How To Get Your Tax Records for International Money Transfers

If you've been living in Beijing for a while, you might want to send some money back to your home country. To do this, you'll normally be required to provide proof of tax payments. Now, obtaining your tax records may seem like a daunting task, but thanks to the tax app, it's actually surprisingly easy! So here's a step-by-step guide on how you can get them. 

Firstly, you'll need to download the tax app by searching for "个人所得税" in your phone's app store. 

Next, you'll need to register for an account to use the app. If you've filed for an individual tax refund before, then you should already be registered on the app and can skip this step. For those who haven't, in order to register you'll need to visit the tax office and obtain a registration code. For guidance on visiting the tax office, you can check out this article.

Open the tax app and click on "我的" (me) in the bottom right-hand corner.

Click on "注册/登录" (register/login) in the middle of the page.

Type in your account username, which will either be your phone or passport number and your password. Then slide the validation bar below and click "登录" to login.

After logging in, scroll down and click on the button that says "纳税记录开具" (tax record issuance) on the homepage. 

Select the start and end tax period you'd like to download your tax records for. The earliest year you can pick is 2019, as this was when the tax app was created. You should also note that the maximum period you can generate a tax record for is three years and you can only generate a maximum of three tax records within one day.

Next, just slide the validation bar and click on "查看申请记录" (view application records).

Now, all you need to do is click on "保存" (save) in the bottom right-hand corner and the documents will be saved as images to your phone. Depending on how long a period you've selected, there may be multiple images saved.

And there you have it! Pretty easy, right? You'll then be able to use these tax records for your preferred method of sending money back to your home country. 

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