Trading company
Mainland suppliers, overseas buyers and a Hong Kong company in the middle.
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Company profiles
Constructed educational scenarios showing which documents answer which question.
Briefing
Why profiles
Requirements make more sense attached to a business. Each profile is a constructed educational scenario — not a client story — that follows one business model through the questions a bank, an auditor and the IRD tend to ask, and the documents that answer them.
Reading a profile
The evidence-chain method
State the activity
One sentence describing what the company sells, to whom, from where.
Ask the questions
What does it sell? Who supplies it? Who pays? Where does money move? Where are decisions made?
Attach the evidence
For each question, the document that answers it — and who issues that document.
Check the consistency
The same names, amounts and dates should appear across every document.
FAQ
Questions readers ask
Are the profiles based on real companies?
No. They are constructed educational scenarios designed to show which documents answer which onboarding and compliance questions.
Can I use a profile as a checklist?
As a starting point. Each institution and adviser may ask for more depending on the specific facts.
Will you add more business models?
Yes — profiles are added when the evidence chain differs meaningfully from existing ones.
Do profiles cover tax treatment?
They note where facts matter for profits tax, but they are not tax opinions.
Sources
Primary references
- Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Ordinance (Cap. 615)Checked 2026-11-12
- IRD — profits taxChecked 2026-11-12
- Companies RegistryChecked 2026-11-12