Japan's Cross-Border Electricity Providers Have A Chance To Turn Around And Compete Well.

The new regulation has created a stable and unified tax policy environment for the development of cross-border electricity providers. It has dispelled the uncertainty of the future development of the industry in terms of tax policy, is conducive to the enterprises to arrange long-term development strategies and investment and operation plans, and also extends the retail business of cross-border e-commerce to the whole country from a few pilot cities, which will benefit more consumers and enterprises, and will also help create a fair competitive market environment.

The view is that the implementation of the new regulation is just to protect China's domestic industry.

In fact, before the new rules come out, Cross-border electricity supplier In the actual operation, retail import goods are levied on postal items, and the tax rate is generally lower than that of the general trade import goods.

"Domestic related industries and foreign investment enterprises in China have been reflected, which leads to unfair competition between cross-border e-commerce retail import commodities and domestic sales of general trade import goods and domestic goods." The person in charge revealed.

The official said that the new regulation was formulated in accordance with the principles of promoting domestic consumption, fair competition, promoting development and strengthening import tax administration. It emphasized the promotion of fair competition between emerging industries and traditional formats, foreign goods and domestic commodities, and helped to reduce the impact of cross-border electricity providers on the real economy of domestic consumer goods industry, retail industry and foreign investment in China.

Previously, there was a tax exemption of 50 yuan (RMB, the same below) for the postal tax, and a considerable portion of the cross-border electricity retail import commodities purchased by consumers were not taxed. Will the new regulation increase consumer burden?

"(new regulation) will objectively improve the overall tax burden of consumers." The official said frankly, "but it will not bring too much burden to consumers."

According to the new regulation, cross border electricity retailers import and export goods according to customs duties and import links. Value added tax And consumption tax. Within the limit, the tariff rate is temporarily set to 0%, and the value-added tax and consumption tax in the import link are abolished and the tax exemption is temporarily levied at 70% of the statutory tax payable. According to this calculation, the comprehensive tax rate of most commodities will be 11.9%.

According to the new regulation, cross-border electricity supplier Retail imports The limit for a single transaction is 2000 yuan, and 20 thousand yuan for the whole year. The above part will be fully taxed in accordance with the general mode of trade. Some analysts say, for example, a lot of small household appliances more than 2000 yuan, which seems to be on the low side.

In this regard, the official said that setting the trading limit is to reduce the impact on general trade imports. This standard is based on the survey data of single transaction volume and commodity price distribution in the pilot cities, combined with the relevant data of the National Bureau of statistics of China, "it can meet the consumption needs of most of the consumers themselves."

"This is lower than the revised post tax rate and the general tax rate of general trade import goods, and for specific commodities, it has a rise or fall." The person in charge said. In his view, business enterprises can resolve some of the costs, and the new regulation has limited overall impact on the prices of consumer products such as mother and baby, so it will not bring too much burden to consumers.