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About Qianfei
Equity Partner | Corporate and commercial crime; tax compliance; tax-related criminal defense; tax disputes; litigation and arbitration
Qianfei Li is an equity partner in Allbright Law Firm's Nanjing office whose practice focuses on corporate and commercial crime, tax compliance, tax-related criminal defense, tax disputes and litigation. His public profile describes significant experience in commercial criminal cases, corporate criminal risk prevention, duty-related offenses and tax matters, including VAT invoice and export tax rebate cases.
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Li's practice is particularly relevant to businesses facing the boundary between tax administration and criminal enforcement. A company may begin with a routine tax inspection involving invoices or export rebates and later discover that authorities suspect fraudulent invoicing, false transactions or criminal tax conduct. Management must understand when the matter has shifted from a compliance issue into a potential criminal-risk event.
His representative matters publicly include defense in cases involving false issuance of special VAT invoices, fraudulent export tax rebates and other tax-related criminal allegations. His profile also records work on tax optimization and tax dispute resolution and professional roles connected with criminal-risk prevention and finance and taxation.
This combination is useful because tax criminal cases require reconstruction of business substance. Authorities may examine contracts, invoices, payment flow, logistics, inventory, accounting, upstream and downstream counterparties and the actual commercial purpose of transactions. The existence of an invoice alone does not explain whether the underlying business was genuine.
China's VAT Law took effect on January 1, 2026, modernizing the statutory VAT framework. Businesses should update invoice and tax controls against the current law rather than relying solely on older administrative habits. At the same time, criminal law continues to create serious exposure for fraudulent VAT invoicing and fraudulent export tax rebate conduct.
For corporate clients, prevention is therefore highly operational. Procurement, sales, finance and tax teams need controls to identify unusual counterparties, circular fund flows, inconsistent logistics, inflated transactions and invoice requests disconnected from real trade.
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