Offenses on tax crimes in MLA requests to Hong Kong 2013-2017

In 2017, a total of 33 offenses concerning tax crimes were related to incoming mutual legal assistance (MLA) requests to Hong Kong. Financial crimes including fraud, money laundering and tax crimes accounted for a large share of the MLA requests. As an essential financial hub in the world, Hong Kong is also facing increasing problems of money laundering, terrorist financing and other illegal financial crimes.

于2017年，共计33起涉及税务犯罪的案件与香港的入境法律互助请求（MLA）相关。包括欺诈、洗钱及税务犯罪在内的金融犯罪占据了MLA请求的较大比例。作为世界级的金融中心，香港亦正面临洗钱、恐怖主义融资及其他非法金融犯罪问题日益严重的挑战。