Article 8 of the Legislative Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates that only the following matters can be legislated:
National sovereignty issues;
(2) The formation, organization and functions of people's congresses, people's governments, people's courts and people's procuratorates at all levels;
(3) The system of regional ethnic autonomy, the system of special administrative regions and the system of grass-roots mass autonomy;
(4) Crime and punishment;
(5) Compulsory measures and penalties for depriving citizens of political rights and restricting personal freedom;
(six) the establishment of taxes, the determination of tax rates and the management of tax collection and other basic tax systems;
(7) Expropriation and requisition of non-state-owned property;
(8) Basic civil system;
(nine) the basic economic system and the basic systems of finance, customs, finance and foreign trade;
(10) Litigation and arbitration systems;
(eleven) other matters that must be formulated by the National People's Congress and its Standing Committee.
What are the formal characteristics of taxation?
The formal features of taxation include:
1. Compulsory taxation refers to the compulsory distribution of social products by the state through legal forms by virtue of political power;
2. The unpaid nature of taxes means that taxes are collected from taxpayers by the state and do not need to be repaid;
3. The fixity of tax means that tax is what tax is levied and its proportion is stipulated by the state in advance through legal forms. The formal characteristics of tax, also known as tax characteristics, refer to the qualitative provisions that tax distribution forms are different from other distribution forms. Compared with other forms of fiscal revenue, tax has the formal characteristics of compulsory, free and fixed.