It is reported that, in accordance with the principle of legislation

It is reported that, in accordance with the principle of legislation, environmental tax is a tax shift from the sewage charges “,” translation “to the environmental tax levied on all existing sewage charges and consistent, levied for atmospheric pollutants, water pollutants, solid waste and noise.

Deputy director of the Standing Committee of the NPC Law Committee of the law department Wang Qing introduced, compared to the previous system of sewage charges, there are mainly two different environmental law. One is the provisions of the air pollution and water pollution tax rate. Up to 10 times for each air pollutant pollution equivalent to 1.2-12 yuan, water pollutants for each pollution equivalent to 1.4-14 yuan. The two is based on the reduction to increase a tax relief provisions that taxpayers taxable emissions of air pollutants concentration or water pollutants value is lower than the standard 30%, reducing the environmental protection tax levied by 75%.

Director of the Ministry of Finance Tax Secretary Wang Jianfan said that the current financial system, sewage charges is the implementation of the central and local 1 to 9 into, considering the local governments bear the primary responsibility for pollution control, environmental protection tax will be after all as the local income, no longer participate into the central.

The environmental protection law, will start from the tax lever to make the enterprise more sewage will pay more, less sewage can enjoy tax relief, through the transformation of the construction to promote the adjustment of economic structure and development mode of the green tax system, the formation of effective incentive mechanism, forced corporate emissions.

Environmental monitoring, water sector benefit

Experts believe that the environmental tax for the sewage charges as tax collection efforts greatly strengthened, lower tax revenue will be a substantial increase in environmental protection. Data show that in 2003-2015 years, the total sewage charges 211 billion 599 million yuan, of which 2015 sewage charges levied 17 billion 300 million yuan. According to the Central University of Finance and Economics estimated that the environmental tax levy, expected annual environmental tax levy scale up to 50 billion yuan.

Sealand securities analyst believes that the tax will encourage enterprises to take the initiative to pursue energy-saving emission reduction, increase investment in environmental protection, improve the technical level, the elimination of backward production capacity, to achieve the transformation of economic structure; environmental tax levy will provide adequate funds for investment in environmental protection, but also for environmental governance to provide financial support.

Analysts believe that after the implementation of environmental tax, environmental protection industry will make comprehensive benefit. Among them, the first direct benefit is the environmental monitoring sector, because the tax to the monitoring data, need to install monitoring equipment or the third party monitoring service, test and other leading companies concern; secondly, environmental taxes forced enterprises to control pollution, good industrial wastewater treatment prospects, originwater concern; finally, a large amount of solid waste generated hazardous waste collection, high tax, environmental tax levy solid waste sector is expected to exceed expectations, Jinyuan shares, Dongjiang environmental benefit etc..