Actress Fan fined for tax evasion

Actress Fan Bingbing has been ordered to pay hundreds of millions of yuan in taxes and fines because of tax evasion, tax authorities announced on Wednesday.

The State Taxation Administration and its Jiangsu Provincial Tax Service said they started investigating Fan in early June after receiving information from members of the public accusing the internationally known actress of evading taxes through contract fraud.

Investigators found that she had evaded paying about 7.3 million yuan ($1.07 million) in personal income tax and business taxes during her work on the Chinese film The Bombing. Investigators found that Fan and companies of which she is the legal representative have tax arrears amounting to 248 million yuan, of which 134 million yuan had been illegally evaded.