Bitmain Faces Major Fines for Tax Infringements in China
According to recent reports, Bitmain, a cryptocurrency mining company based in Beijing, China, has been fined for violating tax regulations.
On April 11, the Beijing Municipal Office of the State Administration of Taxation imposed a tax penalty of approximately 25 million Chinese yuan ($3.7 million) on Bitmain Technologies.
The penalty was for failing to pay personal income taxes, including taxes on employee salaries, bonuses, labor dividends, and allowances, in compliance with China’s tax collection laws.
Bitmain was notified of the tax violations in August 2022 but has failed to pay the personal income tax, amounting to 16.6 million yuan ($2.4 million) to date. Bitmain is one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency mining firms, known for producing mining-specific hardware and solutions.
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In response to China’s blanket ban on cryptocurrencies in September 2021, Bitmain reportedly ceased operations in China in October 2021.
Despite the regulatory ambiguity and the bear market, the company’s latest Antminer device sold out in less than a minute in December 2022.
After leaving Bitmain in 2021, founder Jihan Wu founded Bitdeer, a new cryptocurrency mining company, and Bitmain spin-off.
Alexander Stefanov
Reporter at CoinsPress
Alex is Editor-in-Chief of Coinspress and co-founder of Millennial Media Group, with nearly a decade of experience covering financial markets - crypto first, then everything else. It started in 2016 with Bitcoin. Like most people at the time, he didn't fully understand it - so he kept digging. Blockchain, tokenomics, the projects, the cycles. That curiosity never stopped, and eventually pulled him into traditional markets too: equities, commodities, macro. Not because he left crypto behind, but because you can't properly understand one without the other. What drives him is straightforward: he wants to know why something is happening, not just that it's happening. Most market coverage stops at the headline - price up, price down, here's a chart. Alex finds that kind of reporting actively unhelpful. If you walk away from an article without understanding the mechanism behind the move, what did you actually learn? He holds a degree in Tourism from New Bulgarian University - not the most obvious path into financial markets, but markets have a way of pulling in people who are simply too curious to stay out. He has authored over 200 in-depth analyses and more than 10,000 articles across crypto and traditional finance. He still thinks every day in markets teaches him something new. That's probably why he hasn't stopped.
