Fully implement tax cuts and fee reductions to help Zhongshan's high-quality development

Luo Jingwen, Director of Zhongshan Municipal Taxation Bureau

On July 5, 2018, the Zhongshan Municipal Taxation Bureau of the State Administration of Taxation (SATB) was formally set up, and the former Zhongshan Municipal State Taxation Bureau (SBSTB) and the former Zhongshan Municipal Local Taxation Bureau (LTB) were formally merged. To date, the establishment of the Zhongshan Municipal Tax Bureau is more than a year old.

Recently, the State Administration of Taxation Zhongshan City Taxation Bureau party secretary, Luo Jingwen, director of the South China Daily said in an exclusive interview, the past year is a brand new tax department gearing up to start the opening year, the value-added tax reform, personal income tax reform, small and micro-enterprises universal tax cuts and many other tasks, opened up the country's large-scale implementation of the curtain of tax cuts; at the same time, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area development planning At the same time, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Plan has been upgraded to a national strategy, and for the tax department, development opportunities and reform challenges coexist.

Over the past year, the Zhongshan Municipal Taxation Bureau has actively implemented the important deployment of tax and fee reductions, released policy dividends, and promoted the transformation and upgrading of the local economy; and, through the continuous innovation of tax services, it has endeavored to create a high-quality tax business environment and comprehensively served Zhongshan's participation in the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Innovation of the "Pioneer and Ten Thousand Enterprises" Activity

Nanfang Daily: In the context of the construction of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Greater Bay Area, how can the Zhongshan tax department play the role of taxation as an economic regulator to promote the regional economy and industrial development, and escort the economic development?

Luo Jingwen: In the face of the historical opportunity of the construction of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Bay Area, the Municipal Taxation Bureau, under the economic situation of "stable but changing", has continued to release the dividends of the unprecedented national policy of tax cuts and fee reductions to fully stimulate the operation and vitality of all kinds of market entities by reducing the tax burden on the economic entities, and to contribute to the high-quality development of Zhongshan's economy. Vitality, for Zhongshan's high-quality development of the economy to help.

In 2019, a package of tax and fee reduction policies have solidly landed in Zhongshan, cultivating fertile soil for Zhongshan's economic development. According to statistics, the city's new tax cuts from January to May amounted to 3.498 billion yuan, and the new policies introduced in 2019 reduced taxes by 1.611 billion yuan. Among them, the deepening of value-added tax reform added 1.136 billion yuan in new tax cuts, 387 million yuan in new tax cuts from inclusive policies for small and micro enterprises, and 89 million yuan in new tax cuts from special additional deduction policies for personal income tax.

Direct tax cuts revitalize the liquidity of enterprises, reduce the cost of business taxes and fees, in the short term to reduce the burden on enterprises, enhance the development of enterprises; in the long term, tax cuts are conducive to optimizing the economic structure, stimulate investment and consumption, promote the high-quality development of the economy, and enhance the confidence of enterprises to take root in the Greater Bay Area.

Since November last year, the state has repeatedly emphasized the need to "promote larger tax cuts and more significant fee reductions"; in this year's "Government Work Report", more mention of "reducing the burden of enterprise taxes and social security contributions by nearly two trillion yuan" this set of eye-catching figures. The city's government has been working to reduce the burden of tax and social security contributions on enterprises by nearly two trillion yuan.

The Municipal Taxation Bureau earnestly implements the decision-making and deployment of the CPC Central Committee, the State Council and the higher authorities on tax and fee reductions, and takes tax and fee reductions as the "No. 1 implementation project, the No. 1 supervisory matter, the No. 1 assessment task" to grasp. In the process of promoting the work of reducing taxes and fees, combined with the merger of the tax system after the actual number of party organizations and party members increased greatly, with the party building as the lead, continue to stimulate the internal energy of the Zhongshan tax system.

In April this year, the Municipal Taxation Bureau innovatively carried out the "Pioneer Even Ten Thousand Enterprises" activity, which comprehensively aggregated the tax system up and down the 55 party branches of the battlefield, 1241 party members of the vanguard of the work of the kinetic energy, the formation of four party members of the service team, respectively, for taxpayers to provide " Ask the need to ask, solve the problem, publicity and counseling, risk medical examination" and other four vanguard attentive service, and effectively for enterprises to solve problems, do a good job, and increase the effectiveness.

Driven by the Party members' pioneering efforts, we have carried out a total of 480 activities such as setting up a youth enterprise assistance group, establishing an expatriate service team, acting as a tax class teacher, setting up a Party member's service post, and organizing the Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Youth Tax and Enterprise Salon, which has delivered favorable tax policies and popularized the latest user-friendly initiatives to 105,000 taxpayers.

All-out service for the construction of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Bay Area

Nanfang Daily: Specifically, what work has been carried out by the Zhongshan tax department?

Luo Jingwen: Under the leadership of the municipal party committee and the municipal government, the municipal tax bureau has made every effort to serve the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area construction work deployment.

On the one hand, we give full play to the professional advantages of the tax department, set up a working leading group to serve the construction of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Bay Area, and set up a professional management service team. In the first half of this year, around the construction of international science and technology innovation center, Hong Kong and Macao youth innovation and entrepreneurship and other projects, Zhongshan tax department put forward a number of related tax proposals to the higher level.

On the other hand, we have actively cooperated with Zhongshan City to strive for two key tasks, namely, the pilot expansion of the Free Trade Zone and the Guangdong-Macao Comprehensive Cooperation Demonstration Zone, and gradually accelerated the popularization and application of the "International Tax Remittance" service platform, aiming at opening up a fast channel for the payment of remittance for trade in services in the Greater Bay Area, and establishing a quadrilateral data *** enjoyment among tax, banks, foreign exchange and enterprises, so as to provide a better service for the Greater Bay Area. **The purpose of the platform is to open up a fast channel for the payment of service trade remittances in the Greater Bay Area, and to establish a four-way data * * * enjoyment between tax, banks, foreign exchange and enterprises, so as to speed up the circulation of resources in the Greater Bay Area.

In addition, in line with the construction requirements of the "Belt and Road" initiative, we have joined hands with relevant departments to carry out on-site surveys of "going out" enterprises, and take the initiative to publicize the "Belt and Road" related policies and initiatives for enterprises. We have been working with relevant departments to conduct field surveys of "going out" enterprises and take the initiative to publicize "Belt and Road" policies and initiatives for enterprises. We continue to update and improve the basic information of "going out" taxpayers, which strengthens the data foundation for gauging the development of enterprises and benchmarking their needs. At the same time, relying on the municipal government's "Zhongshan-Macao business cooperation work" platform, and Macao Investment Promotion Bureau to establish a good working communication, articulation mechanism, **** with the promotion of Zhongshan enterprises with Macao, Portuguese-speaking countries business cooperation.

The convenience of tax handling leads the province

Nanfang Daily: In the process of building a quality tax business environment, what efforts have been made by the Zhongshan tax authorities and what results have been achieved?

Luo Jingwen: The support point for the integrated development of the east and west sides of the Pearl River, the pivotal city of the coastal economic belt and the important pole of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area are the "three positions" given to Zhongshan by the provincial party committee.

In Zhongshan open door to meet Hong Kong and Macao and other areas of investment, to undertake the transfer of industries on the east bank of the Pearl River, at the same time, all kinds of market players for the business environment in Zhongshan, government services have also put forward higher requirements. This, the tax department to create a good tax business environment, maintain a fair and orderly tax economic order is unshirkable.

Since the reform of tax institutions, the Municipal Taxation Bureau has continuously deepened the connotation of tax services, broadened service areas, and taken the initiative to optimize the tax business environment "excellent, less, better, full, low" the "five words of truth" of the relevant requirements, and to enhance the sense of achievement and happiness of taxpayers and fee payers. In terms of enhancing the taxpayers' sense of gain and happiness, significant results have been achieved.

One is the province's leading degree of convenience in opening a business to handle taxes.Since May 2018, we have fully implemented the "package" service of one-time settlement of multiple tax-related matters for newly-opened enterprise taxpayers, and promoted the integration, facilitation, and rapidity of business start-up to realize the average closing time of the registration process for newly-opened taxpayers of only 0.33 days. 0.33 days. As of June 30, Zhongshan City **** 14,727 new enterprises through the Guangdong Provincial e-Taxation Bureau for "multi-certificate" registration information confirmation and other business, online processing rate of 98.17%, online processing rate and acceptance of the efficiency of the province's forefront; 7,649 new enterprises through the e-Taxation Bureau for the first time for the first time for the first time for the first time for the first time for the first time for the first time for the first time for the first time for the first time for the first time for the first time for the invoice Invoice application, the first time to apply for invoices online processing rate of 97.37%, the average closing time of 0.4 days, the realization of the new taxpayers half a day to get a ticket business.

The second is the efficient and convenient daily tax business. Zhongshan City's tax and fee business "one window", than the General Administration of Taxation required to realize the time five months ahead of schedule. We took the lead in launching the real estate transactions, registration, tax collection and payment of "one window acceptance" special window, so that the real estate transaction business processing speed up 40%. At the same time, we have vigorously promoted the "Palm Office" for tax and fee business, the APP for online social security fee reporting, and the "full online office" for tax payment for incremental housing.Starting from October 2018, Zhongshan has taken the lead in the province in the trial run of the "Cloud Tax Payment" service, which realizes online electronic tax payment. "service, to realize the online electronic tax bureau and offline tax service hall tax payment business using WeChat, Alipay and other third-party payment tools to pay, to create a multi-channel, diversified e-payment system, and effectively reduce the burden of taxation on both sides.

Third is the province's leading speed of export tax refund.In 2019, the average processing time of export tax refund in Zhongshan tax is 2.71 working days, and the average processing time of tax refund is the second in the province and the first in the Pearl River Delta. The fastest export enterprises in Zhongshan can complete their export tax refund procedures on the same day and receive the tax refund on the next day. Starting from March 1 this year, we are committed to closing the review and approval related matters within the same day, 3 working days, 5 working days and 10 working days respectively for the qualified tax refund and exemption declarations of enterprises in categories I, II, III and IV.

The construction of "digital tax" has been accelerated comprehensively

Nanfang Daily: The above initiatives to optimize the business environment for taxation that you mentioned are closely related to the construction of informatization, and what other new initiatives are there for the Zhongshan tax department in this regard?

Luo Jingwen: big data, Internet + is the trend of the times, the Municipal Taxation Bureau to seize the opportunity of the reform of the tax collection and management system, the overall planning of the new layout of the tax informatization strategy, focusing on creating a "digital smart tax". At present, the intelligent construction of collection and management in Zhongshan City, targeting the taxpayers in the tax process of the difficult points, pain points, electronic tax, big data analysis and other means have been integrated into the taxpayers and contributors of daily business transactions.

How to realize the precise push of the tax reduction policy, and pass the policy landing "last kilometer", is a problem we have been exploring.

This year, the Municipal Taxation Bureau independently developed a tax reduction and fee reduction system, which realizes the precise delivery of preferential policies. We are the first in the country to use the concept of "labeling", relying on the tax department to grasp the massive amount of data on enterprise declaration, tax payment for taxpayers tax "portrait", according to the "portrait" results, through the electronic tax bureau to the taxpayers. Based on the results of the "portrait", a personalized and customized list of tax policy preferences will be pushed to taxpayers through the e-Tax Bureau, eliminating the need for taxpayers to screen and match the policies available to them on their own, and allowing the preferential policies to proactively look for enterprises and taxpayers.

Since April, more than 300,000 taxpayers in the city have been receiving the exclusive electronic list of "Beneficial Knowledge". "The launch of the system has also been recognized by the provincial tax bureau, and will be promoted in Guangdong Province, bringing "Zhongshan wisdom" to taxpayers and taxpayers in Guangdong.

In fact, since the institutional reform, the Zhongshan Municipal Taxation Bureau, in accordance with the construction concept of "unified entrance, mutual integration of resources, technology-driven, departmental joint", has vigorously implemented e-taxation, accelerated the integration and optimization of the original features of the software, and strived to enhance the effectiveness of the administration through the effective fusion of the internal management information system, so that the public can More running on the Internet and less running on the road.

As of June 30, Zhongshan's online reporting rate was as high as 99.43%, and the proportion of taxpayers handling major tax-related businesses online through the e-Tax Bureau exceeded 95%. Among them, the online processing rate of high-frequency businesses such as applying for invoices for use, issuing VAT invoices on behalf of ordinary taxpayers, new taxpayers' packages, and general taxpayers' qualification registration all ranked first in the province. The application and promotion of the Electronic Taxation Bureau has broken the space and time limitations of tax-related business, which greatly facilitates the majority of taxpayers and fee payers.