(Economic Observer) China's macro tax burden drops to 15.2%

　　China News Service, Beijing, March 11 (Reporter Zhao Jianhua) According to data released by the State Administration of Taxation on the 11th, during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the total amount of new tax and fee reductions in five years exceeded 7.6 trillion yuan (RMB, below). with).

With the implementation of a series of tax and fee reduction policies, China's macro tax burden (that is, the proportion of tax revenue in general public budget revenues in GDP) from 2016 to 2019 is 17.47%, 17.35%, 17.01% and 16.02%, and will be reduced in 2020. To 15.2%, which is nearly 3 percentage points lower than the 18.13% at the end of the 12th Five-Year Plan period in 2015.

　　During the period, support for innovative tax cuts totaled over 2.5 trillion yuan, fostering new growth drivers; the green tax system was continuously improved, and the comprehensive energy consumption intensity of key tax source enterprises dropped by 6.6%; the tax incentives for poverty alleviation increased by more than 30% annually; new establishments The tax-related market entities have increased by more than 10 million households annually, effectively stimulating entrepreneurial vitality; the tax accounted for by the tertiary industry has increased to 58.1%; the sales revenue of the manufacturing industry has increased by 11.2% annually, and the high-tech manufacturing industry has continued to grow; 7 trillion yuan.

　　Since the 13th Five-Year Plan, China has accelerated the reform of resource tax and environmental protection tax, promoted the rational development and utilization of resources and clean and energy-saving production of enterprises, and has successively introduced a series of preferential policies to support emission reduction tax reduction and equipment investment tax credit.

　　In July 2016, the reform of resource tax ad valorem was fully implemented, and a mechanism for directly linking tax and resource prices was established to promote the rational development and sustainable use of resources.

During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, resource tax revenues totaled 750.9 billion yuan, an increase of 62.3% over the 12th Five-Year Plan period.

The reform of water resources tax optimizes the structure of water use and effectively suppresses overexploitation of groundwater.

In 2020, 10 pilot provinces, including Beijing and Hebei, will take 33.5% of the total water volume of groundwater, which is 8 percentage points lower than that of 2016 before the reform; the amount of groundwater taxed in over-extraction areas in the pilot provinces in 2020 will be lower than that in 2016. 19.3%.

In 2020, the major air pollutants sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions of taxpayers who pay environmental protection taxes will decrease by 42.5% and 28.7% respectively compared with 2017 before the reform; the chemical oxygen demand and ammonia nitrogen emissions of the major water pollutants will be lower than those before the reform in 2017 They were down 54.5% and 35% respectively.

　　During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, China has also continuously increased its tax policy support. The amount of tax incentives to support poverty alleviation has increased from 26.3 billion yuan in 2015 to 74.2 billion yuan in 2019, and 102.2 billion yuan in 2020. An increase of 30.6%.

According to the value-added tax invoice data, from 2016 to 2020, the sales income of 832 enterprises in the national poverty-stricken counties have maintained rapid growth, with an average annual growth rate of 14.6%.

　　The business environment in China is improving day by day.

Statistics from the State Administration of Taxation show that during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the number of new tax-related market entities nationwide has increased by more than 10 million households per year, showing the overall characteristics of high activity, strong vitality, and good growth.

　　During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, there were 57.453 million new tax-related market entities nationwide, an increase of 26.074 million or 83.1% over the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period.

New establishments offset the cancellations. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the nationwide net increase in tax-related market entities was 33.414 million, an increase of 77.3% from the end of the 12th Five-Year Plan period.

Among the newly established tax-related market entities, the proportion of modern service industries has increased significantly, and the proportion of labor-intensive industries has declined year by year.

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