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Offshore trade is an important part of international trade. As one of the new forms and models of foreign trade, its role in promoting the high-quality development of foreign trade of countries and regions has been continuously improved. The Taxation Bureau of Qingdao Qianwan Bonded Port Area of the State Administration of Taxation has taken the initiative to increase the support for the new international trade of offshore trade and help the offshore trade of Qingdao Free Trade Zone go on the fast track.

At present, it is in the final settlement and payment period of corporate income tax. The Tax Bureau of the Bonded Port Area, in combination with the "spring breeze action of tax handling for the convenience of the people", takes the lead in establishing the "contactless tax handling operation room" in the city, innovatively integrates the "cloud tax handling", the 12366 consulting platform, the interactive platform for tax collection and payment and other comprehensive contactless tax handling channels, and combines training and guidance, tax publicity, and handheld tax handling to achieve 24-hour online consultation and training guidance, Effectively improve the availability and convenience of policy consultation. At the same time, a "tax reform pioneer" youth commando was set up to carry out a special live broadcast training for more than 20 foreign trade enterprises engaged in new offshore international trade, set up a "interactive Q&A" link, explain the corporate income tax final settlement policy to taxpayers in simple terms, help enterprises accurately grasp the key points of the policy, ensure that enterprises master the declaration skills, understand the key points of operation, and reduce corporate tax risks.

"The tax bureau of the bonded area has sent a person to help us check the logical relationship between the declaration data one by one, guide us to master the rules of remittance and reporting, and avoid data errors. Under the careful guidance of the tax department, our final settlement and declaration of corporate income tax this year was very smooth, effectively reducing the tax risk, and making the development of enterprises more confident." Shanneng (Qingdao) Liang Ping, financial director of Smart Industry Technology Co., Ltd., said happily.

It is understood that Shanneng (Qingdao) Intelligent Industrial Technology Co., Ltd. is a key enterprise engaged in offshore trade in the Qingdao Free Trade Zone. Relying on the advantages of Shanneng Group's overseas coal mines, it has signed a sales agreement with overseas companies and sold them offshore to Southeast Asian countries. In 2022, the enterprises have accumulated more than US $30 million of offshore trade in rubber and coal, and this year is expected to achieve more than US $50 million, up 36.9% year on year. Under the service of various innovative measures of the tax bureau of the bonded port area, enterprises will have greater achievements.

It is reported that this year, the Tax Bureau of the Bonded Port Area has made efforts to build "Free Trade Smart Tax" 3.0, deepen the tax preferential single service mode, and promote 11 service projects such as "Fast Response" for tax-related demands, "Smart Office" for tax-related businesses, "All Seasons" for the determination of tax matters, and "Xinyitong" for honest enterprises, as well as 10 service measures such as "Contactless Tax Handling Operation Room", "Government Cloud Service Center" and "Enterprise Agency Declaration under dormant system", Assist foreign trade enterprises to carry out new offshore international trade.

In order to support the high-quality development of the new offshore international trade, the Tax Bureau of the Bonded Port Area focused on the needs of relevant enterprises engaged in offshore trade in the area to carry out visits, and found that the settlement of offshore trade funds faced great constraints. Due to the characteristics of offshore trade, it is difficult for enterprises to obtain customs declaration forms. Banks have concerns about handling foreign exchange collection. The review time is long, usually about 15 days, which aggravates the difficulties of enterprise capital turnover. Knowing the problems faced by enterprises, the expert team of the "monthly tax refund" of the Free Trade Port Tax Bureau actively helped relevant enterprises apply for "free trade loans", which not only has low loan interest rates, but also can enjoy government discount interest to help enterprises overcome financial difficulties.

It is reported that the tax bureau of the bonded port area has deepened the credit sharing and co-governance, relying on the "district tariff" credit co-governance platform, integrated the information of customs, foreign exchange, tax, transportation and other eight aspects, promoted the offshore trade information sharing, and jointly launched the "free trade loan" fund pool service supporting the development of export enterprises with the district management committee and banks, High-credit foreign trade enterprises can establish a credit line that can be used at any time in the "free trade loan" fund pool by virtue of export orders and other information, and enjoy 10% of the government's special discount to achieve the development of credit financing enabling enterprises.

At present, the new offshore international trade volume of Qingdao Free Trade Zone accounts for 90% of the whole city and 80% of the whole province. The future of Qingdao Free Trade Zone can be expected. In the next step, the Tax Bureau of the Bonded Port Area will continue to strengthen innovation, inject more tax power into the development of offshore trade, and help Qingdao Free Trade Zone take off.