[Official Guidance] "Reverse invoicing" business scenario for resource recycling enterprises; Kailing Technology empowers compliant management in the resource recycling industry

For a long time, the renewable resource industry, due to its "scattered, chaotic, and small" business characteristics, has been mired in an "invoice dilemma." The upstream suppliers of resource recycling enterprises are mostly individual households or small operators. About 70% of enterprises cannot obtain sufficient compliant VAT invoices during procurement, and can neither deduct input tax nor have legal vouchers for pre-tax deduction of corporate income tax. This dual pressure greatly squeezes corporate profit margins.

On April 29, 2024, the State Taxation Administration issued Announcement No. 5 of 2024, clarifying that renewable resource recycling enterprises may "reverse invoice" to individuals selling scrapped products, solving the industry's difficulty in obtaining the "first input VAT invoice" at the policy level. As a special process in which the buyer (payer) issues an invoice to the seller (payee), this policy, together with agricultural product purchase invoices and second-hand vehicle purchase invoices, forms a special industry invoice management system, injecting a strong boost into the standardized development of the resource recycling industry.

I. Applicable conditions and core compliance requirements of the reverse invoicing policy

Resource recycling enterprises enjoying the reverse invoicing policy must meet clear compliance standards, which are also the core points of tax supervision:

1. The main business focuses on resource recycling, and the core acquisition targets are scrapped products sold by natural persons, covering 11 major categories of compliant recycling products including scrap steel, scrap non-ferrous metals, and waste electrical and electronic products;

2. Establish a complete business authenticity proof system, properly keep purchase contracts or agreements, transport invoices or vouchers, cargo weighbridge tickets, transfer payment records, and other materials, and establish detailed purchase ledgers clearly recording key information such as the time, location, seller and contact information, product name, quantity, and price of each transaction. If existing ledgers or systems already cover the above content, separate ledgers are not required;

3. Strictly fulfill the obligation to handle taxes on behalf. When issuing reverse invoicing to individuals for the first time, the other party's consent must be obtained and supporting materials retained. Within the filing period of the following month, submit the "Tax Handling on Behalf Report Form" and detailed statements to the competent tax authority, and complete the payment on behalf of VAT and surcharges and individual income tax.

II. Rigid demand for industry digital upgrading: the core support for policy implementation

The in-depth implementation of the reverse invoicing policy imposes rigid requirements on the digital management capabilities of resource recycling enterprises. Traditional manual ledgers and offline record models can no longer meet the core standards of tax supervision—"real-time penetration, precise verification, and full-process traceability"—and enterprises urgently need to build a digital management architecture of "regulatory data interconnection - business process closed loop - automatic risk prevention and control," which is precisely the core focus of Kailing Technology's solutions.

(1) Compliance Adaptation of the Invoicing System: Technical Implementation Required by Policy

The Kailing Technology Reverse Invoicing system achieves real-time data interaction with the electronic tax bureau through the electronic invoice service platform or Leqi interface, ensuring invoicing information is uploaded and verified synchronously in real time. The system has built-in automatic matching between product SKUs and tax codes, effectively preventing the risk of incorrect tax categories; it also includes a "dynamic monitoring of individual transaction limits" module that tracks individuals' monthly and cumulative 12-month sales in real time and automatically blocks transactions approaching or exceeding the 5 million quota, avoiding non-compliant invoicing risks at the technical level.

Regarding invoice issuance types, the system supports enterprises under the general tax calculation method to issue special invoices or ordinary invoices, while enterprises under the simplified tax calculation method may only issue ordinary invoices, with tax rates automatically adapted to the 3% or 1% policy standards. In cases such as sales returns or incorrect invoicing, users can conveniently fill out the "Information Form for Issuing Red-Letter VAT Special Invoices" or the "Confirmation Form for Red-Letter Invoice Information" to complete the red-letter invoice issuance process.

(2) Data collaboration across the entire business chain:IVClosed-loop management of flow integration

Kailing Technology's solution breaks down data barriers among "acquisition management - logistics tracking - capital settlement - invoice issuance" and builds a cross-module data sharing hub to achieve "contract flow, logistics, capital flow, invoice flow"IVFull-chain traceability of flow integration:

- Purchasing side: connects to the weighbridge system to automatically obtain data such as gross weight, tare weight, net weight, vehicle body photos, and weighing time, directly generating purchase orders, and supporting order splitting, modification, and pricing management;

- Logistics side: integrate vehicle driving licenses, driver's licenses, cargo photos, driving trajectories and other information to achieve automatic matching and verification between logistics data and orders;

- Fund side: synchronize fund payment records through the bank-enterprise direct connection interface to ensure one-to-one correspondence between fund flow, orders, and invoice information;

- Invoice side: after order confirmation, invoice information is automatically populated to enable one-click invoicing and download; after issuance is completed, it is returned in real time to the enterprise financial system and the electronic tax bureau.

(3) Intelligent tax risk prevention and control: multi-dimensional compliance verification system

The system has built-in a multi-dimensional risk validation model, setting intelligent warning rules for high-frequency risk points in reverse invoicing，If encounteringAnomalous situations trigger real-time risk prompts and are pushed to the risk control position for review. At the same time, the system fully connects to tax authority regulatory data, enabling real-time synchronization of blocking information for invoicing natural persons, and eliminating violations such as fraudulent invoicing and fake transactions.

(4) Standardized management of electronic archives: technical assurance for compliant inspection readiness

Build an electronic archives management platform compliant with the Measures for the Administration of Accounting Archives, supporting electronic collection, structured storage, and off-site backup of all transaction vouchers such as scanned acquisition contracts, logistics waybill images, bank receipt PDFs, invoice stubs, and electronic ledgers. The platform features precise retrieval of key fields, allowing quick location of vouchers by natural person name, invoice number, order number, and more, and electronic archives carry tamper-proof, verifiable electronic signatures, meeting the tax authority's regulatory requirements of "retrievable at any time and fully traceable," enabling "one-click export" for compliant record-keeping.

III. Kailing Technology's full-process solution: from policy adaptation to business empowerment

As a professional, efficient, and reliable enterprise business-finance-tax digital solution service provider, Kailing Technology has built, based on the China Golden Tax Phase IV architecture,Four flows in oneA full lifecycle digital management solution for reverse invoicing, having successfully served many leading enterprises across industries.

(1) Core Function Modules: Precisely Resolving Industry Pain Points

1. Convenient service system for individuals: register by scanning a WeChat mini-program code, support photo upload and OCR automatic recognition of ID cards and bank cards, quickly complete real-name authentication and authorized agency procedures, sign the "Consent Certificate for Reverse Invoicing and Agency Tax Payment" online and keep it on file, solving the operational difficulties of individuals who "do not understand and do not know how";

2. Intelligent invoicing and tax management: automatically match tax category codes, generate compliant invoices with one click based on order data, and support batch invoicing and red-flushing; built-in automatic tax calculation engine accurately calculates VAT, individual income tax, and surcharges, generates standardized filing forms, and can be directly imported into the electronic tax bureau for one-click filing;

3. Input VAT invoice pool management: centrally manage issued invoices, mark and filter special tags, automatically generate the "Tax Payment on Behalf Report" and detailed reports, support invoice selection and summary as well as data push to the enterprise's internal invoicing system, and achieve compliant input VAT deduction;

4. Multi-system integration capability: seamless connection with SAP, weighbridge systems, fund systems,InvoiceExisting enterprise business systems such as the system achieve real-time data synchronization through standardized interfaces, without the need to rebuild the existing IT architecture, reducing system upgrade costs.

(II) Core value of the solution: dual improvement in compliance and efficiency

1. Tax compliance upgrade: achieve "IV"flow integration" full-chain traceability, meeting tax regulatory requirements for business authenticity and data integrity, significantly reducing tax risks;

2. Operational cost optimization: Reduce repetitive work such as manual ledger entry, invoice verification, and tax calculation, improve financial accounting efficiency, and lower communication and time costs;

3. Empowering management decisions: provides customized big data dashboards that display core metrics such as daily/monthly/annual invoicing data, user data, and product data in real time, providing data support for business decisions;

4. Joint construction of the industry ecosystem: Promote the establishment and improvement of financial and tax management systems in the resource recycling industry, enhance the industry's standardization and transparency, and support the development of the green circular economy.

The implementation of the reverse invoicing policy provides a key path for the renewable resource industry to break through the invoice dilemma and reduce tax burden pressure, while digital transformation is the core support for the policy to take effect. With its professional experience deeply cultivated in the business-finance-tax field, full-process solutions, stable and reliable technical architecture, and high-quality and efficient service system, Kailing Technology has become the preferred partner for compliant reverse invoicing management of resource recycling enterprises. In the future, Kailing Technology will continue to focus on industry needs, empower enterprise business-finance-tax digital transformation with technological innovation, help the resource recycling industry achieve high-quality growth on the path of compliant development, and inject lasting momentum into the construction of a green circular economy.

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