During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, the tax cuts for scientific and technological innovation have exceeded 2.5 trillion yuan

During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the macro tax burden has declined year by year

Support for scientific and technological innovation tax cuts accumulatively exceed 2.5 trillion yuan

　　This paper, Beijing, March 17 (Reporter Wang Guan) According to data released by the State Administration of Taxation recently, with the implementation of a series of tax and fee reduction policies, from 2016 to 2019, China’s macro tax burden (that is, general public budget revenue) The proportion of tax revenue in GDP) is 17.47%, 17.35%, 17.01%, and 16.02% respectively. It will be further reduced to 15.2% in 2020, which is nearly 3 percentage points lower than the 18.13% at the end of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period in 2015. The macro tax burden Decrease year by year.

　　Lu Xiaoming, director of the Civil Law Research Institute of the Chinese Law Society, believes that in recent years, the state has introduced a series of tax and fee reduction policies, which have effectively reduced the burden on enterprises and effectively stimulated the vitality of market entities.

Especially during the epidemic prevention and control period, the taxation department promptly introduced a lot of warm-hearted measures to facilitate the private benefit of enterprises, and create a better business environment.

　　In recent years, my country has continuously improved its taxation policies that support technological innovation, and taxation has continued to increase its incentives for innovation.

Statistics show that during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the amount of tax reductions and exemptions for my country's encouragement of scientific and technological innovation has increased by an average annual rate of 28.5%, with a cumulative tax cut of 2.54 trillion yuan in five years.

Tax incentives will benefit more manufacturing and high-tech service industries. The three major industries, manufacturing, information transmission and information technology services, scientific research and technical services, account for nearly 90% of tax cuts.

　　"Better improvement of the independent innovation capability of enterprises is inseparable from the support and encouragement of taxation policies." said Pan Yue, a professor in the Finance Department of the School of Economics of Xiamen University. In recent years, the taxation department has introduced a series of preferential tax policies to support enterprise innovation, such as Preferential tax policies such as the deduction of R&D expenses have reduced the R&D costs of enterprises. The preferential tax policies for high-tech enterprises help enterprises accelerate product upgrading and innovation, so that enterprises can better engage in R&D and improve their independent innovation capabilities.

　　In terms of improving the green tax system, since the 13th Five-Year Plan, my country 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 introduced support for emission reduction tax reductions and equipment investment tax credits. Series of preferential policies.

Tan Heng, director of the Tax Science Research Institute of the State Administration of Taxation, said that it is necessary to focus on promoting the formation of green development methods and lifestyles through taxation means. The taxation department will give full play to its tax function, continue to implement various green tax policies, and consolidate the results of green tax reform. .

　　In terms of helping to win the battle against poverty, during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the tax authorities focused on key areas and key links in poverty alleviation, such as relocation, employment of the poor, and donations for poverty alleviation, and continued to increase tax policy support to fully release tax reductions and reductions. Fee dividends, tax incentives to support poverty alleviation increased from 26.3 billion yuan in 2015 to 74.2 billion yuan in 2019, and 102.2 billion yuan in 2020, an average annual increase of 30.6%.

　　In terms of promoting the development of the manufacturing industry, from 2016 to 2020, the sales revenue of manufacturing enterprises nationwide will increase by 11.2% annually.

The high-tech manufacturing industry is the highlight of the manufacturing industry during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period. The cumulative sales revenue has more than doubled, with an average annual growth rate of 15.1%.