Since the beginning of this year, the national tax system has deepened the law based, number based and strict management of taxes, solidly promoted the tax practice of Chinese path to modernization, and actively served high-quality development. On September 20th, at the series of themed press conferences on "Promoting High Quality Development" held by the State Council Information Office, Rao Lixin, Deputy Director of the State Administration of Taxation, introduced that the tax department continues to deepen the "policy search", and carries out targeted policy recommendations for 360 million households (people) at specific points in time, pushing 540 million pieces of information on various tax and fee preferential policies to ensure the solid implementation of structural tax reduction and fee reduction policies. From January to August, the main policies supporting scientific and technological innovation and the development of manufacturing industry have reduced taxes, fees, and refunds by over 1.8 trillion yuan, adding momentum to accelerate the development of new quality productive forces. In recent years, China has successively introduced a series of tax preferential policies to support scientific and technological innovation, such as the additional deduction of R&D expenses for corporate income tax and the preferential income tax for high-tech enterprises. According to Huang Yun, spokesperson and director of the General Office of the State Administration of Taxation, based on the 2023 corporate income tax settlement and payment data ending in the first half of this year, there are 629000 enterprises nationwide that enjoy an additional deduction of 3.45 trillion yuan for research and development expenses. On the one hand, it strongly supports the innovative development of high-tech enterprises. In 2023, 405000 high-tech enterprises will enjoy an additional deduction amount of 2.83 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 15.1%. The average additional deduction amount per household is 2.5 times that of non high-tech enterprises. On the other hand, it strongly supports the innovative development of private enterprises. In 2023, private enterprises will enjoy an additional deduction of 2.59 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 12.5%. According to the value-added tax invoice data, the sales revenue of China's manufacturing industry increased by 4.6% year-on-year from January to August this year. The tax department accurately and efficiently implements tax and fee preferential policies to support the development of the manufacturing industry, promoting the alleviation of business pressure and enhancing innovation vitality in the manufacturing industry. From 2018 to 2023, the cumulative increase in tax reduction and fee reduction, as well as tax refund and fee deferral, for the manufacturing industry in China exceeded 4 trillion yuan, accounting for over 30% of all tax and fee incentives, benefiting the most among various industries Dai Shiyou, Director of the Policy and Regulation Department of the State Administration of Taxation, pointed out that a series of tax and fee support policies that promote technological innovation and energy conservation and environmental protection have effectively promoted the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing enterprises towards high-end, intelligent and green directions. Personal income tax involves thousands of households. Starting from January 1, 2023, China will increase the special additional deduction standards for caring for infants and young children under the age of 3, educating children, and supporting the elderly. After the policy was released, the tax department quickly implemented it, strengthened policy promotion and precise push. Shen Xinguo, Director of the Tax Service Department of the State Administration of Taxation, revealed that the personal income tax settlement and payment data that ended at the end of June this year showed that about 67 million people nationwide will enjoy the benefits of this policy in 2023, with a tax reduction scale of over 70 billion yuan. The new electronic tax bureau, which continuously improves the unified and standardized level of tax and fee services, has been launched nationwide, reducing tax processing time by 20% compared to the past; Steadily promoting the comprehensive digitization of electronic invoices and improving the convenience of taxpayers' use of invoices... Rao Lixin told reporters that the tax department focuses on "efficiently completing one thing" and continues to carry out the "Convenient Tax Spring Action", integrating a series of measures to continuously improve the level of tax and fee services. Shen Xinguo introduced that among the 21 key tasks of "efficiently accomplishing one thing" formulated and issued by the State Council, there are 7 tax related matters. The tax department fully plays its functional role and promotes the overall improvement of online and offline government service efficiency. One is to simplify the processing flow, such as implementing the declaration methods of 'data collection+intelligent pre filling' and 'tax linkage+element supplementary reporting', to achieve that most taxpayers only need to confirm or correct a small amount of information with one click to complete the declaration. The other is to promote business integration, such as creating a comprehensive tax payment scenario in the new electronic tax bureau, integrating matters involving multiple types of taxes and fees and requiring multiple processing into one processing. The third is to expand data sharing, such as deepening cooperation with the General Administration of Customs and other departments to improve the service efficiency of enterprise export tax rebates. The fourth is to enhance departmental linkage, actively coordinate with market regulatory departments, and promote the 'one-time processing' of enterprise information changes and the 'one-stop processing' of enterprise deregistration, "Shen Xinguo further explained. This year, the tax department has launched the "Convenient Tax Spring Action" for the 11th consecutive year, continuously optimizing the precise promotion of tax and fee preferential policies. Continuously expanding tax payment channels, streamlining required documents for processing, and deepening cross regional connectivity. Continuously optimizing the tax credit evaluation method, as of the end of August, 26000 newly established taxpayers have achieved tax credit upgrades. In collaboration with financial regulatory authorities and commercial banks to standardize and optimize the "bank tax interaction", small and micro enterprises across the country obtained bank loans of 1.56 trillion yuan through the "bank tax interaction" in the first half of the year, a year-on-year increase of 7.6%. The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China deployed to deepen the reform of the financial and tax system by implementing various tax related reform tasks. Rao Lixin introduced that the Decision of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China directly involves nearly 30 reform tasks for the tax department. It not only puts forward the overall requirements of "conducive to high-quality development, social equity, and market unity" for improving the tax system and optimizing the tax structure, but also puts forward specific requirements for the reform of multiple tax categories such as value-added tax, consumption tax, and personal income tax; Deploying comprehensive implementation of tax legal principles and other tax reform tasks, as well as proposing several social insurance reform tasks involving tax departments; There are both tax reform and tax management reform; We not only make specialized arrangements for deepening reforms in the field of taxation, but also put forward corresponding requirements for the role of taxation in deploying reforms in areas such as science and technology, rule of law, people's livelihood, and ecology. The national tax system consciously benchmarks the deployment requirements of the "Decision" and, based on the actual situation of tax work, carefully formulates reform implementation plans, establishes and improves a mechanism for the "top leader" to take overall responsibility for reform implementation, and refines the division of responsibilities. "Next, we will continue to strengthen communication and cooperation with finance, development and reform and other departments, listen to the opinions and suggestions of all parties on deepening the reform in the tax field, grasp the implementation of various tax related reform tasks in the spirit of nails, and combine the implementation of the tax related reform deployment of the Decision with the promotion of overall planning of various tax work, make every effort to promote new progress in various tax work, better improve the ability and level of serving high-quality development, and make greater contributions to comprehensively promoting the construction of a powerful country and the great cause of national rejuvenation with Chinese path to modernization." Rao Lixin emphasized. (New Society)