Chinanews.com, July 30. According to statistics released on the website of the General Administration of Customs on the 30th, from July 1st to 27th, the customs supervised a total of 2.219 billion yuan of duty-free sales on outlying islands and 281 thousand shopping passengers, an increase of 234.19% respectively over the same period last year. , 42.71%; the month-on-month increase was 45.51% and 12.63% respectively.
Data map: Tourists buy duty-free goods at the duty-free shop of Riyue Square in Haikou. Photo by China News Agency reporter Luo Yunfei
The news pointed out that the customs has taken multiple measures to do a good job in the duty-free supervision of Hainan’s outlying islands. Among them, the "Customs of the People’s Republic of China on Hainan’s Outlying Island Passengers Duty-Free Shopping Supervision Measures" detailed the penalties for violating outlying island passengers and violating off-island duty-free shops, and clearly Measures to deal with relevant violations, and actively promote the implementation of relevant penalties.
At the same time, strengthen legal propaganda and raise public legal awareness. Actively intensify the publicity of regulatory policies. In key areas such as sales sites and pick-up points, through various methods such as broadcasting, hanging publicity banners, and scrolling electronic billboards, emphasizing penalties for illegal reselling, purchasing, and smuggling. The legal responsibilities of relevant personnel should guide enterprises and individuals to consciously boycott off-island tax exemption violations, thereby creating a clean law enforcement environment.
In addition, improve the functions of scientific and technological systems and enhance the level of informatization supervision. Through the supervision system, the customs can realize the collection and accumulation of information on the limit, limit, and limited variety shopping of each outlying island passenger, and automatically determine whether there are violations such as over-limit shopping by checking the tax exemption rules. For the situation of over-sales , The customs supervision system will automatically transfer the abnormal data to the on-site customs officers for disposal according to regulations, effectively avoiding manual intervention, and at the same time meeting the needs of the customs for the next step of the big data risk analysis and control work.
Finally, we will make every effort to promote sanctions for dishonesty to ensure that policy dividends benefit the people. After the "Announcement on Hainan's Outlying Islands Duty-Free Shopping Policy for Tourists" (Announcement No. 33, 2020 of the Ministry of Finance, the General Administration of Customs, and the State Administration of Taxation), we will work with local governments to make every effort to implement joint sanctions for untrustworthy persons who violate the regulations on outlying islands' tax exemption policies. Measures to ensure that Hainan’s outlying islands’ tax-free policy dividends are fully released and benefit the people.