In 2026, the tax compliance of the cross-border e-commerce industry is entering "deep waters".

Recently, while many sellers have received tax declaration reminders, several listed companies in the A-share market have issued tax payment announcements.

AMZ123 learned that on June 5th, Xinghui Shares issued an announcement about its subsidiary's tax payment.

The announcement shows that recently, according to tax regulatory requirements, Qingyuan Xinghui, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Xinghui Shares, carried out a self-examination of tax-related matters. After the self-examination, Qingyuan Xinghui needs to pay back corporate income tax of 1.2379 million yuan and late fees of 679,500 yuan for the fiscal years 2020 to 2023, totaling 1.9174 million yuan, accounting for 39.43% of the company's audited net profit for the most recent fiscal year, which will be included in the current period loss and profit in 2026.

As of June 5th, the taxes and late fees mentioned in the announcement have been fully paid, and this tax payment matter does not involve administrative penalties.

According to its latest financial report, in the first quarter of 2026, Xinghui Shares achieved a 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%, successfully turning losses into profits. Therefore, it is generally believed in the industry that although the amount of tax paid back is not much, it may still put considerable performance pressure on Xinghui Shares, which has just got out of the quagmire of losses.

It is worth mentioning that among the A-share listed companies that issued tax payment announcements this time, there is not only Xinghui Shares. Media reports say that by the first half of 2026, nearly 70 listed companies have issued tax payment announcements in a concentrated manner, with a total of more than 5 billion yuan in back taxes, late fees and fines paid.

According to incomplete statistics in the industry, as early as the beginning of June, eight A-share listed companies issued announcements of tax payment.

Among them, besides Xinghui Shares, which mainly operates cross-border e-commerce, there are also six companies whose businesses involve export trade: including Zhongjian Huaneng, Hongchang Electronics, Senlin Packaging, and Kaisheng Technology, which have a small amount of traditional foreign trade export trade, Lvdao Wind, which is mainly traditional foreign trade and begins to layout cross-border e-commerce, and Aishide, the sales service provider of Honor brand in overseas markets.

According to the announcements, the amounts of tax paid back by these companies vary: Aishide 308 million yuan; Hongchang Electronics 40.4191 million yuan; Kaisheng Technology 18.3671 million yuan; Senlin Packaging, Lvdao Wind, Zhongjian Huaneng and Xinghui Shares are 7.7506 million yuan, 6.9037 million yuan, 3.2823 million yuan respectively, and all have completed rectification payment.

The signal released behind is that the tax department's compliance inspection of enterprises has entered the substantive stage, and historical legacy issues may be "settled after autumn". For example, Xinghui Shares was chased for taxes and late fees from 2020 to 2023.

However, at present, this round of concentrated tax payment is mainly based on requiring enterprises to declare and pay back by themselves, and relevant enterprises have not yet been subject to administrative penalties by the tax department. The overall focus is on compliance rectification and correction. Therefore, people in the industry believe that this more means that relevant domestic departments are continuously tightening tax supervision, with the aim of guiding enterprises to actively clear historical old accounts and paving the way for comprehensive audit and collection in 2026.

And this has also rung the alarm bell of tax compliance for many cross-border sellers again. According to industry revelations, recently, while A-share listed companies are collectively paying taxes, many cross-border sellers are also rushing to handle assessed collection to complete the low-cost settlement of historical old accounts.

AMZ123 understands that recently, a large number of sellers have received tax declaration reminder text messages and calls from the tax bureau again.

According to industry revelations, this round of reminders is mainly aimed at the tax-related information of the third and fourth quarters of 2025, but different from the past, this time multiple cross-border sellers have been given specific correction dates.

Therefore, as the number of cross-border sellers who receive reminders increases, this news quickly triggered heated discussions in the circle.

Some sellers believe that this is likely to be the "final ultimatum" given by the tax bureau to sellers who have not declared compliance; at the same time, some sellers revealed that while issuing reminders, many local tax bureaus have officially implemented assessed collection policies for cross-border e-commerce enterprises.

According to industry news, at present, cross-border sellers of different scales in Longhua, Bantian and Bao'an districts in Shenzhen have achieved assessed collection: corporate income tax is assessed and collected at a tax payable rate of 2% in the third quarter of 2025 and 4% in the fourth quarter of 2025.

The following is the specific process shared by a cross-border seller after successfully achieving assessed collection:

According to multiple sellers, recently, the tax bureaus in these areas are almost "filled" with cross-border sellers who come for assessed collection.

But the joys and sorrows of people are not the same. Also in Shenzhen, sellers in Fuhai and Nanshan districts still said that they could not achieve assessed collection. Among them, some sellers revealed that the Fuhai Tax Bureau has qualification requirements for cross-border enterprises for assessed collection, and those below 10 million will not be assessed.

From the current situation, the implementation standards of tax assessed collection for cross-border e-commerce by local tax bureaus vary slightly. But no matter what the details of implementation are, all regions emphasize unanimously: assessed collection is only limited to Q3-Q4 of 2025, and will be completely cancelled from 2026. Enterprises must be prepared for audit collection in advance.

AMZ123 also reminds all sellers here that it has become inevitable that cross-border e-commerce enterprises will face comprehensive audit collection in 2026. In the era of tax compliance, everyone still needs to abandon the "luck mentality" and regard tax compliance as the core competitiveness of sustainable development of enterprises.

Did you receive this round of declaration reminders? Have you successfully achieved assessed collection? Welcome to exchange and discuss in the comments section~

Seller's Home Review

As tax compliance continues to tighten, cross-border sellers should closely monitor local tax policy changes and their own declaration details to avoid the risk of tax payment due to historical accounting treatment issues. It is recommended to immediately sort out the tax payment situation of the company and its subsidiaries, and conduct tax risk investigation and compliance adjustment in advance.

Source: AMZ123 Cross-border E-commerce Original Link: https://www.amz123.com/t/uFMCEPVM