Solid support for enterprise relief and development (authoritative release)
Recently, China has continued, optimized, and improved a series of policies related to tax reduction and fee reduction, providing solid support for enterprises to alleviate difficulties and develop. On September 7th, the State Council Information Office held a routine briefing on State Council policies, inviting relevant officials from the Ministry of Finance, the State Administration of Taxation, and the State Administration for Market Regulation to introduce the relevant situation.
Emphasize the continuity, foresight, precision, and synergy of policies
"The tax and fee preferential policy is an important part of the active fiscal policy to enhance efficiency, and it is also a direct, effective, and fair policy that benefits enterprises." Vice Minister of Finance Wang Dongwei said that recent policies mainly focus on supporting the strengthening and optimization of the real economy, promoting income growth and consumption expansion, promoting high-level technological self-reliance and self-improvement, supporting the development of strategic emerging industries, promoting the sustained and healthy development of the capital market, promoting stable foreign trade and foreign investment, and supporting risk prevention and resolution. In summary, there are four main characteristics:
Emphasize continuity. Since the beginning of this year, there have been many tax and fee policy projects that have been extended, covering a wide range of fields and lasting for a long time, which is in line with the expectations of enterprises. The policies that need to be extended have been determined and released to the public in a timely manner, stabilizing expectations and boosting confidence, creating a stable policy environment for enterprises to arrange their investment and business activities. Emphasize foresight. Based on changes in the situation and economic operation, strengthen countercyclical regulation and policy reserve research, grasp the timing, intensity, and pace of policy implementation, and fully leverage the role of tax regulation. Emphasize accuracy. Focusing on the difficulties and key points in economic operation, we will work together to improve supply quality and expand effective demand, taking into account overall considerations and emphasizing practical results, highlighting strong support for scientific and technological innovation, the real economy, and the development of small and medium-sized enterprises. Emphasize collaboration. Financial and tax policies closely cooperate with other macro policies such as finance and industry, and work together to form a stable and predictable macro policy environment.
In recent years, small and micro enterprises and individual businesses have been the focus of tax and fee reduction support. Recently, the Ministry of Finance, together with relevant departments, will continue to implement tax and fee preferential policies related to small and micro enterprises and individual businesses until the end of 2027. With strong targeting, strong support, wide benefits, and a long implementation period, it is conducive to further stabilizing expectations, boosting confidence, and creating a good tax environment for small and micro enterprises and individual businesses.
Among the recently released tax and fee preferential policies, there are also multiple policies that support technological innovation. Jia Ronge, Director of the Taxation Department of the Ministry of Finance, pointed out that these policies can be divided into categories such as promoting R&D investment, encouraging entrepreneurial investment, supporting R&D equipment updates, supporting key industrial chains, and encouraging entrepreneurship and innovation.
Segmented push to make "policy finding people" faster and more accurate
Recently, there have been many tax and fee policy projects that have been continuously optimized and improved, covering a wide range of fields. Luo Tianshu, Chief Accountant of the State Administration of Taxation, said, "The tax department has established a five level linkage mechanism of 'overall planning by the bureau, main responsibility of the provincial bureau, refinement by the municipal bureau, supplementation by the county bureau, and support by the sub bureau', which enables the 'policy finding personnel' to be truly implemented."
Specifically, in terms of content, the tax department subdivides the target audience, closely follows the demand orientation, and automatically identifies, matches, and pushes relevant policy content based on different industries, regions, enterprise types, personnel identities, etc., relying on tax big data. During the process, we subdivide time nodes, closely follow the business process, and adopt a comprehensive approach of pre notification, in process reminders, and post tracking to push the entire process in a progressive manner. In terms of reach methods, we have segmented usage habits and combined online and offline channels, establishing a model mainly based on online channels such as electronic tax bureaus, mobile phones, tax collection interactive platforms, SMS, WeChat, etc., supplemented by offline guidance from tax grid personnel, to help every eligible taxpayer and payer enjoy policy dividends as much as possible.
"For example, we will focus on promoting support policies such as R&D expense deduction for technology-based enterprises, and promote inclusive tax reduction policies such as halving the six taxes and two fees for small and micro enterprises." Luo Tianshu introduced that since August, the tax department has accurately promoted more than 275 million households in batches. Next, the tax department will continue to improve the precise push work, striving to make the "policy search" faster and more accurate.
Better implementation of policies that benefit enterprises
How to better implement policies that benefit enterprises and prevent arbitrary fees, fines, and assessments? Chen Zhijiang, the person in charge of the Price Supervision, Inspection and Anti Unfair Competition Bureau of the State Administration for Market Regulation, stated that in the past five years, the national market supervision department has inspected more than 320000 enterprise related fee collection units, dealt with a batch of illegal fee collection behaviors, and directly reduced the burden on enterprises by over 16.9 billion yuan.
This year, the State Administration for Market Regulation has made the rectification of illegal fees charged by enterprises a key focus of its work. Through regulatory law enforcement, it has continuously optimized, improved, and implemented tax and fee reduction policies to help enterprises reduce their burden and increase efficiency. Chen Zhijiang introduced that this year's special action mainly focuses on three major areas: government departments and subordinate units, the financial sector, and public enterprises. It gathers the regulatory power of prices and fees throughout the system, and focuses on addressing the root cause and stubborn problem of arbitrary fees. It effectively reduces the institutional transaction costs, financing costs, and energy costs of enterprises, and helps optimize the development environment for enterprises.
"This year, we will combine theme education with the three-year campaign to build a market supervision system, and specially deploy two internal and external review actions for previous years' rectification work in various regions. Internally, we will require all regions to establish ledgers, sort out the handling of problems that have been inspected in the past, prevent investigation without correction and ineffective implementation. Externally, we will track and evaluate the rectification of non compliant charging entities to prevent problems from not being solved or not being rectified properly." Chen Zhijiang said that in the next step, the State Administration for Market Regulation will focus on promoting the construction of long-term mechanisms, strengthen coordination and linkage with finance, development and reform, taxation and other departments, enrich regulatory toolboxes, address both symptoms and root causes, and promote standardized and orderly charging of enterprises.
