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No Mooncake and Mooncake Tax
The traditional Chinese Middle Autumn Festival is approaching (Sep. 12), and mooncake becomes a hot topic, again. Different with the past, more negative voices come out toward the mooncake and the newly known so-called mooncake tax.
A box of mooncake is usually presented as corporate welfare in the Mid-Autumn Festival. A few company may post a box of mooncake to their employee’s family, which is recognized as a better way. Many companies send mooncake to their customers for better relationship. Anyway, it is very common to receive more than one box of mooncake in a family.
However, as people care about their health and eat much healthier more than before, they don’t eat many mooncakes. One or two piece(s) of mooncake is enough for the taste in this traditional day. Many families left a lot of mooncake after the holiday and it becomes a big waste. The negative voice says that they don’t want to receive mooncake anymore, and they recommend not to send mooncake to employees and customers in the Mid-Autumn Festival. You can buy some yourself if you want.
Mooncake tax is another story. The tax authorities indicate that it should pay tax when company sends mooncake to employees. People feel incredible and dub it a ‘Mooncake Tax’, but actually, such tax has been paid for 17 years already.
The Train Tickets Are Hot
Even though the railway system has been upgraded quickly in the recent years, it is still difficult to buy a train ticket during long holidays, like the coming National Day. The train tickets are still in huge demand currently.
Yesterday, I went to the train ticket agency and wanted to buy two tickets. There was an about 200 meters long queue in the front of the agency. I gave up and had to delay my travel. A news reports that a woman surnamed Chen waited 9 hours in order to buy a ticket from Shanghai to Guizhou.
Mid-Autumn Gifts in China
Mid-Autumn festival will soon come around. Many Companies in China do not want to miss the opportunity to please their staff, and will give employees more or less festival gifts in this traditional Chinese festival day.
The reception area of our office building is overflowing with boxes of mooncakes these days. And it is said that every staff member will get a box of mooncake this year.
China 2010 Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day Schedule
China 2010 Mid-Autumn Festival is very near to National Day, which makes it is the most broken festival season. According to the government notice, the following is the holiday schedule for your reference.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is from Sep 22-24, 2010 and will resume work on Sep 25(Saturday). Details as follows:
