In the first two months of this year, the country cut taxes and fees by 402.7 billion yuan

Newspaper (Reporter Dong Xin) Yesterday morning, the Information Office of the State Council held a press conference to introduce relevant information about tax reduction and preferential services to help resume production and promote development. According to Wang Daoshu, the chief auditor of the State Administration of Taxation, from January to February this year, a total of 402.7 billion yuan in taxes and fees were cut.

Wang Daoshu said that the total tax cuts and fees in the country consisted of two parts. The first part is a new tax and fee preferential policy introduced in 2020 to support epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, with an additional tax reduction of 158.9 billion yuan. Among the four new policies issued this year, the third batch of policies focusing on reducing the burden on small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households, and the fourth batch of policies focusing on stabilizing foreign trade and foreign investment have been implemented since March. Apply for statistical calculations. Among the policies issued in the first two batches, some of them are reported on a quarterly basis. "With the advent of the quarterly reporting period in April, these policies will be included in the scope of statistical calculations, and the statistical scale of enterprises enjoying tax reductions and fees will be further expanded."

The second part is a tax reduction of 243.8 billion yuan, which was continued to be implemented in 2020. At the end, additional fees were reduced by 84.8 billion yuan, construction costs for cultural undertakings were reduced, and major national water conservancy project construction funds were increased by 2.8 billion yuan. Small and micro-enterprises' general tax reductions and special additional deductions for personal income taxes continued to be implemented The tax cuts and fees reduced by 19.7 billion yuan.

Wang Daoshu said that the State Administration of Taxation is fully participating in the research and formulation of related preferential tax policies. For the four batches of a total of 21 tax and fee preferential policies, the State Administration of Taxation actively put forward program proposals during the study and formulation process, actively participated in the calculation and analysis, and issued relevant announcements and documents in a timely manner in conjunction with relevant departments.

In addition, Ren Rongfa, deputy director of the State Administration of Taxation, said that since the outbreak, the tax department has launched 54 tax payment service measures in three batches. On the basis of consolidating past results, it will also launch a number of targeted service measures.