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The influence of China on Hong Kong from an unexpected angle: taxation

Hong Kong has a worldwide reputation for being a semi tax heaven.  This reputation hangs mainly on the concept of territoriality for taxes, which in turn gave birth to the very interesting concept of the “offshore status”. More can be learned (from a very technical point of view) by reading the Departmental Interpretation and Practice […]

The Cardboard ladies of Hong Kong

This post was written back in 2017, but things have not changed much since. If anything, things have gotten worse as those who could, in the lower strata of society, attempted to move to the UK. In Hong Kong, besides the glamourous life of Central, there are  a lot of elderly people who try to […]