One Hundred Thousand Opinions On Vehicle And Vessel Tax Bill

The Legislative Work Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress published public consultation on the 14 day. vehicle and vessel tax The outcome of the draft law. In the nearly 100 thousand comments received, it is recommended that the draft be amended and reduced. Tax burden The opinion was 54.6%.

The draft law on travel and taxation was submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for the first time in October 25th. On the 28 day, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress asked the public to solicit opinions on the draft, and the public in all parts of the country enthusiastically expressed their views through the Internet, letters and newspapers and periodicals. As of November 30th, a total of 97295 opinions and 40 letters from the masses were received.

In the opinion of this solicitation, the approval of the bill will be administrative. statute There were 35779 articles rising to law, accounting for 36.77%, requiring 53137 amendments to the draft and reducing the tax burden, accounting for 54.62%, and 8379 of them were opposed to the formulation of the tax law, accounting for 8.61%.

Some suggestions suggested that the bill would be "free to take legislation" to raise prices in disguised form and increase the burden on owners. Passenger cars are currently the most expensive tax and fees. Statistics show that taxes and fees account for 40% of the total cost of buying cars. A vehicle from the factory, purchase, preservation to use, the total amount of taxes and taxes paid in the world is one of the highest in the world: 17% VAT, 10% vehicle purchase tax, 1% to 40% of vehicle tax, 15% tariff of imported cars, and fuel tax, plus road toll, bridge toll, compulsory insurance premium, annual inspection fee, high parking fee and so on. Road maintenance fees have not been abolished in some places, and road construction fees and environmental protection fees are also collected in some places. The tax on vehicles and ships will soon increase, and the congestion charge that some cities are planning to levy will also be on the point. This will further increase the burden on owners.

Netizens from Shanghai signed "Chen Liangrui" pointed out that the implementation of the tax law is meaningful as a means of guiding residents to use energy efficient transportation. However, we should consider the tax burden of users. 2 of the following displacement cars should be reduced or flat, and more than 3 of the cars can increase the tax burden.

Some opinions have suggested that the draft only reduces the tax rate of less than 1, compared with the current tax rate, but it only accounts for a small proportion of passenger cars, and most of the owners have increased the burden.

Many opinions have suggested that the government has introduced policies in the past two years to encourage people to buy less than 1.6 passenger cars. The tax on such vehicles should also be reduced rather than flat; passenger cars with a displacement of less than 2 are the main vehicles owned by ordinary urban consumers to meet the basic travel needs of commuting, picking up children and the elderly. Legislators and finance and taxation departments should not take the old concept into consideration in the development of today's society.

Shi Zhengwen, a professor of Finance and tax law research center of China University of Political Science and Law, pointed out that our country's current taxes on vehicles include value-added tax, consumption tax, vehicle purchase tax, vehicle and vessel tax, many taxes, double taxation and high tax burden. Vehicle and ship tax is a small tax in our country. Considering the scientific nature of tax structure and the reform of mid long term tax system, the future development direction of vehicle and vessel tax is abolished. Especially after the reform of consumption tax and the reform of real estate tax, the role of vehicle tax will be replaced by these two taxes. Therefore, as a transitional tax, the main purpose of the recent increase is to increase the tax on vehicles and vessels from the regulations to the law, and the specific tax elements should be changed slightly, especially the tax burden on travel tax should not be raised.

He suggested that we should reduce the taxable items of the draft passenger cars, set up four taxable items and appropriately reduce the benchmark tax so as to ensure that the majority of vehicle taxes remain unchanged or appropriately reduced.