Three ministries to levy environmental taxes Hubei and other four provinces is expected to become a pilot

Hubei and other four provinces are expected to become a pilot, the specific implementation will be divided into three stages Beijing News yesterday, the reporter from the State Environmental Protection Ministry of Environmental Planning Institute learned that the environmental tax research has achieved phased results, the Ministry of Finance, the State administration of Taxation and the Ministry of Environmental Protection will submit to the State Council According to the Oriental Network, "the first financial daily" report: The State Administration of taxation, the Department of property and behavior tax in Ningxia Yinchuan organization convened a summary of the environmental tax research results.　　Participants included experts in the design of environmental tax schemes in China, as well as relevant heads of local tax administration in 4 pilot areas of environmental tax in Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi and Gansu.　　The meeting revealed that at present, environmental tax research has achieved a phased outcome, the three ministries will be submitted to the State Council for environmental tax levy and pilot instructions. The reporter has not yet received a detailed version of the environmental tax levy and pilot scheme. However, the experts said that the current environmental tax system design is fully considered the actual situation of China's sewage industry and tax collection practice, more pragmatic, and forward-looking.　　But some experts also said that there are some specific details such as the determination of the level of tax rates, the determination of the scope of the levy, environmental protection and the coordination between the tax authorities, the setting up of tax exemption and so on, need further consideration.　　Since 2007, the Ministry of Finance, the State administration of Taxation and the Ministry of Environmental Protection have been studying environmental tax, demonstrating the necessity and feasibility of levying environmental tax in our country, and proposing the design scheme of environmental tax system and the corresponding reform measures.　　According to the plan of the Ministry of Environmental Protection this year, we will continue to work closely with the Finance Department and the tax department to select a typical area to carry out environmental tax levy in accordance with the environmental tax design scheme and the levy model of environmental tax designed in the construction plan of the tax collection system. The meeting, on the one hand, invited experts and scholars and local government tax cadres from the theoretical and practical point of view of the environmental tax system design proposals and suggestions, in order to further improve the tax system, better coordinate the relationship between tax and department.　　On the other hand, let the grassroots tax department to timely understand the introduction of environmental taxes and pilot work process, do a good job of knowledge reserves, talent reserves, technical reserves, for the next step of the pilot work to create conditions for the smooth progress. In recent years, the news about the levy of environmental tax has been regarded as "thunder, Little Done". Wang Hui, lecturer at the Law School of Shanghai Maritime University, said: "The environmental problems in reality are much more complicated than the environmental problems in theoretical hypotheses." "Wang Hui, for example, the degree of environmental damage caused by a pollutant is often related to the amount of pollutant emissions and the regional distribution of pollutants, related to the media of pollutant discharge, to the nature and value of the behavior affected by the pollutant discharge, and even to the specific location of the pollutant source." "In affirming the role of environmental tax, the actual effect of environmental tax cannot be overstated." Wang Jinnan, deputy Dean of Environmental planning at the Ministry of Environmental Protection, also said that one of the biggest difficulties in designing environmental taxes is the determination of the tax base (pollution emissions). Whether this should be determined by the Environmental Protection department or by the tax authorities is inconclusive. Wang Jinnan that the ringThe introduction of the border tax should not be anxious, the recent best to find one or two provinces first pilot.　　Environmental tax implementation timetable as for the specific timetable for the implementation of the environmental tax, the China Council for International Cooperation on environment and Development has proposed a road map and a specific timetable for the establishment of the relevant environmental tax system in China in three stages. The first stage, with 3-5 years of time, improve the resources tax, consumption tax, travel tax and other environmental-related taxes.　　To levy an independent environmental tax as soon as possible, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon dioxide and waste water will be a possible choice for environmental tax purposes. The second stage, in 2-4 years, to further improve the environment-related taxes and tax policies. Expand the scope of environmental tax collection.　　If the environmental tax is not levied in the first stage, it needs to be levied at this stage. The third stage, in 3-4 years, will continue to expand the scope of environmental tax collection. Combined with the reform of environmental tax system, the whole optimization is carried out to build up a mature and perfect environmental tax system. (Zhang Yi)