Since 2014 · Shanghai

Turning the uncertainty of a tax dispute into a conclusion you can defend and negotiate.

Yidao is an integrated business, finance and tax advisory firm. We work on tax controversy, financial advisory and forward-deployed delivery — pushing the tooling down to the client site, and leaving judgement and accountability with people.

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2014Founded

6Wholly-owned offices incl. Hong Kong

100+Delivery partners

32Provinces covered

4000+Companies served

30+Specialists with 10+ years

01 — Practice areas

Three practices, one evidentiary standard

Whether we are defending a position before the tax authority, advising a board through the year, or working on site, the requirement is the same: every figure that reaches an external document must trace back to a specific line in a source record.

Tax controversy

From audit defence and written representations through to administrative review and litigation support, where a company and the tax authority genuinely disagree.

Tax audit defence and written representations
VAT disputes: rates, input reversals, deemed sales
False-invoicing findings and abnormal vouchers
Corporate income tax: deductions, revenue timing, incentives
Individual income tax: equity transfers, shareholder loans, pay structure
Social insurance contribution disputes and employment compliance
Land appreciation tax settlement disputes
Cross-border and transfer pricing disputes
Administrative review and litigation support

Financial advisory

Annual or project-based advisory on compliance, cost and structure — from rebuilding the books to the holding structure ahead of a listing.

Tax compliance and effective tax rate structure
Books rebuild and finance function design
R&D expenditure compliance framework
Corporate and shareholding structure
Budgeting, treasury and management reporting
Full-cycle IPO readiness
International and cross-border tax

Forward-deployed delivery

Forward-Deployed Engineering: what we deliver is not a piece of software but six standardised products, plus bespoke work shaped to the company. The tooling goes in at the client site and our own professionals deploy it, land it and stay alongside until the client can run it unaided.

Anxinshui: tax risk scanning and remediation
Neishentong + CFAudit: internal audit and control framework
Jingying Tongbao: management dashboard and cash-flow management
R&D Steward: R&D expenditure capture and super-deduction risk checks
Cross-border Steward: cross-border compliance and export refunds
Sales enablement: training, question bank, assessment and certification
Bespoke work: four-line cost reduction, books rebuild, policy drafting and remediation tracking

02 — Method

Evidence tiers: a conclusion may not skip a level

This is the convention underneath every professional judgement we issue. How far a conclusion can travel depends on the tier of evidence it stands on — not on how well the report reads. No working paper may move from "directional finding" to "confirmed" before Tier 3 or Tier 4 evidence exists.

Extracted from systems

Ledgers, invoices and tax filings — data that can be pulled automatically and recomputed.

Supports a directional finding only

Documents supplied by the company

Contracts, approval forms and project papers provided unilaterally by the company; their authenticity is itself a matter for judgement.

Still insufficient to conclude

Obtained independently

Confirmation replies, bank statements and corporate registry records issued or held by an independent third party.

Sufficient to conclude

Observed by the auditor

Inventory counts, on-site observation, site visits and interview records.

Sufficient to conclude; cannot be done remotely

We disclose the procedures we did not perform in the footer of every report. A report that does not state the boundary of its evidence carries no weight with a bank, a tax authority or a board — and on that point we do not compromise.

03 — Technology

Tools that serve judgement rather than replace it

We have invested in tax and finance data tooling since 2021. Their role is to compress what can be automated to the absolute minimum, so that professional time goes to the judgement only a person can carry. Every tool observes one rule: apart from Anxinshui, which draws the company's own filing data under written authorisation, every tool runs locally and the data never leaves the client's premises. Five of them have their own product site, where the actual screens and outputs can be seen directly.

Tax risk

Anxinshui

A big-data tax risk report. 264 risk models are run against 36 months of filing and invoice data to produce a quantified, industry-specific risk report.

anxinshui.yidaocaiwu.com ↗(in Chinese)

Management

Jingying Tongbao

Recognises nine classes of exported finance tables and builds a management dashboard locally: profit-and-loss rankings by product and customer, loss-making orders, credit-limit breaches, related-party triangulation, slow-moving stock analysis and cash-flow management.

jinyin.yidaocaiwu.com ↗(in Chinese)

Internal audit

Neishentong + CFAudit

A workbench for the internal audit itself, not a reporting tool: seven stage gates, the conclusion grade of 34 working papers and the evidence tier behind every finding on one screen; what cannot be computed says which table is missing, and nothing becomes "confirmed" without Tier 3 or Tier 4 evidence. Behind it, CFAudit holds the working papers as code — reconciliations are assertions and a break fails the build.

audit.yidaocaiwu.com ↗(in Chinese)

R&D expenditure

R&D Steward

Turns an ERP export into the statutory 2021 R&D auxiliary ledger and the A107012 filing figures on the local machine, computes the cap on other related expenses, then runs 24 risk checks and a supporting-file list.

rd.yidaocaiwu.com ↗(in Chinese)

Cross-border

Cross-border Steward

Connects to regional cross-border e-commerce service platforms for one-click 9610 / 9710 / 9810 / 1210 declaration, AI-assisted HS classification and export refund reconciliation ledgers.

Enablement

Sales Enablement System

A six-module sales training and assessment system with a question bank, case library, stage-by-stage playbook and certification, delivered and run in alongside the client's own team.

funeng.yidaocaiwu.com ↗(in Chinese)

Cost reduction

Materials, labour, overhead and tax

Systematic cost reduction for factory manufacturing along four lines — materials, labour, overhead and tax. Lean production, overall equipment effectiveness (TRS / OEE) analysis, man-machine efficiency ratios and economic order quantity are used together to lift inventory turnover and cut unit production cost.

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04 — Outcomes

Results that can be checked

Representative engagements, anonymised. Client names, sub-sector and district have been generalised; the quantified outcomes are stated as recorded in the project file.

East China · Real estate

RMB 142.557m

Rebuilding the sales process and pricing structure

Between 2019 and 2023, a redesign of the business process and pricing structure produced a legitimate reduction in land appreciation tax.

East China · Manufacturing

RMB 10.25m

A complete explanation of seven years of losses

An on-site internal audit established that seven years of accumulated losses came entirely from a 1.98 percentage point gross margin gap, itself set by the pricing of 97.02% related-party procurement.

East China · Manufacturing

RMB 5.40m

Defending a false-invoicing finding

The tax audit sought RMB 6.30m at a 35% rate. Supplementary evidence and negotiation reduced the assessment by RMB 5.40m.

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Have a specific problem and want a professional view on it?

Tell us the facts and we will tell you what kind of problem it is, how it is normally handled, and how far it can realistically be pushed on the evidence you have.