Three Key Words Of Electricity Supplier Taxation: Time, Amount And Scope

< p > a few days ago, there was news that "a href=" http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_q.asp "> electricity supplier levy tax < /a > proposal has been adopted by relevant departments, and will levy 5% tax on electric business enterprises within the year. Before long ago, the US electricity supplier tax act has just been passed, so that the credibility of the news is more and more strengthened.

According to the reporter, the electricity supplier tax is already firmly established, but there is no conclusion on the amount, scope and time.

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< p > electricity supplier taxation is on the point of departure. < /p >

< p > by the end of May, media reports reported that Zhang Jindong, chairman of Suning board of directors of the "two sessions" this year, has adopted the proposal to levy taxes on electricity suppliers by relevant ministries and commissions. The State Administration of Taxation, the Ministry of Commerce and other departments are studying and implementing concrete measures for the implementation of e-commerce taxation. We expect to levy a 5% tax on net stores during the year.

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< p > aiming at this rumor, the reporter interviewed the relevant government departments.

According to Zhao Ping, deputy director of the Consumer Economics Research Department of the Ministry of Commerce, as a member of the e-commerce Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Commerce, she has received the opinions of the Ministry of Commerce on Taxation of electricity suppliers.

The opinions involve "how to collect" and "how much to collect".

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< p > last year, when the total sales volume of Taobao and Tmall exceeded 1 trillion yuan, there was a view that it was imperative for the state to levy taxes on small and medium-sized business enterprises.

In the proposal, Zhang Jindong pointed to the C2C platform without tax sales phenomenon, and provoked the "war" in the industry.

In March this year, the State Administration of Taxation issued the "Regulations on the management of network invoices", providing convenience for invoicing invoices for e-commerce enterprises.

From a variety of angles, the electricity supplier tax is already in the firing line.

However, for the 5% rate of rumours, Zhao Ping said it was not certain.

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< p > < strong > 1: establishment of buffer period < /strong > < /p >

< p > "years of levy" let many small sellers shout wolf.

However, in the industry view, it is unlikely that the business tax will be levied at the end of this year, because "it will take time before seeking opinions".

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"P," but now it has to be made, and the business tax has begun to investigate.

When to start collecting has become the focus of attention.

In this regard, as China's largest e-commerce seller gathering place, Alibaba's Taobao network has issued a statement saying that no objection to electricity supplier tax, but opposed to the electricity supplier tax collection.

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< p > Ma Yun has already realized the inevitability of the electricity supplier's tax payment. As early as the network business conference held in 2011, Ma Yun once said that the online store should always be ready for tax preparation, "when the shop starts to levy taxes, it is not in Taobao's hands."

What Taobao can do is to work together with network operators to appropriately relax the terms and limits of tax revenue.

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< p > a person in charge of an electric business enterprise thinks that the electricity supplier tax can be made, but the on-line timetable must be given, and a buffer period should be set up ahead of time, leaving enough time for the preparation period, so that these stores can make a smooth pition.

If the direct taxation will impact on businesses, especially small sellers, it may lead to the closure of businesses in batches.

"But if we set up a buffer period, we should reserve a buffer period for enterprises and retain sufficient operating funds to enable them to survive."

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< p > despite the reform of the State Council in 2008, the State Council agreed that the plan was clearly guided by the Ministry of industry and Commerce in guiding and coordinating the development of e-commerce. However, because e-commerce is also a business category, the Ministry of Commerce set up the e-commerce and Information Division in June 2011, which is responsible for the macro guidance and management of e-commerce.

All departments have issued relevant policies and management measures from their respective responsibilities. There is a phenomenon of inconsistency, inconsistency or even contradiction between them, which also makes the tax collection of the electricity supplier delay.

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< p > < strong > 2 quota: do not cut across the board < /strong > < /p >

< p > last year, a href= "http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp" > Taobao < /a >, Tmall achieved a turnover of 1 trillion yuan, of which Tmall turnover was roughly 200 billion yuan, with a conservative estimate of Taobao trading volume of about 800 billion yuan.

If rumours are not calculated and the amount of tax deduction is reduced, the amount of tax paid by 5% will be increased, and the businesses on Taobao will increase the tax cost of nearly 40 billion yuan a year.

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< p > however, in the industry's view, the credibility of the 5% amount of rumors is not high.

People close to the regulators said in a media interview, "the sales of e-commerce outlets are mainly physical goods rather than services. It is unlikely that they will be levied at the rate of 5% of the business tax.

Moreover, there is no 5% of the 6 VAT rates stipulated in the current law, so it is unlikely that a new tax rate will be set up for the electricity business independently.

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< p > because Taobao has a lot of new businesses and small businesses, how to collect taxes and how much electricity providers collect taxes has become the focus of controversy among all parties.

Beijing Business Daily reporter found in the interview process, at present, the industry has more uniform views on the amount of levy.

In the system, appropriate tax preferences can be designed to set up the exemption amount for merchants with less turnover, and the excess of the exemption will be collected according to the volume of turnover.

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"P >" Zhao Jingqiao, an e-commerce expert of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, has also indicated that "from the level of policy recommendations, the electricity supplier is still in the developing industry, and the preferential policies of the state should be tilted as far as possible.

Moreover, tax rates should not be cut across the board, and should be treated differently according to their turnover.

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< p > Zhao Ping said that in fact, paying taxes on line retailers is not one size fits all.

As the roadside shop, wholesale a href= "http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_s.asp" > market < /a > booth, are fixed quotas, each month to pay 500 yuan.

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< p > < strong > 3: can it be fair? < /strong > < /p >

< p > taxes on electricity suppliers. Taobao has appealed to official micro-blog that taxes are damaging to young people who start their own businesses. Taxes on individual shopkeepers are taxes on their hopes and future.

But from the establishment of a fair market environment, taxation is reasonable.

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< p > at present, large-scale e-commerce enterprises including Jingdong, suning.com, Dangdang and van gentry are all able to pay taxes according to the relevant provisions of the company law and tax law, and pay them in accordance with the corresponding proportion.

But the sellers on Taobao, especially the small and medium-sized sellers, do not ask for the tax on the Internet sales separately because of the relevant departments of the state, but because of the advantages such as tax exemption, this part of the seller can provide cheap and good products.

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< p > experts say that there are too many small sellers lacking brand and core competitiveness in the market. If they compete for a long time with low quality and low price, they will not benefit the market too much. These small sellers need to be promoted and pferred to regularization.

In addition, in the process of pfer, normalization must be taxed, but it is reasonable to get the policy support when the seller is small. However, when the scale of these sellers grows, they will also discriminate against other law-abiding operators by not paying taxes on the line and competing with others.

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< p > however, many Taobao sellers expressed negative attitude towards the above views.

Some sellers said that B2C enterprises generally believed that paying taxes would be beneficial to the fair development of the industry. However, in the view of many small and medium-sized sellers, the fairness of taxation would result in unfair management.

"Large enterprises, because of their large scale and high contribution to GDP, will be given preferential treatment and support by many local governments, but these small sellers will never be able to enjoy them.

Therefore, on the whole, the operating cost of small sellers will still be higher than that of large scale electricity suppliers.

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