What started out as a personal spat between a Chinese TV personality and a famous Chinese film actress has exposed widespread tax evasion.
The row was between Cui Yongyuan, TV talk show host and former anchor for the Chinese regime’s state broadcaster, CCTV, and Fan Bingbing, a Chinese actress best known for her role as Blink in the Hollywood movie, “X - Men: Days of Future Past. ”
At the end of May, Cui posted pictures of Fan’s acting contracts—one for 10 million yuan (about $1. 56 million) and another for 50 million yuan (about $7. 8 million), both for the same acting job—on his personal Weibo account, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter. The contracts alleged that Fan hid her true income via “yin - yang contracts, ” in which a person secretly pockets the money from a higher - value contract.
Source: Thee Poch Times