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"We process an average of about 400 export tax refunds every month, and each tax refund takes about 3 days from application to entry." Lu Yulu, a financial officer of Chongqing Zongshen Locomotive Industry Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Zongshen Locomotive") It was stated on the 10th that from January to September this year, the group company successfully obtained 450 million yuan (RMB, the same below) in export tax rebates, of which export motorcycle tax rebates accounted for about 30.5%.

According to reports, Zongshen Motorcycle's motorcycle products are exported to Mexico, the Philippines and other countries and regions. Lu Yulu, who has been engaged in accounting for 15 years, said that in the past ten years, the progress of export tax rebate processing has been accelerated, and the submitted documents have been significantly reduced, which has won a lot of time for the company to develop new products and capital turnover.

"Seven years ago, the most troublesome thing in handling export tax rebates every month was to organize documents. Thousands of documents had to be sorted out for several days, and then a large bag of declaration documents was brought to the tax office." Lu Yulu recalled that at that time, a An export tax rebate needs to be completed with a "six-piece set" - contract, bill of lading, invoice, packing list, export tax rebate copy, and transport documents. As long as there is a problem with one item, you have to go back to the company to compare and fill in the report, and sometimes you have to go back and forth to the tax service hall several times.

With the accelerated development of Chongqing's international trade and the continuous growth of export business, the workload of filing and binding enterprise filing documents has continued to increase, and the demand for simplified declaration materials and filing documents has become stronger.

In 2016, Chongqing launched the paperless declaration of export tax rebate. International trade export enterprises enter the "Comprehensive Service Platform for Export Tax Refund" through the Chongqing Electronic Taxation Bureau, and fill in the electronic data of the official declaration signed by the digital signature certificate, so as to realize the declaration and the single document. Paperless management of certificate processing and auditing.

In May 2022, Chongqing launched the paperless storage of export tax rebate filing documents. Enterprises can choose to keep the electronic version of the filing documents for future reference, and no longer need to spend a lot of manpower to bind paper export goods transportation and other documents.

Lu Yulu said that the "burden reduction" brought about by paperless declaration and filing is obvious. "Only A4 paper can save tens of thousands of sheets a year, and my workload is also reduced by 60%."

In addition to "reducing data", the processing efficiency of export tax rebates is also constantly improving. The average processing time has changed from 20 working days in 2015 to 10 working days in 2019, 8 working days in 2020, and 6 working days by the end of 2021. , the time is compressed several times. In June of this year, the state once again accelerated the progress of export tax rebates for first- and second-class enterprises with good export tax rebate credit qualifications and a high proportion of tax rebate scale, and the average time for processing normal tax rebates was reduced to 3 working days.

Zongshen Motorcycle, as a first-class export tax rebate enterprise, Lu Yulu said: "Don't underestimate the time it takes for a few days, the return of funds for international trade export enterprises is slow. The tax rebate will be credited faster, and the company will continue to develop and update equipment. It’s also more motivated to go out.”

The speed of export tax rebate "uplift" and the data of "reduction" have gradually transformed into the trend of "import" in Chongqing's international trade.

Statistics show that in the past ten years, the number of active enterprises with export tax rebates in Chongqing has increased from 1,347 in 2013 to 2,187 in 2021, and the amount of tax rebates has increased from 7.026 billion yuan in 2013 to 21.6 billion yuan in 2021.

The export tax rebate "speeding up and reducing the burden" is the epitome of the simplified administration and decentralization of the Chongqing tax department. Over the past ten years, the Chongqing tax department has continued to “shrink” government power, reducing the number of tax administrative approval items from 87 to 1; tax and fee business items have been reduced by 49%; submitted documents have been reduced by 50%; tax certification items have been reduced by 58%, promoting The tax and business environment of Chongqing has reached a new level.