According to the inquiry in official website, State Taxation Administration of The People's Republic of China, China, starting from 20 15 10, the technology transfer income obtained by the national resident enterprises after transferring their non-exclusive licensing rights for more than 5 years (inclusive, the same below) will be included in the scope of technology transfer income enjoying preferential corporate income tax. The part where the annual technology transfer income of resident enterprises does not exceed 5 million yuan shall be exempted from enterprise income tax; For the part exceeding 5 million yuan, the enterprise income tax will be levied by half.
The technologies referred to include patents (including national defense patents), computer software copyrights, exclusive rights in layout design of integrated circuits, new varieties of plants, new varieties of biomedicine and other technologies determined by the Ministry of Finance of People's Republic of China (PRC) and State Taxation Administration of The People's Republic of China. Among them, patents refer to inventions, utility models and designs that do not simply change the patterns and shapes of products.