Zhongxin Finance, February 18 (Reporter Wu Tao) "Reduce the service fee standard for catering industry merchants", "Suspend the prepayment of value-added tax by air transport enterprises for one year in 2022", "Extend the deferred payment of taxes and fees in stages to reduce the social security burden of enterprises"... …
On the 18th, 12 departments including the National Development and Reform Commission issued "Several Policies for Promoting the Steady Growth of the Industrial Economy" (hereinafter referred to as "Industrial Policy"), and 14 departments including the National Development and Reform Commission issued "Several Policies on Promoting the Recovery and Development of Difficult Industries in the Service Industry" (hereinafter referred to as the "Service Industry Policy"), which aims to boost the industrial economy and help the service industry tide over the difficulties.
Tax reduction and fee reduction to help companies in difficulty overcome difficulties
On the 18th, the State Council Information Office held a press conference on measures to promote the steady growth of the industrial economy and the relief and development of industries with special difficulties in the service industry.
Fu Jinling, director of the Economic Construction Department of the Ministry of Finance, said at the press conference that at present, the service industry, especially small and medium-sized enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households are still facing some special difficulties. Implement targeted tax and fee reduction measures to help enterprises in difficulties in the service industry tide over the difficulties.
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First, increase the support of inclusive tax policies.
For example, all localities are encouraged to grant relief to taxpayers who have real difficulties in paying property tax and urban land use tax in 2022 according to the authorization of the regulations and local conditions.
Second, preferential policies should be given to industries with special difficulties.
For the service industry, which has been greatly affected by factors such as the epidemic, further targeted and vigorous tax policy measures to help enterprises have been implemented.
In 2022, the value-added tax for public transport services such as ferry, bus passenger, subway, urban light rail, taxi, long-distance passenger transport, and shuttle bus will be exempted.
Third, resolutely stop arbitrary charges, arbitrary apportionment, and arbitrary fines.
Take practical and effective measures to stop arbitrary charges, apportionment, and fines, study and implement special rectification action plans, improve the coordinated governance and joint disciplinary mechanism for rectifying arbitrary charges related to enterprises, and prevent the effect of various assistance and relief policies for the service industry from being "reduced". "Three chaos" offset, to ensure that the policy effect is not compromised.
According to reports, in 2021, new tax cuts and fee reductions will exceed 1.1 trillion yuan, of which industrial enterprises will enjoy more than 470 billion yuan and service industry enterprises will enjoy more than 610 billion yuan.
Five industries, including catering, have separately issued targeted measures
It is worth noting that, in addition to the inclusive measures, targeted measures have also been introduced for the five industries of the catering industry, retail industry, tourism industry, road, water and railway transportation industry, and civil aviation industry.
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The "Service Industry Policy" proposes to guide Internet platform companies such as takeaways to further reduce the service fee standards for catering industry merchants and reduce the operating costs of relevant catering companies.
Internet platform companies shall be guided to give preferential service fees to catering companies in county-level administrative regions where high-risk areas in the epidemic are located.
The "Service Industry Policy" also proposes to suspend the prepayment of value-added tax by railway transportation enterprises for one year in 2022.
In 2022, the prepayment of value-added tax by air transport enterprises will be suspended for one year.
In 2022, we will continue to implement the travel agency’s policy to support the quality of travel services with a temporary refund, maintaining an 80% temporary refund rate for eligible travel agencies, and encouraging places where conditions permit to further increase the temporary refund rate.
Zhao Chenxin, member of the party group and secretary-general of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that the policy focus of this service industry policy measure is to address the special difficulties faced by the service industry, and to actively respond to the calls and concerns of market players is to effectively alleviate the service industry market players. Cost pressure to help enterprises overcome difficulties and resume development.
Zhao Chenxin said that taking the “rent reduction and exemption” policy as an example, it clearly requires that “in 2022, small and micro service enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households in the county-level administrative area where the epidemic medium and high risk areas are located will rent state-owned houses, and 6 will be reduced or exempted in 2022. Monthly rent, other areas will reduce or exempt 3 months of rent.” In order to effectively implement this policy, it is also proposed that “if the performance of state-owned enterprises and institutions is affected by rent reduction or exemption, they shall be recognized in the assessment according to the actual situation.”
"In the process of studying the relief measures, various departments have put in a lot of effort, conducted serious investigations and researches, and strived to improve the operability and enforceability of policies, so that enterprises can have a real sense of gain through these policies. " Zhao Chenxin said.
How to deal with high commodity prices and declining corporate profits?
Fu Jinling said that my country's industrial economic development is facing some challenges, and there are some difficulties in the production and operation of enterprises.
In 2022, the Ministry of Finance will actively launch policies that are conducive to the stability of the industrial economy in accordance with the general tone of the Central Economic Work Conference, which is determined by the Central Economic Work Conference.
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First, implement a new tax and fee reduction policy to help small, medium and micro enterprises find relief.
Including: increasing the pre-tax deduction of equipment and appliances for small and medium-sized enterprises, expanding the scope of the applicable subjects of the local "six taxes and two fees" reduction and exemption policy, and increasing the income tax reduction and exemption for small and low-profit enterprises.
Second, make good use of special bond funds to ensure the construction of key projects.
In December 2021, a quota of 1.46 trillion yuan for new special bonds in 2022 has been issued in advance, and by the end of January, 484.4 billion yuan of new special bonds had been issued by local governments.
Third, increase the scale of special funds and state-owned capital operating budgets to support the modernization of industrial and supply chains.
Support a number of weak points and weak points, build a number of public service platforms, and promote the application of a number of major technical equipment and new material products.
Fourth, support to fully tap the potential of domestic demand, and use demand to drive the supply of industrial products.
For example, continue to implement the subsidy policy for the purchase of new energy vehicles, support the acceleration of the construction of supporting facilities such as charging piles; appropriately increase the investment in central infrastructure, and appropriately advance infrastructure construction.
Fifth, increase the assistance to small and medium-sized enterprises to help market entities operate smoothly.
Including the implementation of the incentive and subsidy policy for the demonstration zone of inclusive finance development, further increasing the support for national-level specialized, special and new "little giant" enterprises, and encouraging local governments to arrange bailout funds for small and medium-sized enterprises.
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