□ With the arrival of the quarterly reporting period in April, policies to reduce the burden on small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households implemented since March will be included in the scope of statistical accounting, and the statistical scale of enterprises enjoying tax reductions and fees will be further expanded.

□ The tax department is accelerating the application of tax big data to help enterprises resume work and resume production. As of March 30, local tax authorities have matched 45,000 suppliers for more than 2,600 raw material shortage companies.

From January to February, the nation ’s tax and fee reductions were 402.7 billion yuan; the April levy period will be extended from the original April 20 to April 24 ... at a press conference held by the State Council on March 31, Relevant persons in charge of the State Administration of Taxation announced the latest data on tax reductions and resumption of work and production, and introduced a number of "hard" measures to help enterprises.

Ensuring that dividends are fully released

According to statistics, from January to February this year, the country's tax and fee reductions totaled 402.7 billion yuan. Among them, new tax and fee preferential policies to support epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development were introduced in 2020, adding 158.9 billion yuan in tax and fee reductions; the larger tax and fee reduction policies in 2019 continued to be implemented in 2020. The fee reduction was 243.8 billion yuan. With the advent of the quarterly declaration period in April, policies to reduce the burden on small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households implemented since March will be included in the scope of statistical accounting, and the statistical scale of enterprises enjoying tax reductions and fees will be further expanded.

"The state has issued a series of preferential tax policies to support epidemic prevention and control and enterprises to resume production and production. A large number of taxpayers will focus on their enjoyment during the tax reporting period in April," said Ren Rongfa, deputy director of the State Administration of Taxation.

It is understood that as of the end of March this year, the tax authorities have introduced more than 100 reform measures in optimizing the business environment, and more than 70 have been promoted throughout the country. In March, the taxation department opened a public service platform (optimized version) of electronic invoices in Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, and Guangzhou. New taxpayers can receive UKey issued by the tax free of charge, and can directly issue special VAT invoices and ordinary invoices.

"From April 1st, the scope of trials will be further expanded, and vigorous efforts will be made to solve the hot issue of third-party charges for tax control equipment. At the same time, the process of electronicizing VAT invoices will be accelerated." Ren Rongfa said.

Resumption of production and kinetic energy

With the acceleration of the implementation of tax and fee concessions, the momentum for enterprises to resume work and resume production has continued to increase. Since February 10, the national company's resale rate (average daily billing amount compared with last year's comparable caliber) has shown a week-to-week trend, rising from 20% in the first week (February 10-14) to the first. 76.1% for six weeks (March 16-20), the resale rate has increased by 6.2 percentage points to 82.3% in the past week (March 23-27); the average daily billing account is equivalent to that of last year's comparable caliber 81.3%, an increase of 7.1 percentage points from the previous quarter.

The supply of agricultural resources also recovered rapidly. Since March, the invoiced value of agricultural materials industries such as seeds and agricultural membranes were 89.3% and 88.4% in the same period of last year, respectively, an increase of 18.6 and 33.9 percentage points from February.

Resumption and resale of residential services-related industries are also accelerating. From March 23 to 27, the resale rate of the wholesale and retail industry related to household consumption was 92.9%, an increase of 9.4 percentage points from the previous month. The wholesale re-sale rates of rice noodles, oil, meat, poultry, eggs, milk and aquatic products were 101.5% and 101.6%, all exceeding the levels of last year.

At the same time, the taxation department is accelerating the application of tax big data to help enterprises resume work and resume production. As of March 30, local tax authorities have matched 45,000 suppliers for more than 2,600 raw material shortage companies.

More convenient tax payment

In order to enhance the sense of taxpayers and payers, the tax department also launched a number of measures to facilitate the people. For example, on the basis of 185 "contactless" tax payment matters, the tax department will strive to expand to about 200 before the end of this year to realize the transfer of more tax services from the physical tax service office to the Internet.

With regard to the improvement of invoice collection methods, the tax department will increase the "online application, mail delivery" efforts, and strive to increase the current 50% to 70% by the end of this year; meanwhile, actively expand the use of Alipay, WeChat, etc. Third-party payment channels to pay taxes and fees.

In terms of facilitation of export tax rebates, the State Administration of Taxation has introduced “contactless” measures for the entire process of export tax rebates, including “contactless” declarations, “contactless” audits, and “contactless” feedback.

In order to alleviate the pressure of corporate cash flow, the average processing time for normal tax refund business is further accelerated by 20%, which is reduced from 10 working days in 2019 to less than 8 working days. In addition, local tax authorities have also adjusted the fixed-term individual industrial and commercial households' business volume in a reasonable manner in response to the impact of the epidemic on the production and operation of small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households.

"We will further implement the measures launched in the early stage of the" convenience for private tax spring action ", and will also accelerate the establishment of a tax system's" good bad evaluation "system of government affairs services. At the same time, we will effectively promote local tax authorities to perform their duties and be responsible for enterprises All reasonable demands must be handled in accordance with the law and regulations, and proactively handled, so as to avoid any requests from affecting the efficiency of service management. "Ren Rongfa said. (Economic Daily-China Economic Network reporter Dong Bijuan)