Popular Chinese actor Deng Lun has been fined 106 million yuan (RM70mil) for tax evasion, in accordance with a report launched by tax authorities in Shanghai on Tuesday (March 15).
The 29-year-old star of collection like fantasy romance Ashes Of Love (2018) apologised in a press release on Chinese microblogging website Weibo, the place he has some 40 million followers.
He wrote: “I’ve mirrored on my actions and understood the severity of my errors. I settle for all selections made by the tax authorities, I will likely be accountable for the results and proceed to work onerous sooner or later.”
According to the authorities, Deng made false declarations and evaded 47.66 million yuan (RM31mil) in private earnings tax from 2019 to 2020. He additionally underpaid private earnings tax of 13.99 million yuan (RM9mil) in the identical interval.
The report stated he took the initiative to pay again 44.55 million yuan (RM29mil) in taxes and admitted to different tax-related wrongdoing of his personal accord.
In a further report, the Shanghai tax authorities stated they’d suspected Deng of tax evasion and urged him to rectify the scenario, however he didn’t accomplish that satisfactorily. He was ordered to pay 106 million yuan (RM70mil) in fines, late charges and unpaid taxes.
The actor’s private accounts on Weibo and short-video platform Douyin – alongside along with his studio’s social media accounts – had been later suspended and made unavailable.
According to Chinese leisure information retailers, Deng’s title has additionally been faraway from dramas he starred in on some streaming websites – together with Ashes Of Love, Because Of You (2016) and Sweet Dreams (2018).
Brands have additionally rushed to drop him. Cosmetics firm L’Oreal and residential equipment model Viomi Technologies are amongst people who terminated their partnership with Deng.
He is just not the primary high-profile tax-dodging celeb in China.
In December 2021, Viya, China’s prime live-streaming saleswoman, was fined a whopping 1.34 billion yuan. A-list actress Fan Bingbing was additionally fined round 880 million yuan in October 2018, after mysteriously disappearing from public view for three months. – The Straits Times/Asia News Network
