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  "title": "Beijing tax rule is slowing Hong Kong’s insurance sales to mainlanders, official says",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/beijing-tax-rule-is-slowing-hong-kongs-insurance-sales-to-mainlanders",
  "topic": "finance",
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  "published": "2026-11-13T00:00:22.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "SCMP Business",
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    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3374248/beijing-tax-rule-slowing-hong-kongs-insurance-sales-mainlanders-official-says"
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  "summary": "Beijing’s newly enforced tax rules put off mainland visitors from buying insurance policies in Hong Kong in the third quarter of the year, according to Insurance Authority CEO Clement Cheung Wan-ching. “We have seen some mainlanders taking a wait-and-see approach to buying insurance policies in Hong Kong as they need time to study the tax rules,” he said during a media briefing at an insurance…",
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