A Hainan-registered entity's accounting and tax obligations run on fixed dates regardless of how much attention the business is getting that quarter, and the cost of a missed filing tends to surface later, as a penalty, rather than immediately as a warning.
We run this work on a documented calendar rather than a year-end scramble: the compliance calendar, the review of what is prepared, and the advisory questions are ours; the statutory books and the tax filings themselves are carried by a licensed bookkeeping firm, because keeping another company's books and filing its returns are licensed activities in mainland China and we do not hold that licence. Each page below states which part is which.
For a foreign-owned entity the related-party side of that calendar deserves its own attention. Nearly every significant counterparty is an affiliate, the annual declaration reporting those transactions accompanies the corporate income tax return, and an entity claiming a preferential rate has an obvious reason for its intercompany pricing to be explicable on its own terms.
Services in this practice area
Transactional Accountancy Services
Accounting support scoped to a specific transaction — an acquisition, a restructuring, or a one-off filing — rather than an ongoing bookkeeping relationship.
- Transaction-scoped accounting
- Built to the deal documentation's own definitions
- Coordinated deal support
Statutory Accounting and Tax Compliance
Statutory bookkeeping, financial statement preparation, and tax filing support kept current against Hainan's own calendar of obligations.
- Obligations tracked to a date, not a quarter
- Rules that move, tracked as they move
- Licensed delivery, managed by us
- Audit-ready records year-round
Accounting and Tax Consultancy Services
Advisory support for accounting treatment and tax positions that fall outside routine, recurring compliance work.
- Judgment calls, not routine filings
- Grounded in local regulatory knowledge
- The reasoning documented, not just the answer
Related-Party Transactions and Transfer Pricing
Identification of the entity's related parties, documentation of the transactions between them, and the annual declaration that accompanies its corporate income tax return.
- Identifying what counts as related
- Why a preferential rate raises the bar
- Documentation and the annual declaration
Your compliance calendar, held by one team
Statutory filings rarely fail because the rule was unknown — they fail because no single party was accountable for the date. We run one documented calendar across bookkeeping, financial statements, and tax filings, so nothing depends on any one person remembering — and we review what the licensed firm prepares before it is submitted rather than forwarding it unread.
Accounting and tax work rarely stays contained to its own practice area. Where a filing question touches payroll withholding or an entity's underlying registration, we coordinate directly with our payroll and HR and company formation teams rather than leaving the client to bridge the gap.
Why choose HainanInc?
One accountable team
A single point of contact carries your engagement from first filing through to ongoing compliance — not a rotating cast of specialists.
Documented calendars
Every recurring obligation is tracked to a date, not a quarter, so nothing lapses unnoticed.
Built for administrative reality
Filing sequences and document chains are built around how Hainan's processes actually run, not the published version of them.
Fixed-scope engagements
You know what is included, and what it costs, before work starts — not after an invoice arrives.
Direct access to the people doing the work
Questions go to the team handling your filing, not to an account manager relaying them onward.
Substance-first structuring
Advice accounts for what regulators actually look for when reviewing qualification, not only what qualifies on paper.
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Our other practice areas
A single engagement rarely stays confined to one practice area. Explore the rest of what we cover in the Hainan Free Trade Port.
Our services
Our practice areas cover the whole life of a foreign-owned presence in Hainan — from the feasibility assessment made before anything is filed, through formation and licensing, payroll, tax and ongoing compliance, to the deregistration that closes an entity properly — alongside the Free Trade Port incentives that are the reason to be here rather than anywhere else in China. One engagement model means a single accountable team across all of them.
