As of April, 20 19, Huang Hongbin, director of the examination department of China Taxation Institute, introduced that since 1998 implemented the professional qualification system for tax agents (registered tax agents), a total of about 2.67 million people have applied for tax agents (registered tax agents) in the past 20 years.

About 6.5438+0.7 million people have obtained the professional qualification certificate of tax accountant (registered tax accountant).

According to incomplete statistics, there are about 2 million people providing tax-related services, but there are about 654.38+million professionals with professional qualifications and titles, accounting for less than 654.38+00%. In particular, the development of new technologies such as the Internet has reduced the development space of low-end services such as bookkeeping and declaration, but the demand for high-end services such as consulting, consulting, planning and international taxation has greatly increased. At present, there are less than 50 thousand tax agents practicing in the tax agency industry.