Author: Katie Mak

HKiNEDA Annual Conference 2025 HKiNEDA Annual Conference 2025 “Opportunities and Challenges for INEDs in Dual Listing Wave, Digital Assets Era & AI-Driven Risk"will be held on Saturday, 6 December 2025, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in Room S421, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. This conference will be conducted in person, and everyone is welcome to attend and engage in mutual exchange. Conference details: Date: Saturday, 6 December 2025 Time: 9:00 a.m. to 1:00p.m. Venue: S421, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center For more details and registration, please click:  https://www.hkineda.com/event/?_do=event_show&activity_id=34330   For enquiries, please contact HKIB at 2593 9616 / [email protected]...

About the Seminar Hong Kong Tax Update 2025 Speaker: Ms. Kathy Kun, Partner, National Tax Policy Services, PwC Mr. Julian Tsui, Senior Manager, Tax Services, PwC As in previous years, Hong Kong’s domestic tax law has continued to evolve. Notably, following a period of public consultation, legislation to implement the global minimum tax and the Hong Kong minimum top-up tax was enacted in June. In addition, the Government has recently introduced the inward company re-domiciliation regime, aimed at further enhancing Hong Kong’s appeal as a business hub. Several additional proposals to enhance existing tax regime are also under consideration. The IRD has issued new guidance, including illustrative examples, on the patent box regime. The IRD has also continued to provide further guidance on the FSIE regime and has addressed the profits tax implications for employers arising from the abolition of the MPF offsetting mechanism. Another key development is the recent judgment by Hong Kong’s highest court in the John Wiley case. The court held that UK LLPs do...

*** Friendly Reminder ***   Suspension of eTAX services for 4 days from 9 pm on 17.07.2025   The eTAX system will be enhanced by providing three tailor-made and more user-friendly tax portals for individuals, businesses and service agents, namely Individual Tax Portal (ITP), Business Tax Portal and Tax Representative Portal. To facilitate the roll out of the new tax portals, all eTAX services will be suspended from 9:00 p.m. on 17 July 2025 and to be resumed tentatively on 21 July 2025. To minimize the impact on existing eTAX Account holders, the user profiles of all eTAX Accounts opened before the suspension of eTAX system on 17 July 2025 will be migrated to the ITP. Existing eTAX Account holders can log into the ITP in the same manner as before. Please note that all key-in data for return filing saved before the suspension will not be carried over to the ITP. Please complete the filing of tax return before the suspension to avoid the...