Move your China company's books and filings across.
We review the last twelve months of filings, take over the tax and bookkeeping, and keep the monthly deadlines running without a gap.
Handover
Review and takeover
An existing mainland company changing accounting or agency provider.
- Review of the last 12 months of tax filings and ledgers
- Gaps and late filings listed before we start
- Takeover of electronic tax and bookkeeping access
- No month missed during the switch
Then: bookkeeping and filings
Monthly, from the first month
Published benchmark US$ 350
Saved 10%
Once the handover is done, the company runs on the monthly bookkeeping plan.
- Monthly bookkeeping in Chinese, under PRC accounting standards
- VAT, corporate income tax and individual income tax filings
- Monthly management report in English
Prices in US dollars. Each priced item is 10% below a fee published by a foreign-facing China advisory firm, checked 26 September 2026 (Kaizen CPA for company formation and its add-ons; MS Advisory for bookkeeping). Items no firm publishes are quoted. Government fees, notarisation and legalisation of foreign documents, and translation are charged at cost. No foreign-facing firm we checked publishes a handover fee — it depends on the state of the records — so it is quoted after the review.
Filings continue with the same authorities, under a new provider
- State Taxation Administration
- Administration for Market Regulation
Done in China, by people registered there
Filings and audits are carried out by a PRC-registered partner firm and CPA practice.
Fixed fees
Published prices are fixed. Quotes are fixed before work starts.
Benchmarked, not guessed
Every published price is 10% below a fee another firm publishes.
Every enquiry is answered by a person, usually within one working day.
Why OCTIS for mainland China
- One account across markets
- Run a China company from the same OCTIS workspace as your Malaysian or Hong Kong one.
- Prices you can check
- Where a market price is published, ours is 10% under it. Where none is, we quote and say so.
- Deadlines derived, not diarised
- Monthly returns, the June annual report and the May CIT reconciliation come from your company's own dates.
- English in, Chinese filings out
- You work in English; the books and filings are kept in Chinese, as PRC rules require.
How it works
- Tell us the city and the business
- Where the company will sit and what it will do decide the licence and the price.
- Documents legalised once
- Investor documents are notarised and legalised for use in China, then reused for every later filing.
- We file, you approve
- Applications and returns are prepared for you to review before they are submitted.
- Records in your workspace
- Business licence, articles, filings and accounts, kept where you can find them.
Questions
How much does it cost to change accounting firm for a China company?
The handover is quoted after we review the last twelve months of filings, because the work depends on the state of the records; no foreign-facing firm we checked publishes a fixed fee for it. Ongoing bookkeeping with VAT, CIT and IIT filings then starts from US$315 a month.
Will we miss a filing during the switch?
No. Monthly and quarterly returns fall due by the 15th of the following month, so the takeover is scheduled around that date and the outgoing month is filed by whichever provider holds it.
What do you need from us?
The business licence, the last twelve months of tax returns and ledgers, and access to the company's electronic tax account.