This year’s government work report proposes to strengthen the construction of ecological civilization and promote green and low-carbon development. Implementing this requirement and speeding up the construction of a "waste-free city" is an important starting point.
"Waste-free city" is an advanced urban management concept and a development model. By promoting the formation of green development mode and lifestyle, we will continue to promote the reduction of solid waste sources and resource utilization, minimize landfill disposal, and minimize the environmental impact of solid waste. In April, 2022, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment released the list of "Waste-free Cities" during the Tenth Five-Year Plan period, including Chengdu, Yibin, Leshan, Zigong, Luzhou, Deyang, Mianyang and Meishan in Sichuan.
In order to help build a "waste-free city", Sichuan tax authorities continued to implement the new development concept, focused on the actual needs of enterprises, and compiled the Guidelines on Tax Preferential Policies to Support Green Development. They made precise efforts from four aspects: supporting environmental protection, promoting energy conservation and environmental protection, encouraging comprehensive utilization of resources, and promoting the development of low-carbon industries, refined 66 measures to implement tax preferential policies, and comprehensively guided enterprises to go green.
From "Overdischarge" to "Pollution Reduction" —— Tax incentives inject impetus into green transformation
Source pollution reduction is the core part of the construction of "waste-free city" The traditional industries that reduce pollution at the source and develop extensively must do a good job of green transformation and upgrading.
As the "western porcelain capital", Jiajiang County of Leshan City has a long history of pottery making, and pottery making is also one of the local pillar industries. In the era when coal is the main energy source for pottery making, Jiajiang County has been suffering from high pollution and high energy consumption in pottery making, and the huge sewage cost has also seriously hindered the survival and development of enterprises.
"The greater the energy consumption, the higher the tax cost, the higher the product cost and the lower the competitiveness." Luo Qizhou, the legal representative of Jiajiang Huaxing Ceramics Co., Ltd., said frankly. In order to enhance the competitiveness of products, enterprises continue to improve traditional technology and increase investment in environmental protection, and in 2023 alone, they will enjoy more than 300,000 yuan of environmental protection tax relief. "With the 300,000 yuan saved by tax reduction and exemption, we have introduced two new production lines using natural gas, which are cleaner than the previous coal production and the energy consumption has dropped significantly." Luo Qizhou said.
From "super discharge" to "pollution reduction", the story of green transformation of Huaxing ceramics is only a microcosm of the structural transformation and green breakthrough of traditional industries. Nowadays, in Sichuan, a large number of traditional industrial enterprises, represented by ceramic production enterprises in Jiajiang County, are constantly activating "waste-free cells" through a series of advanced technologies of energy saving and carbon reduction, such as changing coal into gas and upgrading production lines, and upgrading the former high-pollution and high-energy-consumption industries into dynamic industries with "green" content and "new" content.
In order to enable enterprises to gain more external force in solving problems, Sichuan tax authorities have also deepened the pattern of multi-governance and efficient coordination, strengthened cooperation with ecological environment, natural resources and other departments, jointly established an information sharing platform for environmental protection tax, focused on high-pollution and high-energy-consuming enterprises, established a dynamic database, strengthened the comparative analysis of basic data, consolidated the foundation of taxation according to law, and built a "tax collection and management, enterprise declaration, environmental monitoring, information sharing, and"
Drawing "Green Meaning" with "Zero Carbon" —— Intimate Service Empowers Enterprises to Seize the New Track
The construction of "waste-free city" is connected with pollution reduction at one end and carbon reduction at the other. Recently, the State Council promulgated the Interim Regulations on the Management of Carbon Emissions Trading, which clarified the carbon emissions trading system in the form of administrative regulations for the first time. The data shows that as of the end of last year, the cumulative turnover of the national carbon emission trading market reached 440 million tons, with a turnover of about 24.9 billion yuan. Aiming at "zero-carbon competitiveness", green and low-carbon has become the consensus of high-quality development.
Sichuan Times New Energy Technology Co., Ltd., located in the eastern industrial park of Yibin Sanjiang New District, is the world’s first "zero carbon factory" for batteries. From the beginning of preparation, enterprises have planned a "zero carbon" path, and through continuous transformation and innovation in manufacturing and energy utilization, they are committed to making more products with low carbon competitiveness with less raw materials while reducing carbon emissions.
"On the road of green development of enterprises, the tax authorities are accompanied all the way." The relevant person in charge of Sichuan Times New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. said. According to reports, Yibin tax department has set up a service team of "direct connection between tax enterprises" to form an integrated "identification-analysis-treatment-result" process of "policy finding", equipped with "exclusive grid staff" to push the tax policy to legal representatives, financial personnel and tax collectors in a time-sharing and hierarchical manner to ensure accurate direct access to enterprises. In 2023, the company enjoyed a total of about 2.5 billion yuan in tax benefits such as export tax rebate, consumption tax and urban maintenance and construction tax.
Under the guidance of Sichuan Times New Energy Technology Co., Ltd., many enterprises in Yibin power battery industry chain have also achieved the advanced stage of "zero carbon". Yibin Libao New Materials Co., Ltd., which produces raw materials in the upstream of the industrial chain, Times Geely Power Battery Co., Ltd., which produces batteries in the midstream, and Sichuan CRRC Rail Transit Co., Ltd., which produces complete vehicles in the downstream, have successively obtained the certification of "zero carbon factory".
"A few days ago, the ecological and environmental departments of Sichuan and Chongqing issued the first inter-provincial" Regulations on the Construction and Management of Waste-free Urban Cells (Trial) "to further standardize the construction of waste-free urban cells in the economic circle of Chengdu and Chongqing." The relevant person in charge of Sichuan Provincial Taxation Bureau in State Taxation Administration of The People’s Republic of China said that Sichuan taxation department will constantly sum up experience and innovate service measures, continue to give full play to the role of taxation functions, strengthen the linkage between Sichuan and Chongqing taxation and cross-departmental coordination, so as to release greater effectiveness of various tax incentives and promote enterprises to make steady progress in the fast lane of green development and transformation.
