Electronic Tax Bureau: a unit set up by the State Administration of Taxation (SAT) to provide an online tax service office with more powerful functions and more convenient tax handling.
Establishment Notice: in August 2018, the State Administration of Taxation issued a Notice requiring that by the end of 2018, a unified and standardized e-tax bureau be launched nationwide to provide an online tax service hall with more powerful functions and more convenient tax handling.
The tax bureau is a government agency in charge of tax collection.In March 2018, the state tax and local tax collection and management system was reformed according to the Program for Deepening the Reform of Party and State Institutions issued by the central government of China***.
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Status of tax reform:
In order to reduce the cost of collection and payment, rationalize the relationship of responsibilities, improve the efficiency of collection and management, and provide taxpayers with more high-quality, efficient, and convenient services, the state tax and land tax agencies at the provincial level and below will be merged. They are specifically responsible for the collection and administration of taxes and non-tax revenues in the areas under their jurisdiction.
In order to improve the efficiency of the collection and management of social insurance funds, basic pension insurance premiums, basic medical insurance premiums, unemployment insurance premiums and other social insurance premiums will be collected by the tax authorities. After the merger of the state and local tax authorities, a dual-leadership management system between the State Administration of Taxation (SAT) and provincial (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government) governments has been implemented.
The State Administration of Taxation should work with provincial party committees and governments to strengthen the party leadership of the tax system, do a good job in party building, ideological and political construction and cadre building, optimize the tax organization system and levy responsibilities at all levels, and improve the structure of the tax system in accordance with the principle of combining "slimming" and "fitness".
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