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Dear readers,
The State Taxation Administration Annual Report (2023) is officially published. This annual report provides a comprehensive and direct view of China’s latest progress and new achievements in advancing high-quality tax modernization, encompassing collection of tax and fee revenues,implementation of tax and fee cuts, deepening of the tax collection and administration reform,optimization of taxpayer and fee payer services, strengthening of tax supervision and investigation,and promotion of international exchanges and cooperation in 2023. On behalf of the State Taxation Administration (STA) of the People’s Republic of China, I would like to express my sincere appreciation to our friends at home and abroad for supporting China’s tax development.
In 2023, under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, Chinese tax authorities resolutely carried out the decisions made by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, made concerted efforts to overcome difficulties, and fulfilled duties with due diligence. New progress has been made in all lines of tax work, which makes positive contributions to steady economic recovery and high-quality development. We collected taxes and fees in accordance with laws and regulations, with all kinds of tax and fee revenues totaling 33.5 trillion yuan (without deducting the export tax refund), which strengthened the financial support for national development.We earnestly improved and implemented tax and fee preferences, and constantly expanded the practice of “policies looking for people” to ensure that dividends of the policies were accurately shared by taxpayers and fee payers. The newly increased tax and fee cuts, tax refunds, tax and fee deferrals in 2023 amounted to 2228.99 billion yuan. We continuously optimized taxpayer and fee payer services by introducing more than 100 innovative measures in five batches, and strived to solve the most pressing needs and problems, which contributed to the improvement of taxpayers and fee payers satisfaction.We effectively strengthened tax supervision and investigation to vigorously safeguard fair and just economic order. We further deepened the reform of tax collection and administration, and developed an initial version of a three-in-one intelligent application platform covering taxpayers, tax staf and decision makers, constantly improving the efectiveness of digitalized and intelligent governance of tax and fee administration. We actively participated in the international tax governance, fully served the Third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, and creatively launched the brand “Tax Express” for cross-border service, serving high-level opening up with greater efectiveness and higher eficiency.
The year of 2024 marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China and is also an important year for realizing the objectives and tasks set in the 14th Five-Year Plan. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the STA will thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress, give full play to the functional role of tax authorities and continue to expand it by pursuing development based on the overall situation. We will be committed to enhancing taxpayers’ and fee payers’ sense of gain by adhering to the principle of benefiting the people’s livelihood. The STA will create a clean and upright political ecology in tax authorities at all levels by exercising full and strict governance over the Party, so as to advance high quality development of tax practices of Chinese modernization. The STA will better discharge the fundamental and supportive role of taxation in underpinning the national governance and make greater contributions to the advancement of the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese modernization.
A just cause finds great support, and a journey with many companions gets far. We are willing to join hands with all sectors of society and tax colleagues all over the world to pursue mutually beneficial cooperation, strengthen communication and exchanges, share development opportunities, and write a new chapter for tax development. At the same time, we sincerely hope that you will continue to pay attention to and support China’s tax reform and development.
Hu Jinglin
Commissioner
State Taxation Administration
April, 2024