Advisors debate tax reduction   

稅務總局副局長兩答“中國稅負偏高”

在6日全國政協(xié)經(jīng)濟界別分組討論會上，兩位委員分別拋出稅負偏高的話題，建議政府調(diào)整稅制。同在現(xiàn)場的全國政協(xié)委員、國家稅務總局副局長宋蘭回應時則表示，不能簡單將國外的稅負與國內(nèi)比。

Beijing (CNS) -- Reducing the tax on individuals and enterprises was discussed in the ongoing sessions of China's top political advisory body on Wednesday.

The individual income tax threshold in China should be raised to ease the burden of medium income earners, who are the main consumers, said Gan Lianfang, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee and president of Beijing Xingpai Group, a major manufacturer of snooker products.

Song Lan, a CPPCC National Committee member and deputy administrator of the State Administration of Taxation, said many factors should be considered in changing the personal income tax. A payment unit may be shifted to a family from an individual, but China still lacks administrative and technological methods to implement it, she added.

Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing, also a CPPCC member, suggested cutting the 17-percent value-added tax levied on enterprises, which is higher than the approximately 7-percent sales tax in the United States.

But Song responded that it is not fair to compare those tax rates, as they have different tax systems.

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