Preferential tax and fee, pilot policy and considerate service —— The tax authorities take various measures to help foreign trade enterprises turn their exports into domestic sales.

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 21st Title: Preferential tax and fee, pilot policy and considerate service-The tax authorities take various measures to help foreign trade enterprises turn their exports into domestic sales.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Yu Qiongyuan

Under the impact of the epidemic, the global economy is declining and international demand is shrinking. Focusing on the huge domestic market has become an important means for foreign trade enterprises to turn crisis into opportunity. Recently, in view of the difficulties faced by foreign trade enterprises, local tax authorities have taken active actions to further facilitate enterprises’ tax collection and help foreign trade enterprises "transition" to break through.

Tax incentives are injected into the "transition" start-up funds.

Since the beginning of this year, the tax authorities have taken the initiative to implement practical preferential policies to ensure that the tax reduction and exemption are in place and the reduction is in place, and fully support export enterprises to explore the domestic market.

Affected by the epidemic, in the first half of this year, overseas orders of Xiamen Weidia Technology Co., Ltd. decreased by 25%. Jun Huang, director of R&D of Vidya Company, said that the sharp contraction of overseas markets prompted the company to shift its market focus to China. In the process of transferring to domestic sales, the realization of tax incentives provided financial support and buffer space for the company.

"In the first half of this year, Vidya achieved a total sales of 286 million yuan, including 153 million yuan in the domestic market, accounting for the first time exceeding the international market share." Jun Huang introduced that the company has enjoyed nearly 9.9 million yuan in tax and fee preferential policies such as social security reduction, reduction of value-added tax rate and increase of export tax rebate rate. As a high-tech enterprise, the company can add and deduct more than 17 million yuan of research and development expenses last year and enjoy nearly 3 million yuan of tax incentives.

With the support of a series of policies, including tax incentives, more and more foreign trade enterprises are accelerating the transfer to domestic sales. According to the data of Guangdong Provincial Taxation Bureau, the domestic sales of export enterprises in Guangdong exceeded the same period of last year in April, and the domestic sales amount in May was basically the same as that in April, and the domestic sales amount in June increased by 3.8% year-on-year. Among them, the export of communication equipment manufacturing industry, textile and garment industry and motor manufacturing industry increased significantly.

Pilot policy helps bonded enterprises to knock on the door of domestic sales.

The international epidemic continues, which has greatly affected many enterprises in the comprehensive bonded zone that "supply materials from abroad and sell them abroad". Nowadays, these enterprises have tried to explore the domestic market with the help of policies such as the pilot of VAT general taxpayer qualification in the comprehensive bonded area.

The pilot of VAT general taxpayer qualification in the comprehensive bonded zone allows enterprises to enjoy the original bonded policy and issue VAT invoices to domestic customers, so that enterprises can make better use of domestic and international "two resources" and "two markets".

Chongqing Mingfeng Medical Equipment Co., Ltd. is an enterprise in Chongqing Jiangjin Comprehensive Bonded Zone. Zhang Jinsheng, the general manager of the company, said that through the fast processing channel set up by the tax authorities, the enterprise quickly obtained the qualification of general VAT taxpayer, and had a "dual status", which enabled it to enjoy both the foreign bonded policy and the policy dividends such as full deduction of domestic purchase input VAT. At present, the enterprise has reached a sales intention worth 50 million yuan with domestic enterprises.

As of August 17th, the domestic sales income of two pilot enterprises in Chongqing Jiangjin Comprehensive Bonded Zone, including Mingfeng Medical, was 1.175 million yuan, accounting for 70.5% of the sales revenue. From January to July, nine pilot enterprises in Chongqing Xiyong Comprehensive Bonded Zone realized domestic sales revenue of 470 million yuan, accounting for 57% of sales revenue, up 25% year-on-year.

Intimate service enhances the confidence of enterprises in "transition"

It is not easy for foreign trade enterprises to "transition". The reporter learned that local tax authorities use the advantages of tax big data to comprehensively explore the situation of export enterprises, follow up the needs of enterprises in a timely manner, increase policy publicity and guidance, and launch convenient tax services to ensure that policies are good and enjoyable.

Zhejiang Yueli Electric Appliance Co., Ltd. decided to invest money to explore the domestic market, but it is necessary to establish customer channels and set up a professional marketing team to convert foreign trade into domestic sales. The high investment in a short period of time has doubled the already tight financial pressure of Yueli Electric.

"The tax authorities have opened a’ green channel’ for export tax rebates for us, and the tax rebates can be received within two working days, which has helped us reduce a lot of pressure." Lu Ping, chief financial officer of Yueli Electric, said.

It is understood that in order to alleviate the financial pressure of export enterprises, the tax authorities have vigorously promoted convenience measures such as paperless tax refund declaration and allowance handling. The average time for tax refund in the country has been reduced from 10 working days in 2019 to less than 8 working days, with a speed increase of 20%. At the same time, the tax authorities also use tax big data to "match the bridge" between the production and sales sides to ensure the smooth operation of the supply chain of the industrial chain.

Guangxi Yulin Taihongda Electronics Co., Ltd. needs to apply for invoice increment as soon as possible because of the rapid increase of the invoice volume after the "transfer" in domestic sales. Yulin tax department remotely counseled enterprise financial personnel to submit an invoice increment application online, and quickly approved it, so that enterprises could obtain 140 special VAT invoices in time.

In addition, the tax authorities have further streamlined the procedures for issuing certificates for enterprises’ export to domestic sales. Enterprises can apply for the certificate of export goods for domestic sales in a non-contact way through the electronic tax bureau, the standard version of the "single window" export tax rebate declaration platform for international trade, and the tax department can complete the business on the day it receives the application for the certificate, so as to help enterprises save time and labor costs to the greatest extent.