Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 10 -

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  Xinhua News Agency reporters Zou Duowei, Shen Cheng, Zhou Yuan

  On the evening of the 9th, the second three-day "Belt and Road" Tax Collection and Administration Cooperation Forum was successfully concluded.

This forum with the theme of "Tax Informatization Capability Building in the Digital Era" has achieved a series of important results, pointing out the direction and creating opportunities for deepening the "Belt and Road" tax collection and management cooperation.

  “Participants of this forum gathered a number of cooperative consensus and actively planned the future development of tax informatization, which played an important role in solving problems and fully demonstrated the determination and confidence of all parties to help economic development and promote the construction of cooperation mechanisms.” Vienna University of Economics Global Said Jeffrey Owens, director of the Tax Policy Research Center.

  Following the holding of the first "Belt and Road" tax collection and management cooperation forum in Wuzhen, Zhejiang, China in April 2019, and the announcement of the establishment of the "Belt and Road" tax collection and management cooperation mechanism, this forum was hosted by the National Revenue Committee of the Ministry of Finance of Kazakhstan, attracting 61 countries around the world Approximately 350 representatives from the region and 12 international organizations gathered in the "cloud" to reach four achievements including the "Second "Belt and Road" Tax Collection and Administration Cooperation Forum Joint Statement" and "Nur-Sultan Action Plan".

  Wang Jun, Director of the State Administration of Taxation of China, said at the forum, “Under the background of economic globalization being countercurrent and the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the tax authorities of countries along the'Belt and Road' are watching and helping each other to overcome the difficulties, and the construction of cooperation mechanisms has not stopped. It has made important contributions to global anti-epidemic cooperation and injected important impetus into promoting global economic recovery."

  The “Belt and Road” tax collection and management cooperation mechanism has been implemented in depth, and the mutual learning and coordination of taxation informatization have also been deepened.

Among them, the "Chinese concept" and "Chinese plan" of tax informatization construction represented by the tax cloud platform and Golden Tax Phase III have received great attention.

  Ali Alkinbayev, chairman of the second "Belt and Road" tax collection and management cooperation mechanism council and chairman of the National Revenue Committee of the Ministry of Finance of Kazakhstan, believes that the "Belt and Road" tax collection and management cooperation mechanism has transformed from concept to action, and from vision. As a reality, fruitful results have been achieved in improving tax certainty, speeding up tax dispute resolution, and strengthening tax collection and management capacity building, providing a successful example for deepening international tax cooperation.

  With the vigorous rise of the digital economy, the information revolution has accelerated, and the development of tax informatization has accelerated.

China actively promotes "contactless" tax processing, and has implemented "contactless" processing of 214 tax and fee matters nationwide; Singapore implements "chat tax reporting", taxpayers can achieve convenient tax filing through dialogue with robots; Chile uses electronic files Carry out tax audits and generate early warning information; UAE uses big data to quickly refund taxes...

  In the past two years, the "Belt and Road" tax collection and management cooperation mechanism has become an important force in promoting multi-party cooperation.

Standing at a new starting point, the "circle of friends" of the cooperation mechanism has become wider and wider, the road of cooperation has become wider and wider, and a new picture of tax cooperation is unfolding.

  The Commissioner of the Sierra Leone National Taxation Bureau, Touma Adama Jabu, said that in some African countries, the construction of tax collection and management information is still in its infancy. He is very much looking forward to learning the advanced experience of China’s tax authorities and other countries to help African countries improve tax information. To build capacity.

  "Let us embrace the historical opportunity of the information revolution with cooperation, open up a new situation in the digital age with hard work, contribute to the promotion of the "Belt and Road" tax collection and management cooperation, and make more contributions to the recovery of the global economy." Wang Jun said.