Wuhan has provided subsidies to private educational institutions
and has provided various support such as rent reduction and tax deferral
Newspaper, Wuhan, April 22 (Reporter Tian Doudou) During the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic, all types of private education institutions at all levels in Wuhan have completely stopped offline education activities, and most of the private primary and secondary schools, secondary vocational schools, kindergartens, etc. basically lost their income source. In order to help private educational institutions to overcome difficulties, on the 21st, the Wuhan Municipal Education Bureau and other departments introduced measures to provide private education institutions with special subsidies for epidemic prevention and control, reduction of housing rents, and delayed payment of taxes.
According to the standards of RMB 4,000 per class for private kindergartens and RMB 3,000 per class for private primary and secondary schools and vocational schools, Wuhan will provide special one-time subsidies for improving health infrastructure and epidemic prevention materials to ensure the prevention and control of epidemics and after formal school resumption New crown pneumonia epidemic prevention and control work carried out.
If the private education institution cannot handle the tax declaration due to the epidemic situation, it may apply for deferred declaration in accordance with the law. From February to June 2020, the basic pension insurance, unemployment insurance and work injury insurance units of private education institutions shall be exempted from paying the contributions, and the unit basic medical insurance premiums (excluding maternity insurance) paid by the private education institutions that meet the regulations shall be reduced by half collection. After the exemption period ends, continue to implement the policy of periodically reducing unemployment insurance rates and industrial injury insurance rates until April 30, 2021.
Private educational institutions that have difficulty in running schools due to the impact of the epidemic situation may apply for the deferral of housing provident funds from February to June 2020.
For private education institutions that meet the conditions and whose layoff (reduce) rate is not higher than 5.5%, 100% of the unemployment insurance premiums paid by the institution and its employees in the previous year will be refunded. Private education institutions with a layoff (reduce) rate higher than 5.5% will be refunded at 70%. Private educational institutions with less than 500 employees (inclusive) or less can be returned directly at 100%.
The non-stop supply of water, electricity and gas is in arrears, and no late fees will be charged. At present, private education institutions that implement industrial water and natural gas prices will have their prices reduced by 10% from January 1 to June 30, 2020. For electricity, water, and gas used by private educational institutions, measures such as “non-stop supply of arrears” shall be implemented. Within three months after the end of the epidemic, the agency shall make up for all the overdue expenses and be exempt from late fees.