How does paypal resolve the issue of "Legal Invoice"?
What is the issue ? You are providing a service ( translation of documents into English ) and are to be paid for this service once you submit an invoice. Instead of "buying" a fake invoice, try to go through any legal translation office, they may provide you the required "fapiao" at a certain fee. That will be legal and will meet the payer's requirements.

Never -- ever -- trust any of the Chinese hacks here spamming visa / legal / financial services. They are all fraud artists.

Your problem has a very safe, simple and legal solution. Fa piaos for informal freelance services are issued directly by -- and ONLY by -- the Tax Bureau itself. You go to the tax bureau with your ID and give the the entity that will pay you and the amount they will pay you. The tax authorities issue a fa piao and you pay the appropriate income tax on the amount. That is the ONLY legal method that does not involve you committing fraud.

It is really nice of you to offer to make money at the expense of the original poster.

Unfortunately you fail to understand how personal services fa piaos operate. As a freelancer the OP is not in any way required to have a registered company or any certification to obtain a fa piao for freelance work. The process is rather simple: any person with a pulse shows up at the tax bureau and requests to obtain a fa piao for personal services rendered. The tax bureau does ask for your name, ID number and the legal name of the company for which you are performing services, but you are not asked to produce said ID and thus what visa status you are on is irrelevant.

The tax bureau will tell you the fee / tax due, you pay it and they give you the fa piao which you then deliver to the client who pays you. The first 800 RMB per month is tax free.

Trolling for business is fine, but next time you might want to get your story straight before trying to sucker someone for a piece of their pie.

I'm sorry that your business is doing so poorly that you have to troll here confusing people with how they can conduct their business by giving you a cut.

Actually our business is doing so well that I will waste no more time responding to you.

Isn't it a bit unethical to use a Caduceus in your logo?

Does your consulting have something to do with medical care? If it doesn't then I do not think it is appropriate to use a Caduceus to advertise yourself.

I am not using my avatar to earn money. It is just a representation of my online persona. The Caduceus is a world wide symbol of medicine and what is accepted by people. You are defrauding people by using a false representation of yourself. CHANGE IT!

Wow, you really have no life! As you may not have bothered to read the text that you so lovingly quoted. It is not a symbol of medicine, but in fact a representation of printing, writing, negotiation and commerce. It also has something to do with my personal beliefs, which are my right to express. I also fail to see how a literary consultancy could be construed as having any thing to do with the medical field. Nor can I fathom how it is any business of yours.

It is MISTAKENLY used in the United States as a medical symbol simply because some patch designer for the army was apparently about as well educated as yourself, and made a mistake many moons ago. For thousands of years it has had the meaning I quoted. As most of my clients are reasonably well educated, I have never had an issue with it. I have also never implied that it has anything to do with medicine, it is simply your ignorance that makes it seems so.

There exists in this wide world a winemaker, a marketing firm and a software company that are all called caduceus. In your arrogant ignorance would you also demand that they change their symbols to suit your silliness and internet tough guy syndrome?

I have run a honest and successful business for several years now. I have done neither of you any harm , yet you make demands of me and show contempt and hostility. Your immaturity and lack of reasonable behavior mean that no matter how often or thoroughly you are wrong, you will never change; meaning that you will never have any joy in your life nor any real wisdom in your atrophied minds. I have never defrauded anyone in my life. I have many happy clients and do not seek or require your approval. An adult need not demean himself by giving in to petulant children. I actually feel sorry for you both. A little.

Great, now we have a whole brigade of trolls and an ass-puppet extraordinaire who would do well to take seriously his / her / its Literacy Volunteer.

If your business is that bad that you have to troll the forums looking for suckers to give you a couple of hundred kuai for what you can easily do yourself -- much like the other visa / legal trolls that have permeated the forum -- why not just pay for an ad or something?

And yes, retard, it really is easy to get the tax bureau to give you a fa piao and, no, they do not keep a copy of your ID in the process.

I really don't understand why you find it necessary to resort to name calling such as this. Seriously? Retard? Are you gonna try to take my lunch money at morning recess now?

I also don't know why you find it so incomprehensible that someone can make strong contacts by actually being nice to others in the business. Has it never occurred to you that doing small favors for people helps build a potential client or employee? I also cannot fathom why you are ignoring the fact the we never asked for payment.

I know how hard it can be to get started in this business and enjoy talking to and helping others, its called professional courtesy. Courtesy, being a word that you are apparently unfamiliar with, means not 'being a d***', in your parlance.

Why compete with everyone when you can work together? Why be an a-hole when you can be nice? Why have access to a website such as this and not take a look at what potential clients may be needing? Why not use it for what it's for, to connect with others?

I will also make a concession or confession, if you prefer. I mentioned the i.d. copy without consulting my wife, because I was (rightfully) a bit rankled at you suggesting my wife is a fraud. I spoke out of turn and was wrong. It appears that they seldom, if ever, actually expect you to produce the i.d.I asked her and she agreed with you. I was simply speaking from my own experiences with Chinese bureaucracies. They are unpredictable and shift policy with the wind.

It is however, still technically against the law for a foreigner to do freelance work without the proper visa and certification or a registered company. But none of this really matters.

Sorry yam, my wife was only trying to help. You are still free to contact me with more info if you might be available for some freelance work in the future. That is of course, if these two haven't put you off. We will continue to do business our way, which has been considered honest and reliable for over 10 years now.

And ulysses, thanks for the ass puppetry buddy , but don't waste your time.

On that, at least, we can agree.

It's time to leave the office. Goodnight Jonboy.

i prefer the ladies in front of the subway exit at haidian saying "fapiao fapiao..."