China News Service, March 29. Rao Lixin, Chief Auditor of the State Administration of Taxation, introduced on the 29th that as of the end of February this year, a total of 360,000 "fake enterprises", "fake export" and "false declaration" enterprises had been investigated and dealt with, and 87.5 billion tax losses were recovered. The loss of export tax rebate was 29.2 billion yuan. Cooperating with the public security organs in taking compulsory measures against more than 20,000 criminal suspects, another 4863 criminal suspects voluntarily surrendered under the deterrence of special actions.
The State Council Information Office held a press conference on the 29th to introduce the "Opinions on Further Deepening the Reform of Tax Administration" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions").
A reporter asked that the tax authorities have resolutely cracked down on tax-related illegal and criminal acts such as "fake enterprises", "fake exports", and "fake declarations" in recent years, and have generated a strong deterrent. The "Opinions" emphasize the establishment of a new type of regulatory mechanism. What are the considerations for protecting law-abiding companies and cracking down on illegal activities?
Rao Lixin pointed out that a severe blow to lawbreakers is the best protection for law-abiding persons.
Since August 2018, the State Administration of Taxation, together with the Ministry of Public Security, the General Administration of Customs, and the People’s Bank of China, has organized a special campaign against fraudulent tax fraud and illegal crimes, and severely cracked down on fraudulent invoices issued by “fake enterprises” and fraudulent tax refunds by “fake exports” and “fake "Declaration" fraudulently obtain tax and fee concessions and other illegal and criminal acts.
According to Rao Lixin, as of the end of February this year, a total of 360,000 "three fakes" enterprises had been investigated and dealt with, recovering 87.5 billion yuan in tax losses and 29.2 billion yuan in export tax rebates; cooperating with the public security authorities in taking compulsory measures against more than 20,000 suspects. Another 4863 suspects voluntarily surrendered under the deterrence of the special operation.
In particular, we have maintained a high-pressure crackdown on new illegal and criminal acts such as the use of electronic invoices to implement false invoices. We have announced a number of cases of false issuance of value-added tax electronic invoices in the early stage. We will announce a number of cases in the near future, and we will resolutely do so. "Zero tolerance" "should hit the spot" to stop lawbreakers and punish offenders.
Rao Lixin further introduced that the "Opinions" put forward the in-depth promotion of precise supervision and the establishment of a new tax supervision system, while ensuring national tax security, while providing a more fair and high-quality taxation business environment for legally operating enterprises.
Specifically, it includes two aspects:
On the one hand, highlight the precise classification and implementation of policies to effectively protect the normal production and operation of enterprises.
We will make full use of modern information technologies such as tax big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence to promote the automatic analysis of taxpayers’ behaviors. Based on the results of risk analysis, we will achieve “no risk, no interruption, low risk pre-warning, and strict monitoring of medium and high risks. ".
On the other hand, it has focused on precise and legal administration and severely cracked down on tax-related illegal and criminal acts. We will give full play to the role of big tax data, and conduct real-time verification and monitoring of invoice issuance and use in all links, so as to realize the transformation of punishment for fraudulent tax fraud and other illegal and criminal behaviors to precise prevention in advance, and accurately and effectively crack down on tax-related activities. Illegal and criminal acts.