By continuing you agree to eChinacities's Privacy Policy .
Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Does the government guarantee a tax free salary?
Does the gov. guarantee a tax free salary for SAFEA approved schools?
This got lost on a previous post. So going to give it its own. Should tax form part of contract negotiations. I don't believe it should.
10 years 15 weeks ago in Visa & Legalities - China
Lifted this off a website:
However, for foreign teachers, the Government of China, through SAFEA Approved schools, guarantees a minimum standard of western accommodation and salaries that bear some semblance [buying power parity] to those received in their home countries. In order to arrive at a salary package that would satisfy most applicants, the government considered the following factors:
- Comparative costs of living
- Provision of high standard accommodation
- Salary free from taxation
- Basic health care
- Reimbursement of airfares
Therefore, Government Approved schools and universities provide foreign teachers [many of whom do not have any real teaching experience] tax free salaries, free accommodation, airfares, free basic health care and the salaries that are three to five times higher than that paid to local teachers performing similar tasks, and who often have many years teaching experience.
http://www.china-tesol.com/Salary_Range_for_foreign_teach/salary_range_for_foreign_teach.html
Might it differ from province to province? Or maybe from school to school?
As I mentioned before, here (a public school in guangxi) only salaries below 4800 rmb/month are tax free.
It probably does differ like you said Samm as this is China n all.
Just want to know really if agencies, schools wrongly use it in negotiations. Doubt I'll find the official line on it though and should be happy I for one am tax free over the 4.8k.
Listen, dear Pat, I know this site and I actually know the foreigner who is the owner of this site. He's not American, he's not Canadian, he's not British...so you guess where he comes from.
He's been in China a long, long time and he's about as slick a businessman as there is, and they are really slick around here.
It's just another recruiting agency, believe it or not, and I would place it on the lower end of the recruiting agency scale.
Discount anything that he writes.
And avoid him completely.
Hulk:
Okay, Traveler. Having an identity crisis? Questioning your sexual orientation?
ironman510:
belle_watson or Traveler or whoever, where did your lashing out come from?
This question was simply about tax, not the site owner..
SAmm11 is correct, only salaries below 4800 and workers over 5 years at the same company must pay taxes after 3800.
No, and I thought it was 5k RMB or less?
Regardless, the best thing to do in a situation where you earn high income is to negotiate the final cost after taxes. A lot of schools already do this. Here's what you need to do:
Say, "I want 15k RMB... after taxes."
ChengduPat:
Yeah your right and that's what I did. Couldn't help feel (after reading similar article to above) that they concede to it knowing well it mustn't be paid anyway. That was how I felt for a while but glad to hear I was incorrect though.
Think I tend to try and poke holes in these agencies yet the contract battle continues, full steam ahead on that!Waiting in the shadows for their next mistake!muhahaha