Celebrities should pay due taxes: China Daily contributor

Deng Lun made false declarations and evaded 47.66 million yuan in personal income tax from 2019 to 2020. - INSTAGRAM

BEIJING (China Daily/Asia News Network): News that the tax authorities slapped a fine of 106 million yuan (RM8.3 million) on actor Deng Lun for unpaid taxes, overdue fees exploded on Chinese social networking sites on Tuesday (March 17).

Netizens could not digest the fact that a celebrity like Deng could evade taxes even after other celebrities have fallen in trouble in recent days for similar offences. Just last December, live-streamer Huang Wei, who is widely known as Viya, was fined 1.341 billion yuan and before her actress Zheng Shuang fined 299 million yuan for tax evasions.