China News Service, June 21. Talking about the risk prevention and control of the Hainan Free Trade Port, Feng Fei, the governor of the People's Government of Hainan Province, stated on the 21st that he would severely crack down on outlying islands' duty-free arbitrage and smuggling, and insist on attacking if they show up.
The "Law of the People's Republic of China on Hainan Free Trade Port" was reviewed and approved by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on June 10, and was promulgated and implemented on the same day.
On the morning of the 21st, the State Council Information Office held a press conference on the Hainan Free Trade Port Law.
At the meeting, a reporter asked: Article 55 of the Free Trade Port Law stipulates that the free trade port must establish a risk warning and prevention and control system to prevent and resolve major risks.
May I ask what measures the Free Trade Port has taken or will take in terms of risk prevention and control to ensure effective risk prevention and control?
We talked about fully liberalizing investment access at the same time, how can we keep the red line and bottom line of management?
Feng Fei responded that the Hainan Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government always insisted that without risk prevention and control, there would be no reform and opening up. As much risk prevention and control capabilities as there are, there is plenty of room for reform and opening up, and “manageable” is the bottom line of “openness”. , Always tighten the string of risk prevention and control.
"We have held six meetings of the Provincial Party Committee Free Trade Port Working Committee to listen to reports on risk prevention and control work, and set up 15 special risk prevention and control working groups led by provincial leaders to comprehensively sort out and dynamically adjust various fields. For various risks, establish and improve the risk early warning and prevention and control system, and resolutely implement the major risk prevention and control action plan for the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port. Every policy and reform measure is closely followed by a set of "controllable" working mechanisms and prevention measures. Control measures.” Feng Fei pointed out that so far, no systemic major risks have occurred or appeared in the province.
Afterwards, Feng Fei gave an introduction on risk prevention and control in key areas.
First, the high-pressure crackdown on tax-free smuggling in outlying islands.
A special action leading group for combating the smuggling of outlying island tax-free sets of purchases was established, led by 4 provincial leaders, with the principle of "combining combat and prevention, focusing on prevention, addressing both symptoms and root causes, strengthening the source, and comprehensive management."
Starting from policy propaganda and warning education, through anti-smuggling systems and big data methods, it accurately researches and judges and locks the target personnel of smuggling, control, purchase and smuggling, and accurately pushes warning and education text messages to form a psychological deterrent.
Fight if you insist on outcropping.
Since July 1, 2020, the United Customs has carried out 12 rounds of special crackdowns, knocking out 80 pirate buying gangs, imposing "eligibility penalties" for non-compliant travelers not to enjoy the duty-free shopping policy on outlying islands within three years, and recording serious untrustworthy entities into credit information Sharing Platform.
Implement joint disciplinary action, strengthen coordinated operations, establish and improve the Qiong, Yue, and Guangxi anti-smuggling joint prevention and control mechanism, and strengthen the remote law enforcement cooperation mechanism with Shanghai, Hangzhou and other places.
The Internet and e-commerce in these two places are relatively developed, and it is necessary to cut off the channels for illegal sales of duty-free goods on outlying islands.
For the "zero-tariff" policies that are being introduced one after another, a series of prevention and control plans have been studied and formulated, and the construction of the anti-smuggling system of the social management information platform and the customs business platform has been further strengthened to prevent and control the smuggling risks of "zero-tariff" commodities.
Second, resolutely prevent taxation risks.
Last year, the overall plan for the construction of the free trade port was announced, and some preferential policies were introduced one after another, and the main players entering the Hainan market were booming.
The types of enterprises are complex and mixed, and there are also individual market players who take advantage of the loopholes.
The research and judgment should prepare articles to prevent tax risks from the beginning, and resolutely prevent Hainan Free Trade Port from becoming a "tax haven."
Some measures have been taken to this end.
The first is to strengthen source management and control, ensure registration and establish and improve risk identification and discovery mechanisms.
Starting from the business registration link, a risk identification index system is established, which is detailed to the industry, to the city and county.
In the process of attracting investment, correct the ideological and understanding deviations such as eager for quick success and instant benefits, and explain the tax preferential policies and the thresholds and conditions for the enterprises that attract investment.
Don’t even want a shell company that takes advantage of the loopholes.
The second is to control policy formulation.
The General Office of the Provincial Government has issued the "Notice on Regulating Financial and Tax Policies Related to Industry Support", which clarified that no support policies directly linked to the tax payment of enterprises shall be signed or issued.
The third is to strengthen daily supervision.
Establish and improve the early warning mechanism, relying on the social management information platform and tax information platform to provide timely early warning of some signs of business operations.
In the next step, we will improve the "double random and one open" supervision and credit supervision mechanism, improve information sharing, learn from international anti-tax avoidance work experience, and take corresponding measures against related behaviors in accordance with laws and regulations.
Third, strictly prevent and defuse financial risks.
Hainan's financial industry is not developed, financial innovation is not much, and financial risks are generally stable and controllable.
However, the construction of a free trade port must expand the level of openness in the financial sector and develop new types of finance.
To make use of international capital, the pressure on financial risk prevention and control will increase in the future.
The provincial party committee and the provincial government planned to set up a special financial risk prevention and control team, built a free trade port capital flow monitoring platform at the People’s Bank of China’s Haikou Central Sub-branch, took effective measures to crack down and deal with illegal fundraising, and properly resolve individual corporate debt risks. Licensed financial institutions will give greater support to firmly hold on to the bottom line of no regional and systemic financial risks.
Feng Fei said that we have also made further arrangements for the prevention and control of real estate risks.
Feng Fei said that in the next step, Hainan Province will further improve its political position. Based on systematically summarizing the risk prevention and control experience of the free trade port, it will meet the requirements of the island-wide customs closure operation, and follow the introduction of various policies and supervision. The changes in the model will continue to improve the risk early warning and prevention and control system, and continue to strengthen risk research and judgment to ensure "controllable".