The Current System of Personal Income Tax Calls for Prompt Revision

• 来源期刊: 今日中国：英文版
• 学科: 经济
• 年，卷（期）: 2002,（10）
• 页码范围: 70-71
• 页数: 2页
• 分类号: F812.42

摘要

BEIJING’S revenue from personal income tax in 2001 was 8 billion yuan, an increase of 42 percent, and the amount of tax received from high-income earners increased 2.6 fold. From September to November 2001, high-income earners paid taxes of 60 million yuan they had previously evaded. In the first half of 2002, Beijing defined its key taxpayers, that is, those with an annual income exceeding 100,000 yuan. According to this definition, the tax-paying situation of at least 30,000 people is under control. Revisions to the Individual Income Tax