The research report proposes - improve the tobacco tax rate and ensure raising funds for medical treatment

The research report proposes - improve the tobacco tax rate and ensure raising funds for medical treatment
The research report proposes - improve the tobacco tax rate and ensure raising funds for medical treatment
It is reported China controls and smokes the association and releases " tobacco tax revenue and potential economy of China were influenced " the research report pointed out " " a few days ago, if bring the tobacco tax rate up to 51% of the retail price from the level at present, namely each pack of cigarettes increases by 1 yuan from consumption tax of quantity, smoker number reduce, can be saved by 13,700,000, 340 life of people Wan then. Meanwhile, the government revenue will increase by 64,900 million yuan. Participating in the cypress professor of Kelly branch school Hu DeWei of University of California that this report writes says, according to the information revealed newly, Chinese Government will invest 70 billion yuan for advancing the reform of medical system. Raise the cigarette tax appropriately, can offer the important capital source for the fact that medical treatment is ensured. He points out, already there is comparatively ripe practice abroad in this respect and such as use 30% of the tobacco tax revenue for health promotion in Australia, 30% are used in sports to promote; Behind the Britain government increased 5 penny tax revenues to each cigarette in 2000, increased fiscal revenues use for hospital and national hygiene, serve all. The report points out, the total tax rate of cigarette of China is only about 40% of the retail price at present, well below the median levels of 65% to 70% of the foreign cigarette tax rates. The report still points out, the tobacco causes the enormous financial burden to Chinese society every year, his economic cost is up to 186 billion yuan, accounts for 1.9% of China GDP. Among them, the direct medical cost of smoking is 14 billion yuan, 3.1% of hygiene all-inclusive cost of quite annual country. Increase 1 from the intersection of quantity and consumption tax each cigarette, smoke number reduce the reduction which cause disease, nearly 2,700 million yuan sparingly on hospitalization cost. In addition, the number of people is reduced because of smoking, productivity losses are thereupon reduction too, China's economy will produce the extra income of 9,920 million yuan. Participate in Professor of Sichuan university maos of centre that report this write introduce tobacco make several ten million urban residents and rural resident fall into the poverty. The statistics show, in the total expenditure of the poor family of China, 8% to 11% expenditure has been spent on the cigarette. It is particularly effective to raise the tax on tobacco to the smoking rate which lowers the poor crowd. "Likewise, because the sensitivity to the price is high, can prevent teenagers from smoking very effectively while raising the tobacco price. " Hu DeWei says. " China will control and smoke the report in 2008 " to reveal in Chinese Ministry of Public Health, will smoke in Chinese teenagers the number of people is up to 15 million, the teenagers trying to smoke are up to 40 million. The report raised the tax on tobacco to China to put forward the concrete suggestion to mainly include: Raise the consumption tax of cigarettes, while keeping the ad valorem duty, the consumption tax of each pack of cigarettes is 1 yuan of improvement at least, and improve to 4 yuan / wrap up, bring the total tax rate up to more than 60% of the retail price progressively gradually; Simplify present two grades of ad valorem duty as the ad valorem duty of the single tax rate, in order to prevent producers in order to pay the low tax rate but adjust the price of the trade mark arbitrarily; Cancel the tobacco leaf tax, in order to reduce local government's losing and laid-off number of people of fiscal revenues, the central government can take out a part to shift from the consumption tax of quantity to the local government from improving; Share the mechanism of the cigarette tax with the local government in the middle of the reform, use the financial transformation mechanisms of central authorities and local government instead, need in order to support the local finance.


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