The Chinese tax authorities have sentenced "X-Men" star Fan Bingbing and companies she represents to pay taxes and fines totaling $ 130 million. Three months after their disappearance, speculation about the fate of one of the country's best-known entertainers has ended.
According to a statement released Wednesday by China's official Xinhua News Agency, under appeal to the tax authorities, Fan is personally being punished for tax evasion with $ 70 million.
The fan would not be investigated for criminal liability for tax evasion, as long as the taxes, fines and delay fees of nearly 900 million yuan (130 million dollars) are paid on time, says the report.
The announcement did not indicate fans' whereabouts but pointed out that their agent was detained by the police for allegedly obstructing the investigation.
The fan has played in dozens of movies and TV series in China and is internationally known for her role as Blink in 2014's "X-Men: Days of the Future Past", a cameo in the Chinese version of "Iron Man 3" and star shoots not until May in Cannes on the red carpet.
Before her disappearance, she had been booked to play with Penelope Cruz in the Hollywood movie "355". She has a role in the upcoming Bruce Willis-Adrien Brody feature "Air Strike." A fan apologized to her official account on the Weibo.com social media site, saying that she accepted the tax authority's decision and "would try my best to overcome all difficulties and raise money to repay taxes and fines. "
"I am unworthy of the company's trust and disappoint fans who love me," she wrote in her first update of her microblog from Weibo.com since June 2. A man named Liang, who identified himself as an associate of Fan Studio when contacted by phone, refused to comment on the announcement or on fans' location.
Their disappearance coincided with the suppression of the high salaries of the actors by the authorities, which can eat up the costs of a production. In June, regulators cut the top pay at 40 percent of the total production budget of a TV show and 70 percent of the sum paid to all actors in a movie.
Chinese state media said the investigation served as a warning to anyone working in the country's art and entertainment programs. A separate Xinhua report said the fines imposed on fans would "promote the sustainable and healthy development of the film and television industry and increase social awareness of paying taxes under the law." Hu Xijin, the publisher of the tabloid Global Times, known for his nationalist pro-Communist party views, said, "Fan's case must shake the world of the performing arts." Sooner or later, people who want to avoid taxes have to spit them out, Hu wrote on his social media page.
"The bigger the brand, the more likely it is that you get close scrutiny, you just have to endure this financial loss to avoid being spared a major disaster, and these are unlawfully earned profits." The Xinhua report said Fan was able to avoid 7.3 million yuan in taxpayers' money by using a 20 million yuan secret contract she had signed for the lead role in the Chinese movie "Unbreakable Spirit". Instead, they paid taxes for a contract of just 10 million yuan, it said.
The example refers to a supposedly common practice in the entertainment industry, where the actors have a public contract that contains an official salary and a private contract that lists the actual, much higher wages.
A talk show host, Cui Yongyuan, said in May that Fan had such an arrangement that allegedly facilitated tax evasion and revealed details that caused a public outcry. Cui apologized later.
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