This can make Hainan’s duty-free market fairer and prevent a few people from taking advantage of loopholes to make more money. According to media reports, in the past two years since the Hainan Free Trade Zone was opened, the customs has punished more than 8,000 purchasing agents and blacklisted them. Professionals pointed out that due to tax exemptions in the Hainan Free Zone, the prices of some products are quite different from those in other cities. For example, an iPhone can be more than 2,000 cheaper after being exempted from tax. Originally, the government's policy was to better promote domestic consumption, but we did not expect that while promoting consumption, some criminals would take advantage of the price difference and engage in purchasing activities.

In fact, similar behaviors often occurred in Hong Kong or South Korea in the past. However, due to the epidemic during this time, it has been inconvenient to go out, and coupled with the opening of the Hainan Duty Free Zone, many people have begun to turn their attention to Hainan. And compared with overseas, Hainan is obviously more convenient to enter and exit, but Hainan's punishment for purchasing activities is obviously more severe. You must know that other places basically confiscate purchasing goods, and Hainan directly blacklists purchasing agents. In other words, these people will be banned in the next few years. There is no chance to engage in this kind of purchasing activity.

In fact, this kind of punishment is reasonable. The Hainan government uses tax exemptions to attract tourists to spend. In essence, it uses its own taxes and fees to subsidize. However, some people take advantage of loopholes to purchase on behalf of others. This is obviously taking advantage of the government. It’s not cheap and it’s not fair to other tourists.

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According to news on April 12, the General Administration of Customs stated that in the past two years, it has carried out 11 rounds of special operations to crack down on duty-free, set purchasing and smuggling on Hainan’s outlying islands. The *** eliminated 66 smuggling gangs with a total case value of approximately 200 million yuan.

Since July last year, more than 8,000 individuals who have participated in illegal activities such as duty-free shopping on Hainan’s outlying islands have been restricted from enjoying the duty-free shopping policy on outlying islands for three years.

In fact, since July 1 last year, Hainan’s duty-free shopping quota has been increased from 30,000 yuan to 100,000 yuan per person per year, and the types of duty-free goods on outlying islands have been increased from 38 to 45 types, and single items have been cancelled. There is a tax-free limit of 8,000 yuan for goods.