Environmental Tax Pilot Scheme For Sewage Charges To Be Changed

In November 9th, the reporter was informed of Jiangxi province. Environmental tax The pilot scheme has been released and the fee to tax scheme is adopted. The main body of the levy is enterprises.

The carbon tax, which had been highly appeals, was not included in the scope of the pilot scheme. Sulphur tax The collection is determined.

However, because the design of environmental tax is complex and controversial, the plan still stays in the simulation stage, far from the actual levy.

Jiangxi provincial finance department official said, at present, Jiangxi's environmental tax pilot scheme tends to "fee to tax", but not all. Sewage charges The whole is changed to tax, and some items will still be charged. collection 。

The main body of environmental tax levy is enterprise rather than individual.

For example, now every household is draining sewage, and the fees for the residents' sewage charges are still in accordance with the original way of charging, with the Levy of water charges, but for enterprises, they will be changed into taxes.

Yang Zhiyong, a researcher at the Institute of Finance and Trade Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that even after taxes were changed from tax to tax, even if the tax rate was the same as the previous rate, it would be possible to raise the burden of enterprises because of the mandatory tax collection.

Relevant departments of the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Finance said that the relevant ministries and commissions have taken into account the affordability of enterprises to the tax burden. In their previous discussions on the relevant ministries and commissions, the general principles of the ministries and commissions on the "fee to tax" scheme were as follows: lightening the tax burden on enterprises and expanding the scope of taxation.

It has been reported that carbon tax is expected to take the lead in the collection of environmental taxes.

"We have not heard of a carbon tax." In this case, the reporter gave evidence of the Jiangxi provincial finance department, and the reply was that the high carbon tax was not at present in the scope of the Jiangxi environmental tax pilot project.

"First, carbon dioxide emissions are not well measured. Two, it is not easy to collect objects. If carbon dioxide is levied on carbon dioxide emissions, that's a problem. " The above said.

"Now the intuitive concept is that the industry has a lot of carbon emissions, but in fact, agriculture, especially animal husbandry, produces a lot of carbon emissions. How to design tax rates? How to design inter industry tax rates? "Liu Shangxi, deputy director of the Financial Science Research Institute of the Ministry of finance, said that the introduction of carbon tax is more difficult.

Jiangxi Provincial Department of Finance said that the current tax items are still under study, which can be determined that sulfur dioxide has been included in the scope of levy.

The person said that although the pilot program has been made, the Ministry of the environment and the relevant ministries and commissions of the Ministry of finance will be invited to discuss the pilot scheme in the province, but there has been no positive or negative response.

"Now there are disputes from taxpayers, objects of Taxation to tax items and tax rates." He has repeatedly stressed that the current pilot scheme is only a simulation of the Levy of environmental taxes, far from the actual operation stage.

Even if the tax items are determined, how to coordinate the environmental departments and tax authorities in the collection and management is also a question. "If the environmental protection department is responsible for monitoring, is the tax department collecting taxes according to the amount monitored by the environmental protection department?"

The environmental tax is slow, and the real levy will take several years, the source said. "The next step may still require the ministries and commissions to push forward. After the ministries and commissions set the tone, we will know how to make further changes."