On February 22, 2006, the State Post Bureau issued a commemorative stamp with a face value of 80 cents, entitled "Abolishing Agricultural Tax in an All-round Way", to celebrate the abolition of the Agricultural Tax Ordinance on June 65438+ 10/2006.

This means the end of this traditional tax which has been followed for two thousand years in our country. As an important measure for the government to solve the problems concerning agriculture, countryside and farmers, stopping collecting agricultural tax not only lightens the burden of farmers, but also increases their civil rights, which embodies the principle of "fairness" in modern taxation and conforms to the trend of "industry feeding agriculture back".

Starting from 1992, China officially reformed its agricultural system through reform and opening up. In 2006, the agricultural tax, which lasted for thousands of years, was cancelled, marking that China entered a new period of reform and opening up.

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It is a kind of liberation for farmers. In China, the cost of agricultural taxation and tax payment is too high, sometimes even exceeding the tax itself. With agricultural tax as the carrier, there are many kinds of surplus taxes and fees derived from farmers, rural areas and agriculture. The abolition of agricultural tax has fundamentally changed this system of reaching out for farmers everywhere; More importantly, the current rural tax system is established under the dual structure of urban and rural areas.

This two-line parallel tax structure, coupled with the imbalance of urban and rural development level, has formed a very unfair situation of farmers' tax burden in China. China's agricultural tax rate is 8.4%, which consists of 7% main tax and 20% additional tax. It is understood that the taxation of specific groups only exists in China. Therefore, the policy of canceling the agricultural tax is more of an institutional change, a major adjustment of the central government's policy of unbalanced economic and social development between urban and rural areas, and a restoration of the equal status of farmers and urban residents in tax burden.

This is a great achievement brought by the reform and opening up. Although the agricultural tax of 40 billion yuan only accounts for 2.0% of the total national tax revenue, in the future, this tax will not only be gone, but the state will also have to take out a sum of money from the finance to pay the financial expenses of rural grassroots, even if it wants to. Therefore, the abolition of agricultural tax means that the proportion of agriculture is gradually decreasing in the process of upgrading China's economic structure; On the other hand, it also shows that China has fully possessed the economic ability to cancel the agricultural tax without affecting the overall development of the country.

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