{"id":71924,"date":"2025-05-22T17:17:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T08:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/22\/hong-kong-authorities-disrupt-independent-press-inland-revenue-tax-audits"},"modified":"2025-05-22T17:17:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T08:17:01","slug":"hong-kong-authorities-trying-to-disrupt-independent-press-with-strange-tax-audits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71924","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong authorities trying to disrupt independent press with \u2018strange\u2019 tax audits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inland revenue targets eight outlets, union, 20 journalists and their families with supposed \u2018random\u2019 checks<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong authorities have targeted journalists and media outlets with what are supposed to be \u201crandom\u201d tax audits, in a move the industry union says adds pressure to waning press freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, Selina Cheng, detailed what she said were \u201cstrange\u201d and \u201cunreasonable\u201d accusations by Hong Kong\u2019s inland revenue department. Requests or audits were made against the association, at least eight independent media outlets, and at least 20 journalists and their family members, including Cheng and her parents, she said at a press conference on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/22\/hong-kong-authorities-disrupt-independent-press-inland-revenue-tax-audits\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inland revenue targets eight outlets, union, 20 journalists and their families with supposed \u2018random\u2019 checksHong Kong authorities have targeted journalists and media outlets with what are supposed to be \u201crandom\u201d tax audits, in a move the industry union&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,48,238,54,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-media","category-press-freedom","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71925,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71924\/revisions\/71925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}