(Economic Observation) Greater Vigor of Market Entities Will be Stimulated by China
China News Service, Beijing, January 22, report title: Greater vitality of market players, China will move to rectify arbitrary charges involving enterprises
China News Agency reporter Wang Qingkai
In the context of tax cuts and fee reductions exceeding 2.5 trillion yuan (RMB, the same below) last year, and governments at all levels are living a "tight life", how to prevent "arbitrary charges" from recurring has a bearing on whether China can make a comeback this year. Further optimize the business environment and stimulate the vitality of market players.
The executive meeting of the State Council held a few days ago strengthened measures to further control arbitrary charges and fines involving enterprises.
The meeting released a signal to increase efforts to reduce the unreasonable burden of enterprises, and to support and serve market entities, especially small, medium and micro enterprises.
The Standing Committee of the State Council emphasized that it is necessary to focus on supporting and serving market entities, especially small, medium and micro enterprises, and make more practical measures to help them solve problems, reduce unreasonable burdens, and stimulate the vitality of market entities.
At present, the situation of epidemic prevention and control is severe, economic trends in the first quarter have become more complicated, and market players still face many difficulties.
Make great efforts to support market players, address both the symptoms and the root causes, continue to control arbitrary fees and fines, reduce the burden on enterprises, and consolidate the foundation for economic stability and recovery.
Enterprises involved in arbitrary charges still have many names
In recent years, China has successively introduced a series of tax and fee reduction policies.
Statistics show that during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the nation’s cumulative tax cuts and fees were reduced by 7.6 trillion yuan.
Especially last year, in order to help companies fight the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, tax and fee reductions accounted for more than 30% of the total tax and fee reductions during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, and the deferred tax payment for 3.99 million taxpayers was 29.2 billion yuan.
In recent years, administrative fees and government funds established by the central government have been reduced by more than 70% and 30% respectively, and a large number of fees have been cancelled in various regions.
These policies such as tax cuts and fee reductions, and phased reductions and exemptions of social security contributions have played a key role in maintaining market players and stabilizing the economic fundamentals.
In order to ensure that tax reductions and fee reductions will truly benefit enterprises, China has also stepped up investigations and punishments for arbitrary charges involving enterprises.
The executive meeting of the State Council has focused on governance issues related to enterprise charges in 2020.
The State Administration for Market Supervision has also issued a notice to carry out a nationwide special management of enterprise-related charges, and increase the investigation and punishment of illegal charges related to enterprises.
Substantial "tax cuts and fee reductions" assisted by the vigorous "remediation of enterprise-related charges" have allowed China, facing the huge impact of the epidemic and the complex and severe foreign environment, to exceed one hundred billion yuan in GDP by 2020, becoming the only global economy to achieve positive economic performance. Major economies of growth.
However, there is still a lot of work to be done in China to rectify the indiscriminate charging of enterprises.
In September last year, the State Administration for Market Regulation announced 8 typical cases of illegal charges involving enterprises. In summary, they can be divided into four types: knowingly committing crimes and continuing to collect fees that have been explicitly canceled; arbitrarily taking the initiative and illegally expanding the scope and standards of charges; , Creating conditions out of nothing to charge illegal fees; secretly arranging to pass on the expenses that should have been borne by the enterprise.
"This reflects that Chinese enterprises have undertaken a lot of unnecessary expenses, and the relationship between various names and charges based on interest will be very complicated." Pan Helin, executive dean of the Institute of Digital Economy, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, said that the charges for enterprises are arbitrary. Large and opaque situations still exist, and various illegal charges for various names have not been completely withdrawn.
Long-term mechanism is urgently needed to rectify "arbitrary charges"
In 2021, China is expected to continue to reduce taxes and fees on a large scale, further optimize the business environment and stimulate the vitality of micro-subjects.
The governance of illegal charges related to enterprises is related to the overall effect of tax reduction and fee reduction, and affects the overall burden of reducing the burden on enterprises.
Five measures have been strengthened in the deployment of the state meeting to resolutely stop the arbitrary charging of enterprises, and orderly collect statutory taxes and fees to ensure that enterprises and the public are not burdened unreasonably.
According to the deployment, relevant departments will carry out special inspections on illegal charges related to enterprises across the country, and seriously investigate and deal with issues such as unauthorized establishment of charging items, raising collection standards, expanding collection scope, and arbitrary apportionment.
Fully conduct self-examination and spot checks on fees charged by industry associations and chambers of commerce.
In addition to stopping "arbitrary charges", "arbitrary fines" will also be rectified.
The Standing Committee of the State Council clarified law enforcement in the fields of transportation, taxation, emergency response, etc., it is necessary to scientifically formulate discretionary standards, adopt more warning methods for minor traffic violations, general traffic violations, first offenders and occasional offenders, use caution or not apply fines, and research and promote in the field of tax enforcement "No penalty for the first violation" list system.
In response to some administrative agencies’ failure to implement the preferential policies for reductions and exemptions that have been issued by the state, or the indiscriminate charging of fees, the State Council has clarified that newly established government funds that charge enterprises must strictly follow legal procedures, and any funds that can be cancelled upon maturity will be cancelled. If it is difficult to cancel for the time being, the collection standard should be lowered.
Optimizing the business environment has been "on the road", and a long-term mechanism must also be established to rectify enterprise-related charges.
In addition to increasing penalties for rectifying enterprise-related charges, we must also rely on the rigid force of the rule of law to put administrative power in a cage; improve the enterprise-related charges supervision system, and establish a long-term mechanism to control arbitrary charges.
A lot of attention was paid to the establishment of a long-term mechanism at this regular meeting.
It is clearly required to speed up the revision of administrative penalties for price violations, and timely modify or abolish unreasonable administrative penalties, so as to prevent enterprises from charging indiscriminately.
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