When is China's annual CIT reconciliation deadline?

Generally 31 May for the prior fiscal year. Most companies need an audited financial statement finished beforehand, so start the audit engagement in Q1, not in May.

Do foreign employees have to file the annual IIT reconciliation?

The window runs 1 March – 30 June, but foreign staff can often elect a simplified non-resident treatment and may not need to self-file. Confirm per employee — don't assume everyone must file.

What happens if a WFOE misses the SAMR annual report window?

The entity is placed on the public "abnormal operation" list, which can block bank transactions and visa sponsorship until it's resolved — usually a bigger operational headache than the filing itself.

Why do some items on this calendar not show a date?

A handful of obligations (customs credit reviews, sector-licence renewals) run on a per-licence or per-registration cycle rather than a national calendar. We show those as a request-a-check card instead of guessing a date. Social insurance and housing fund windows also vary by city, so they are listed once as monthly obligations without an invented cut-off day.

How often is this page actually updated?

A scheduled scan checks official sources weekly. Routine confirmations are logged automatically; anything that looks like a genuine rule change is queued for human sign-off before this page changes — we don't auto-publish AI guesses about your tax obligations.

Live · re-scanned weekly · AI-assisted verification

The 2026 China compliance calendar, tailored to your entity.

Tax, payroll, annual filings and 2026 public holidays for WFOEs, Rep Offices and JVs — filtered live by your entity type, city and modules.

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Three confidence tiers

Verified official primary source, dated

Estimated stable general rule, confirm locally

Unconfirmed varies — no invented dates

Weekly automated scan

A CloudBase scheduled function checks official sources (tax administration, SAMR, State Council notices) every Monday. Rule-based extraction catches routine confirmations; anything ambiguous is escalated to an AI-assisted read that proposes a change — never applied automatically to this content, always queued for human sign-off first.

What "last reviewed" means

The date we last confirmed a line is still accurate — not the date it was written. If a badge turns amber after 30 days or red after 90, that's a visible signal to double-check before you rely on it, not a silent guess.

What this isn't

Orientation, not tax, legal or accounting advice. Local implementation rules and holiday-adjusted deadlines vary — confirm with your accountant, HR agent or the issuing authority before acting.

Entity type

City

Modules

Right now

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Every deadline below is calculated against today's date, live in your browser.

Your 2026 at a glance

Twelve months, one page.

A dot marks every day something is due. Hover a marked day to see what it is — click it to jump to that entry below. Only days with something on them respond; blank days are inert.

Verified Estimated Unconfirmed Public holiday Make-up workday

Full calendar

Every deadline, grouped by month.

Filtered live by the entity, city and modules you picked above, and the same content whether JavaScript runs or not.

If a filing deadline falls inside a public-holiday block, or on a weekend next to a make-up workday, it moves to the next working day. That rule holds for every holiday on this page — stated once here instead of repeated on each date.

By module

Some deadlines aren't dates. They're per-licence.

Customs credit reviews and sector licences don't run on a national calendar — we'd rather flag that honestly than publish a date that might be wrong for your case.

Common questions

Frequently asked

Why a page, not a PDF

A calendar that keeps working after you close the tab.

Typical downloadable calendar

One snapshot, published once a year
Same content for every reader, every entity type
No visible way to tell what's still accurate

CNGateway compliance calendar

Re-scanned weekly against official sources
Reshapes by your entity type, city and modules
Every line dated, sourced and confidence-rated

A calendar app reminder you set yourself

Only as good as the date you typed in
No holiday-shift or rule-change awareness
Nothing to cross-check it against later

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