Alipay: expand the international market to provide overseas shopping tax services

Alipay recently announced with the Global Blue Alliance reached a strategic cooperation, joint promotion Alipay overseas tax rebate services. Consumption of consumers in Europe and other places for shopping, you can use Alipay for tax rebates, tax rebate as soon as 10 working days credited to Alipay, and support Alipay purse real-time view to account the situation.

According to reports, France, Britain, Germany, Italy and South Korea's Global Blue Alliance tax rebate merchants have supported Alipay overseas tax rebate services. Alipay said that in Europe, businesses that support shopping rebates generally affix the "Tax Free" sign, and as long as the "Alipay" cellphone number printed on the tax return signifies that the merchant supports Alipay's overseas tax rebate service , You can apply for tax rebates by Alipay.

Alipay relevant person in charge, "the use of the service, consumers only need to complete the tax refund Alipay bound phone number, passport number and Chinese pinyin and other information before leaving the tax refund to the Customs inspection and stamping, and Delivery to the airport designated mailbox, you can complete within 10 working days, the tax rebate can be credited to Alipay account. And there is credited into account information. The whole process is about 3 times faster than the general credit card tax rebate.

At present, there are more than 50 countries and regions in the world to implement shopping tax refunds. The tax refunds are mainly cash rebates and credit card refunds. The former is more complicated and requires long queues at the designated refunding points, and often receives a large amount of Currency exchange and cash withdrawal fee; the latter need to wait 1-3 months to arrive. In contrast, the new Alipay overseas tax rebate service is more simple and efficient. According to statistics, nearly a third of Chinese tourists last year did not receive tax rebates after shopping in Europe, accumulating as much as 1 billion yuan.

PJ McNair International vice president Peng Yi Czech said last year Alipay has implemented a tax rebate service in South Korea, has also been 10 million people have used the service, the effect was as expected.

Alipay official said Alipay is actively expanding the international market, not only tax rebates, but also in the study and other aspects of hope to launch the appropriate services, the future will be launched in Alipay wallet more mobile tax refund service applications.