Tobacco Next Year Or "Tax Price Linkage"

Following the adjustment of the State Administration of Taxation last May Tobacco duty After the policy, there was news recently that our country is formulating a new tobacco tax adjustment plan, which is expected to come out next year. The new plan is due to the previous one. Tax adjustment The effect is not good, the retail price of cigarettes increases little, and the effect of tobacco control is not obvious. Next year, tobacco tax linkage will be realized and the increase of tax rate will be reflected. retail price Up.

In May last year, the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation made a major adjustment to the consumption tax policy on tobacco products. In addition to the great changes in the consumption tax policy in the production links, adjusting the tax price and raising the consumption tax rate, a ad valorem tax was added to the wholesale section of cigarettes, with a tax rate of 5%.

After the introduction of the new deal, the wholesale price of some cigarettes increased by 5%, but a discount was reflected in the retail price. Taking hard China as an example, it rose from 40 yuan per packet to 42 yuan. "What is 2 yuan for tobacco addiction?" In a tobacco monopoly store on the new gate, the staff said that last year's cigarette price rose little, and there were not many brands, which had little effect on consumers. The Shanghai brand (hard) and red double happiness (hard) sold by local people usually cost 10 yuan and 7.5 yuan per package, and prices remain unchanged.

In addition, due to the high season of gift giving at the end of the year, some high-grade cigarettes are out of stock now. "If the price of medium and low grade cigarettes rises much, people who may smoke will control tobacco addiction, but the more expensive cigarettes they buy, the more expensive they will buy."

Since last year's tax adjustment was internally digested by the tobacco companies and was not reflected in the retail price of tobacco products, the purpose of tobacco control by raising taxes was not achieved. Therefore, Hu Xianming, director of the consumer goods division of the State Administration of Taxation, said that in order to further increase the intensity of tobacco control, the tobacco tax rate will definitely continue to improve. At present, the State Administration of taxation is formulating a new tobacco tax adjustment plan, which is expected to come out next year.

Shi Jian, a researcher at the State Taxation Administration's Taxation Research Institute, stressed that the valuable reform is to establish a linkage mechanism of tax and price so as to raise the tax rate to reflect the price. Hu said that the State Administration of Taxation intends to push up the price of cigarettes and implement "tax price linkage" to increase the price in the retail sector so as to reduce the profit margins of tobacco companies.

According to WHO's 2008 data, China's tobacco tax rate is around 40%, lower than that of Asian countries similar to China's development level, and the average price per pack of cigarettes in China is also lower than the international level.