Chinanews client, Beijing, September 29 (Reporter Li Jinlei) On September 29, the State Administration of Taxation released the latest data showing that from January to August this year, the country’s new tax cuts and fees totaled 1,877.3 billion yuan.

On September 29, the State Administration of Taxation held a press conference.

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New tax cuts and fees in the first 8 months totaled 1,877.3 billion yuan

　　According to Cai Zili, Director of the Revenue Planning and Accounting Department of the State Administration of Taxation, from January to August this year, the country’s new tax cuts and fees totaled 1,877.3 billion yuan, which mainly consist of two parts: the first is the introduction of this year to support epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development taxes. Preferential policies on fees and charges added 1171.1 billion yuan in tax and fee reductions; second, the policies introduced in the middle of last year added 706.2 billion yuan in tax and fee reductions this year.

　　Cai Zili said that a series of tax and fee reduction policies and measures directly reached the market players, which has indeed reduced the burden on enterprises, enhanced market vitality, and achieved good results, mainly reflected in "one reduction, four enhancement": first, tax burden Continued decline. Second, the vitality of market players has increased, the third is the increase in the ability to absorb employment, the fourth is the increase in the stamina of enterprise development, and the fifth is the increase in enterprise development confidence.

　　Data shows that since the implementation of various tax and fee reduction policies, the burden on enterprises has continued to decline.

For example, in the first eight months of the country’s more than 50 million small-scale taxpayers, about 92% of the taxpayers who enjoyed monthly sales of less than 100,000 yuan were exempted from VAT, and the remaining 8% of taxpayers’ VAT collection rate dropped from 3% to 1. % (Of which Hubei Province is exempt), a decrease of 67%.

　　In terms of the number of market entities, the number of new market entities involved in tax-related matters handled by the taxation department continued to increase in July and August on the basis of a 7.1% year-on-year increase in the second quarter, with a year-on-year increase of 15.9% and 21.2% respectively.

From the perspective of the growth of market entities, the deepening of the value-added tax reform policy continued to reduce the burden on general taxpayers with larger scales and relatively stable operations. In August, general taxpayers of value-added tax increased by 83,000 compared with the previous month, reaching 10.919 million.

　　The continued implementation of various policies and measures to support innovation has allowed companies to invest more funds in R&D and technological improvement.

From January to August, the amount of high-tech equipment and high-tech services purchased by 330,000 companies nationwide that enjoyed the additional deduction policy for R&D expenses increased by 24% year-on-year, driving sales revenue to increase by 9.1% year-on-year, which was 9.6% higher than the national average. Shows a good momentum of development.

　　With the effective control of the domestic epidemic situation and the implementation of the superimposed tax and fee reduction policy, the company's development expectations are gradually increasing.

According to a questionnaire on the prosperity of 100,000 key tax source companies monitored by the State Administration of Taxation, 89.4% of key tax source companies expect the production and operation situation in the fourth quarter to be "stable" or "improving", an increase of 4.7 percentage points from the third quarter forecast.

The value-added tax invoice data shows that in August, the total amount of goods and services purchased by enterprises nationwide increased by 9.6% year-on-year, which was 0.2 percentage points faster than the growth rate of sales revenue, reflecting the full confidence of enterprises in their business prospects.

The State Administration of Taxation Luoyuan County Taxation Bureau opened a green channel for consultation on preferential tax policies for epidemic prevention and control to help enterprises resume production and sales.

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Resolutely prevent and stop excessive taxes and fees

　　A few days ago, 13 departments including the State Administration of Taxation, Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Finance, and Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security jointly issued the "Notice on Several Measures to Promote Tax Payment Facilitation Reform and Optimizing Taxation and Business Environment", emphasizing the insistence on levying taxes and fees in accordance with laws and regulations and resolutely preventing And to stop overcharging taxes.

　　The Director of the Tax Service Department of the State Administration of Taxation Korea Rong said that he will continue to improve the taxation big data and risk management mechanism, and actively build a new dynamic "credit + risk" management method to achieve "no risk, no interruption, low risk warning, medium and high risk" management methods for taxpayers. Strictly monitor risks".

　　In addition, strengthen the close coordination of taxation, public security, the People’s Bank of China, customs and other departments, strictly investigate and punish fraudulent tax fraud by means of "fake enterprises", "fake exports", and "fake declarations" in accordance with the law to further regulate taxation order and promote fairness Competition, and strive to minimize interference with market entities and maximize regulatory effectiveness.

　　According to requirements, by the end of 2020, the tax payment time will be reduced to less than 120 hours; before the end of 2022, the tax payment time will be reduced to less than 100 hours, and the number of tax payments will be further reduced.

Further consolidate and expand the "non-contact" tax payment service. By the end of 2020, major tax-related service matters will be handled online; by the end of 2021, except for some special and complex matters, it will be basically realized that enterprise tax payment matters can be handled online. Individual tax payment matters can be handled on the palm.

　　According to reports, the State Administration of Taxation has recently launched a pilot project for special electronic VAT invoices among some newly established taxpayers in Ningbo, and has made positive progress.

　　According to the deployment of the above notice, the taxation, development and reform, public security, finance and other departments will coordinate and steadily promote the electronic invoice reform. On the basis of achieving the electronic general VAT invoice, the new taxpayer will basically realize the electronic VAT invoice by the end of 2020. By the end of 2021, we will strive to build a unified national electronic invoice service platform to further reduce the institutional transaction costs of market entities.

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