Highlight The Real Estate Tax Responsibility For The People'S Livelihood, Do Not Miss The Historical Opportunity.

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I noticed that from the end of February, official information and unofficial news about property taxes were "getting more and more enchanting".

First, the high level said that "the real estate tax pilot in 2012 has been gradually expanded".

However, at the same time, experts poured cold water. The "12th Five-Year plan" put forward "research and advance the reform of real estate tax", which shows that the decision agency believes that property tax will not become a reality in 12th Five-Year.

That is to say, it seems that the national property tax implementation has not been ignored yet, at least from now on, "sparrows are still flying in the sky".

It should be said that the trial of property tax in Shanghai, Chongqing is generally successful.

Property tax has played an initial role in restraining the excessive housing consumption and housing price rising too fast, and optimizing the housing supply structure.

It is reported that the Ministry of finance, the State Administration of Taxation and the Ministry of housing and construction are generally satisfied with the pilot results.

I noticed that compared with the two areas' financial revenue, the number of property taxes collected from both places can only be regarded as a "magic trick".

I can not agree with that.

Notice that although the total amount of collection in Shanghai and Chongqing is not large, the value of the pilot itself is not based on the number of taxes collected, but on the technical problems of determining the personal information system, the assessment method of the tax base range, the taxation procedures, and other technical problems. At the same time, the pilot can also try to understand the extent of public acceptance of the tax and the scope of its affordability, so as to create conditions for the implementation of the whole country.

Moreover, because of the low tax rate and the limited housing supply, it is unrealistic to expect immediate results to cause housing prices to return to a reasonable level overnight.

We should face up to the fact that the psychological effect of the current trial generation is far from practical.

The housing tax's livelihood has long been supported by foreign successful experience.

From the practice of levying property tax in more than 130 countries and regions in the world, the real estate tax has become the main source of local finance, accounting for about 70% of the local fiscal revenue, the United States is 75%, and the poorest country in the world accounts for 69% of Kenya's total revenue.

Besides providing sufficient funds for local finance, the real estate tax also has an important function of stabilizing house prices, reducing resource waste and environmental pollution, so people also call the real estate tax "ecological tax".

Nowadays, the implementation of property tax to demonstrate its livelihood is facing a historic opportunity that can not be missed.

On the one hand, as an expedient measure that has been criticized by public opinion, the "restriction order" as an administrative means can not be used for a long time for a long time. The property tax must also become a substitute for the "restriction order"; on the other hand, because of the "winter" in the housing market, the local finance can't catch up with each other.

Since the second half of last year, 17 cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Chongqing, have issued varying degrees of fine-tuning policy, which calls for property tax to be a "baton" for consolidating the regulation results.

In fact, the real estate tax already has the psychological foundation and technical conditions to speed up and increase people's livelihood.

Some scholars have pointed out that the local officials, taking Chongqing Shanghai's tax revenue as a drop in the bucket, questioned whether the "12th Five-Year" property tax has the national conditions for implementation. It is not a question of local governments' lack of confidence. It does not solve the problem of trust based on local interests, let alone 12th Five-Year. 30 years later, I am afraid China still does not have the conditions to levy.

In fact, the real estate association of the Federation of industry and Commerce estimates that if all the stock is taxed, assuming that the tax rate is 1.5%, the annual residential property tax of the whole country will reach 760 billion yuan, plus commercial property will reach 1 trillion.

If the levy is in place, the tax scale is expected to replace the land grant.

In the "two sessions" period, as a tax officer, I would like to make a statement that highlighting the property tax and the livelihood of the people can not miss a rare historical opportunity.