China lifts tax rebates to boost export
The State Council has approved a stimulus plan to lift value-added tax (VAT) rebates on exports from Dec. 1, in an effort to curb the destructive impact of the global financial crisis on its export-oriented economy, sources reported.
Premier Wen Jiabao yesterday disclosed at a State Council meeting that VAT rebates on 3,770 types of exports, representing 27.9% of all exports goods, would be raised to breathe life into struggling industries, particularly labor-intensive and smaller enterprises, after raising VAT rebate twice in the past three months.
The decision came just three days after the State Council announcing its ambitious RMB 4 trillion stimulus package to spur domestic demand, showing the central government’s concerns over the declining export growth fuelled by the global economic recession.
The State Council has yet to reveal details of the exports and the new rebate rates.
Customs statistics shows that China’s exports rose 19.2% year on year to US$128.32 billion in October. The growth rate was 3.1% lower than that of the same period last year and 2.3% lower than that of September.
Economists expected export growth would continue to sink next year dragged down by a bleak global economic outlook.
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Once again china is upcoming with a real boom project. This step will surely take it on the path of development.