Tax Reduction Is Urgent&Nbsp; Let Enterprises "Stay Warm In Winter"

In the past year, the European debt crisis and the US debt crisis have faced double challenges from the outside. At home, the real estate regulation and local debt have faced multiple hurdles. Achieving sustainable economic growth has become a common topic of discussion, and representatives and members of the committee have returned to industry. The voice of reform is gradually rising, and "tax reduction" has become their common appeal.

"Some netizens said," What kind of structure does the government have when it makes a name for itself? " Tax reduction , the word is as ambiguous as' leave treatment '. In fact, its connotation is very profound. " Jia Kang, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and director of the Institute of Financial Sciences of the Ministry of Finance, said that the atmosphere of the audience was relaxed as soon as he spoke. "On the one hand, structural tax reduction can use tax leverage to promote industrial restructuring and the transformation of development mode; on the other hand, it can offset external economic uncertainty and weaken the bad expectations of poor prosperity of SMEs and lack of confidence in the real economy."

According to the latest data released by the Ministry of Finance, the total tax revenue of China in 2011 was close to 9 trillion yuan, reaching 8972 billion yuan, up 22.6% year on year. At the same time, fiscal revenue exceeded 10 trillion yuan for the first time, reaching 10374 billion yuan, an increase of 24.8%. The growth rate of the two indicators is far higher than the GDP growth rate of 9.2%.

By this calculation, China's tax revenue accounted for more than 19% of GDP last year. In 2000, tax revenue accounted for 12.8% of GDP. In absolute terms, the tax revenue in 2011 was seven times that in 2000.

Li Dongsheng, chairman of TCL Group [2.24 1.82% share bar research paper], questioned this and said: "When the overall economy slowed down last year, the proportion of fiscal revenue was still so high, we should reflect on whether our overall fiscal and tax structure needs some changes? With the current economic level and the competitive environment faced by Chinese enterprises, should we consider tax reduction? "

Li Dongsheng as a national National People's Congress Representative, after putting forward the proposal last year, he again put forward the proposal this year, hoping that the government would consider reducing the tax burden and supporting the development of enterprises.

Our survey also shows that up to 63% of enterprises believe that their tax burden is heavy. Another survey data just confirms that in the manufacturing industry with low profits, 23% of enterprises said that their tax revenue to profit ratio was more than 100%; In the service industry with relatively high profits, 57% of enterprises said that their tax to profit ratio reached more than 50%.

Li Dongsheng, who has always been engaged in manufacturing, has served as a deputy to two sessions of the National People's Congress. "Several times during the previous session of the National People's Congress, many representatives of the economic community proposed that the government's fiscal revenue was higher than the growth of GDP, which was not very good." He recalled that the government's explanation at that time was that this positive growth had some temporary factors that could not be sustained. "It turns out that this judgment is wrong. The current sustained high growth shows that it is not a temporary factor, but a structural problem."

Although Jia Kang described this sustained growth as "restorative growth", he also recognized that structural tax reduction should be taken as a macro-control policy, and the optimization of fiscal and tax policies should serve the overall situation to achieve the important task of improving people's livelihood. "As for the strategic emerging industries explicitly announced by the state, there should be some tax reduction preferential measures."

face tax revenue Shen Guojun, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chairman of Yintai Investment, summed up this way: "I think the tariff is a bit silly, the tax on real enterprises is a bit silly, and the tax on individuals is a bit harsh." Shen Guojun's Yintai Department Store [10.48 - 0.38%] is a department store retail group focusing on department store retail business, and its products involve a lot of luxury goods. "Many luxury brands have opened stores in China, and I am familiar with them. Every time I go abroad, foreigners say," Why do you have so many tariffs in China? All luxury brand stores are bought by Chinese people there! "This is what Shen Guojun thinks is" stupid ". The heavy tax burden of real enterprises and the low exemption of personal income tax seem" stupid "and" cruel " 。

Li Daokui, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and director of the Center for China and the World Economy at Tsinghua University, expressed support for Shen Guojun. He believes that the income created by labor is triple taxation, or even quadruple taxation. "When an entrepreneur hires a worker, he creates 100 yuan of added value in a year, and has to pay VAT and business tax. If there is 20 yuan of profit in the 100 yuan, he also has to pay corporate income tax, and then 80 yuan is paid to the workers as wages, he may also have to pay personal income tax. It doesn't say 'five insurances and one fund', which is very unfair to labor-intensive enterprises. "

Li Daokui even suggested that the central government should allocate 500 billion yuan to pay taxes on behalf of enterprises directly