Nationwide essentials · Leaving China
Shopping & Tax Refund
Eligibility, ordinary and advance refunds, Customs validation and settlement.
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A sales invoice is not a completed departure refund
Before leaving the shop, ask for both the sales invoice and your departure-refund application: 请给我销售发票和离境退税申请单。 / Please give me the sales invoice and departure tax-refund application. Check your identity and the goods before walking away. A normal receipt, duty-free sale, merchant return or payment reversal is not this application.
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Check eligibility before treating the refund as savings
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Ordinary refund or refund-upon-purchase?
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If you accept a refund advance, protect the card hold
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The departure refund sequence
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The mistakes that break the claim
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When the tax-refund path breaks
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Continue to the flight without losing the refund evidence
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