The badge (epaulettes) worn by tax officials is not in the shape of a red flag, but a red lantern. Its pattern consists of an artistic shape of the word "tax" in the middle, and there are a pair of closed hands around the word "tax", like four curved runways. The overall composition is the word "middle tax", and it also contains the symbolic significance of cooperative tax protection, accumulating construction funds for the "four modernizations" and everyone's responsibility.