Lou Jiwei: Ensure That Resources Are Allocated By The Market.

At 9 a.m. on March 6, 2014, the information center of the twelve National People's Congress held a press conference at the multi-function hall of the twelve National People's Congress, inviting Treasury Secretary Lou Jiwei and vice minister Zhang Shaochun to " Reform of Finance and taxation system Answering questions from Chinese and foreign journalists on issues related to financial work. The picture shows Lou Jiwei, Minister of finance.

Reporter: the third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee proposed a comprehensive clean-up tax revenue Preferential policies, especially regional tax incentives, will no longer be introduced in the light of the new preferential tax policies. What are the considerations and how to implement them? Thank you.

[Lou Wei Wei] how to do it? There are two, one is what has been stipulated now, such as the regional preferential policies approved by the State Council, sometimes the time limit must be solved, the time limit is fixed without time limit, and no approval must be cancelled. Two, the central authorities stipulate that local governments should clean up their own policies. We must ensure that resources are allocated by the market rather than regional preferences.

　　 It is lawful for the State Council to carry out tax reform by way of regulations.

　　 Reporter: ask minister Lou to answer a question. Ms. Fu Ying, a spokesman for the National People's Congress, proposed that among the eighteen categories of taxes, there were three legislations by the people's Congress. Others were implemented according to the regulations of the State Council. And the question of the real estate tax you mentioned just now. This real estate tax involves the interests of thousands of households. How to calculate? How to legislate? Please answer this question.

[Lou Wei] first, let me review the history. Just when the Republic was founded, there were many. Tax category However, after learning the Soviet Union and planning the economy, almost all taxes were abolished, which turned into state-owned enterprises and collective enterprises paying the profits. Besides, they left one or two taxes.

In 1985, the National People's Congress authorized the State Council in the third Plenary Session of the 6th CPC Central Committee, and authorized the State Council to push forward the tax system reform in the form of tax regulations during the period of institutional reform. So far, the authorization has not been recovered. Therefore, it is lawful for the State Council to carry out tax reform in accordance with the regulations, including the implementation of these tax systems.

This way has its drawbacks and its advantages. The advantage is that we should establish our tax system fairly quickly, but there are also drawbacks, which bring some tax randomness. For example, there are places where we can do everything possible to win tax concessions to the central government, or to reduce tax exemption at will, which is not related to the statutory principle of taxation. Therefore, the NPC gradually withdrew some legislative power. The Third Plenary Session clearly stipulated that we should implement the statutory principle of Taxation and gradually change these tax regulations into legislation in the future. For example, the real estate tax law you asked just now, the Third Plenary Session of the Third Plenary Session stipulates that we should speed up the legislative process and promote reform in a timely manner. Legislation should be a matter of the NPC.