Legal basis:
Measures of People's Republic of China (PRC) Municipality on Invoice Management
Nineteenth units and individuals that sell goods, provide services and engage in other business activities receive money from foreign operations, and the payee shall issue an invoice to the payer; Under special circumstances, the payer will issue an invoice to the payee.
Twenty-first invoices that do not meet the requirements shall not be used as financial reimbursement vouchers, and any unit or individual has the right to refuse to use them.
Twenty-second invoices shall be issued in accordance with the prescribed time limit, sequence and columns, all of which shall be issued at one time and stamped with special invoices. No unit or individual may commit the following acts of falsely issuing invoices: (1) Issuing invoices that are inconsistent with the actual business conditions for others and themselves; (two) let others issue invoices for themselves that are inconsistent with the actual business situation; (three) introduce others to issue invoices that are inconsistent with the actual business situation.