At 7:40 a.m. on April 1st, Gao Kehui, finance specialist of Yichang Damen Vessel Co., Ltd, successfully declared and payed the first environmental protection tax in Yichang Electronic Taxation Bureau with a total amount of ¥5276.23. With the taxpayers' active declaration and the administrator’s "one-to-one" guidance, all taxpayers of environmental protection tax of Yichang Xiling Local Taxation Bureau completed the declaration and payment on April 1. It marked the successful start of declaration and levy of environmental protection tax in Yichang and the first step of collection and management of environmental protection tax.
From January 1st this year, the Environmental Protection Tax Law has been enforced. Taxpayers should make declaration monthly and pay tax quarterly, and the first period to collect environmental protection tax is in April. The following three measures were taken in Yichang Xiling Local Taxation Bureau to promote orderly implementation of this "green tax".
Innovating publicity means to create an atmosphere. New media platforms such as the WeChat public account of “Yichang Xiling Local Taxation Bureau”, QQ groups of tax authorities and taxpayers were made full use of to deliver new policies of environmental protection tax to the public and diffuse the positive emission reduction incentive which advocated the levy of environmental protection tax was in proportion to emission and no emission entailed no tax so as to increase the taxpayers’ knowledge of policies. An H5was made to improve awareness of the environmental protection tax among various departments and mobilize their coordinated collaboration. More than 3,000 brochures on the environmental protection tax were sent to taxpayers face-to-face to spread knowledge of the tax.
Strengthening cooperation for cohesive force. Report on the environmental tax was made to the local party committee to obtain their support and a cooperation and management mechanism, which was guided by the government and taken part in by local tax and environmental protection authorities, was set up. Regular joint meetings were held with environmental protection authorities to fully clarify shared and historical data and obtain tax source base to realize mutual fusion between the historical data of sewage charges and the tax data of environmental protection tax. By doing so, collection on basic information of taxpayers of environmental protection was completed before the first taxation period, laying a solid foundation for the levy of environmental protection tax.
Optimizing guidance to strengthen the foundation. A combination of “going out” and “inviting in" was implemented. Key tax collection officials and 30 sewage charge payers were organized to participate in the centralized training organized by superior departments to learn the ambitof charges on environmental protection tax, taxation basis,tax standards, the operation of the third CTAIS and so on. Experts were invited into the local branch to carry out "one-to-one" guidance for environmental protection taxpayers and individualized explanation about gathering tax declaration information, filling out tax returns, calculating tax liability and so on so that the financial personnel of enterprises not only understood policies, but also knew how to calculate tax and make tax declaration. Publicity and guidance were strengthened and the declaration in the Electronic Taxation Bureau was promoted to let taxpayers "use the Internet more and walk the road less". A green channel of environmental tax declaration was opened. During the first day of the taxation period, a special service consulting team was set up to perform whole course tracking service to ensure that the taxpayer's businesses were handled, consultations were answered and problems were solved so as to “fire the first shot” well.