Freelancing in China freelancing在中国
Can an expatriate do freelancing work in China?可以做一名外籍freelancing在中国工作？ Is there any legal steps to take?是否有任何法律上要采取的步骤？ How about creating invoices?如何创造发票？ Are there any tax implications?是否有任何税的影响呢？ And do you need a work permit?以及你是否有需要工作许可？ If so, how do you obtain one?如果是的话，你怎么取得的呢？ Pros and cons of freelancing as opposed to seeting up a company?正反意见的freelancing作为反对seeting了一个公司呢？
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May 30th, 2008 at 3:18 pm 2008年5月30日在下午3时18分
Officially it is not allowed to invoice directly in China.正式这是不容许的发票，直接在中国。 You should always use a import company.你应该始终使用的进口公司。 Anyway as far as I know you can receive up to 50.000 USD yearly without any questions from the authorities.无论如何，据我所知，您可以收到高达50.000美元，每年没有任何问题，从有关当局。 But it is a littlebit gray area.但它是一个littlebit灰色地带。 Also you probably know at least 90% of all the transactions in China are black.此外，您可能已经知道至少90 ％的所有交易在中国是黑人。 Does your customer need a VAT invoice?请问您的客户需要增值税发票呢？
Otherwise it is possible to set up a foreign company in china like a FICE (foreign invested commercial enterprise.否则是有可能成立一个外国公司在中国就像一个fice （外商投资商业企业。
Any question you can ask!任何问题，你可以要求！
May 30th, 2008 at 9:09 pm 2008年5月30日在下午9点09分
to work in china you need a residents permit and working visa, to get these you need a contract of employment froma chinese company.向在中国工作您需要一个居民证和工作签证，得到这些你需要雇佣合约froma中国公司。 thats what you should do…thousands of people flout the law and work here on tourist/business visas这就是您应该做些什么…成千上万的人藐视法律和这里的工作就旅游/商务签证
if you live here legally then you can earn 5000 rmb a month before you pay tax…the comment about receiving 50000 usd maybe refers to limits on remittances from overseas to a personal bank account in china如果您住在这里，法律那么你就可以赚5000元人民币一个月前，你纳税…评论关于接收5.0万美元，也许是指限制对来自海外的汇款到个人的银行帐户在中国
if you are going to teach english to individuals and get paid in cash then you can freelance…but recognise you’ll be here working illegally如果你要教英语，以个人和获得以现金支付，然后您可以自由… …但明白您将在这里非法工作
if you want to design brochures for NOKIA you’ll need premises and a company to issue fa piao, VAT invoices, that formal companies require when they buy goods or services如果你想设计的小册子，为诺基亚，您需要处所及一间公司的问题，发飘，增值税发票，正式的公司需要时，他们购买的商品或服务
look into setting up a consulting company…low registered capital, sell services not goods but not sure on the restrictions on foreign ownership of such businesses研究成立一家咨询公司…低注册资本，出售的商品服务，不是不知道，但对限制外资拥有权等业务
a good chinese accountant can advise一个良好的中国会计师可以告诉