In order to further alleviate the difficulties of enterprises, since this year, the state has introduced a series of tax and fee reduction support policies. Among them, the phased reduction or exemption of corporate social insurance premiums has effectively eased the financial pressure of enterprises. According to the latest data released by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, from February to June this year, three social insurances including pension, unemployment, and work-related injuries totaled 576.9 billion yuan of corporate social insurance premiums and 43.1 billion yuan of deferred payment.
In February of this year, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, in conjunction with relevant departments, introduced measures to reduce and exempt corporate social insurance premiums, which exempted, reduced, and deferred the three social insurance premiums paid by enterprises, including pension, unemployment, and work-related injuries. Li Changan, a professor at the School of Public Administration of the University of International Business and Economics, believes that in the past social security fee reduction measures, more of the reduction of social security rates by a certain range has achieved the purpose of reducing the social security burden of enterprises. In response to the impact of the epidemic, the phased reduction and exemption of social insurance premiums has directly proposed the method of exemption or half of the collection.
“Greater reductions in corporate social insurance premiums are not only a continuation of the previous corporate burden reduction policy, but also a powerful weapon to deal with the impact of the epidemic. These measures can effectively reduce the production and operation labor costs of enterprises, effectively reduce the burden on enterprises, and help enterprises maintain normal production and operation. Supporting enterprises not to lay off or reduce employees, and seize the'null nose' of stabilizing enterprises and stabilizing employment." Li Changan believes that the promotion of tax reduction and exemption, financial support, and element guarantees can create better survival and development for market players. The environment will keep more jobs.
For some labor-intensive companies with a large number of insured employees, social security fee reduction or exemption means that labor costs are greatly reduced. Since the beginning of this year, due to the sharp decline in orders during the epidemic period, in Feixiang District, Handan City, Hebei Province, Shengxuehai Cashmere Co., Ltd. is facing multiple pressures such as "more people and less livelihoods" and difficulties in corporate capital turnover after resuming work and production. In order to accurately help enterprises to tide over the difficulties, the Feixiang District Taxation Bureau has established a special group of "One Enterprise One Policy", which uses Dingding to conduct video training on different industries, and makes offline appointments for on-site counseling preferential policies to ensure that the policies are fully enjoyed .
"The preferential policy of exemption from February to June of pension, work-related injury, and unemployment insurance premiums has reduced the company by more than 100,000 yuan, and we have really enjoyed the policy dividend." Han Weiying, the company's financial officer, told Economic Daily-China Economic Net reporter.
If enterprises go lightly, resuming work and production can accelerate progress. With the implementation of the policy, more and more companies enjoy the real money fee reduction bonus. Not only that, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security implemented the unemployment insurance assistance to stabilize jobs. From January to June of this year, a total of 4.346 million enterprises were issued stable job returns of 63.6 billion yuan, benefiting 100 million employees. 3.8 times, especially the benefit rate of small, medium and micro enterprises increased significantly.
Recently, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Finance, and the State Administration of Taxation have jointly issued a notice to extend the phased exemption of social insurance premiums for small, medium and micro enterprises that began in February to the end of the year, and the half-collection policy for large enterprises to be extended to the end of June to defer social security payments. The insurance premium policy can also be extended to the end of the year. According to Nie Mingjun, director of the Department of Pension Insurance of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, as of July 16, all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities across the country have all issued specific measures for local extension and exemption of social insurance premiums.
"For large enterprises and small, medium and micro enterprises, the policy of halving the exemption and exemption in the previous phase will be continued to facilitate policy integration and implementation. In terms of the extension period, the focus will be on small, medium and micro enterprises with weak anti-risk capabilities and large impacts from the epidemic. Tilt." Nie Mingjun said.
Li Changan believes that the extension of the period of implementation of the phased reduction and exemption of corporate social insurance premiums is also to cope with the epidemic and the uncertainties that may be faced in future economic development. "On the one hand, it reduces the burden on enterprises and workers; on the other hand, it also enhances corporate stability. Confidence. After the job is stabilized, the scale of unemployment insurance stabilization return will be greater, so that a virtuous circle of stabilizing jobs and promoting employment can be formed.
Nie Mingjun said that since 2015, the state has successively lowered the social insurance premium rate six times. The total five social insurance premium rates for employees have dropped from 41% to 33.95%, and a total of nearly one trillion yuan has been reduced for enterprises. The real gold and silver released is expected to reach 1.6 trillion yuan. If we add the tail-end factor that the pension insurance rate from January to April is lower than the same period last year, and continue to implement the policy of reducing unemployment insurance and work injury insurance rates in stages throughout the year The total amount of the three social insurance fee reductions this year will reach 1.9 trillion yuan, unprecedented in intensity and scale, and will play a positive role in helping companies get out of trouble, stabilize and expand employment."
Li Changan said that to get through the "last mile" of the policy, it is necessary to periodically evaluate the effect of social security fee reductions. It is recommended that specific quantitative indicators be used to measure the effect of social security fee reductions on stabilizing employment. At the same time, in the process of policy implementation, it is necessary to prevent the occurrence of corporate insurance fraud. Related departments can use this to further optimize the social security system and social security management services, improve the effect of social security fee reduction, and maximize the convenience and benefits of enterprises. (Economic Daily-China Economic Net reporter Han Bingzhi)