Tax the electricity dealers don't rush

E-commerce in the national two sessions this year received a lot of attention. National People's Congress, step by step High Group chairman Wang said, compared with the physical shop, online shopping "Do not open invoices, not taxable" has become a latent rule, which is unfair to the physical retail. It is recommended to standardize the electronic business tax behavior. Earlier, Suningyun Group Chairman Jindong also proposed that the tax department should study the way of taxation, from the system level to evade tax evasion behavior.

The step by step Gao and Su Ning two Mister proposal to levy a tax to the electricity merchant, is standing in the traditional commercial standpoint, defends the enterprise's vital interest, is not too. And tax proposals also hit the power of the weakness of the electric business, there is indeed a widespread "do not open invoices, not taxable" phenomenon. Survey shows that the online shopping invoices only 30%,70% not pay any taxes, fees, only Alibaba network platform operated by the 2012 tax leakage, the cost of more than 35 billion yuan, the national platform-type electric dealers in tax evasion more than 100 billion yuan.

However, it is premature to levy a tax on the electricity dealers for this reason, but it is still too early to impose a comprehensive levy.

Last year, the "electric business War", because of its blood price momentum is extremely ferocious, to impress the people, causing the traditional business panic mentality. However, careful analysis, "electric business War" is to win the public eye at a low price, the main purpose is still to cultivate the consumer's online shopping habits, laying the foundation for future development. Online shopping after years of hard market incubation period, only just entered the outbreak stage, the market share and total sales are very limited, still unable to compete with the traditional business.

Moreover, "does not open the invoice, does not tax" is not the electricity merchant unique phenomenon, is equally widespread in the traditional business, if calculates seriously, the latter is far exceeds the former. Even if the 100 billion-yuan tax is collected, the share of the national revenue is very low. As for whether to levy a tax on electricity dealers, there are also cost considerations in addition to scale. In addition to some of the large electric dealers have been taxed in accordance with the chapter, the other tens of millions of micro-electricity metering, and the traditional business of the self-employed no difference, not only the scale is too small, but also very dispersed, the cost of collecting taxes is very large, it is likely to form upside down.

The purpose of economic development is to ensure a happy life for the people. The government needs to solve the problem of employment adequately, so that people can get reasonable remuneration through labor and live a good life. But our country present labor force whole surplus, resource imbalance, the employment situation is very grim, every year has tens of millions of employment gap. and the rapid development of E-commerce, just created employment opportunities, making tens of millions of of people through the open shop to make money, embarked on the road of independent entrepreneurship, thereby alleviating the government's employment pressure. So bring the Great (blog, Weibo) benefits, is that 100 billion yuan tax can not compare, why lose the watermelon to pick sesame?

The competitive advantage of electric dealers is not only by evading tax evasion, but by reshaping the whole industry chain, improving labor efficiency, compressing intermediate links, and sharing the profits with consumers. More and more people like online shopping, and not only be attracted by low prices, convenient, fast, save time and energy, are the traditional business lack of factors. Moreover, e-commerce is only just beginning, the industry model is still in the exploratory stage, how the future, we can not expect. Instead of being anxious to levy a tax on electricity dealers, it would be better to keep the fish in the water and wait until the industry matures and is big enough to talk about taxation.

(the author is a financial critic)