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Comment by angry_octet

7 days ago

Although you can often take losses from a previous year to offset current income. So if you do a huge amount of capital investment you can offset against profits for years.

This is also misleading.

> Although you can often take losses from a previous year to offset current income

This is true, usually for 5 years.

> So if you do a huge amount of capital investment you can offset against profits for years.

Articles 11, 12, 18, and 28 [0] say that capital investment can reduce tax based on the depreciation or amortization cost, not by carrying forward the investment as a loss.

Nothing in the Chinese tax law says that DeepSeek can receive tax returns or free handouts from the government because they do R&D.

[0] https://fgk.chinatax.gov.cn/eng/c102962/c102967/c102997/c103...

  • Does DeepSeek not maintain an international financial structure to keep international profits offshore until it is convenient for them to be taxed? I can't think of a billion dollar corp that doesn't, but then Jack Ma went to a gulag for a year.

    • I'm not the DeepSeek Intl CFO. And DeepSeek doesn't do R&D outside of China. Platform.deepseek.com manages multiple payment providers, including companies created to support options outside of alipay/unionpay.

      The default one is the standard deepseek: 12F, Galaxy International Building Gongshu Dist, Hangzhou 310003 Zhejiang, China

      It's interesting how you assume a bad actor by default. Not really an 'innocent until proven guilty' mindset. And providing misinformation too.

      > but then Jack Ma went to a gulag for a year.

      He never went to a gulag, and there is no information whatsoever about the reason he was put under a 'house arrest'. If you are close to those circles maybe you want to share the details of your claims?

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