Wang Jun, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the State Administration of Taxation:
Strictly investigate and deal with violations of excessive taxes and fees
Since the beginning of this year, facing the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, my country has increased its macro policy response. Among them, increasing tax cuts and fee reductions directly benefit enterprises and the people, which is a major measure to deal with the downward pressure on the economy. How effective is the implementation of the tax and fee reduction policy? How to serve the overall situation of the "six stability" and "six guarantees"? Regarding related hot issues, a reporter from the Beijing News interviewed Wang Jun, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the State Administration of Taxation.
Reduce taxes and fees
In the first half of the year, a total of 154.5 billion yuan in tax cuts and fees
Beijing News: How is the taxation department's implementation of tax reduction policies? What measures are taken to ensure that policies reach the grassroots level and directly benefit market players?
Wang Jun: Since the beginning of this year, the taxation department has resolutely implemented the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and timely and comprehensively implemented policies and measures to reduce taxes and fees. In the first half of the year, a total of 154.5 billion yuan was added in tax cuts and fees. Among the new fee reductions, 512.9 billion yuan was organized by the taxation department, accounting for 53.25%.
We are well aware that after the epidemic, companies need preferential tax policies more than ever before. Therefore, we have adopted the "three fast and one strict" measures to ensure that the policy reaches the enterprises and the grassroots. Specifically, it is the quick implementation of policies, quick guidance and training, quick operation process, and strict assessment and supervision.
For example, every time we participate in the policy formulation process, we will simultaneously study the collection and management supporting methods and pre-adjust the information system to ensure that after the policy is issued, the collection management and informatization guarantee reach the grassroots tax authorities as soon as possible. We also set up a "cloud classroom" for taxpayers, taxpayers, and payers to provide direct coaching training for taxpayers, taxpayers, and payers. We also interpret policies and respond to concerns through taxation websites, WeChat, and 12366 service hotline.
In terms of the operating process, we simplified the tax processing and operating procedures, streamlined the submission of information, and improved the online reporting function of the electronic tax bureau. At the same time, we implement the most stringent performance appraisal and supervision and accountability, effectively prevent and promptly investigate and deal with various omissions and disorderly matters, and ensure that the implementation of the policy does not omit or get out of style.
Beijing News: In the first half of this year, what role did tax and fee cuts play in helping the development of market entities?
Wang Jun: The tax and fee reduction policies have been implemented in an orderly and forceful manner, and a package of assistance policies such as monetary policies have also been applied simultaneously. This is essential to the rapid recovery and development of my country's economy.
In terms of stimulating the vitality of market entities, I use two sets of data to illustrate. One data is the data of 100,000 key tax source companies. The tax burden per hundred yuan of operating income in the first half of the year has dropped by 0.65 yuan year-on-year. In June, the nationally regulated industrial enterprises achieved a year-on-year increase of 11.5% in profits. A considerable part of this was a direct or indirect conversion of the effects of tax and fee reduction. The second data is that of more than 50 million small-scale taxpayers across the country, about 92% of them are exempted from VAT. The remaining about 4.4 million taxpayers who pay VAT have dropped from 3% to 1%. Hubei Province is exempted . This has stimulated entrepreneurial enthusiasm to a large extent. In the second quarter, the new market entities that have handled tax-related matters nationwide, mainly small and micro enterprises and self-employed, increased by 7.1% year-on-year.
Tax and fee reduction measures have also added a strong stamina to the high-quality development of China's economy. In the second quarter, the 330,000 companies that enjoyed the additional deduction policy for research and development expenses purchased high-tech equipment and services increased by 22.3% year-on-year. At the end of June, general taxpayers of value-added tax increased by 10.9% year-on-year. That is to say, 1.06 million enterprises have "changed from small to large" or newly established enterprises with annual sales revenue of more than 5 million yuan.
Beijing News: Big tax data is called "Jinshan Bank", which can accurately reflect the resumption of production and sales and economic operation of enterprises. What are the highlights of economic development reflected in the current tax data?
Wang Jun: Through the analysis of big data on invoices, we found that the economic development in the first half of the year showed many bright spots in overcoming difficulties.
The first is the steady recovery of corporate sales. On May 11, the national corporate sales revenue reached the level of last year, with a year-on-year growth of about 10% in both June and July. Among them, the manufacturing industry recovered quickly.
In terms of new kinetic energy, in the first quarter, high-tech industry sales revenue fell by 8.3% year-on-year, and in the second quarter, it increased significantly by 21.7% year-on-year. In July, a year-on-year increase of 21.3%. Investment is also showing an upward trend. According to data from 2050 large enterprise groups with an annual tax payment of more than 100 million yuan serviced and managed by the State Administration of Taxation, the new fixed assets of enterprises in the second quarter increased by 15% year-on-year.
Optimization service
"Online dosing" items have covered the main areas of tax payment
Beijing News: Since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, what measures have the taxation department taken to optimize tax payment services?
Wang Jun: In a nutshell, it means "one expansion, two delays, three assistance".
On the one hand, the scope of "non-contact" tax payment for online application, self-service application, mail delivery, and online answer is expanded. At present, there are 197 "online handling" items, covering the main areas of taxation and payment.
At the same time, we have also extended the tax declaration deadline and delayed the payment of taxes in accordance with the law to ease the financial difficulties of taxpayers. From February to June this year, 216,000 individualized deferred declarations were approved nationwide, and tax authorities at all levels approved a total of 66,000 difficult enterprises to defer tax payment.
The "three assists", that is, help small and micro enterprises to finance loans, help the development of foreign trade enterprises, help market entities to resume work and resume production, and effectively help enterprises alleviate their difficulties.
In terms of assisting small and micro enterprises in financing loans, the taxation department and the banking and insurance supervision department jointly launched the "Tax-Bank Interaction". In the first half of this year, the national small and micro enterprises received nearly 500 billion yuan in "Tax-Bank Interaction" loans, a year-on-year increase of more than 60%.
In terms of assisting the development of foreign trade enterprises: on the one hand, continue to expand the scope of paperless tax refund declaration; on the other hand, accelerate the progress of export tax refund processing. At present, the number of paperless tax refund declaration enterprises in the country has accounted for 93% of the total number of declared enterprises, and the proportion of declared tax refund (exemption) has reached 96%.
In terms of assisting market entities to resume work and production, the taxation department used the big data of value-added tax invoices to develop the "National Taxpayer Supply Chain Inquiry System" to facilitate the integration of "purchase, production and sales" by enterprises. In terms of actual results, only in the first two months of the resumption of work and production of enterprises in Hubei Province, the enterprises were able to transact 6,822 projects in accordance with market principles, with a transaction value of 11.8 billion yuan.
The Beijing News: In the second half of the year, what is the biggest challenge in organizing tax revenue, implementing tax and fee reduction, providing tax and fee services, and combating tax evasion and fraud?
Wang Jun: It is not easy to answer this question well. If you can only choose one of four, I will choose to implement the tax and fee reduction policy without compromise.
If you can choose more than one option, I have selected all of these four options. The relationship between "reduction and collection" and "service and management" needs to be handled steadily in the second half of the year.
In the second half of the year, there is a big contradiction between revenue and expenditure at the grassroots level. Taxation departments at all levels must ensure that the reduction is in place, the exemption is in place, the reduction is in place, the delay is in place, the postponement is in place, and the reduction is in place. Refunds are in place to ensure that the annual tax and fee reduction goals are achieved; even if the organization’s income pressure is greater, it must adhere to the bottom line of not charging excessive taxes and fees. Violators were found to be investigated and dealt with seriously. ——Wang Jun
Beijing News reporter Jiang Huizi