Box office cheating ban
Xinhua | 2014-1-23 1:03:01
China's movie watchdog confirmed on Wednesday that it has issued a circular with new rules to prevent box office fraud.
Earlier this month, the administrators defined a detailed standard on the technicalities of managing cinema ticket sales to prevent tax avoidance through falsification of numbers of movie-goers and reporting of artificially reduced ticket sales.
Film distributors should conduct routine inspections of cinemas and report those who break the rules immediately. Persistent offenders may have their licenses revoked.
These frauds are often facilitated through the use of illegal software offering double systems to cheat on sales.
All ticketing software must be upgraded before May 1. Disqualified software will not be allowed. An upgrade to the national digital ticketing platform will be completed by that date.
Xinhua
