60-year-old Kou Hongping is a well-known actress of Hong Kong TVB, who became the third runner-up in the Hong Kong sister beauty pageant in 1982, and has starred in "Eagle Hero" and "Dragon Slayer in the Sky", although she has starred in some supporting roles, but it can also be called the old drama bone of TVB.
Recently, Hong Kong media reported that Kou Hongping submitted tax forms five times in the period from 08 to 17 years, but did not fully pay according to the corresponding procedures, and there were deliberate tax evasions within eight years, and all 11 charges were convicted.
Celebrities pay taxes is a civic obligation that should be fulfilled, stars make more money shooting movies, the tax that needs to be paid is naturally more, relying on the identity of stars to earn a lot of pots, enjoying the treatment and wealth of the stars, but can not complete the obligations, it is really incredible.
Kou Hongping during this eight-year period, personal and company falsely reported expenses of up to one million, according to the relevant tax provisions, Kou Hongping faces a three-fold fine, and may face three years of punishment, once convicted, then Kou Hongping will be the first person in Hong Kong to be imprisoned.
Since they were wrong, they had to admit the punishment, but their defense lawyers also wanted to make a final remedy, hoping to reduce some of the punishment. The lawyer pleaded that although she had a master's degree, she had not attended university (with shallow knowledge). She has two children with her husband, but after the divorce, she did not receive alimony (living difficulties), and has donated HK$840,000 for public welfare over the years (charity and kindness), not deliberately for the sake of greed, she does not know much about taxation.
Although Kou Hongping's family responsibilities are heavy and she also has a willingness to be charitable, there is not much learning, and the falsification of documents is not a reason for tax evasion, and even can only add to her own sins. Don't say that you have not been to college, ordinary middle and high school students also know that citizens have the obligation to pay taxes, not to mention an adult who has been in the entertainment industry for decades, it is difficult to believe that he does not know at all.
Over the years, cases of tax evasion in the entertainment industry have been common, and many entertainment stars have been among them, and some even as high as hundreds of millions. But without exception, these stars have entered a trough in their careers after tax evasion, lost domestic resources and popularity, and can only try their luck in other countries, and have not stirred up much splash.
Can only say that tax evasion is cool for a while, career crematorium, I hope that the stars can take it as a warning, do not have a fluke mentality, to the dead do not know unless they do nothing, power and obligations are accompanied by each other, can not only enjoy the welfare but do not know the obligation. What do you think about that?