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Prepayments, receivables and other assets | 12 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2015
Prepayments, receivables and other assets |
Prepayments, receivables and other assets | 13. Prepayments, receivables and other assets
|  |  | As of March 31, |
|  |  | 2014 |  | 2015 |
|  |  | (in millions of RMB) |
| Current: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Amounts due from related companies (i) |  |  | 2,160 |  |  | 4,842 |
| VAT receivables (ii) |  |  | 78 |  |  | 3,457 |
| Accounts receivable, net of allowance |  |  | 269 |  |  | 1,067 |
| Deferred direct selling costs (iii) |  |  | 810 |  |  | 809 |
| Interest receivables |  |  | 231 |  |  | 561 |
| Prepaid cost of revenue, sales and marketing expenses and others |  |  | 134 |  |  | 433 |
| Loans and interest receivables from producers of movies and television programs |  |  | — |  |  | 401 |
| Deferred tax assets (Note 7) |  |  | 191 |  |  | 256 |
| Employee loans and advances (iv) |  |  | 109 |  |  | 153 |
| Advances to customers |  |  | 43 |  |  | 128 |
| Prepaid staff costs and individual income tax withholding tax |  |  | 49 |  |  | 101 |
| Deposits for the acquisition on land use rights |  |  | 211 |  |  | — |
| Others |  |  | 394 |  |  | 770 |
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|  |  |  | 4,679 |  |  | 12,978 |
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| Non-current: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Prepayment for acquisition of property and equipment |  |  | 1,099 |  |  | 1,883 |
| Employee loans (iv) |  |  | 503 |  |  | 534 |
| Prepayment for film rights, script agreements and in-production movies and TV episodes |  |  | 36 |  |  | 375 |
| Prepaid upfront fees and debt issuance costs related to long-term borrowings and unsecured senior notes |  |  | — |  |  | 311 |
| Deferred direct selling costs (iii) |  |  | 144 |  |  | 149 |
| Deferred tax assets (Note 7) |  |  | 66 |  |  | 157 |
| Interest rate swaps |  |  | 138 |  |  | — |
| Others |  |  | 101 |  |  | 676 |
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|  |  |  | 2,087 |  |  | 4,085 |
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(i) | Amounts due from related parties primarily represented balances arising from the transactions with Ant Financial Services and its subsidiaries. The balances are unsecured, interest free and repayable within the next twelve months.
(ii) | VAT receivables as of March 31, 2015 mainly represent VAT receivable from relevant PRC tax authorities arising from OneTouch's VAT refund service. OneTouch provides advance settlement of relevant VAT refund amount to its customers prior to receiving such VAT refund from tax authorities. To provide this service, OneTouch relies on short term banking facilities and takes on credit risk if OneTouch fails to recover the prepaid VAT amount.
(iii) | The Company is obligated to pay certain costs upon the receipt of membership fees from merchants or other customers, which primarily consist of sales commissions. The membership fees are initially deferred and recognized as revenue in the consolidated income statements in the period in which the services are rendered. As such, the related costs are also initially deferred and recognized in the consolidated income statements in the same period as the related service fees are recognized.
(iv) | Employee loans mainly represent full recourse, interest-bearing share purchase, option exercise and tax loans, with a term of four to five years, to employees of the Company and its related companies in order to finance their purchase of ordinary shares, exercise of options underlying the ordinary shares as well as payment of related personal taxes. Such employee loans are pledged by ordinary shares owned by the employees and carried interest at market rates. The balance also includes an interest-free loan program, with a term of five years, to eligible employees for purchase of their first residential properties.

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