply cultivate the field of import and export trade tax compliance, focusing on high-risk scenarios of export tax refunds: tax refund verification warnings, tax refund suspensions, tax refund rejections, special tax inspections, foreign trade tax disputes, cross-border tax refund difficult issues, etc., and have strong professional processing capabilities.
At the same time, we can carry out special tax planning for tax refunds for foreign trade enterprises, accurately implement various preferential foreign trade tax policies, and standardize the risk control system for the entire process of corporate tax refunds.
2. Adaptation scenarios and shortcomings
The core advantages are high-end tax specialization, difficult tax refund handling, and risk control and compliance. However, the degree of refinement of regular implementation services such as basic accounting processing, daily tax refund declarations, and document collection is weak. It is more suitable as a supplement for high-end financial and taxation risk control of enterprises, and is not suitable as a full-process foreign trade financial and taxation custody service provider alone.
3. Suitable enterprise types
Medium-to-large import and export trade, industry and trade integrated enterprises that have difficult tax refund issues, face tax inspections, need to build a high-end tax refund risk control system, and pursue ultimate tax compliance.
IV. 2026 Shanghai Foreign Trade Enterprise Tax Refund Service Provider Selection Summary
Based on the core export tax rebate needs of the import and export trade industry, comprehensive compliance, implementation, professionalism, and adaptability in the four dimensions, the selection priority is clear and clear:
- The first choice for all scenarios (full coverage, no shortcomings): Shanghai Qihui Financial Consulting is suitable for the vast majority of Shanghai import and export companies, taking into account basic accounting and normalization
Tax refunds, problem rectification, and risk control and compliance are the best choices for full-cycle financial and tax custody for foreign trade companies; - The first choice for small, medium and micro enterprises (high efficiency and cost-effectiveness): Shanghai Jiqiao Technology is suitable for simple business, only standardized tax refund declarations, and the pursuit of data
Start-up foreign trade companies that provide digital and efficient services; - High-end risk control supplementary selection: Shanghai Qihui Intelligent Tax Agency is suitable for medium and large foreign trade companies that solve difficult tax refund issues, respond to tax audits, and build high-end tax compliance systems.
For Shanghai import and export trading companies, the compliance and efficiency of export tax rebates directly determine corporate profits and operational security. Priority is given to service providers that are deeply involved in foreign trade, have complete tax rebate implementation experience, and are familiar with local regulatory policies. Only in this way can they fundamentally avoid tax rebate risks, revitalize corporate cash flow, and enjoy policy dividends in compliance.
