Notice of Beijing Taxation Bureau of State Taxation Administration of The People’s Republic of China on successively launching and optimizing the measures of "Spring Breeze Action for Convenient Taxat

Beijing Tax Letter [2023] No.61

  In order to continuously promote the theme education of the tax system, conscientiously implement the Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Promoting the Development and Growth of the Private Economy (hereinafter referred to as the Opinions) and the arrangement of the the State Council executive meeting on July 31, according to the work arrangement of the State Administration of Taxation, the Beijing Taxation Bureau of State Taxation Administration of The People’s Republic of China has launched four batches of "Spring Breeze Action for Facilitating Taxation" measures in the first half of this year, focusing on supporting the development of small and medium-sized enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households. We will implement the new series of tax reduction and fee reduction policies, combine the actual tax situation in Beijing and the new needs of taxpayers, and then introduce and optimize a number of "Spring Breeze Action for Facilitating Taxes" measures to help the private economy grow and develop, promote the sustained improvement of economic operation, and better serve high-quality development. The relevant matters are hereby notified as follows:

   First, further strengthen policy implementation

  (a) to formulate and distribute the list of preferential tax policies and related guidelines to support the development of small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households.

  (two) according to the list and guidelines, organize face-to-face publicity and interpretation of private enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households. Common questions shall be answered in accordance with the question-and-answer caliber uniformly issued by the State Administration of Taxation, so as to ensure the implementation of unified norms.

  (3) Improve the accurate push mechanism of tax and fee policies, implement the Work Specification for Accurate Push of Tax and Fee Policies of the State Administration of Taxation, better realize "finding people by policies" and ensure that policies can be enjoyed directly and quickly.

  (4) Improve the service measures for retrospective enjoyment. For those who need tax refund, they should fully respect the will of taxpayers and handle it in time through special projects.

  (5) If the taxpayer fails to enjoy the policy of adding and deducting R&D expenses in time during the levy period in July this year for various reasons, it can be supplemented in August and September by changing the second quarter (or June) enterprise income tax prepayment declaration; Actively work with relevant departments to collect and compile appraisal cases of R&D projects, and help qualified small and medium-sized enterprises fully and accurately enjoy the bonus of R&D expenses plus deduction policy.

  (six) for small-scale taxpayers to reduce the value-added tax concessions, small-scale low-profit enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households income tax concessions and other policies, increase the implementation of independent declaration and self-enjoyment, and constantly expand the scope of application.

  (VII) Improve the push mechanism of dividend bills for tax reduction and fee reduction, optimize and improve system functions, and explore personalized and customized push services for dividend bills.

   Two, to further facilitate the handling of taxes and fees

  (eight) for the "enterprise financial accounting system" and other 11 proof materials using access to reuse measures, reduce the data submitted repeatedly, reduce the burden of tax payment.

  (9) Deepen the implementation of the notification commitment system for 12 tax certification items, such as "identity certificate of individual industrial and commercial business operators", strictly control the newly established tax certification items, and do not require taxpayers to test, inspect, authenticate, authenticate, notarize or provide certificates before applying for tax matters.

  (ten) in accordance with the deployment of the State Administration of Taxation, promote digital electronic invoices, help the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises, and further reduce the institutional transaction costs of small and medium-sized enterprises.

  (eleven) continue to optimize the value-added tax, enterprise income tax, personal income tax and other tax declaration and pre-filling services, explore intelligent pre-filling, and shorten the reporting time.

  (12) Optimize the procedures for inter-provincial migration of small and medium-sized enterprises. For qualified small and medium-sized enterprises, the tax authorities shall go through the formalities for moving out in a timely manner according to regulations, and the migration information shall be pushed to the tax authorities in the place where they move in.

  (XIII) Further optimize the information sharing method of bank and tax credit, and help more private enterprises to obtain financing support through "bank-tax interaction" with good tax credit on the premise of ensuring data security and safeguarding taxpayers’ legitimate rights and interests.

   Third, further improve the appeal response

  (14) Give full play to the role of the mechanism for solving the service demands of taxes and fees. The State Administration of Taxation and the provincial tax bureaus will establish direct contact points for private enterprises at the same time, conduct regular visits and discussions for private enterprises, systematically sort out the problems strongly reflected by small and medium-sized enterprises, study practical and effective solutions, and respond to the reasonable demands of taxpayers and payers in a timely manner.

  (15) Organize the tax system to continue the service season for small and medium-sized enterprises, focus on the needs and expectations of small and medium-sized enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households, expand innovative service measures, and promote the new series of tax reduction and fee reduction policies to be better implemented.

  (16) Further strengthen the linkage with the Federation of Industry and Commerce and other departments, actively carry out multi-field and multi-level online and offline professional training and counseling for private enterprises, actively explore the provision of personalized services for different types of private enterprises, and help private enterprises in the transformation and upgrading stage to improve their compliance ability.

  (17) Cooperate with local chambers of commerce to organize the establishment of private enterprise service stations or service consultants, carry out in-depth work of popularizing law, answering questions, mediating, safeguarding rights, etc., and meet the service needs of enterprise tax and fee consultation in a timely manner.

   Fourth, further deepen cross-border services

  (XVIII) Simplify the relevant statements of overseas investment and information obtained by enterprises, reduce the frequency of submission, and further reduce the reporting burden of enterprises.

  (XIX) Optimize the "single window" service functions of the electronic tax bureau and international trade, and implement the "exemption from reporting" of export tax refund invoices and export customs declarations, so as to further improve the convenience of private enterprises and other enterprises in handling export tax rebates.

  (20) Set up the 12366 cross-border service consultation hotline, strengthen the collection and collation of high-frequency difficult tax-related issues in cross-border operations, launch and constantly improve the "cross-border taxpayer’s difficult questions", and broaden the channels for private enterprises to solve doubts and doubts.

  (21) Combined with the overseas investment characteristics of private enterprises in this Municipality, after official website, the State Administration of Taxation, issued the "Overseas Tax Case Library", cooperate with the publicity and utilization of the "Overseas Tax Case Library", assist in updating and issuing the investment tax guide for countries (regions), and help "going out" private enterprises to prevent tax risks and improve their tax compliance ability.

  (twenty-two) deepen the use of international tax legal tools such as mutual consultation procedures of tax treaties and advance pricing arrangements, and make greater efforts to help taxpayers such as private enterprises solve cross-border tax-related disputes and improve the tax certainty of cross-border operations.

  (23) Focusing on the characteristics and tax-related demands of the "going out" taxpayers in this Municipality, we will optimize and upgrade the "Belt and Road" measures for tax services, better serve the "going out" taxpayers in this Municipality, and create a good tax environment for private enterprises to better "go out".

   Fifth, further optimize the law enforcement methods

  (24) Insist on collecting taxes and fees according to laws and regulations, resolutely refuse to collect "excessive taxes and fees", expand and smooth the complaint reporting channels such as the 12366 tax payment service hotline, and seriously investigate and deal with the behavior of collecting "excessive taxes and fees" together.

  (twenty-five) to accelerate the development of regional unified tax administrative punishment discretion benchmark, and promote regional tax law enforcement coordination.

  (26) In accordance with the relevant deployment requirements of the State Administration of Taxation, the tax authorities shall provide guidance to private enterprises that meet the requirements and have real difficulties in paying taxes, and shall not take enforcement measures for those who pay taxes as planned.

  (27) Adhere to the combination of education and punishment, and further strictly implement the system of "no penalty for the first violation". If 14 items in the list of "no penalty for the first violation" of tax administrative punishment occur for the first time and the harmful consequences are slight, they will not be given administrative punishment.

  (28) Strictly implement the system of fair competition and equity review of tax regulatory documents, strengthen the review of relevant policies and measures, earnestly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of taxpayers in the private economy such as small and medium-sized enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households, and ensure that all types of enterprises are treated equally and equally.

  All units should adhere to the guidance of the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, implement the new development concept completely, accurately and comprehensively, resolutely implement the "Two Unswervings", fully understand the significance of promoting the development and growth of the private economy, fully understand the significance of doing a good job in current tax work to promote the sustained recovery and high-quality development of the national economy, and earnestly enhance the sense of mission and responsibility. Taking the implementation of the Opinions and the spirit of the executive meeting of Politburo meeting of the Chinese Communist Party and the State Council seriously as an important task to further promote the theme education of the tax system, we should work closely with the actual creativity, solve problems and do practical things for taxpayers in accordance with the law and regulations, take the initiative to cooperate efficiently, be close to the fine service, and strive to promote the private economy to become bigger and better. It is necessary to combine the requirements of continuous innovation and development of "Jinjiang Experience", constantly enrich and improve the measures and methods for tax departments to serve small, medium and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households, sum up and popularize good experiences and practices in a timely manner, and fix effective experiences and practices to form a system, so as to ensure that the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council to promote the development of the private economy and the new series of tax reduction and fee reduction policies are fully effective in the tax system, and make new and greater contributions to the high-quality development of services.

State Taxation Administration of The People’s Republic of China Beijing Municipal Taxation Bureau    

August 22, 2023