People only pay attention to how much tax they pay, but they don't care how much benefits they can enjoy after paying taxes, where these taxes are used and how many people they help.
If we don't lighten the burden of the middle class, give consideration to mortgage, two children and providing for the aged, it is empty talk to strengthen the backbone of society, and society will always be angry and screaming.
20 1 1 The threshold of personal income tax has been raised from 2,000 yuan to 3,500 yuan per month, while house prices and prices are constantly rising. The per capita disposable income of the national residents increases by 8% every year, and M2 is issued every year 13%. In 20 15, the average monthly salary of China people was 4,234 yuan, but the tax threshold was 3,500 yuan, which became a veritable "payroll tax" or "middle class tax".
This year, NPC deputies finally suggested that the minimum tax threshold should be 10000 yuan to 12000 yuan. Huang, who has just been transferred from Chongqing, suggested that the top tax rate of wage income be lowered from 45% to 25%. Xiao Jie, Minister of Finance, hinted that there would be a big move in the reform of personal income tax, and considered deducting the education expenses of two-child families.
The situation of "robbing the poor to help the rich" with a single tax cannot continue. But what I see is not only the problem of "robbing the poor to help the rich".
Everyone will say a tax, but the key is how to do it.
First of all, individual tax should increase with the increase of prices, income level and inflation, at least once every five years, otherwise it will become "payroll tax" and "middle class tax".
Secondly, the tax reform should solve the practical problems such as the asymmetry of taxpayers' income information and the great differentiation of tax avoidance means among different social groups. Not to mention that wages are concealed, but also labor remuneration, rental income, dividends, investment income and so on. None of them are levied, so only 28 million people in the country pay taxes. It is really an honest man who suffers.
Third, to make it return to the "rich tax" standard, it is necessary to take out the steady and ruthless means of taxing the rich by the American tax system.
In this two sessions, we should not expect too much from simply raising the threshold. As some experts said, we mentioned that we should levy 6.5438+0 million yuan. Just mention the levy of 5000 yuan. It can be expected that the related expenses and mortgage interest of the second child can be deducted this year. On the one hand, it can reduce the burden of two-child families, on the other hand, it also encourages consumption and buying houses.
In addition, a tax is a local tax, and it is impossible to play a game of chess nationwide. Is it reasonable that Beijing's per capita wage is three times that of Yunnan, but it "enjoys" the same threshold?
Individual tax should return to the standard of "rich tax", but there is still the problem that hatred for the rich is set right.
There is no effective way to strictly manage the rich in the world. First, information asymmetry, unlike the United States, which implements global taxation, establishes information connectivity of global personal wealth, and pays taxes wherever it goes; Second, there are many ways for the rich to avoid taxes. This is the market for tax consultants.
Why are rich Americans afraid of tax commissioners? Because the Commissioner can be as pervasive as a detective and accurately calculate where you hide your income-after all, not all rich people are as conscious as Buffett and Gates.
In the United States, the CEOs or chairmen of many large enterprises are among the best in the rich list, but they hold the "lowest salary in the world"-$65,438 +0. The "one-yuan annual salary" has also spread to China, among which Jia Yueting and Liu, the founders of LeTV, are the representatives. Liu Ye was therefore ridiculed by netizens: "I can't afford a cup of milk tea for ten years." "One yuan annual salary" is sometimes not because of confidence in the future of the enterprise or confidence in the stock, but also because of tax avoidance-personal expenses are included in the enterprise expenses. For example, buying a set of furniture into an enterprise account can not only be used as a cost deduction of enterprise income tax, but also avoid a tax. Compared with the working class, there are obviously many ways for entrepreneurs to avoid taxes. In case of the above situation, the US tax commissioner will come out and say, didn't you earn 1 USD? Where do these high consumption come from? The United States also has strict taxation methods for corporate executives' dividends, not only for individual executives, but also for the enterprise itself, unless you use it for charity and continue to invest.
Strengthening the taxation of the rich and robbing the rich to help the poor instead of "robbing the poor to help the rich" is the direction of individual tax reform. But at the same time, we should also pay attention to "don't let the rich get away." The rich have all fled, whose tax are you going to collect? !
This goes back to the question, is there dignity in paying taxes, and am I protected as a taxpayer? Anyway, I overpaid, and I don't know who I helped or where the money went. Because I hate rich people, the media and people will still scold me. Why pay more taxes?
Last year, China's personal income tax accounted for 7.7% of the total tax revenue, far below the level of 30% in developed countries and 15% in developing countries. If the future is in line with international standards, who will fill the remaining gap, of course, the rich will fill it. At the same time, reduce the comprehensive tax rate of enterprises and encourage the rich to invest in industry. This increase and decrease should be synchronized. A tax system that encourages investment, rewards diligence and punishes laziness is the vitality of a country's economy.
The honor of paying taxes lies in knowledge and dignity.
Unfair taxation leads to two negative attitudes. One is accustomed to passive taxation; The second is a sense of relative deprivation and loss.
As a member who pays taxes honorably, he should at least have a sense of honor in paying taxes. When I was in Guangzhou, I received a tax payment form from the local tax bureau every year. Pay taxes at a glance, and attach the words "thank you letter". When I arrived in Beijing, I never seemed to receive any thanks from the tax authorities.
Many things are used to because of helplessness. For example, social support payments are used to being punished, and no one investigates whether the money is used for social support payments. Now the tax reform, the honor of paying taxes and the dignity of taxpayers have all become bargaining with the government.
People only pay attention to how much tax they pay, but they don't care how much benefits they can enjoy after paying taxes, where these taxes are used and how many people they help.
Therefore, everyone can either resist passively or escape, because everyone has a sense of relative deprivation. To put it simply, I didn't get what I deserved, so I felt deprived, even though my income increased year by year. Therefore, everyone tries to fill invoices, which is so common in China that it has basically become a sign of dishonesty of the whole people. Everyone hates counterfeiting, but they all go to get invoices to fill in the accounts. Because everyone feels relatively deprived.
Primitive Americans shouted "No Representative, No Tax" to the British Empire, because they were not represented in Parliament ... Today, taxpayers in China should at least know what the future return of my tax is and where the money is spent.
The tax revenue of Nordic countries is above 50%, and the people have no complaints, which is comparable to high welfare. I don't expect it for the time being. I will solve the problem of people's tax dignity first and feel that I have lost.
Whose misfortune is it that a tax is reduced to a "middle class tax"? It is the misfortune of the whole society. Because we don't reduce the burden on the middle class, we don't consider mortgage, two children, pension, etc. Then strengthening the backbone of society is empty talk, and society will always be angry, shouting and killing.
Individual tax reform represents the fairness of a society and can also promote the dignity and rationality of a society.