Is Hubei'S Four Provinces Levying Environmental Taxes Or "Big Thunder And Little Rain"?

Yesterday, the environmental protection planning department of the Ministry of environmental protection was informed that environmental tax research has achieved some results. The Ministry of finance, the State Administration of Taxation and the Ministry of environmental protection will submit a request to the State Council for the introduction and pilot of environmental taxes.

According to the Environmental Planning Institute, the state

Participants included experts who participated in the design of environmental tax schemes in China, as well as local tax administration officials from 4 environmental tax pilot areas in Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi and Gansu.

The meeting revealed that at present, the environmental tax research has achieved some results. Three ministries and commissions will submit a request for environmental tax levy and trial to the State Council.

Reporters have not yet received detailed texts on the introduction of environmental taxes and pilot schemes.

However, the experts said that the current environmental tax system design plan is to give full consideration to the actual situation of China's sewage enterprises and the actual situation of tax collection and management, and is more pragmatic and forward-looking.

However, some experts said that there are still some specific details in the plan, such as the determination of the tax rate, the determination of the scope of levy, the coordination and coordination mechanism between the environmental protection and taxation departments, the setting up of tax relief and so on, which need further consideration.

Ministry of finance, State Administration of Taxation and

In line with the plan of the Ministry of environmental protection this year, it will continue to work closely with the financial departments and tax departments. In accordance with the design mode of the environmental tax system and the collection mode of environmental taxes designed in the construction plan of the collection and management system, we will select typical regions to carry out the pilot work of environmental tax collection.

On the one hand, experts and scholars and local tax cadres should make comments and suggestions on the design scheme of the environmental tax system from the perspective of theory and practice, so as to further improve the tax system and better coordinate the relationship between taxes and departments.

On the other hand, it is to let grass-roots tax departments timely understand the process of environmental tax levy and pilot work, and make corresponding knowledge reserves, talent reserves and technology reserves, so as to create conditions for the smooth progress of the next pilot work.

In recent years,

Wang Hui, lecturer at Law School of Shanghai Maritime Univeristy, said: "the environmental problems in reality are much more complicated than the environmental problems in the theoretical hypothesis."

For example, Wang Hui said, for example, the degree of environmental damage caused by a pollutant is often related to the quantity of pollutants discharged and the regional layout of pollutants, which is related to the media of pollutant emission, and is related to the nature and value of the behavior of pollutant emissions, and even to the specific location of pollution sources.

"When we affirm the role of the environmental tax, we should not exaggerate the actual effect of the environmental tax."

Wang Jinnan, vice president of the Environmental Planning Department of the Ministry of environmental protection, said before that the biggest difficulty in designing environmental taxes is the determination of tax base (pollution discharge).

It should be determined by the environmental protection department or determined by the tax department.

Wang Jinnan believes that the introduction of environmental taxes should not be haste to succeed. It is best to find one or two provinces to conduct pilot projects in the near future.

As for the specific timetable for the implementation of the environmental tax, China's International Cooperation Committee on environment and development has put forward a road map and a specific timetable for China to establish relevant environmental tax system in three stages.

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In the first stage, we will improve resource tax, consumption tax, travel tax and other environmental related taxes in 3~5 years.

As soon as possible, independent environmental taxes will be introduced. Sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon dioxide and wastewater discharge will be the possible choice of environmental tax items.

In the second stage, we will further improve other environmental related taxes and tax policies in 2~4 years.

Expand the scope of environmental tax collection.

If the environmental tax is not introduced in the first stage, it needs to be introduced at this stage.

The third stage, 3~4 years, will continue to expand the scope of environmental tax collection.

Combined with the reform of the environment tax system, we should make overall optimization so as to build up a mature and perfect environmental tax system.