The State Administration Of Taxation Is Planning To Lower Taxes On Some Luxury Goods Import Links.

Recently, it has been reported that State Administration of Taxation The import link tax of some commodities is being planned to import these commodities in a normal way so as to prevent tax revenue from draining away.

For consumers, this means importing milk powder, cosmetics and even LV. Luxury goods There may be substantial price cuts.

Some luxury purchasing agents say that tax cuts will definitely affect the purchase of some imported goods, but now they will predict " Farewell to purchasing It's too early.

After the melamine incident in China, a large number of milk powder consumers turned to imported milk powder. The consumer purchase price of Japanese Meiji milk purchased by consumers is about 155 yuan per barrel, and the price of Customs imports is 258 yuan per barrel. The brand milk powder, such as Karicare in New Zealand, is almost the same as some of the domestic joint venture brand milk powder.

It is understood that at present, customs import of milk powder, cosmetics, luxury goods and other taxes, including value-added tax and import tariffs. If it comes from most favored nation, its tax rate is 22%. If it is an ordinary country, such as the United States, the tax rate on imported milk powder is 57%. In addition to VAT and import duties, cosmetic imports also have to pay 30% of the consumption tax. The total amount of tax paid is over 50%, plus the domestic logistics cost and entry fee.

According to the relevant data, the volume of website purchasing business increased by 3 to 5 times per month, reaching about 10000000000 yuan in 2010 alone. Some scholars predict that by 2012, the scale of overseas purchasing will reach 48 billion yuan.

Industry experts said that most of these purchases did not pay customs duties, less than 10%, and more than 100%.

"Some popular foreign cosmetics, milk powder, bags, clothing, electronic products, in fact, have entered the common people's life in China. We don't need to list it as a luxury item. Yao Lingzhen, Dean of the school of international cultural exchange at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, said that lowering or exempting some of the tax on luxury goods could give the country a real tax.