The country has brewed to raise the resources tax again

Faced with the defeat of the rare earth WTO lawsuit, the status of some of the export tariffs on rare earth products will be abolished, and the state’s efforts to regulate and integrate rare earths will be tightened again. A certain reporter’s reporter recently learned from an authoritative source that the relevant departments are embarking on brewing to increase the rare earth resources tax again, and overweight the means to regulate and control the rare earth industry.

“The State Administration of Taxation, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Finance and other ministries are all discussing and brewing, and it is estimated that they will be introduced in the second half of the year.” According to the current situation, according to the current situation, the rare earth resource tax may be substantially raised on the basis of the current standards, and the specific proportion is still In the discussion.

Raising the resources tax on rare earths is seen by many in the industry as an important means of regulating and controlling the rare earth industry. The authoritative sources frankly stated to reporters that raising the tax rate of rare earth resources, raising the market price of rare earths from the source, reflecting the scarcity of resources and the environmental costs of exploitation, and changing the relationship between supply and demand by increasing prices, effectively reducing smuggling and other The country's purchase of hoarding rare earths will also help reduce the negative effect of the WTO's losing case on China's rare earth management.

In fact, in order to change the status of rare earths as a large-scale sale of Chinese cabbage, China has adopted a number of policy measures. In 2007, China began to implement directive planning for rare earth production, and reduced export quotas year by year to limit the export of rare earths. Since 2011, it has raised the export tariffs on individual rare earth products. In order to better protect resources, it has increased rare earths for the first time in April 2011. Resource tax. The reporter learned that in 2011, the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation issued a notice for the first time, and decided to adjust the standard for rare earth ore resources tax amount from April 1 of that year and increase it by more than 10 times. At that time, the adjusted standard for rare earth resource tax was as follows: Light rare earth included cesium ore and monazite, RMB 60/t; medium and heavy rare earth included yttrium ore and ionic rare earth, RMB 30/t.