"Environmental tax as a new tax, the levy plan has been reported to the State Council, at the same time, environmental tax legislation is also being promoted." The above-mentioned authoritative sources revealed to this reporter.

According to reports, China has only three laws on taxation, including tax collection and management law, personal income tax, and corporate income tax law. In addition, there are eleven types of taxes that have no legislation. Only the administrative regulations of the State Council, such as value-added tax regulations and business tax regulations. In the case that more than ten tax laws and regulations have not yet been promoted into law, the legislature has begun to study the legislation of environmental taxes, which shows the importance of this tax. Analysts pointed out that the entry of environmental taxes into the legislative process means that the introduction of this tax will be greatly accelerated.

In fact, at the two sessions just closed, the news about environmental tax levy never stopped. Experts believe that this year's government work report proposes a target of a cpi increase of about 3% in 2010. In addition to comprehensive consideration of various factors, it also leaves room for the introduction of environmental taxes.

Regarding the misunderstanding that the imposition of environmental taxes will increase the burden on enterprises, the Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection Pan Yue explained during the two sessions that environmental taxes are just new peaches and old ones. They are the norms for environmental taxes and fees in the past and will not increase the burden on enterprises. After the tax comes out, various other environmental taxes and fees will be reduced. "

康 Jia Kang, director of the Institute of Fiscal Science of the Ministry of Finance, also expressed support for the introduction of environmental taxes as soon as possible during the two sessions. He believes that the collection of environmental taxes is the economic driving force for the upgrading of enterprises. The environmental tax collection system is properly designed to eliminate backward production capacity. "The imposition of environmental taxes seems to increase the burden, but if well designed, it will effectively restrict the consumption of fossil energy by enterprises. Under economic pressure, everyone will do everything possible to save energy and reduce emissions, and develop processes and technologies that are conducive to the circular economy. In this process, there will be a competitive mechanism of survival of the fittest. "Jia Kang said.

Although many people worry that the introduction of environmental taxes will have an impact on automobile consumption, Li Shufu, chairman of Geely Automobile, believes that the sooner the environmental taxes are introduced, the better, because only in this way can advance technological progress and reduce environmental pressure.

The imposition of environmental taxes is also of great significance for improving the tax system. For a long time, China lacks environmental taxes and taxation, and the greening of the tax system is not high. However, China's ecological environment situation is becoming increasingly severe, and has entered a period of frequent occurrence of pollution accidents and prominent periods of contradictions. The study of levying environmental taxes is of great significance for controlling environmental pollution.

问题 The problem of environmental pollution in some industries has even reached a time when it must be resolved. The data released by the Ministry of Environmental Protection recently showed that in 2007, the chemical oxygen demand and ammonia nitrogen emissions of 8 industries such as papermaking and textiles accounted for 83% and 73% of the total industrial emissions, and 6 industries including electric heating and non-metallic mineral products. Sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions accounted for 89% and 93% of total industrial emissions, respectively.