The National Bar Association will launch tax law public welfare services to assist enterprises in reducing their burden

In response to the increasing scale of national tax reduction and fee reduction, the All China Lawyers Association plans to carry out tax law public welfare services to help Chinese and foreign enterprises fully and accurately understand and apply the tax preferential support policies issued by the state. This is what the reporter learned from the press conference held by the All China Lawyers Association on the 22nd.

Liu Tianyong, Director of the Financial and Tax Law Professional Committee of the National Bar Association, introduced that this year's government work report released a package of large-scale tax reduction and fee reduction measures totaling nearly 2 trillion yuan, which has played a positive role in promoting healthy and sustainable economic development. In this regard, the Finance and Taxation Committee of the National Bar Association will conduct research on the application of relevant tax preferential policies, actively carry out legal public welfare services such as policy interpretation and tax consultation, and promote the growth and strength of enterprises; At the same time, it helps prevent tax related legal risks for enterprises and improve taxpayers' compliance with tax laws.

Liu Tianyong stated that since 2012, with the successive implementation of tax system reforms such as replacing business tax with value-added tax, personal income tax, resource tax, consumption tax, and environmental protection tax, the implementation of the principle of tax legality has been effectively guaranteed. Since the establishment of the Financial and Tax Law Professional Committee by the National Bar Association in December 2012, China's financial and tax legal environment has been continuously optimized, and tax lawyers have achieved historic breakthroughs in the scale, professional standards, and service capabilities of practicing lawyers.

In recent years, the Finance and Taxation Committee of the National Bar Association has fully utilized the role of lawyers in the field of tax law, actively participated in tax legislation, expanded new areas of business, provided tax related legal services for financial and taxation reform measures, and safeguarded the effective implementation of tax policies, the development and growth of Chinese enterprises, and the protection of taxpayers' legitimate rights and interests, in accordance with the professional requirements for tax lawyers in the construction of financial and taxation rule of law.

Information source: China Business Times