NDRC: Environmental Tax May Be Introduced During The "12Th Five-Year" Period

　　 Jie Zhenhua, deputy director of the national development and Reform Commission, said yesterday. The 12th Five-Year "Environmental protection tax may be introduced", "relevant departments are actively studying".

This year, in the context of energy saving and emission reduction, the attention of all parties to environmental taxes has been increasing. The CPC Central Committee's proposal for formulating the Twelfth Five Year Plan for national economic and social development clearly stated that during the "12th Five-Year" period, the study on levying environmental protection tax and alleviating it Environmental pressure 。 Minister of finance Xie Xuren also made clear that the "12th Five-Year" period will be studied. Environmental tax 。

Levying environmental tax is only a matter of time. However, there is no clear way for the specific way of collecting taxes from the competent authorities. Liu Shangxi, deputy director of the Finance Department of the Ministry of finance, said that the most likely way to levy taxes is to set up a unified national tax system after the establishment of tax rates and tax bases. Yang Zhiyong, a researcher at the Institute of Finance and trade of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, also believes that the introduction of environmental taxes is not necessary.

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On the 21 day, Xinhua news agency was authorized to issue the notice of the State Council on stabilizing the general level of consumer prices and ensuring the basic livelihood of the masses. The circular requires all localities and relevant departments to take 16 measures in a timely manner to further improve the supervision and control of price regulation, stabilize market prices and ensure the basic livelihood of the masses.

The 16 measures include: vigorously developing agricultural production, stabilizing the supply of agricultural and sideline products, reducing the circulation of agricultural and sideline products, ensuring the supply of chemical fertilizer and production, coordinating the work of coal and oil and gas transportation, issuing temporary subsidies for prices, establishing social assistance and ensuring linkage mechanism between standards and price increases, continuing to implement the provisions of standardizing the charges, actively and steadily pushing forward the price reform, standardizing the operation of agricultural products and deep processing order, strengthening the supervision of agricultural futures and electronic trading market, improving the price regulation and regulation, strengthening the supervision and inspection of price and anti price monopoly enforcement, perfecting the price information release system, earnestly implementing the responsibility system of the "rice bag" governor, the mayor responsibility system of "vegetable basket", and establishing the inter ministerial joint conference system of market price regulation.