Foreign Branch is a department established by Beijing Local Taxation Bureau. Its office address is No. 206, Gulou East Street. Beijing. Foreign Branch's competence is: to administrate the local tax revenue of all of the foreign enterprises and individuals in Beijing (excluding the tax paid by foreign-invested enterprises on behalf of the individual foreigners and the tax voluntarily reported and paid to tax authorities by individual foreigners). Foreign enterprises includes: standing representative bodies of foreign enterprises (including those of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan), branches of foreign enterprises, undertaking contracted projects, foreign companies providing services as well as those who obtain incomes from Beijing though having no institutions set up in Beijing.

　　Its main responsibilities are as follows:

　　1 To publicize and enforce the laws, rules and regulations on local taxes.

　　2 To initiate and enforce the local tax revenue programs of Beijing based on the planning index of
budgetary revenue defined by Beijing Local Taxation Bureau.

　　3 To be responsible for the taxes collection from foreign enterprises and individual foreigners in Beijing as well as related administration.

　　4 To supervise and check up the tax liabilities of each taxpayer in its jurisdiction and punish those actions concerning the breach of tax laws, rules and regulations by executive means.

　　5 To provide consultation services on tax policies and offer taxation services.

　　6 To undertake the tasks assigned by Beijing Local Taxation Bureau.