Taxation promotes development
. Taxes are taken from the people and used for the people. Only when the results of development are reflected in the improvement of people's living standards and quality can social harmony be truly achieved. This is the significance of taxation to promote development and development for people's livelihood. In 2007, our city achieved general budget revenue of 28.66 billion yuan, and the total amount of funds allocated for the "Top Ten People-Benefiting Actions" reached 8.019 billion yuan. In this year's citywide fiscal budget draft, investment related to the vital interests of the people has been further increased.
The effectiveness of economic and social development depends not only on the expansion of the total amount, but also on the improvement of quality. Therefore, in the process of "accelerating development, scientific development, good and fast development", the taxation department must not only give full play to its taxation functions, actively cultivate tax sources, vigorously organize tax collection, continuously strengthen financial resources, and serve economic development and improvement of people's livelihood; and It is necessary to balance leniency and severity with restraint, comprehensively implement preferential tax policies for the development of the western region, implement preferential tax policies to promote employment and re-employment, implement preferential tax policies for civil affairs and welfare enterprises, and promote the development of education, culture, and health services. The tax policy should vigorously support disadvantaged groups in society and vigorously support enterprises to improve their independent innovation capabilities; it is necessary to strengthen communication with the public and strive to promote tax administrators to manage taxes in accordance with the law, taxpayers to use taxes in accordance with the law, and to enjoy the great benefits of taxpayers cooperating and protecting taxes in accordance with the law. situation; it is necessary to promote sustained and healthy economic development and economic structural adjustment by strengthening tax regulation; it is necessary to comprehensively use fiscal and taxation methods to narrow the income gap between different regions and different occupational groups and promote social equity.
Taxation improves people’s livelihood
Taxation promotes development
Development is for people’s livelihood. Improving people's livelihood is an important current task of our party and country, and it is also the ultimate goal of services at all levels and departments. Taxation is closely related to social development and people's lives.
Implement policies to benefit and help the people
Preferential tax policies are a concrete manifestation of the party and government’s policies of being close to the people, loving the people, and benefiting the people. For example, the new corporate income tax law that came into effect in March last year has created a better tax environment for companies to reduce their burden; another example is that the personal income tax deduction standard will be increased to 2,000 yuan from March 1 this year, which will further reduce the burden on citizens. To improve people's living standards, these policies fully embody the spirit of enriching and benefiting the people and improving people's livelihood. In order to play a good role in benefiting and assisting the people, the city's tax system promotes tax policies through multiple channels, holds symposiums to establish a communication mechanism of equality and mutual trust, conscientiously implements policies, and helps enterprises make full use of various tax policies. The city's tax system has implemented preferential tax policies to the letter, benefiting tens of thousands of laid-off and unemployed people and other people in special need in 2007, with tax benefits of nearly 100 million yuan.
Governing taxes according to the law and protecting the people
Governing taxes according to the law is the foundation and soul of taxation work. Only when the tax department correctly handles the relationship between strict law enforcement and high-quality services, integrates law enforcement in services, strictly enforces law in services, optimizes services in law enforcement, constantly standardizes law enforcement behaviors, and strengthens service awareness, can it provide an open and open tax system for taxpayers. A fair and competitive tax environment will effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of taxpayers. The city's taxation department has paid close attention to deepening the tax law enforcement responsibility system and routinizing law enforcement inspections; strengthening internal level supervision of the system, implementing pre-review and post-filing management of tax law enforcement documents; expanding external supervision and improving tax law enforcement transparency.
Optimizing services to facilitate and benefit the people
Tax services are a concentrated expression of the purpose of collecting wealth for the country and enforcing the law for the people. The city's tax system strives to improve the level of tax services, innovate tax service methods, expand tax service channels, and strive to optimize the quality and efficiency of tax services: establish and improve the contact system, conduct in-depth visits to taxpayers, listen to taxpayers' opinions, and understand taxpayers demand; implement "multi-functional, one-stop, standardized" services to improve service quality and efficiency; improve the horizontal networking system of finance, taxation, treasury and banks, realize paperless tax collection, integrated payment and warehousing, and electronic revenue reconciliation, so as to Taxpayers provide safe, efficient and convenient tax services; pay attention to taxpayers' satisfaction evaluation, add a star rating system, and comprehensively carry out "service star" selection activities; reasonably set tax declaration periods, adopt staggered declarations, and add scheduled calls Functions, additional window resources and other measures to effectively solve the problem of declaration congestion; adhere to the first inquiry responsibility service, committed service, delayed service, appointment service, reminder service, etc., implement a one-time notification system for taxpayers to handle tax-related matters; open tax processing The green channel for disabled people in the service hall adds humanized convenience facilities and creates a good image of the tax department that is close to the people.
Alleviating the poor and caring for the people
As a functional government department, the taxation system regards promoting the harmonious development of society as its ultimate goal, actively participates in public welfare undertakings, and uses poverty alleviation as a carrier to care for the people. Vulnerable groups use their own actions to practice the first principle of taxation serving people's livelihood. The city's taxation system organized cadres and employees to go deep into the grassroots and the masses, visit designated assistance recipients and disaster-stricken people in poverty-stricken areas, extremely poor people, impoverished disabled people, five-guarantee households, low-income households, etc. to help solve food, clothing, housing and winter expenses. Keep warm and other urgent needs. The tax system has also stepped up its efforts in targeted poverty alleviation, helping them adjust their ideas for getting rich and change their way of thinking while improving infrastructure conditions.
Developing taxation services, promoting taxation to improve people's livelihood, and serving a harmonious society is not only a matter for the taxation department, but also requires the support and cooperation of all sectors of society. Party committees and governments at all levels must effectively strengthen their leadership over tax work, vigorously support tax departments in administering taxes in accordance with the law, strengthen management, and ensure that tax authorities independently exercise tax law enforcement powers; every taxpayer should regard paying taxes with integrity as a prerequisite for survival and development. Based on its own long-term development, be courteous and honest, pay taxes in accordance with the law, and establish a good business reputation and corporate image; all relevant departments must strengthen collaboration and communication with the tax department, closely cooperate and assist in taxation work; all sectors of society must actively do a good job Assist in tax protection work and assist tax authorities in discovering and monitoring tax sources in a timely manner. Form a comprehensive social tax administration mechanism of "government leadership, tax administration, department cooperation, judicial guarantee, and social participation".
The report of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out: "Development is for the people, development relies on the people, and the fruits of development are enjoyed by the people." "Comprehensively build a higher-level moderately prosperous society that benefits more than one billion people. ", "Let the people fully enjoy the fruits of cultural development", "accelerate social construction focusing on improving people's livelihood", etc., have put forward higher requirements for the development of taxation work.
All walks of life in the city must, under the leadership of the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, work together to forge ahead, deeply understand the relationship between taxation and the country, taxation and development, taxation and people's livelihood, and better play the role of taxation in enriching and benefiting the people, improving people's livelihood, and serving a harmonious society. role, and strive to build a modern mega-central city with the best entrepreneurial environment, best living environment, and strongest comprehensive competitiveness in the central and western regions, and write a new chapter of a better life for the people of the city