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    With its outstanding legal service team, Grandall provides exceptional services in the fields of customs and tax law. In terms of customs, Grandall's professional services cover import and export compliance, responses to customs investigation, inspections and checks, IPR customs protection, tax disputes, royalties, transfer pricing, defense in smuggling and associated criminal matters. In addition to the foregoing traditional matters, Grandall has also accumulated extensive experience in export controls, as well as in import-related commodity inspection, health and quarantine, animal and plant health inspection, food safety and biosafety issues. By integrating perspectives of "tax, law and business", Grandall provides its clients with optimal solutions for intricate tax issues and is committed to delivering comprehensive and broadly applicable legal services to meet its clients' diverse needs.

    1. Imports, Exports and Customs

      • Offering legal advice on customs-related matters (including customs valuation, commodity classification, transfer pricing for multinational companies, determination of country of origin, issues related to free trade zones and bonded areas, as well as import/export controls)

      • Representing clients in responding to customs inspections, audits, and investigations, offering advisory opinions and on-site guidance

      • Providing criminal defense for smuggling-related cases

      • Providing legal services in respect of cross-border trade controls, transfer pricing, trade disputes, and other related matters

      • Providing legal services related to imports, exports and other compliance matters for companies engaged in import- and export-related industries (including trade companies, multinational companies, and cross-border e-commerce platforms)

    3. Tax-Related Services

      • Routine tax consultation

      • Long-term tax advisory service

      • Special advisory report on tax-related matters

      • Representing clients in proceedings of tax-related administrative reconsideration, lawsuits and penalties

      • Support in the resolution and negotiation of disputes between tax regulatory authorities and taxpayer companies

      • Tax planning for M&A and restructuring

      • Tax due diligence and compliance

      • Tax guidance for listing and financing

      • Defense for tax-related crimes (covering 21 tax-related crimes such as tax evasion and issuance of false VAT invoice)

      • Tax planning for the establishment, restructuring, listing, equity trading platform listing, foreign investment, equity incentives, liquidation and deregistration of companies

    Long-term legal counsel to the Haikou Customs, Sanya Customs, Jinling Customs, Xinshengwei Customs and Lukou Airport Customs of the People's Republic of China

    Long-term legal counsel to tax authorities in multiple cities around the country

    A major catering chain company's suspected smuggling of sea food through declaration of lower prices - included in the Selected Exemplary Cases of Judicial Protection on Private Enterprises (Volume 2) released by the Supreme People's Procuratorate in 2019

    Suspected smuggling of biological products by a biopharmaceutical company (non-prosecution achieved) - Marked as the first biosafety case in China

    A case of alleged smuggling involving a company's export of dredgers - Selected as one of the Top 10 Exemplary Smuggling Cases Cracked Down by the General Administration of Customs in 2023

    A listed company's suspected smuggling of polysilicon through processing trade involving a tax amount over RMB 100 million - A case with first-level designation by the General Administration of Customs and supervision by the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Supreme People's Court

    A case of a listed company who was suspected of smuggling through mis-classification of goods, involving a tax amount of RMB 48 million (ultimately leading to a non-prosecution outcome due to insufficient evidence) - A case with first-level designation by the General Administration of Customs

    Case of a U.S.-funded cross-border e-commerce company suspected of mis-declaring trade methods for smuggling, involving a tax amount of RMB 170 million

    Support in a real-estate company's response to tax audit, involving a tax amount of RMB 140 million

    Jiangxi Yingkehang Network Information Co., Ltd. v. Jiangxi Qinhu Investment Development Co., Ltd. Retrial case of dispute over entrusted agency sales contract for commercial housing - Selected as one of China's Top 10 Influential Tax Judicial Trial Cases of 2020

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