Legal basis: payment method of litigation expenses
Article 20 The fees for accepting a case shall be paid in advance by the plaintiff, the third party with independent claims and the appellant. If the defendant files a counterclaim and needs to pay the case acceptance fee in accordance with the provisions of these Measures, it shall pay it in advance. The case of recovering labor remuneration may not pay the case acceptance fee in advance. The application fee shall be paid in advance by the applicant. However, the application fees stipulated in Item (1) and Item (6) of Article 10 of these Measures are not paid by the applicant in advance, but after the implementation of the application fee, and the bankruptcy application fee is paid after the liquidation. The fees stipulated in Article 11 of these Measures shall be paid after the actual occurrence. Article 21 If a party changes the amount of the claim, the case acceptance fee shall be handled in accordance with the following provisions: (1) If a party increases the amount of the claim, it shall return it according to the increased amount of the claim; (2) Before the end of the court investigation, if the parties propose to reduce the amount of litigation claims, they shall be refunded according to the reduced amount of litigation claims.
Twenty-ninth litigation costs shall be borne by the losing party, unless the winning party voluntarily bears it. If the case is partially won or partially lost, the people's court shall decide the amount of litigation costs borne by the parties according to the specific circumstances of the case. * * * If the parties lose the case, the people's court shall decide the amount of litigation expenses to be borne by each party according to the interest relationship between the parties and the litigation object.