Recently, the news has begun to circulate that the rural areas should start collecting "agricultural taxes" again. In fact, this is not the first time this sound has appeared. And every time this voice appears, it has attracted the attention of everyone. The reason why there is a "nother agricultural tax" is that most of the reasons are because the countryside has added a certain fee to pay, and this time is no exception.
Rural reforms have continued to advance, especially in the area of land, and the various systems have become more and more clear. At the end of this year, the rural areas also added two expenses for land, that is, the cultivated land occupation tax and the homestead over-occupation fee. The emergence of these two costs is the source of this so-called "agricultural tax" recurrence. But in fact, these are two completely different things, and there is no way and there is no need to confuse them.
First of all, let's talk about the agricultural tax, which is a kind of tax levied by the state on all units and individuals engaged in agricultural production and have agricultural income, which is also called "public grain" by us. In order to reduce the burden on farmers and solve the "three rural problems", the government has clearly cancelled it as early as 2006. So far, no new system has mentioned the need to pay an "agricultural tax."
The increase in arable land occupation tax and homestead over-occupation fee this year is not aimed at agricultural production first, and secondly, it is not something that everyone needs to pay. Since the implementation of the New Land Management Law in the second half of this year, the standards for the division and use of cultivated land and homesteads in various localities have been clarified. It was formulated for the rational use of land resources and the strengthening of land management.
The so-called cultivated land occupancy tax is a tax levied on units and individuals that occupy cultivated land to build houses or engage in other non-agricultural construction; and the homestead over-occupation fee is a fee paid by the relevant departments when the area of the homestead exceeds the local homestead standard, in accordance with the policy requirements and standards for the paid use of the homestead.
In fact, as long as you understand a little, you will know that the so-called "new agricultural tax" is just a crown and a li dai, and everyone does not have to panic too much.