What Is Fuel Tax Reporting?

Fuel tax refers to the combination of road maintenance fees and other fees currently levied into a fuel tax, and the legal relationship to integrate the interests of various departments, thereby maximizing energy and infrastructure savings. In short, the fuel tax is to convert the existing road maintenance fee into a fuel tax and implement a bundled charge. As the current road maintenance fee is generally charged based on two tonnage and operating income billing methods, a fixed fee is actually formed. For large oil users, especially cars, there is a large gap in road usage. Converting the road maintenance tolls paid by each car into taxes and fees, in the context of roads and other public facilities increasingly becoming a scarce resource, has more reflected the fair principle of 'more use and more payment, less use and less payment'.

Fuel tax

As early as 1994, relevant departments formally proposed a levy on fuel tax. The Highway Law passed by the National People's Congress in 1997 proposed for the first time that "

The fuel tax under consideration will replace six charges including road maintenance fees, waterway maintenance fees, highway transportation management fees, highway passenger and freight surcharges, water transportation management fees, and water and passenger freight surcharges.

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The coordination of interests is difficult. Huang Yonghe, chief expert of China Automobile Technology Research Center, believes that there are many problems to be solved in the implementation of the fuel tax. For example, can fuel tax simply replace road maintenance fees? Is this tax a national tax or a local tax? How is the central and local tax divided? Should the fuel tax be levied at a refinery or at a gas station? How to distinguish the levy standards for commercial vehicles and household vehicles? After the cancellation of road maintenance tolls, where should the funding for road construction be found, where will the tens of thousands of toll stations across the Chinese highway run by the transportation department, and how will more than 300,000 toll stations employees be resettled across the country? With the current diversification of highway investment entities and the implementation of fuel taxes, how do their interests manifest? A series of problems are difficult to draw conclusions, which makes the fuel tax procrastination.

But in Jia Xinguang's view, none of these problems seem to be a problem. "The interest relationship between the various departments cannot be coordinated, and China's fuel tax has not been implemented." Jia Xinguang said in a brilliant way. "As long as there is a department to solve this series of problems, no more difficulties will exist. As China is in line with international standards, countries around the world are levying fuel taxes, and China is no exception."

As for fuel taxes, different social roles have different voices. To sum up, they can be roughly divided into three categories.

The first category is the private car family.

They have long been the biggest advocates and promoters of the fuel tax. It is just that with the current soaring international oil prices, they have expressed great concern and even worry about the "promulgation of an opportunity" fuel tax rate.

It is obviously unreasonable to pay all road maintenance fees in the same way. Compared with those taxis that run on the road every day, the salaried people who drive on the road every day, the latter rolls the road several times as long as the former, but can pay as much road maintenance fees. Under the current high oil prices, the original legendary 30% tax rate should be appropriately reduced. Because "a reform that involves ordinary people, the interests of ordinary people must be taken into account. After the implementation of the fuel tax, the tax paid by ordinary consumers should generally not be higher than what they currently pay."

The second category is the family of operating vehicles, especially urban taxis.

Due to the high mileage, most of them expressed concern about the fuel tax. However, in recent years, with the rapid rise in oil prices, many cities across the country, including Beijing, Shanghai, and Chongqing, have begun large-scale promotion of taxi "oil to gas" projects. After switching to natural gas as fuel, taxi drivers have concerns about fuel taxes. Is weakened.

The reporter interviewed a taxi driver named Li in Chongqing. He said that in the past he was an opponent of the fuel tax policy, but after "oil to gas" he stopped paying attention to fuel tax reform.

The third category is buses, and the imposition of fuel tax has little effect on their interests.

A driver from a Beijing agency told reporters: "Bus itself is bought by the state finance, and a fuel tax is levied. It just takes money from this pocket of the state finance to another pocket." However, the driver believes that After the fuel tax is levied, the vehicle use cost will increase, which may be more conducive for the unit to strengthen the management of the vehicle, and it may promote the process of bus reform.

It was found in the survey that although the imposition of fuel tax will bring pressure on all consumers, including private cars, especially taxis, car owners generally regard the multi-use, multi-pay of fuel tax as reflected in "The principle of fairness" agrees. In general, levying fuel taxes is considered a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people!

It is understood that the fuel tax rate in the United States is 30%, Japan is 120%, Germany is 260%, and France is 300%. Faced with such large differences in fuel tax rates among countries, what kind of tax rates will China adopt?

Although the fuel tax plan has not been introduced, the tax rate of 30% to 50% has been an open "secret" in the industry. Jia Xinguang said: "According to international practice, the tax rate for oil-producing countries is low and the tax rate for oil-using countries is high. China is between production and use, neither as low as Iran nor as high as France, Germany, and Japan, 30% to 50 The% fuel tax rate is in line with China's national conditions. "

If in accordance with the principle of more fuel consumption and more taxes, once the fuel tax is levied, what impact will it have on car owners? Mr. Gao, a media source, settled the journalist's account. Mr. Gao currently drives a 2.0-liter French car, which uses 13 liters of fuel per 100 kilometers and uses No. 93 gasoline with a market price of 4.68 yuan per liter. The mileage of 20,000 kilometers per year is calculated. Expenditure is 4.68 × 13 × 200 = 12168 yuan. Together with the road maintenance fee of 2,400 yuan, the annual expenditure will be 14,568 yuan.

After the fuel tax is levied, a 30% tax rate is applied. The annual cost of the same car is: 4.68 × (1 + 30%) × 13 × 200 = 15818.4 yuan. Taking the tax rate of 50%, the annual cost is 4.68 × (1 + 50%) × 13 × 200 = 18252 yuan.

Despite the increase in costs, Mr. Gao said he agreed with the fuel tax. "Pay more for more oil and pay more for more emissions. This is fair." Mr Gao said.

However, Mr. Zhang of the bus company and Mr. Zheng, a taxi driver, have different views. According to the calculation of 1,600 cars of the bus company, each bus consumes about 60 liters of fuel per day, and paying 30% of the fuel tax can be more expensive than the fixed road maintenance fee every year. And a taxi using No. 93 gasoline consumes 10 liters per 100 kilometers, averaging about 10,000 kilometers per month, 1000 liters of fuel per month, and 30% fuel tax also makes Mr. Zheng feel struggling.

Some experts analyze that with the gradual introduction of fuel tax, small-displacement and economical cars will be more popular with consumers.

Fuel tax levied

It is the 13th year since the relevant government departments first proposed the issuance of fuel tax in 1994. Regarding the resumption of the fuel tax this time, Jia Xinguang said: Although formal implementation is still difficult, it does not rule out "the possibility of moving this time."

Experts said that although the introduction of the fuel tax policy will immediately affect the whole body, energy saving has now been elevated to the national strategic level, and it is imperative to levy fuel taxes, use price levers and taxation methods to promote energy conservation.

"At the same time, the price of oil is relatively stable, and the timing of the introduction of a fuel tax is more suitable, which will not cause a strong response from the society." Jia Xinguang said so. If the price of oil rises in the future, can ordinary people afford it? Jia Xinguang said that rising water prices are certain, but once fuel taxes are levied, there will be no major problems. What's more, fuel tax is levied in different forms. It can be charged at a fixed rate per liter, or it can be charged at a certain rate.

At present, various fees such as road maintenance fees collected by China are collected annually, so Jia Xinguang believes that this time is the best time to signal that the fuel tax is about to be implemented. "It takes half a year to warm up from the signal to the specific implementation. The state must implement fuel tax at the end of the year or at the beginning of the year. If it is chosen at that time, the resistance is relatively small, and the signal is issued half a year in advance. It can play a certain role in informing and giving relevant departments a period of adaptation and a period of preparation. "