The tax registration certificate refers to the registration certificate issued by a taxpayer engaged in production or business operations when applying for tax registration to the competent tax authorities in the place where the production or business operations or tax obligations occur. Taxpayers must hold tax registration certificates when opening bank accounts, applying for tax reduction, exemption, tax refund and other matters, except those that do not need to issue tax registration certificates according to regulations. Taxpayers shall publicly hang the original tax registration certificate in their production, business operation or office places and accept the inspection by the tax authorities.

According to the deployment of the State Council, starting from 20 16 12 1, the business license and tax registration certificate of individual industrial and commercial households will be integrated nationwide.

Business license is a certificate issued by the administrative department for industry and commerce to industrial and commercial enterprises and individual operators to engage in certain production and business activities. Its format shall be uniformly stipulated by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce.

The registered items include: name, address, person in charge, amount of funds, economic composition, business scope, business mode, number of employees, business period, etc. Business licenses are divided into originals and duplicates, which have the same legal effect. The original shall be placed in a prominent position in the company's domicile or business premises, and the business license shall not be forged, altered, leased, lent or transferred.

Without a business license, industrial and commercial enterprises or individual operators are not allowed to start business, engrave official seals, sign contracts, register trademarks or advertise, and banks are not allowed to open accounts.