Tax agent refers to the professional and technical personnel who have passed the national unified examination for tax agents, obtained the professional qualification certificate of tax agents, registered at the same time, and engaged in tax-related certification and tax-related service activities. In 20 18, the total operating income of the whole industry was 20.345 billion yuan, an increase of 19.73% over the previous year, the highest growth rate in the past six years. There are about 6 100 tax accounting firms in the whole industry, with a year-on-year increase of 10.47%.
The number of employees is about102,000, with a year-on-year increase of 2.97%; There were 44,300 tax agents practicing as tax agents, with a year-on-year increase of 4.19%; The total profit of the industry increased by 87.39% year-on-year, and the income structure showed a diversified development trend. The top five regions in business income are Beijing, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shanghai and Zhejiang.
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In order to standardize the construction of tax professionals and improve the quality of tax professionals, these Provisions are formulated in accordance with the relevant provisions of the "the State Council Institutional Reform and Functional Transformation Plan" and the national vocational qualification certificate system. These Provisions shall apply to professionals engaged in tax-related services.
The state establishes a professional qualification system to evaluate the level of tax agents, provides services to the society to evaluate the ability level of tax professionals, and brings it into the unified planning of the national professional and technical personnel professional qualification certificate system. The evaluation method of unified examination is implemented for the professional qualification of tax agents.