"Fee To Tax" Burden Reduction Action: Over 100 Administrative Fees To Be Abolished

In October 28th, at the news conference of the new China office, Zhu Hongren, spokesman of the Ministry of industry and commerce, said that as a large proportion of the total number of SMEs, there are still some problems such as difficulty in financing and heavy burden of tax burden.

An official of the Ministry of industry who did not want to be named revealed to the China times that in the "12th Five-Year plan", there was a heavy description of tax reduction and reduction in fees, which involved more than 100 administrative and institutional fees for cancelling and stopping collection.

Our reporter was informed that on the basis of cleaning up the existing government fees, some taxes with characteristics of taxes would be replaced by taxes, and a new variety of additional taxes may be formed. The scheme of "fee to tax" has been drafted and will be submitted to the State Council and the Central Commission for Discipline inspection before the end of December.

It is worth noting that the recently released CPC Central Committee's proposal on the formulation of the 12th Five-Year plan also referred to the reform of "continuing to push fees to taxes".

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"The inspection team is also investigating everywhere."

The official of the Ministry of industry and information said to our reporter, "the inspection team was established in June, a total of 5, led by the Ministry of industry and information, the national development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of supervision, the Ministry of Finance and the General Administration of quality supervision and inspection. The leading comrades of the leading units at the bureau level are the group leaders, and the members are the relevant comrades of the members of the leading group of the special management work."

According to the briefing, 5 inspection teams went to the eastern, central and western provinces to investigate. Each group is responsible for 2 to 3 provinces. The main task is to supervise and reduce the completion of the special management work of the enterprise burden and the implementation of the relevant policies and measures of the Central Committee on small and medium-sized enterprises.

At the same time, the inspection team also focused on the outstanding problems existing in the current enterprise burden.

A person who participated in the inspection disclosed to this newspaper that after the previous investigation, the implementation of the policies in the eastern provinces was better than that in the central part, while the central part was better than the western ones.

In general, the less developed areas of private economy, the heavier the burden of enterprises. Among them, the three provinces in Gansu, Guizhou and Yunnan have the highest tax burden.

At the symposium with the inspection team, officials from the relevant departments of Guizhou province also admitted that some functional departments had heavy approval, light service, heavy charges, light work and low efficiency, and there were still "arbitrary fines, arbitrary charges and arbitrary apportionment".

Reporters learned from the Ministry of industry and commerce that there are three stages to carry out the special management activities to reduce the burden on Enterprises: to carry out supervision and clearance before the end of August, and 9 to October to propose policy measures to eliminate and reduce burdens, and to intensify inspection efforts in December.

The "non tax burden" of enterprises is heavy.

"An enterprise with an annual profit of 1 million should pay 550 thousand yuan a year, but this is not all. In addition, there are about 200000 miscellaneous fees and heavy burden on enterprises."

The official of the Ministry of industry said.

Those who participated in the inspection said that in addition to paying taxes, enterprises should also undertake administrative and business charges, such as the business sector, environmental protection department, quality supervision department, public security and health security departments. The burden of enterprises is not only heavy but also very complicated.

How many unreasonable charges are there every year in the whole country? There is no public data statistics yet.

But according to Zhou Tianyong, a central Party School professor, it is estimated that the cost of paying rent outside the government departments is not less than 800 billion yuan.

Derek Tsang, President of Beijing finance and Taxation Research Institute, thinks that China's macro tax burden is around 23%, which is not high compared with that of developed countries.

However, the problem is mainly concentrated on "miscellaneous taxes". Governments at all levels issue various administrative charges, which do not include arbitrary charges.

The combination of positive tax, quasi taxation and miscellaneous taxes constitutes a rather heavy macro tax burden.

He said.

In the most developed areas of private economy, Zhou Dewen, President of Wenzhou SME Development Association, is deeply impressed by the burden on enterprises.

In October 28th, Zhou Dewen told an interview with our reporter that at present, the taxes and fees of small and medium-sized enterprises are too high and the burden is serious. These heavy obstacles prevent the development of enterprises. At this stage, the development of small and medium-sized enterprises in Wenzhou is very depressed, and the profit can only reach 1% to 3%.

12th Five-Year intends to push "fee to tax"

This reporter learned from the Ministry of industry and information, the leading group will summarize the special management work on the basis of summarizing the situation of various regions and relevant departments, put forward suggestions and suggestions for further improving the burden reduction work of enterprises, and submit it to the State Council and the Central Commission for discipline inspection before the end of December.

"In the 12th Five-Year plan, we made a heavy description of tax reduction and reduction of fees, which involved more than 100 administrative and institutional fees for cancelling and stopping collection."

The above official told the newspaper, "on this basis, we will replace some taxes with tax characteristics with tax revenue, and may form a new variety of additional taxes."

Bao Yujun, a consultant to China's private (private) Enterprise Research Association, also said: "administrative fees are far from being cleaned up. The State Administration of Taxation and industry and commerce departments should thoroughly clean up from top to bottom."

In fact, every 2 to 3 years, our country will organize a special work to reduce the burden of enterprises, but the burden reduction of enterprises has not yet gone out of the "governance expansion" - "re governance" - the "vicious circle".

In some people's view, the reason why enterprises' burden reduction has never been able to get out of the strange circle is that excessive fees are placed on the "campaign style" governance. If the "fee to tax" is included in the "12th Five-Year", the problem can be completely solved.