Tax evasion 23.22 million?! Gu Ming milk tea was fined more than 11.61 million yuan.

"Gu Ming, how could you do that? Are you worthy of the money I sent you? " "Ancient tea is so expensive, there are few activities, and it is difficult to understand that it is also tax evasion." Today, the top of Weibo's popular search list made many milk tea parties say, "Ah!" I collapsed the house! "

According to media reports on March 28, Zhejiang Guming Technology Co., Ltd., a related company of Gu Ming milk tea, was fined more than 11.61 million yuan by Taizhou Taxation Bureau. Through the national enterprise credit information publicity system to check the administrative penalty information, we know that the company does not declare tax, does not pay or underpays the tax payable, and does not list or underlist the income in the account books.

In accordance with the provisions of paragraph 1 of Article 63 of the tax Collection and Administration Law of the people's Republic of China, the Taxation Bureau imposed on the company a 50% fine of more than 23.22 million yuan in value-added tax, enterprise income tax and urban maintenance and construction tax, totaling 11610236.05 yuan. And the second paragraph of Article 64, the company shall be fined 6360.30 yuan for underpayment of stamp duty, a total fine of 3180.15 yuan, a total fine of 11613416.2 yuan. According to the company's website, Gu Ming was founded in April 2010. After 12 years of steady development, Gu Ming has become one of the leading brands in the new tea industry. By joining abroad, Gu Ming milk tea stores have more than 6000 stores in China by 2021, covering 18 provinces and 140 cities. at the same time, they have rushed abroad to Tuscany, Italy. However, with more and more franchisees, a variety of problems within the company also appear.

As early as 2020, Gu Ming's internal franchisees publicly exposed that Gu Ming not only evaded their own taxes, but also abetted them to evade taxes. From the franchisee's protest message, we can also see that Gu Ming's chairman (Wang Yunan) team said angrily when giving a lecture to the franchisee, "lagging behind because of foolishness and selfishness."

After listening to this, the franchisee said that he would boycott and protest by opening a shop or not. When Gu Ming's headquarters learned of the franchisee's actions, he threatened to attack him, but the protesting franchisee did not compromise and said he would be legally responsible for the public words. On February 22 this year, it was revealed that a Gu Ming milk tea store had tampered with the milk date, expired yogurt for four days, continued to sell expired tea containers, blackened and cut off fresh mangoes and continued to use them, and the old staff of the store taught new employees how to prevent supervision and inspection.

As for the handling of the incident, the official Weibo of Gu Ming Tea did not issue a statement of rectification and reform, but left a message in the comment area of Weibo: "Thank you for your supervision. Gu Ming has always attached great importance to food safety." we immediately closed the store, conducted a comprehensive and thorough inspection, and actively cooperated with relevant departments to conduct a comprehensive inspection of food safety in stores across the country. After that, the technical means will be strengthened to improve the frequency of electronic inspection and non-notification to the store inspection. Gu Ming headquarters and national store partners will work together to do their own work and put the food safety work of the stores in place. " However, the comment was not forwarded to the official Weibo.

Gu Ming still chose to remain "silent" about the revelation of tax evasion and did not respond to the incident on the official Weibo or website. Some media contacted Gu Ming's official customer service today, and the customer service did not respond, saying only: the company attaches great importance to this incident and is actively and properly dealing with it. So far, there has not been a clear message to the general public about when Gu Ming began to evade taxes. Before Gu Ming Tea was exposed about food safety and tax evasion, because of its own fruit base and perfect supply chain distribution, the price of Gu Ming Tea has always been slightly better than Xi Tea, which was once known as "inexpensive version of Xi Tea". At the same time, the distribution of ancient tea is also very wide, from big cities to small towns can see the figure of ancient tea shops, so in ancient tea has been a very good reputation. But with the exposure of tax evasion, the reputation of the Gu Ming brand is estimated to have come to an end. Because this behavior can not only lead to a reduction in the source of national revenue, but also affect the welfare of Chinese citizens in public services.

"it is the duty of every citizen to pay taxes according to law. "

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