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Original title: Reduce costs and increase efforts to acquire a sense of reality (policy interpretation)
Since the beginning of this year, the new corona pneumonia epidemic has had a major impact on China’s economic and social development. To help companies overcome difficulties, cost reduction has become an important force for policy implementation. The National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Finance and the People’s Bank of China recently jointly issued the “Notice on How to Do a Good Job in Reducing Costs in 2020” (in hereinafter the “Notice”), which clarifies 23 measures in 7 areas to help market players develop with relief. How is the implementation of these cost reduction policies? Does the company have a sense of profit? The reporter interviewed companies and related experts.
More efficient implementation of tax and fee reduction
“Extending the VAT exemption until the end of the year can reduce the company’s tax by nearly 3 million yuan.” Affected by the epidemic, the Zhenshi Hotel in Tongxiang, Zhejiang, once had difficulty operating. The company’s CFO Liu Junxian said that the tax reduction policy not only reduces costs for companies, but also infused with great confidence.
The “Notice” places “the application of the established policies of reduction of taxes and fees” at the top and clearly stipulates that small-scale taxpayers will be exempt from the value added tax and the exemption of public transport, catering and accommodation, tourism and entertainment, cultural sports and other services. Extend until the end of this year. In recent months, companies in these industries have had a clear sense of profit.
In addition to tax reductions and exemptions, the implementation of relevant rate fund reductions, the reduction of average corporate rates for broadband and private lines, and the resolute rectification of illegal charges related to corporations are also important measures in this tax reduction policy. Let’s take China Unicom as an example. At the end of October, China Unicom’s corporate broadband fell 20.9% annually, and its dedicated internet line was down 16.7%, and both completed their annual decline targets. Miao Rong, chief investigator at the China Business Confederation, believes that reducing average rates for corporate broadband and dedicated lines will help guide companies’ digital transformation, and resolute rectification of illegal charges will help improve the environment. business and stimulate corporate vitality.
According to data from the State Administration of Taxation, in the first three quarters of this year, the cumulative total of new tax and fee cuts across the country exceeded 2 trillion yuan, reaching 2.0924 million yuan. Among them, the new tax and fee reduction policies to support epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development were 1,365,900 million yuan.
Lowering taxes and lowering fees have not only increased scale, but have also improved efficiency. The 2 trillion yuan of additional financial funds this year will be passed through the direct mechanism of “unipolar insertion to the end”, and the new budget target of funds can be delivered to the bases within 7 days.
“Judging from practice in recent months, policies to reduce taxes and fees have effectively covered the pressure on production and business operations caused by the epidemic and have helped market players to accelerate recovery.” . Fu Baozong, Director of the Industrial Research Bureau, Industry Institute, China Macroeconomic Research Institute In the long term, it will also help the entity’s enterprises to move forward with light equipment and fully unleash the investment potential, market vitality and the power of innovation.
In the interview, many companies hope that good policies will be more sustainable. Fu Baozong believes that in order to continue implementing the relevant policies, it is necessary to strengthen the interdepartmental and interregional consultation and coordination mechanism. In addition, it is necessary to establish a comprehensive mechanism for complaints, reports and investigations of arbitrary fees, respond promptly to reasonable demands from companies, and carry out serious liability for illegal taxes and fees.
Continue to increase tax and fee reduction efforts, which can put pressure on the fiscal balance. Yang Guangpu, a research associate in the Macroeconomic Research Department of the State Council Development Research Center, said the key is to further optimize the structure and methods of fiscal spending and strengthen the discipline of fiscal spending.
Reduce energy, land and labor costs
Recently, Huang Weiguang, the person in charge of Hangzhou Dadongnan High-tech New Materials Company, was busy purchasing polyester raw materials to expand the company’s production capacity. “We received more than 1.8 million yuan in electricity subsidies some time ago, which were used for acquisitions.”
According to the “Notice”, except for users in high energy consumption industries, the electricity price of electricity users currently implementing the general and commercial industrial electricity prices and large industry will be reduced by a 5% until the end of the year. “It is expected that the annual cost of electricity can be reduced by more than 110 billion yuan for the society, which will benefit more than 50 million customers,” said Yu Chongde, full-time vice president and general secretary of the Electricity Council. from China.
“Reducing energy costs implies a wide range and great intensity.” Yang Guangpu believes that this year companies are facing the double pressure of high operating costs and reduced operating income affected by the epidemic, and development is more difficult. Cost reduction is particularly important for businesses, especially small, medium and micro businesses. .
The “Notice” also proposes to work hard to reduce the cost of labor and land for businesses. The three unit social security contributions for basic pension, unemployment and work accidents for small, medium and micro-enterprises are exempt until the end of the year. “By calculating, the social security sector saves nearly 300,000 yuan, plus the monthly land use tax can be lowered or waived by 30,000 yuan, and the pressure on wages is reduced!” Said the person in charge of Jiangxi Jingan Deng’s Garden Co. The cost reduction has given enterprises more confidence in development.
According to Lu Aihong, spokesman for the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the effect of the social security “exemption and mitigation” policy has continued to appear, and local governments have implemented the policy of extending the implementation period for the reduction gradual and exemption from corporate social security premiums. Social security premiums amounted to 910.7 billion yuan and social security premiums were deferred by 61.6 billion yuan; unemployment insurance assistance was implemented to stabilize jobs. From January to September, unemployment insurance was issued to 5.64 million enterprises to return 85 billion yuan to stabilize jobs, benefiting 145 million employees.
“In the implementation of various cost reduction tasks, the relevance of the policy has been further strengthened to ensure that the various aid measures directly benefit market players; by helping small and medium-sized enterprises and individual enterprises , state-owned enterprises have played a leading role in reduction and exemption. Rent, reduce energy, land, and financing costs for enterprises. ”Yang Guangpu said that in the future we must continue to understand the most urgent demands of the companies and better play their role in charcoal delivery.
Logistics must reduce costs and increase efficiency
“Supply exceeds demand! In recent months, we have been able to produce 300 containers of products per month.” Xu Ailing, General Manager of Yahoo Tools, Jinhua Jinyi New District, Zhejiang Province, was very pleased to see the pickup in orders. Faster production, logistics guarantee is essential. “The shipping fee is discounted by 200 yuan per box. It is estimated that the monthly shipping fee will be reduced by 600,000 yuan.” Xu Ailing closed the accounts for the reporter.
Logistics is the foundation of business operation, and businesses have a more obvious sense of reducing logistics costs. Zhang Xiaodong, a professor at the Beijing Jiaotong University School of Transportation, believes that the “Notice” embodies the three-tier policy agreement of direct cost reduction, structural cost reduction and system cost reduction. It is aimed at both the present and the long term.
A series of political deals have made companies feel the cost-cutting effect of “real money.” Many companies have reported that the “vigorous development of multimodal transport” highlighted in the “Notice” has also effectively reduced their logistics by improving quality and efficiency. cost.
“Before we used road transport as our main transport, we often had to fight for delivery time, which easily disrupted the production rhythm. Now the combined rail-sea transport capacity is sufficient to deliver goods on time. “. Xu Ailing said that multimodal transportation has greatly improved transportation efficiency, to gain more time for business production.
“Compared with the previous rail transportation, the combined iron and water mode of transportation can save more than 20 yuan in logistics costs per ton and save more than 20 million yuan in logistics costs throughout the year,” he told the press the head of the Multimodal Transport Division of Guizhou Phosphate Group Logistics Co., Ltd., Nietzsche.
Zhang Xiaodong believes that in the future, we should pay more attention to the role of multimodal transportation, such as policies of increasing efficiency, “make the structure of road, rail, sea and air transportation more reasonable, shorten the time of logistics and transportation companies, but also improve the efficiency of goods and capital turnover, and help the overall industry competition. Increasing power is the ultimate goal of cost reduction work. “
