Key words this week: individual tax, drug, license separation, heating, vocational education

Premier Li Keqiang presided over an executive meeting of the State Council on November 20 to listen to a report on personal income tax reform and determine relevant preferential tax policies to lighten the burden on taxpayers. The meeting pointed out that the establishment of a comprehensive and classified personal income tax system and the introduction of six special additional deductions, such as education and old-age care, are major tax system reforms deployed by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, and important measures to reduce taxes and fees. Since the implementation of the reform in October last year, the results of the reform have gradually appeared. In the first nine months of this year, more than 440 billion yuan in tax cuts have benefited 250 million taxpayers, which has played an important role in improving income distribution, increasing residents' income, and expanding consumption. Next, it is necessary to establish a reasonable and orderly annual personal income tax settlement and payment system, so that the special additional deduction policy can be better implemented and continuously improved, so as to achieve the sustainability of the tax system. The meeting decided that in order to further reduce the burden on taxpayers, especially low-and middle-income groups, it is tentatively scheduled to waive the obligation to remit and settle payments within two years for taxpayers whose annual income does not exceed 120000 yuan or whose annual supplementary tax amount is relatively low. The meeting called for strengthening the interpretation of relevant policies, simplifying the operation process, optimizing tax services, and facilitating taxpayers to pay taxes in accordance with the law. The meeting also decided that in order to promote the development of the shipping industry, adapt to the relatively rapid growth of domestic demand for seafood, and learn from international practices, from January 1 this year to the end of 2023, ocean-going crew members who sail for more than 183 days in a tax year, Its salary and salary income shall be reduced by 50% to the amount of taxable income tax on individual income tax.

Li Keqiang presided over an executive meeting of the State Council to hear a report on the reform of individual income tax and determine the relevant preferential tax policies to lighten the burden on taxpayers, etc.

On November 20, Premier Li Keqiang presided over an executive meeting of the State Council to deepen the reform of the medical and health system and further promote the centralized procurement and use of drugs, so as to better serve the masses to see a doctor. The meeting pointed out that promoting the centralized procurement and use of drugs is an important part of deepening medical reform and has played a positive role in reducing the "falsely high" drug prices and lightening the burden on the masses. The meeting called for further progress in this work. First, it is necessary to expand the scope of centralized procurement and use of drugs, giving priority to the varieties with large price differences between the original research drugs and the generic drugs, and the essential drugs that pass the evaluation of the consistency of the quality and efficacy of the generic drugs into the centralized procurement. Purchase in bulk to promote a substantial reduction in drug prices. We will build a national centralized procurement platform for drugs and rely on provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) to build a unified and open procurement market throughout the country. The second is to ensure the stable supply, quality and safety of drugs procured centrally. We will establish a reporting system for emergency reserves, inventory and production capacity of bid-winning production enterprises, strengthen random inspection of bid-winning drugs, and implement a market clearance system. The construction of a drug traceability system will take the lead in realizing the "one thing, one code" for the centralized procurement and use of vaccines and drugs by the end of next year, and can be independently inspected by the public. Third, formulate and implement state measures for the administration of drug use. We will promote the first use of national essential drugs and Medicare catalogue drugs in medical institutions. We will strengthen the management of pharmaceutical affairs in hospitals and investigate and deal with unreasonable drug use in accordance with the law. We will establish and improve the regulatory mechanism for the normalization of drug prices. On the premise of not increasing the burden of patients as a whole, a steady and orderly pilot to explore the optimization of medical service prices. Fourth, we will promote the reform of the payment method of medical insurance. In principle, the same payment standards shall be applied to the original research drugs with the same general name and the same dosage form and specifications, generic drugs that have passed the consistency evaluation, etc. Explore more efficient methods of drug payment.

The executive meeting of the State Council on November 20 decided on these three major events.

The State Council recently issued the Circular on the Reform of full coverage pilot Project of "license Separation" in the Free Trade Experimental area, and deployed to carry out the full coverage pilot reform of "license Separation" in the national free trade experimental area from December 1, 2019. The circular pointed out that it is necessary to push forward the reform of the examination and approval system by classification. All business license items related to enterprises shall be classified and promoted in four ways: directly canceling examination and approval, changing examination and approval to filing, implementing notification commitments, and optimizing examination and approval services. With regard to the 523 items set by laws, administrative regulations and decisions of the State Council, 13 items of examination and approval shall be directly cancelled, 8 items of examination and approval shall be changed to the record, and 60 items of notification commitments shall be implemented. The remaining 442 items adopted measures such as reducing materials and time limits, extending or canceling validity periods, and other measures to optimize examination and approval services.

Circular of the State Council on the Reform of full coverage pilot Project of "license Separation" in the Free Trade Experimental Zone

The National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Commerce recently issued the negative list of Market access (2019 version). The 2019 version of the negative list liberalized measures such as "permission for the establishment of pension institutions" and "permission for the establishment of social welfare institutions", with a total of 131 items, a reduction of 20 items, or 13 per cent, compared with the 2018 version of the negative list. Among them, there are 5 prohibited items, with the addition of "all kinds of development activities that do not meet the requirements of the construction of the main functional area"; There are 126 items of permission and access, involving 105 items in 18 national economic sectors, 10 items in the list of Investment projects approved by the Government, 7 items in the list of prohibited permits for Internet Market access, and 4 other matters such as credit supervision.

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The Ministry of Education and other 14 departments recently jointly issued the "Action Plan for Vocational Colleges to comprehensively carry out Vocational training to promote Employment and Entrepreneurship". By 2022, vocational colleges will undertake subsidized training on a large scale each year. To carry out all kinds of vocational training, with an average of more than 50 million person-times a year, focusing on cultivating a number of high-level training bases, business incubators and enterprise universities built by the deep cooperation between schools and enterprises. We will build a large number of training resource databases that are flexible and diverse in learning contents and forms for key groups, develop and select a large number of typical training projects in a large number of key areas, and train a large number of teachers who can undertake academic education and training tasks at the same time. The teachers who meet the needs of "double posts" account for 60% of the total number of professional teachers.

Want to improve their own look over here! 14 departments issue important documents for vocational training

During the warm season, the state will take effective measures to keep domestic natural gas prices in a reasonable range, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said at a news conference in November. The implementation of "quantity and price guarantee" for residents' gas consumption, that is, on the basis of ensuring the total supply, the prices of the provincial benchmark stations set by the state will not rise. The implementation of "guaranteed volume and stable price" for schools, hospitals, public transport and other people's livelihood gas, that is, on the basis of ensuring supply, the price is appropriately adjusted according to the relationship between supply and demand, but the floating range is not more than 20% on the basis of the benchmark gate price. The prices of other market-oriented gas quantities shall be determined through consultation between the supply and demand sides.

National Development and Reform Commission responds to Hot Social issues

The relevant official of the leading Group Office for the radical treatment of wage arrears of migrant Workers under the State Council said that from November 15 to the Spring Festival in 2020, a "winter campaign to combat arrears of wages" will be organized throughout the country. For verified illegal acts, "two zeros" should be achieved: all cases of arrears of wages that occurred before the end of October 2019 should be cleared by the end of 2019; other new cases of arrears of wages should be cleared in a timely and dynamic manner before the Spring Festival in 2020.

It is related to the wages of migrant workers! The campaign to eradicate outstanding wages is being carried out throughout the country