Nearly 170 Thousand Public Interest Issues Have Been Paid Attention To.

　　 Individual income tax Nearly 170 thousand opinions have been received so far since the draft amendments have been solicited. According to observation and analysis, netizens pay close attention to and participate in the tax reform, which is embodied in the topic of "whether the 3000 yuan threshold is too low under current inflation pressure".

　 Nearly 170 thousand views on public interest have been received.

From the solicitation opinions published in the China People's Congress network, it has been found that since the draft of the draft amendment to the 25 day personal income tax law has been publicly solicited, the number of comments received has been 169459, reflecting the public's high concern and participation in the tax reform.

In April 25th, the office of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress promulgated the "People's Republic of China personal income tax law amendment (Draft)" to solicit opinions from the community. According to the people's Daily Overseas Edition, the enthusiasm of the public is very high. The web page that was able to login in the afternoon was hard to open and almost paralyzed.

It is reported that the first day of the draft amendment to the draft personal income tax law has reached more than 100 thousand opinions.

Although on the Chinese people's Congress website, there is no way to find out what specific opinions the public has put forward. However, a comprehensive media report has found that the public's concerns about whether the tax exemption is raised to 3000 yuan is reasonable, whether the secondary adjustment is aggravating the burden of the middle income group and so on is most concerned about the interests of the people's livelihood. {page_break}

　　 Is the 3000 yuan exemption amount reasonable?

According to the Draft Tax amendment bill, the standard of deduction of wages and salaries (i.e. exemption) increased from 2000 yuan per month to 3000 yuan per month. But many media and the public have pointed out that according to the current Inflation level This is "obviously low".

According to the former Nanfang Daily, Xie Xuren, the Minister of finance, said that after the adjustment of personal tax, the proportion of the workers earning income to the total wage earners would be reduced from 28% to 12%, but according to the data released by the National Bureau of statistics, the average monthly wage of the employees in cities and towns in the first quarter of 2010 has reached 2754 yuan, thus it can be concluded that the monthly salary of 3000 yuan in the whole country is not a high income.

And relevant departments have also surveyed, 7 of respondents believe that the tax threshold of 3000 yuan is too low. They believe that the adjusted working class is still the main body of taxation. Many scholars suggested that the exemption should be increased to at least 5000 yuan per month.

The Ministry of finance has also indicated that if the exemption of personal tax is raised to 5000 yuan, only 3% of taxpayers will pay taxes. However, experts generally believe that it is known to all that personal income tax is a tax category that aims at "robbing the rich and helping the poor" as the original intention and main function of the legislation. The meaning of personal tax is not to let most people. pay taxes And it is to let a few wealthy people pay more taxes.

In this regard, most netizens also indicated that the threshold of 3000 yuan was "too low". Some netizens think: "I think we need to transfer to 5000 yuan, so that sunshine wages will be reasonably entered into the cost, so as not to breed false accounting accounts, leading some enterprises to falsely report profits, hide their income, and bring to the country more than just a personal tax problem." Inflation is so fast. 3000 yuan to levy, so that low-income people when to enter a well-off? " Most netizens expressed similar concerns. {page_break}

Is it appropriate for the tax rate to be adjusted to 7?

In addition, the draft proposes to amend the 9 step excess progressive tax rate of the current wage income to 7 grades, abolish the 15% and 40% two stall rates, expand the 5% and 10% two low tax rates, and expand the coverage of the highest tax rate 45%. After adjustment, the tax burden of the middle and low wage earners is reduced, but the tax burden of the high wage earners is improved. It is estimated that the monthly income of 19 thousand yuan is the critical point for the increase or decrease of personal tax burden.

Chen Xian, Professor of economics, Department of economics and management, Jiaotong University, said in a media interview that the levy level was adjusted from 9 to 7, rather than the 5 level previously expected. He thinks that the excessive tax burden will aggravate the marginal adjustment when personal income increases, which is not conducive to encouraging laborers to increase their income.

However, some experts said that the reform of individual tax should be a comprehensive reform, not only including the increase of the exemption of individual tax, but also the gradual transformation of the tax sharing system to the reform of personal income tax system which combines the integration and classification.

Gao Peiyong, director of the Institute of Finance and trade economics, believes that in order to give full play to the role of individual income tax in adjusting the income distribution, we need to carry out "major operation" on the current tax system and eventually go to the comprehensive income tax system, that is, on the basis of individual declaration, we shall sum up the income of all sources and all projects together.