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Taxes Payable | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Taxes Payable [Abstract] |
TAXES PAYABLE | 9. TAXES PAYABLE Taxes payable consisted of the following as of December 31, 2017 and 2016:
|  | 2017 |  |  | 2016 |
Income - current |  | $ | 1,097,768 |  |  | $ | 773,397 |
VAT |  |  | 1,145,363 |  |  |  | 366,230 |
Other |  |  | 180,649 |  |  |  | 63,050 |
Total - current |  |  | 2,423,780 |  |  |  | 1,202,677 |
Income - noncurrent |  | $ | 6,998,625 |  |  | $ | - |
Income tax payable consisted approximately $7.60 million tax expense ($0.61 million current and $6.99 million noncurrent) from recording the estimated one-time transition tax on post-1986 foreign unremitted earnings under the Tax Cut and Jobs Act signed on December 22, 2017. An election is available for the US shareholder of foreign company to pay the tax liability in installments over a period of eight years with 8% of net tax liability in the first five years, 15% in the sixth year, 20% in the seventh year, and 25% in the eighth year.

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