Temple
Pays Tax
Shaolin Temple, a hot tourist destination.
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The abbot and accountant
of the famous Buddhist Shaolin Temple of martial arts recently
visited the Dengfeng City Tax Bureau to make the temple's first
tax payment -- in the sum of 20,900 yuan -- since 1949.
Since the eponymous
and highly successful kungfu film of a decade ago, the
ancient temple's worldwide reputation has greatly boosted tourism
to the temple. During this time the Henan Shaolin Temple Industrial
Development Co., Ltd., has been established and registered in
over 130 countries, including the U.S., Japan, Germany and Australia.
This year the temple received 380,000 yuan for use of its
intangible assets. This is the first income of this kind the
temple has received. It consequently paid tax in accordance
with the Taxation Law.
