On May 16 and 10, the Ministry of Finance of People's Republic of China (PRC) and State Taxation Administration of The People's Republic of China jointly issued a notice on comprehensively promoting resource tax reform, announcing that China will comprehensively promote resource tax reform from July 16 and 1 0. According to the notice, China will carry out the pilot reform of water resources tax, and take the lead in changing water resources fees into taxes in Hebei.
Carry out quantitative assessment, appropriately raise the tax standard of groundwater utilization in high water consumption industries, over-planned water use and groundwater over-exploitation areas, and maintain the original burden level of normal production and domestic water use.
June 2009 17 Vice Minister of Finance Wang Jun said that with the current economic development, the importance of resources has been recognized by everyone, and the content of resource tax has also been extended a lot, especially the waste of water resources is very serious. So the next step is to extend the resource tax to such products. Now at least water resources will enter.
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The principle of paying taxes is to transfer taxes and fees, which generally does not increase the burden of normal production and living water for enterprises and residents. However, according to the different nature of water intake, the tax of groundwater is higher than that of surface water, the tax of groundwater in over-exploitation area is higher than that in non-over-exploitation area, and the tax of groundwater in over-exploitation area is increased by 1 to 4 times.
Over-planned or over-quota water collection 1 to 3 times; Impose high taxes on special industries; Water used for agricultural production and centralized drinking water projects in rural areas that exceed the prescribed limits shall be levied at a low level. At the same time, the "Measures" stipulate six tax exemptions, such as tax exemption for agricultural production water and tax exemption for reclaimed water used for sewage treatment.
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