Yuhang district in Hangzhou hosts many embodied AI companies, and the tax bureau focuses on making their R&D and export compliance solid. Newstart, which makes robot servo systems, was going through high-tech enterprise re-certification, where R&D expense booking and the split between product and production costs often cause trouble; officials visited to work through the standards item by item, and the company has now held an A-grade tax credit rating for eight consecutive years. Lianxi Robotics, which works on 3D plus AI vision, has invested over 80 million yuan in R&D in three years; the tax bureau guided it to standardise project initiation, ledgers, vouchers and expense write-offs, and it is now one of the few domestic humanoid robot industrial solutions in mass production. Shenhao Technology, which makes smart inspection robots and exports to Singapore, Vietnam and Thailand, received one-firm-one-policy guidance through the Tax Road Connect platform covering orders, customs declarations and foreign exchange receipts.
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Yuhang Tax Authorities Help Embodied AI Firms Stay Compliant on R&D Booking and Export Refunds
The Yuhang District tax bureau in Hangzhou has built a dual-track approach of service improvement and compliance support for the embodied AI industry. For companies facing high-tech enterprise re-certification, officials helped identify tax risk points and clarified how to book R&D activities, high-tech product revenue and R&D personnel. Robot makers with heavy R&D spending were guided to set up full-cycle compliance systems covering project initiation, ledgers, vouchers and expense write-offs. Export-oriented AI equipment makers received one-firm-one-policy compliance guidance via the Tax Road Connect platform, covering applicable rates, export declarations and document filing.
2026-09-22