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Profit Appropriation | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2021
Profit Appropriation [Abstract] |
Profit Appropriation | 22. PROFIT APPROPRIATION The Sohu Group’s China-based subsidiaries and VIEs are required to make appropriations to certain non-distributable reserve funds. On March 15, 2019, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of the PRC issued the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Foreign Investment (the “Foreign Investment Law”), which took effect on January 1, 2020 and replaced the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Foreign Investment Enterprises , promulgated on April 12, 1986 and most recently amended on September 3, 2016 (the “Replaced Foreign Investment Enterprises Law”), and certain other laws and regulations relating to foreign investment. On December 12, 2019, the State Council of the PRC also issued the Implementing Regulations of the Foreign Investment Law., which became effective on January 1, 2020. Under the China Foreign Investment Enterprises Laws and its supplemental regulations those of the Group’s China-based subsidiaries that are considered under PRC law to be WFOEs are required to make appropriations from their after-tax profit as determined under generally accepted accounting principles in the PRC (the “after-tax-profit under PRC GAAP”) to non-distributable reserve funds, including (i) a general reserve fund and (ii) a staff bonus and welfare fund. Each year, at least 10% of the after-tax-profit under PRC GAAP is required to be set aside as general reserve fund until such appropriations for the fund equal 50% of the registered capital of the applicable entity. The appropriation for the other reserve fund is at the Group’s discretion as determined by each entity. Alternatively, after January 1, 2020, those China-based subsidiaries of the Group that are wholly foreign-owned enterprises may choose to make appropriations from their after-tax-profit under PRC GAAP to non-distributable reserve funds, including a statutory surplus fund and a discretionary surplus fund, in compliance with the requirements of the Company Law of the PRC (the “Company Law”) that apply to PRC domestically-funded enterprises. Pursuant to the Company Law, those of the Group’s China-based subsidiaries that are considered under PRC law to be domestically funded enterprises, as well as the Group’s VIEs, are required to make appropriations from their after-tax-profit under PRC GAAP to non-distributable reserve funds, including a statutory surplus fund and a discretionary surplus fund. Each year, at least 10% of the after-tax-profit under PRC GAAP is required to be set aside as statutory surplus fund until such appropriations for the fund equal 50% of the registered capital of the applicable entity. The appropriation for the discretionary surplus fund is at the Company’s discretion as determined by each entity. Upon certain regulatory approvals and subject to certain limitations, the general reserve fund and the statutory surplus fund can be used to offset prior year losses, if any, and can be converted into paid-in capital of the applicable entity. For the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, the total amount of profits contributed to these funds by the Group was $0.1 million, $0.4 million and $10.4 million, respectively. As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, the total amount of profits contributed to these funds by the Group was $57.2 million and $81.1 million, respectively. As a result of these and other restrictions under PRC laws and regulations, the Group’s China-based subsidiaries and VIEs are restricted in their ability to transfer a portion of their net assets in the form of non-distributable reserve funds to the Company in the form of dividends, loans or advances. Even though the Company currently does not require any such dividends, loans or advances from its China-based subsidiaries and VIEs for working capital and other funding purposes, the Company may in the future require additional cash resources from its China-based subsidiaries and VIEs due to changes in business conditions, to fund future acquisitions and development, or to declare and pay dividends to or make distributions to its shareholders.

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