国家税务总局关于外商提供计算机软件使用权所收取的使用费征税问题的批复(附英文)
国家税务总局关于外商提供计算机软件使用权所收取的使用费征税问题的批复(附英文)
国家税务总局
北京市税务局：
1994年6月1日京税外（94）343号《关于对外商提供计算机软件的使用所收取的使用费征税问题的请示》收悉，关于外商向中国境内用户售让计算机软件或提供计算机软件使用权征税问题，我局曾以（86）财税字第235号做出规定，现对该文第1条的有关内容进一步明
确如下：
一、外商以提供专利或版权使用许可形式向中国境内用户提供计算机软件使用权，或虽然计算机软件未作为专利权或版权，但以对其使用范围、方式和期限等规定限制性条款的形式向中国境内用户提供计算机软件使用权，对外商由此所收取的使用费应作为特许权使用费所得征收所得税
。
二、凡外商向中国境内用户转让计算机软件不是采取提供使用权方式，对软件使用没有规定任何限定条件的，对外商由此所取得的收入，可作为销售计算机附属产品的收入，不征收所得税。
WRITTEN REPLY TO QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE LEVY OF TAX ON THE USEFEES COLLECTED ON THE USE RIGHTS TO THE COMPUTER SOFTWARE PROVIDED BYFOREIGN BUSINESSMEN
(State Administration of Taxation: 10 June 1994 Coded Guo Shui HanFa [1994] No. 304)
Whole Doc.
To the Beijing Municipal Tax Bureau:
We have acknowledged the receipt of your letter dated June 1, 1994
coded Jing Shui Wai (94) No. 343, asking for Instructions on Questions
Concerning the Levy of Tax on the Use Fees Collected on the Use Rights to
the Computer Software Provided by Foreign Businessmen. With regard to the
question concerning the levy of tax on the computer software sold or
computer software use rights provided by foreign businessmen to users
within China, our Administration has laid down stipulations Coded (86) Cai
Shui Zi No. 235, the related contents of Article 1 of that document are
hereby further clarified as follows:
I. If foreign businessmen who provide computer software use rights to
users within China in the form of providing patent or copyright use
licenses, or although the computer software has not been regarded as
patent right or copyrights, they provide computer software use rights to
users within China in the form of laying down restrictive clauses
including the scope, method and time limit of use. The use fees collected
therefrom by foreign businessmen shall be regarded as income from
royalties on which income tax shall be levied.
II. If foreign businessmen who transfer computer software to users
within China not by adopting the method of providing use rights and who do
not lay down any prescribed conditions on the use of software, the income
gained therefrom by the foreign businessmen may be regarded as income from
the sales of auxiliary computer products, income tax is exempted.
1994年6月10日