On November 26, 2021, a letter from the asset finance department of Hunan Radio and Television Group Co., Ltd. was exposed by netizens online. The notification letter said that they received an urgent notice from the tax authorities, asking Hunan Satellite TV to provide Du Haitao and Shen Mengchen with information on their personal and all the companies under their names since 2019 to the present. It also asked all departments of Hunan Television Station to cooperate and support and hand over the information to the asset finance department of Hunan Radio and Television Group Co., Ltd. within two days.
As soon as this news came out, it immediately attracted great attention from netizens, and the news was not unexpectedly on the hot search. Everyone talked about it, denouncing Shen Mengchen and Du Haitao and many other star artists, whose incomes were as high as the sky, and they also evaded taxes and evaded taxes, which was too selfish and greedy.
Soon, things reversed. On the same day (November 26), the editor-in-chief office of Hunan Radio and Television Station Gongxing Channel issued a "letter on the deletion of false information" to the two platforms that released this news. The general content of this letter is that they first said polite words and thanked the platform for its support for Hunan Radio and Television Station (this is obviously an insincere polite remark, because, judging from the notices of Shen Mengchen and Du Haitao's tax evasion and tax evasion released by the two platforms, no place has been found to support Hunan Radio and Television Station). The letter went on to say that the Hunan Satellite TV Editor-in-Chief's Office found that the platform had issued a notice from the Asset Finance Department of Hunan Radio and Television Group Co., Ltd., which was required by the tax authorities to submit information on their project cooperation in the past two years. After verification, the content of this message is seriously inaccurate. The release of this news had an extremely bad impact on Hunan Satellite TV and the hosts Shen Mengchen and Du Haitao personally. At the same time, "it also does not meet the requirements of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television and the Central Cyberspace Administration not to chase stars and speculate in stars." We hope that your platform will delete the relevant content in a timely manner.
So far, we know that the letter from the asset finance department of Hunan Radio and Television Group Co., Ltd. is fake. The request for Hunan Satellite TV to sort out the project cooperation data of Shen Mengchen and Du Haitao is also false and a rumor. However, whether Shen Mengchen and Du Haitao are suspected of tax evasion and tax evasion, Hunan Satellite TV has been silent about it. Because they did not dare to say, Shen Mengchen and Du Haitao, as well as other well-known and unknown hosts of their unit, were not tax evasion.
Tax evasion and tax evasion is a common phenomenon in China, whether it is a star artist or not, if there is a chance, I am afraid that there are few people who do not evade taxes. Everyone feels that it is indeed too much to pay taxes out of their own pockets. Whenever there is a chance, everyone, including the author of this article, will evade taxes. Nowadays, except for those working classes who cannot evade taxes and evade taxes, there are few other classes that do not evade taxes and evade taxes. It's just that those small traders and peddlers and those small bosses earn too little money, and they can only earn tens of thousands of yuan a year of hard work. Even tax evasion and tax evasion are only a few hundred dollars, a few thousand dollars. And star artists, it is too easy to make money, and they can earn tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars a year. The amount of tax evasion and evasion is huge, ranging from a few million to tens of millions, and there are hundreds of millions.
Tax evasion by celebrity artists is certainly a common phenomenon. But what was found was only the tip of the iceberg. In recent decades, only Mao Amin, Liu Xiaoqing, Fan Bingbing, and Zheng Shuang have been found. In 1990, Mao Amin was exposed to tax evasion, the amount is unknown, at that time, her boyfriend and agent also took the opportunity to sweep Mao Amin's entire deposit of 300,000 yuan and fled abroad. At that time, 300,000 yuan could buy several sets of courtyards in Beijing, which is probably similar to the current 300 million yuan. In 1996, Mao Amin was once again exposed to tax evasion of 1 million yuan, so that he became infamous.
In 2002, Liu Xiaoqing was arrested for tax evasion of 15 million yuan and squatted in prison for more than 420 days. Liu Xiaoqing is the only domestic star artist who was sent to prison for tax evasion. In 2018, Fan Bingbing evaded taxes and evaded more than 200 million yuan, plus was fined, and finally handed over more than 800 million, setting a record for the highest tax evasion and tax evasion of star artists. In 2021, Zheng Shuang was also forced to hand over more than 290 million yuan because of tax evasion and tax evasion.
In 2018, after Fan Bingbing's tax evasion and tax evasion incident, the relevant departments conducted tax inspections on star artists, found out more than 700 star artists who evaded taxes and evaded taxes, and collected more than 10 billion yuan of their tax evasion and tax evasion. But the official did not publish the list of these people, only exposing Fan Bingbing alone.
On November 26, the news of Shen Mengchen and Du Haitao's tax evasion and tax evasion was a rumor and there was no problem. But Shen Mengchen and Du Haitao dared not stand up and say to the public: We have not evaded taxes and evaded taxes!
Which star artist dares to say this?
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