NOTE 9 – TAXES PAYABLE

Enterprise Income Tax

Effective January 1, 2008, the Enterprise Income Tax (“EIT”) law of the PRC replaced the tax laws for Domestic Enterprises (“DEs”) and Foreign Invested Enterprises (“FIEs”). The EIT rate of 25% replaced the 33% rate that was applicable to both DEs and FIEs. The two year tax exemption and three year 50% tax reduction tax holiday for production-oriented FIEs was eliminated. Since January 1, 2008, Jinong became subject to income tax in China at a rate of 15% as a high-tech company, as a result of the expiration of its tax exemption on December 31, 2007. Accordingly, it made provision for income taxes for the nine months ended March 31, 2016 and 2015 of $2,701,887 and $3,581,931, respectively, which is mainly due to the operating income from Jinong. Gufeng is subject to 25% EIT rate and thus it made provision for income taxes of $2,465,010 and $2,790,829 for the nine months ended March 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively.

Value-Added Tax

All of the Company’s fertilizer products that are produced and sold in the PRC were subject to a Chinese Value-Added Tax (VAT) of 13% of the gross sales price. On April 29, 2008, the PRC State of Administration of Taxation (SAT) released Notice #56, “ Exemption of VAT for Organic Fertilizer Products ”, which allows certain fertilizer products to be exempt from VAT beginning June 1, 2008. The Company submitted the application for exemption in May 2009, which was granted effective September 1, 2009, continuing through December 31, 2015. On August 10, 2015 and August 28, 2015, the SAT released Notice #90. “ Reinstatement of VAT for Fertilizer Products ”, and Notice #97, “ Supplementary Reinstatement of VAT for Fertilizer Products ”, which restore the VAT of 13% of the gross sales price on certain fertilizer products starting from September 1, 2015, but granted tax payers a reduced rate of 3% from September 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016.

Income Taxes and Related Payables

Taxes payable consisted of the following:

	March 31,		June 30,
	2016		2015
VAT provision	$	48,938	$	27,251
Income tax payable		3,123,472		3,778,339
Other levies		677,902		698,952
Total	$	3,850,312	$	4,504,542

Tax Rate Reconciliation

Our effective tax rates were approximately 24.7% and 23.3% for the nine months ended March 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively. Substantially all of the Company’s income before income taxes and related tax expense are from PRC sources. Actual income tax benefit reported in the consolidated statements of income and comprehensive income differ from the amounts computed by applying the US statutory income tax rate of 34% to income before income taxes for the nine months ended March 31, 2016 and 2015, as shown in the following tables:

March 31, 2016

	China				United States
	15% - 25%				34%				Total

Pretax income (loss)	$	24,931,875			$	(3,973,888)			$	20,957,987

Expected income tax expense (benefit)		6,232,969	25	%		(1,351,122)	34.0	%		4,881,847
High-tech income benefits on Jinong		(1,729,430)	(6.94)	%		-	-			(1,729,430)
Losses from subsidiaries in which no benefit is recognized		663,358	2.66	%		-	-			663,358
Change in valuation allowance on deferred tax asset from US tax benefit		-				1,351,122	(34.0)	%		1,351,122
Actual tax expense	$	5,166,897	21	%	$	-	-	%	$	3,061,993	24.7	%

March 31, 2015

	China				United States
	15% - 25%				34%				Total

Pretax income (loss)	$	35,186,323			$	(7,472,676)			$	27,713,647

Expected income tax expense (benefit)		8,796,581	25.0	%		(2,540,710)	34.0	%		6,255,871
High-tech income benefits on Jinong		(2,305,732)	(6.6)	%		-	-			(2,305,732)
Losses from subsidiaries in which no benefit is recognized		(40,527)	(0.1)	%		-	-			(40,527)
Change in valuation allowance on deferred tax asset from US tax benefit		-				2,540,170	(34.0)	%		2,540,710
Actual tax expense	$	6,450,322	18.3	%	$	-	-	%	$	6,540,322	23.3	%