4 Jun 2025獨媒#6864
「如一」同被「查稅」創辦人：無嘢參與到卻要交稅「個心揦住」
After multiple media organisations and journalists were “tax-audited”, various other people also said they had been similarly audited. The online shopping platform “As One”, founded by former Yau Tsim Mong District Councillor Kong Wai Chu, was no exception. “As One” posted earlier this month that it had been audited since last year, and at the end of February received a demand from the Inland Revenue Department to pay $120,000 in tax for the 2023/24 assessment year.
Founder Kong Wai Chu told The Independent Media that he was also being pursued for nearly three years of taxes totalling about $30,000, and had to borrow money from his family to pay. Another core staff member was likewise “tax-audited”. He said the process had caused considerable trouble and pressure, though he was gradually “getting used to it”: “I’m slowly getting used to this ‘tax game’.”
】多間傳媒機構及記者被「查稅」，及後亦有不同人士表示同被「查稅」，由前油尖旺區議員朱江瑋在其創辦的網購平台「如一」也不例外。「如一」本月初發帖指自去年起被「查稅」，今年2月底又收到稅務局要求就2023/24年度繳稅12萬。
創辦人朱江瑋向《獨媒》表示，他個人亦被追收近三年稅項合共約3萬元，需向家人借錢繳交。此外，另一名核心職員同被「查稅」。他指在被「查稅」過程中感到極大的麻煩及壓力，惟現時已逐漸「適應」：「依家慢慢適應個『稅務遊戲』。」
26 May 2025獨媒#6828
稅局局長承認評稅涉「估計」 記協主席：荒謬做法說成既定程序
Several media organisations and journalists have been subjected to tax audits, with more than HK$1.7 million in additional payments demanded. Some cases are suspected of involving overestimated assessment amounts, while Hong Kong Journalists Association chair Cheng Ka-yu said she was told “write it down for now” when she called to make enquiries. Commissioner of Inland Revenue Chan Si-wai, when asked about the matter at an event on Saturday (May 24), acknowledged that information gathering might not have been completed when assessments were revised, “so quite often it will involve some estimates”. He reiterated that the Inland Revenue Department’s assessments were fair, impartial and transparent, and conducted according to the facts and the law. Cheng said that by acknowledging the assessment amounts were based on guesswork while failing to explain the calculation method, the authorities were presenting an absurd practice as a standard procedure.
多家傳媒機構及記者被「查稅」，追收款項逾170萬元，部分個案疑高估評稅額，記協主席鄭嘉如更稱致電查詢時，獲回覆稱「寫住先」。稅務局局長陳施維周六（5月24日）出席一個活動時被問及事件，承認重新評稅時或未完成資料搜集，「所以好多時都會牽涉到一啲估計」，重申稅局評稅屬公平、公正、公開以及按事實和法例進行。記協主席鄭嘉如認為，當局承認評稅額「斷估」，亦未交代計算方法，是將荒謬做法說成是既定程序。
23 May 2025集誌社#6823
國安通緝｜蒙兆達被追 8.5 萬薪俸、利得稅 政府發言人：不評論個別個案
The Hong Kong Journalists Association recently announced that several media outlets, journalists and their family members had been pursued by the Inland Revenue Department for taxes, describing the action as “punishment before trial”. After the matter came to light, former League of Social Democrats chairperson Andrew Kwan Hang To also disclosed that he, his company and hosts of his online radio station had all been subjected to tax investigations. Mong Chiu-tat, the former general secretary of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions who is now in exile in the United Kingdom, has been wanted by the National Security Department with a HK$1 million bounty and designated as an absconder. He disclosed on social media today (23rd) that the Inland Revenue Department was pursuing him for taxes, assessing him as having an annual salary of HK$400,000 and, despite his never having operated a business, business profits of another HK$400,000. He was required to pay a total of HK$85,000 in salaries and profits tax. He criticised the department for fabricating the assessments and described the action as “political persecution”.
In response to an inquiry, a government spokesperson said that the Inland Revenue Department did not comment on individual cases. Regarding whether designated absconders could authorise tax representatives to handle such matters, the authorities likewise said they did not comment on individual examples.
記協日前公布多間媒體、記者及家人被稅務局追稅，形容是「未審先罰」。事件曝光後，社民連前主席陶君行亦透露個人、公司及其網台主持同被「查稅」。已流亡英國、被國安處懸紅百萬通緝、列為指明為潛逃者的前職工盟總幹事蒙兆達，今（23日）在社交媒體公開被稅務局「追稅」，追加他 40 萬年薪、又在從沒營商下被追加 40 萬營商利潤，要求他補交共 8.5 萬元薪俸和利得稅，批評稅局無中生有、是「政治迫害」。
政府發言人回應查詢指，稅務局不評論個別個案；至於被指明潛逃者能否授權稅務代表處理事件，當局亦指不評論個別例子。
22 May 2025獨媒#6813
網台《香港花生》公司及主持同被「查稅」質疑有針對性
The Hong Kong Journalists Association held a press conference yesterday, saying the Inland Revenue Department was pursuing tax matters involving at least eight media outlets and organisations and 20 people, with the total amount exceeding $1.7 million. On last night’s programme of the Hong Kong Peanut online platform, one of its hosts, Andrew Kwan Hang To, disclosed that he personally, his company, Hong Kong Peanut and almost all of the platform’s hosts, including Wong Ho-ming and Dickson Chau, had received similar requests for a “tax investigation”. Each case involved an amount of tens of thousands of dollars, and he believed there was a targeted element to those selected for the “tax investigation”.
記協昨日舉行記者會，指稅務局向至少8個媒體及機構，共20名人士追查稅項，合計款項逾170萬。網台《香港花生》昨晚的節目中，主持之一陶君行透露，他個人及其公司、《香港花生》及該網台幾乎所有主持，包括黃浩銘及周嘉發等，皆接獲類似「查稅」要求，每宗涉及金額達數萬元，認為納入「查稅」的對象有針對性。
22 May 2025獨媒#6816
記協主席被高估收入40萬 獲回覆稱銀碼乃「寫住先」
The Hong Kong Journalists Association held a press conference yesterday, saying the Inland Revenue Department had conducted tax investigations into at least eight media organisations and institutions and 20 individuals, demanding more than $1.7 million in tax. Those affected included the association’s chairperson, Cheng Ka-yu. Her income for the 2017/18 year was increased by $400,000, resulting in a tax bill of $46,000. Cheng said on a radio programme this morning that she had called the Inland Revenue Department to ask how the amount was calculated, but described the response as unclear and said officials had only told her to “write it down first” because the seven-year recovery deadline was approaching. She has yet to receive the department’s calculation method.
Cheng used her own case as an example yesterday. She worked in the investigative team at HK01 in 2018, earning a monthly salary of $18,000. The department had assessed her annual income at $231,000 at the time, with tax of $3,958 payable. It recently said, however, that her annual income was $631,000. After increasing the figure by $400,000, it assessed tax of $46,000; the assessment was suspended after she objected. Cheng said on a Commercial Radio programme this morning that she had called the department to enquire, but found its explanation unclear. Officials only said the figure was being “written down first” because the seven-year deadline was imminent.
記協昨日舉行記者會，指稅務局向至少8個媒體及機構，以及20名人士「查稅」，要求繳交的稅款逾170萬元，當中包括記協主席鄭嘉如。她在2017／18年度的收入被追加40萬元，需繳稅4.6萬元。鄭嘉如今早在電台節目稱，曾致電稅務局查詢如何計算，惟形容對方「講唔清楚」，僅因七年追討限期在即而「寫住先」。
記協主席鄭嘉如昨日以自己為例，她2018年在《香港01》偵查組工作，月薪為1.8萬元，稅局當時評核其年度收入為23.1萬元，繳稅金額為3,958元，惟稅局近日卻指其年度收入為63.1萬元，高估40萬元後需繳稅4.6萬元，反對後獲暫緩。她今早在商台節目稱，曾致電稅務局查詢，形容對方「講唔清楚」，僅稱因七年限期在即故「寫住先」，至今亦未收到其計算方法。
21 May 2025集誌社#6811
傳媒被查稅｜ 8 媒體機構、20 記者及家人被查 有人年薪被估大兩倍、被安插商業登記
Following the harassment of several journalists last year, more journalists have been pursued by the Inland Revenue Department for taxes dating back several years. The Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) said at a press conference today (21st) that at least eight media platforms or organisations, including the HKJA, InMedia and The Witness, as well as at least 20 journalists and their family members, had been audited by the Inland Revenue Department and pursued for taxes dating back as far as seven years, involving hundreds of thousands of dollars. In some cases, income allegedly underreported was assessed at nearly twice the person’s salary, a non-existent business registration was assigned to them, and all deposits into their bank accounts were treated as income.
HKJA chairperson Cheng Ka-yu criticised the Inland Revenue Department’s assessments as having no evidence or reasonable basis, describing them as “punishment before trial”. She said journalists had low incomes but were required to pay high taxes, while spending time and money to prove their innocence. This affected the operation of media organisations, created considerable pressure, and negatively affected press freedom and journalists’ integrity. She stressed: “Everyone would cooperate with and accept an investigation that is reasonable and evidence-based, but if they now say these are not being used as a tool to suppress the media, would anyone believe them?” The Inland Revenue Department refused to disclose details of the cases under investigation, saying only that the occupations or backgrounds of those being investigated would not affect its audit work.
計去年多名記者被滋擾後，再有記者被稅務局追收多年前稅款。記協今（21日）召開記者會，表示至少八個媒體平台或機構，包括記協、《獨立媒體》、《法庭線》等，及至少 20 名新聞工作者及其家人，被稅務局審查及追收早至七年前的稅款，涉款數十萬元。當中有人被估算短報的收入比薪金多近兩倍、被安插不存在的商業登記、銀行所有入帳均被當收入等。
記協主席鄭嘉如批評，稅務局的評核無任何證據和合理理由，屬「未審先罰」。她指新聞記者收入微薄，卻要付高額稅款，花時間、金錢自證清白，影響機構運作，構成相當大壓力，對新聞自由和記者誠信有負面影響。她強調，「合理有據嘅調查，大家會配合接受，但如果而家話唔係用呢啲嚟做工具打壓媒體，有冇人信呢？」稅務局拒披露受查個案資料，僅稱受查人士行業或背景不會影響查核工作。
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