After entering the new period of reform and opening, to attract and utilize foreign investment and speed up the development of economy, preferential tax policies have been adopted for various foreign-invested enterprises in China. But with the globalization of economy and the establishment and improvement of market economy system in china, the preferential tax policies that are at the cost of sacrificing national wealth have incurred a lot of defects, such as the flow-out of national wealth, unequal competition of inland and foreign enterprise. At this situation, China puts forward the policy of unifying of tax law. People worry that it will affect FDI in China.
Firstly, this paper tells us the background of unification of enterprise income tax. Then it analyzes the influence to FDI by enterprise income tax from theory and living example in other countries. Combined with the practice of China, it discusses the influence to FDI by the enforcement of the unification of tax law, from tow sides: in the short term and long term. In the end, this paper gives some suggestions about how to attract FDI successfully after unifying the inland and foreign enterprise income tax.
[Key words] enterprise income tax; FDI; unification of tax law