Legal basis: Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China
Article 201 A taxpayer who makes false tax returns or fails to make tax returns by deception or concealment and evades paying a large amount of tax, accounting for more than 10% of the tax payable, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall also be fined; If the amount is huge and accounts for more than 30% of the tax payable, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years and shall also be fined. If the withholding agent fails to pay or underpays the tax withheld or collected by the means listed in the preceding paragraph, and the amount is relatively large, it shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph. If the acts mentioned in the preceding two paragraphs have been carried out for many times without treatment, they shall be calculated according to the accumulated amount. Those who commit the acts mentioned in the first paragraph, after the tax authorities have issued a notice of recovery according to law, pay back the tax payable and pay the overdue fine, and have been subject to administrative punishment, shall not be investigated for criminal responsibility; However, except for those who have been subjected to criminal punishment for evading tax payment within five years or have been given administrative punishment by tax authorities for more than two times.
Article 203 Where a taxpayer fails to pay the tax payable by transferring or concealing his property, so that the tax authorities cannot recover the unpaid tax, and the amount is more than 10,000 yuan but less than 100,000 yuan, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also, or shall only, be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the unpaid tax; If the amount is more than 100,000 yuan, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years, and shall also be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the unpaid tax.