A "Head Tax" &Nbsp; A Survey Of "Anti Tax" In The Chinese Children'S Clothing Town.

The spanformation and upgrading needs of children's clothing industry, and the actual contradiction with low-level processing and manufacturing, are the underlying causes of the incident. In the eastern part of Wuxing District of Huzhou City, Zhejiang, south of Taihu, the area north of the 318 National Road, there is a record of "all over the world" and is named for the prosperity of weaving industry. Nowadays, the ancient looms have been replaced by machines roared by children's clothing factories. This is the town of Zhili, a famous town for children's wear in China.

For a long time, this town in the south of the Yangtze River has not been known by many people because of the prosperity of children's clothing. A few days after October 26, 2011, this situation was broken.

Zhili incident

In the morning of October 26th, in the process of "socialization management" in the tax collection of children's clothing processing enterprises in Zhili Town, Xu Rongquan, a representative agent who came to collect the house, was dissatisfied with the work of a Anhui Anqing owner because of his simple working method, and there was a dispute between the two sides.

A number of Anhui owners said the owners were hurt, but officials said they had "pushed each other but were not hurt".

But no matter how, in the evening, the owner who had been wronged by aggrieved himself gathered more than 100 owners of the same property to come to the town of Zhili town for an argument.

At first, there was no extreme behavior in gathering people. But then a Audi car used the high-speed motor to push the incident to the last side.

At 11 in the evening, a white Audi car of Zhejiang E license plate (Huzhou license plate) entered the crowd. Someone kept patting a Audi car and reminded the driver to turn around and drive away. More and more vigorously, Audi driver seemed to be frightened, suddenly increased the throttle, suddenly mentioned 100 kilometers per hour. The last person who was away from the car was hit by a crash. The driver saw a hit, hurried back, and ran away from the man who was hit.

The Audi escaped from the crowd's anger and knocked down many people along the way.

The crowd's discontent was detonated, and they turned their emotions to all the cars on Zhejiang E licence. From late October 26th to the second day, hundreds of cars on the roadside Zhejiang E license plate were smashed, a China Mobile shop on Fumin road was smashed, and another local garment factory in Zhili was smashed.

It can be said by chance, or it is inevitable. In short, it happened.

In order to quell the public anger, Zhili town announced in October 28th that "Xu Rongquan, a tax assistant manager, has been dismissed because of his lack of work and simple method."

But that didn't make much difference. In October 29th, local people in Zhili began to organize a "factory guarding team" to launch retaliatory attacks against Anhui people. That night, a number of Anhui people's car was smashed, and the "Mina Archie" Tong garment factory opened by Anhui people on the Nanhai Road was smashed.

However, there were only one police station in the Zhili, where 300 thousand people lived, unable to cope with the storm of hundreds of people. Zhejiang province urgently mobilized thousands of special police officers from various regions to stop it, and by October 30th, the incident basically subsided.

The Internet has caused a great stir in society. Later, the local "Huzhou daily" reported that in October 26th, in the process of carrying out the "socialization management" of the tax collection for children's clothing processing enterprises, the work method of individual tax collection agents was simple, causing a dissatisfaction among the owners, causing a few children's clothes owners to stir up trouble, and gradually becoming a sexual event. The situation did not become stable until the 29 day. A total of 10 people were hospitalized, two of whom were seriously injured, a police car was lit, a policeman and three police officers were slightly injured. No one died in the whole incident.

A "head tax".

Zhili town children's clothing started in the 70s of last century, and then accelerated development. Nowadays, the market share of children's clothing in Zhili is over 30%. The locals proudly say, "one of the four children's clothes worn by children across the country is made in weaving."

Zhili town is characterized by its distinctive architectural features, mainly based on four or five storey buildings, and the combination of factories and shops - the upper floor is a processing workshop, and the first floor is a shop. This "family workshop" is uniform and spread throughout the weaving yard.

Official data show that children's clothing has become a pillar industry in Zhili, and has formed a massive economic feature based on "one family, large scale".

A large number of foreigners come to business opportunities, among which Anhui Anqing is the most popular one. The old town has become a monster. Today, there are about 100 thousand of the local registered population in Zhili, and more than 200 thousand of the migrant workers, with a permanent population of over 300 thousand, far exceeding the general scale of the county seat.

A large number of migrant population has promoted the prosperity of the children's clothing industry in Zhili. According to the latest official statistics, there are 12200 children's clothing related enterprises in today's weaving village, including 7647 children's wear manufacturers, 4553 children's wear supporting enterprises, and 47 children's clothing enterprises. Sales revenue has exceeded 18 billion yuan, which is the most distinctive and dynamic economic group in Zhejiang province.

Cluster effect brings a large number of orders. A general scale children's clothing factory usually produces thousands of sets in 35 days. But workshop children's wear factories can't deliver on time. So the husband and wife team was born in time.

The spouses are mostly small workshops made up of outsiders. They rent houses in the urban and rural joints or even in the rural areas. They only get bundled cloth from the children's clothing factory in the town, and return it after processing, and earn the processing fee by piecework. Generally speaking, the "husband and wife team" can earn three thousand or four thousand yuan per person per month, which is almost the same as working in a factory.

There are smaller workshops under the family workshop. This is the special industrial form in Zhili. The latter is the protagonist of this incident.

Originally, these small workshops could start work as long as they obtained safety certificates through fire safety testing, and they did not need to pay taxes at the beginning. The annual income of a workshop can be up to 7-8 yuan, excluding the rent of water and electricity. However, as the number of workshops increased dramatically, the local tax authorities began to levy taxes on these workshops.

Since 2009, the local tax authorities have taxed these small workshops, and a sewing machine has collected more than 100 yuan. This is the so-called "head tax". By 2010, it will be taxed according to the number of workers, with a tax rate of more than 300 yuan per person, starting from 5 people. Since October this year, the amount of tax per person has suddenly risen to 626 yuan. At the same time, some people say that next year will rise to 1000 yuan per person per year.

Before the double tax increase, the government did not ask for any publicity and advice. It only relies on a notice from the tax department, which made the "husband and wife team" a great sense of mistrust. In addition, the simple and crude way of collecting them makes them angry.

In fact, the "head tax" is often collected by means of socialized management, which is not collected by the tax department, but by the tax co manager dispatched by the village committee. After collecting taxes, some expropriation personnel do not issue formal invoices to the owners. There is also flexibility in the amount determination. "Some people buy cigarettes for tax people, or they can pay less than 1000 yuan." A local owner said.

In addition, according to the local policy, the "head tax" is imposed on 5 sewing machines, which means that if a "husband and wife team" even has only two machines, it will pay taxes on 5 machines. Many people think that this method is unfair. However, if they do not pay, they will adopt a simple way of "locking the door" and "threatening".

The carelessness of tax policy and the simplicity of working methods are the direct reasons for this incident. Officials later acknowledged this and the tax work just started this year was also stopped.

Difficulties in weaving

However, sorting out the various factors of this event can be found that the spanformation and upgrading needs of local children's clothing industry and the actual contradiction of low-level processing and manufacturing are the underlying reasons for this incident.

It should not be overlooked that the "husband and wife team" in the gray area of Taxation has become an important part of the children's clothing industry in Zhili town. In fact, most of the 90% processing tasks in Zhili children's wear factory have been handed over to the "husband and wife team". "There are no thousands of" couple teams ". The scale of children's clothing production in Zhili can not be so large. A children's clothing business owner said.

But in some people's eyes, the role of the husband and wife team is two-sided. Although it solved the problem of insufficient processing capacity of some children's clothing enterprises, it accelerated the increase of labor cost and the difficulty of recruiting workers.

Weaving people gradually discovered that the emergence of "husband and wife team" made workers more impetuous. Working hours are arranged freely, family members can be taken care of, and considerable wages are paid. This has created an imbalance in the minds of factory workers, so more workers are involved in the "husband and wife team". After the loss of workers, in order to make up for the vacancy of production capacity, enterprises can not help turning to "husband and wife team". Go on like this, vicious circle.

According to official figures, there are still 1 to 20 thousand workers in the weaving shop every year.

In the incident, a Tong Yi factory owner stood in the street of weaving, and loudly complained to the crowd about his dissatisfaction. "Husband and wife team" wages are rising every year. A cropping worker now earn at least 250 yuan a day, and the mechanic also needs more than 100 yuan. Shishi and Guangzhou do not have such a high salary. How can the factory endure it?

In addition to the rising cost of labor, the greater difficulty in weaving is the serious homogenization of children's clothing market and the aggravation of vicious competition.

The population is beyond the load of small towns, the security is worrying, wages are rising, but they are short of labor every year. Small changes accumulate every day, and the economic and social structure of the weaving division gradually split up, and finally this time. Event The outbreak is concentrated.

Difficulties in spanformation

It is true that a large number of small processing shops cause regular children's clothing enterprises to get into a strange cycle of recruitment difficulties and continuous pay increases.

Nowadays, the scattered and weak industrial structure directly leads to the difficulty of sharing information, technology and market resources. scale Inefficiency.

Huzhou Economic Commission has conducted an investigation and report that "most of the enterprises in the weaving industry belong to the list of" weak, small, scattered and poor ". The production of enterprises is mainly based on OEM generation and mutual imitation production, concentrating on the bottom of the industrial chain.

From another point of view, the advantages of children's clothing in Zhili are not satisfactory. The children's clothing industry in Zhili is about 12 thousand mu, the total annual tax is 173 million yuan, and the tax revenue per mu is 10 thousand yuan per year. And the pillars of the local listed companies earn 180 thousand yuan per mu of land each year. Another large textile enterprise creates a tax of 740 thousand yuan at the highest land per mu, and has a total of 3.4 million in normal years.

Against this background, the local government has greatly increased the tax quota for small processing workshops.

According to the relevant personage, the government has the intention of adjusting the market structure by means of "tax levers" to eliminate the child garment processing workshop in the form of "husband and wife".

The sudden occurrence of the incident made the local government feel a little out of guard, which deviated from their original intention.

In fact, in recent years, the local government has been seeking to promote the children's clothing industry in Zhili, hoping to promote industrial upgrading by supporting large enterprises.

In recent years, Zhili town has produced 10 million yuan a year as a support fund for bigger and stronger industries. Construction of Zhili China children's wear city, to create children's clothing and accessories display and distribution center, provide supporting services business science and technology center. At the same time, Huzhou has set up 29 industry associations to lead the development of small and scattered enterprises.

The government's efforts have achieved some results.

A few years ago, today's Tong Wang Chuen Chuen discovered that he took 100 thousand yuan of goods at a time. Customer Less and less. In a county's clothing market, the order of today's children's King's winter clothes is 250 thousand. And when he was satisfied with his performance, he found that the amount of barbbara not far away was 1 million 80 thousand.

In 2007, Tong Wang was determined to start brand management. Two years later, more than 120 chain stores were opened in the whole country, and more than 300 in the whole country in 2009.

Nowadays, Tong Tong Wang has become a national famous brand. Enterprise strength is not the same as before. In the course of its development, the government's relevant measures are essential.

Now, the brand awareness of children's clothing enterprises in Zhili is much higher than before. More and more powerful enterprises begin to exert their strength on brands. Nowadays, apart from "the children's King", "pig Benny", "sesame open", "crow", "Frog Prince" and "little bully" and other brands, the * portal of children's clothing in weaving has been formed.

Inspired by the example, almost every factory in Zhili has its own brand. The children's clothing industry in Zhili has taken a step in the way of spanformation and upgrading.

Although the children's clothing industry in Zhili is expanding, "so far, there are only about 20 families whose sales income exceeds 100 million yuan, and more than 20 million yuan." More importantly, brand influence is still lacking.

In view of this, the spanformation of children's clothing industry in Zhili needs greater efforts.