CORPORATE STRUCTURE AND CASH FLOW
Our corporate organizational chart, as of December 31, 2021, is as follows:
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As of December 31, 2021, the Company have four wholly owned subsidiaries, and
two 51% owned subsidiaries. The shares of each of our subsidiaries are owned by
the respective entity displayed immediately above that subsidiary. Currently,
our corporate structure contains no variable interest entities ("VIE") and we do
not intend to enter into any contractual arrangements to establish a VIE
structure with any entity in the PRC.
Company is a holding company for its operating subsidiaries.
VEI CHN are investment holding companies, and provides IT Business' services and
solutions to the retail sector through its operating subsidiaries located in
Hong Kong, PRC, and Philippines.
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VEI SHG, engage in software development, trading and servicing of computer
hardware and software activities, in Shanghai, PRC. The two 51% subsidiaries of
VEI SHG: 1) VEI HN engages in IT service call-center activities in Hunan, PRC;
and 2) SZH engages in IT services in Shanghai, PRC. Approximately 55% of our
customer cash inflows have been received by VEI SHG and its subsidiaries.
VEI HKG engages in software development, trading and servicing of computer
hardware and software activities in Hong Kong SAR. Approximately 29% of our
customer cash inflows have been received by VEI HKG.
TSI engages in software development, trading and servicing of computer hardware
and software activities in Philippines. Approximately 16% of our customer cash
inflows have been received by TSI.
As such, our Hong Kong subsidiaries, PRC subsidiaries and/or Philippines
subsidiary are funded by its own cash inflows or by capital injection from VEI
CHN upon necessary. Our subsidiaries occasionally purchase goods or services
from intro-group subsidiaries in other geographic location, and payment made
directly into the operating subsidiary which providing goods or services.
As of December 31, 2021, none of our subsidiaries have ever faced difficulties
or limitations on the ability to transfer cash to another subsidiary. We have
implemented cash management policies for all of our subsidiaries, which require
the relevant financial staff to verify that the relevant documents issued by the
requesting staff with the approval of the competent supervisor are qualified,
and then transfer the payment to the cashier upon competent supervisor of the
relevant financial staff. Any voucher will be stamped after payment and the
payee will sign the request for payment as receipt. In addition, all payments
shall be made by remittance, crossed and stamped non-endorsed transfer cheques
except for certain specified cash payables. When transferring any inter-group
funds, the cash management procedures is the same as the cash management
policies for external payment as set out above.
The following are the aggregate intra-group cash flow for the years ended
December 31, 2020 and 2021:
Year Ended
December 31,
From To 2021 2020
US$ US$
VEI CHN VEI HKG 946,090 -
VEI HKG VEI SHG 645,038 11,442
VEI SHG VEI CHN 346,719 -
VEI SHG VEI HN 225,840 106,720
VEI SHG SZH 102,760 20,876
TSI VEI HKG 37,965 54,267
VEI CHN TSI 11,223 -
VEI HKG VEI CHN - 347,507
We do not anticipate paying cash dividends in the foreseeable future on our
common stock. The Company declared and paid a one-time dividend of $0.005 per
shares of Common Stock in 2021. The declaration of dividends on any class of
shares is within the discretion of our board of directors, subject to the Nevada
law, out of legally available funds, and will depend on the assessment of, among
other factors, earnings, capital requirements and our operating and financial
condition. If we determine to pay dividends on any of our capital stock in the
future to our stockholders, we will be dependent on receipt of funds from our
operating subsidiaries. Under the current practice of the Inland Revenue
Department of Hong Kong, no tax is payable in Hong Kong in respect of dividends
paid by the Company.
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Item 9c. Disclosure regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections.
Item 9c is supplemented from disclosures in Form 10-K and Amendment One and
revised as to Amendment Number One as follows:
At an August 15, 2022 meeting of the Audit Committee ("Audit Committee") of the
Board of Directors of the Company, Mr. Wong Shui Yeung was appointed as Chair of
the Audit Committee. As of the date of this Amendment Two, the Audit Committee
members are Wong Tat Keung, Wong Shui Yeung (aka Frankie Wong) and Robert Trapp
- all of whom are non-executive directors of the Company. The Audit Committee is
responsible for monitoring the impact of the Holding Foreign Companies
Accountable Act or "HFCAA" and rules promulgated thereunder on the Company and
to develop a proposed course of action to avoid "delisting" of Common Stock
under the HFCAA.
The Audit Committee will continue to monitor developments and will continue to
evaluate available options for full compliance with the HFCAA within the
requisite timeframe, including designing and implementing business processes and
other changes that are intended to enable the Company to engage an independent
public accounting firm that satisfies the PCAOB inspection requirements under
HFCAA.
The Audit Committee and the Company have not engaged a new public auditor or
ended the existing engagement of the current public auditor as of the date of
the filing of this Amendment Two. The intent of the Company as of the date of
the filing of this Amendment Two is not have its Common Stock delisted from OTC
Venture Market under the HFCAA and applicable SEC rules, or also being barred
from listing or quotation on other U.S. national quotation systems or U.S.
national securities exchanges, as a result of HFCAA and related rules
requirements.
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