TAX FILING SERVICE

Tax Service

There is no capital gain tax, withholding tax on dividends, or GST, VAT in Hong Kong. The tax system in Hong Kong is the most simplest in the world. The current corporate tax rate is flat 16.5% on assessable profits.

Starting 2018/2019, the HKSAR government introduces a favorable two-tiered profit tax rate. Under the two-tiered profits tax rates regime, the profits tax rate for the first $2 million of assessable profits will be lowered to 8.25% (half of the standard rate) for corporations and 7.5% (half of the standard rate) for unincorporated businesses (mostly partnerships and sole proprietorships). Assessable profits above $2 million will continue to be subject to the rate of 16.5% for corporations and standard rate of 15% for unincorporated businesses.

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Profit Tax Return for Incorporated Companies

  • A newly incorporated company will receive the first Profit Tax Return 18 months after its date of incorporation.

  • The first Profit Tax Return has to be completed within 3 months after the issue date.

  • All other Profit Tax Return need to be completed within 1 month after the issue date.

Employer's Profit Tax Return

  • The Profit Tax Return for an employer is issued in the beginning of April every year which has to be completed within 1 month after the issue date.

Accounting and Auditing

  • According to the Companies Ordinance (Cap.622), all companies are required to prepare for the audited financial statements annually.

  • In order not to be imposed any penalty by the Government, we encourage our valued customers to take action beforehand.

  • Failure to comply will result in committing an offense. The director of the company will be liable to a fine of HK$300,000 and imprisonment for 12 months.

  • Prism Consultancy provides accounting service and auditing service, and helps/trains clients with using Xero Accounting.

Tax Return for Individual Persons

Tax return for individuals enables you to report all your employment income (from your jobs).

If you have a sole proprietorship company, the profits that you have made through your sole proprietorship business must be reported in tax return for individual persons.

Tax return for individuals includes your income from pension, and your income from rental income in which the properties are owned by you.

Deductions and allowances should also be submitted through tax return for individual persons.

You are required to notify the Hong Kong Inland Revenue Department (IRD) in writing when you become chargeable to tax not later than four months after the end of the basis period for the year of assessment.

When you are eligible to tax return for individuals, you will receive the BIR60 form annually from IRD.

The first working day of May each year is usually the issue date of tax return form BIR60.

Profits Tax Return

Profits tax return can be categorized into three main types:

  • Profits tax return for corporations and partnership business. Submit BIR51 form.

  • Profits tax return for persons that are not corporations. Submit BIR52 form to IRD.

  • Profits tax return for Non Hong Kong residents. Submit BIR54 form to Inland Revenue Department.


The first working day of April each year is usually the issue date of profits tax return forms BIR51, BIR52, and BIR54.

Property Tax Return

Joint owners, co-owners, corporations and bodies of persons are issued with property tax returns.

Property tax return can be categorized into two main types:

  • Property tax return for property jointly owned or co-owned by individual persons. Submit BIR57 form.

  • Property tax return for corporations and Bodies of Persons. Submit BIR58 form to IRD.


The first working day of April each year is usually the issue date of property tax return forms BIR57 and BIR58.