China’s Guangxi province to apply tax refund policy for tourists
Vietnamese tourists to China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region will enjoy tax refund as the locality plans to apply the policy on foreigners staying in China within 183 days as well as tourists from China’s Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan from December 11.
Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnamese tourists to China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region will enjoy tax refund as the locality plans to apply the policy on foreignersstaying in China within 183 days as well as tourists from China’s Hong Kong,Macau and Taiwan from December 11.
Nanning, Guilin and Fangchenggang cities of Guangxi will be the first toapply the policy with minimum refund of 500 Yuan (about 73 USD) with refund rateof 11 percent. The money will be returned in cash or via bank transfers.
Lai Fuqiang, vice director of theautonomous region's culture and tourism department, said that in order tobetter inform the passengers of the policy, the department has prepared handbooksin Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese.
He said that Guangxi receives a largenumber of inbound tourists each year.
According to local authorities,Guangxi received over 5.12 million inbound visitors last year, creating 2.39billion USD of forex tourist consumption in which 20.9 percent was spent onshopping.-VNA
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