The Environmental Protection Tax Was Officially Recognized By &Nbsp For The First Time Or Formally Introduced In 12Th Five-Year.

On the 27 day, the Central Committee announced the proposal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on formulating the Twelfth Five Year Plan for national economic and social development (hereinafter referred to as the "proposal").

Lin Boqiang, director of the China Energy Economics Research Center of Xiamen University, told reporters in Nandu that during the period of six months to a year after 12th Five-Year, the environmental protection tax is expected to be unified throughout the country.

12th Five-Year or levy

The proposal put forward that we should speed up the reform of fiscal and taxation system and actively build a favorable way to pform the mode of economic development.

Thus, the environmental protection tax was finally determined.

Ni Weidou, director of the science and Technology Commission of the Ministry of education and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told reporters in an interview with Nandu reporters that the environmental protection tax will be imposed gradually, but it is expected that the progress will not be too fast.

Lin Boqiang, director of the China Energy Economics Research Center of Xiamen University, told reporters in Nandu that the environmental protection tax will be unified throughout the country in 12th Five-Year.

As for the specific timetable, China's environmental and development cooperation committee has made public plans in three stages.

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.

In response, Lin Boqiang said that the implementation of the plan is expected to lag behind the plan for about a year.

The tax rate is lower than that of foreign countries.

Although the levy is clear, there is no specific plan to levy.

Earlier, the National Environmental Planning Institute told the media that the current drafting plan is to digest the market main environmental pollution cost into the market price, that is, turn the cost into a tax rate, and ultimately achieve environmental protection, energy conservation and emission reduction purposes, and in accordance with the principle of "who pollutes and who pays taxes".

In response, Ni Weidou, director of the science and Technology Commission of the Ministry of education and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that the above plan means that the environmental protection tax not only affects the enterprises, but also extends the terminal price of the products, thus affecting the prices. This chain of conduction is very long and involves a wide range and is a very complex system.

Therefore, when we really levy, we need to be very careful and fully consider the impact on the economy.

The collection method, the tax rate, how to measure, how to collect carbon tax and so on should be carefully weighed.

At the same time, relevant legal protection is necessary.

Ni Weidou, for example, used to install sensors to measure carbon emissions in the enterprise, but the enterprise deliberately removed it. "How to solve such problems in tax measurement? How to ensure reasonable measurement?" Ni Weidou said, "all aspects of the design must be well designed."

For tax base, tax rate and so on, Lin Boqiang believes that there is a very mature tax collection system for environmental protection in foreign countries. China can learn from it.

Among them, the tax rate should be lower than foreign countries, and the intensity of levy should be as moderate as possible, so as to avoid having a big impact on the economy.

Before the unified collection of the whole country, the pilot will be conducted first.

Previously, the Ministry of environmental protection of the Ministry of environmental protection revealed to the media that 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 environmental tax levy and trial. Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi and Gansu are expected to pilot, and the tax rate and the scope of the levy will be determined.

Lin Boqiang believes that pilot projects should be conducted in the central, Eastern, Western and developed areas. The pilot will be six months to a year or so to facilitate the accumulation of experience in different regions and prepare for the implementation of the whole country.

Lin Boqiang said that the tax rates in different regions could be different, and the tax rates could vary from place to place.