Shenzhen Automotive Sewage Discharge Charges Initially Appeared

A few days ago, the time spent on the vehicle's sewage charges made a lot of noises. It is not known whether the collection of sewage charges can make actual contributions to environmental protection as a substitute. However, a person familiar with the Shenzhen Municipal Development and Reform Commission revealed that according to the preliminary argument, the vehicle sewage charges are expected to come up with 3 sets of options in the future. The key points of the three options are focused on the vehicle's displacement threshold and the amount of the sewage charges.

Informed sources revealed that there are currently 1.0 or more liters above the emission threshold and 1.5 liters or more. The amount of 300 yuan, 500 yuan and 1,000 yuan will be taken into account each year. "Three options are different combinations of the above elements."

According to this person, the number of vehicles in Shenzhen is more than 2.4 million. If each vehicle receives an annual sewage charge of 1,000 yuan, the annual fiscal revenue will increase by more than 2.4 billion yuan. Experts pointed out that the collection of vehicle sewage charges must be fully demonstrated, and the cost of urban residents can not be increased too much, and the funds must be earmarked.

According to the "Shenzhen Special Zone Daily" reported earlier this year that the implementation of the "Shenzhen Environmental Quality Improvement Action Plan" announced in May this year proposed that by the end of this year, the Municipal Development and Reform Commission will be responsible for studying and formulating policies and measures for the collection of pollutant discharge fees for conventional fuel vehicle exhaust.

The relevant person in charge of the Shenzhen Municipal Development and Reform Commission responded to reporters that the current regulations for the collection and management of vehicle sewage charges are under study and “strategly can come up with a shaped thing before the end of the year”. The policy is divided into three steps. The first step is to do research first. If it is feasible, it will enter the second step and be tried out in some areas. The third step is the regional legislation and the city will be rolled out.

The aforementioned person familiar with the Shenzhen Municipal Development and Reform Commission disclosed to reporters for the first time that they are currently taking steps such as the design of social survey forms and information collection, and have carried out some basic work for the introduction of the policy. The future is expected to be implemented in the form of local regulations. As Shenzhen is a "reform test field," the Shenzhen Special Administrative Region People’s Congress has been granted legislative power and is expected to try first.

In order to reduce the consumption of new cars, the source said that the New Deal for automobile sewage charges considers the “new methods for new cars and old methods for old cars”. The sewage charges imposed on stock vehicles are lower than those for incremental vehicles, and they refer to the operation mode of “replacement for old cars” and stock vehicles. Exchange of new energy vehicles will enjoy certain benefits. According to the source, across the country, Shenzhen is one of the few “double pilot cities” that promotes new energy vehicles in the public and private sectors at the same time. By increasing the purchase and use costs of conventional fuel vehicles, the excessive use of conventional fuel vehicles is suppressed. Consumption will help promote the structural adjustment of the auto industry, and in turn increase the enthusiasm for the research and development of new energy vehicle companies, especially pure electric vehicles.

However, in an interview with the reporter, Yue Xin, director of the Vehicle Emissions Laboratory at the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, said that the current high oil price level has been able to better reflect the cost of the owner's energy consumption, coupled with greater economic downturns this year. The people are more sensitive to the changes in tax burden. It is necessary to be very cautious when adding a fee out of thin air. If the automobile sewage charges are “one size fits all”, it is obviously unfair to impose high rates on large-displacement vehicles that “buy and use” or to impose the same amount of sewage charges on cars in the core and suburban areas.

In fact, as early as 1998, the former State Environmental Protection Administration, the former National Development Planning Commission, and the Ministry of Finance had issued a document, and decided to conduct pilot projects for total discharge charges in Hangzhou, Zhengzhou, and Jilin. According to relevant documents of Hangzhou City, vehicle pollution charges (sub-gas charges and noise fees) are levied year by year on models, with annual charges of 300 yuan for light vehicles, 500 yuan for medium-sized vehicles, and 600 yuan for heavy vehicles.

However, five years later, this policy was announced by the State Environmental Protection Administration as a reply to the issue concerning the emission of pollutants from motor vehicles. In the previous year, the General Office of the State Council issued a document requesting that: “In the future, with the exception of laws, regulations, and the State Council’s express provisions, no new local administrative agencies, motor vehicles, or government-owned fund-raising fees can be issued in any place, department, or unit. Government fund projects."

In an interview with an expert, an expert from the Ministry of Finance’s Institute of Finance and Banking revealed that mobile pollution sources have been included in the discussion of the sewage charges for a long time, but technical problems such as real-time dynamic monitoring of the pollutant discharge volume are still difficult to solve fundamentally. In the future, they can only be charged in accordance with the discharge standards, and cannot be followed. The actual emissions are charged "but the pilots in the three cities mentioned above have caused controversy and show that the "one size fits all" tariffs on the models are unreasonable."

Up to now, in addition to the vehicle pollutant discharge fees under discussion, the automobile-vessel tax and automobile purchase tax are also reflected in the policies that reflect the energy-saving and emission-reduction policies of automobiles.

According to the experts of the Finance Ministry of the Ministry of Finance mentioned above, the existing emission standards for vehicle and vessel taxes (such as 1.6 liters, 2.0 liters, etc.) cannot replace emission standards (such as national IV, national V, etc.), and the threshold is not high; while small-displacement vehicles The vehicle purchase tax preferential policies have also been abolished with the withdrawal of the automobile industry stimulus policies, so it is necessary to consider further restricting the automobile emissions policy.

However, this expert believes that it is better to include mobile pollution sources such as automobiles and motorcycles into the current scope of sewage charges and even the scope of future environmental taxes to make it institutionalized and normalized. .

The people familiar with the Shenzhen Development and Reform Commission have different opinions. He believes that tax must be enlisted through the National People's Congress legislation, tax collection and management requirements have a stable, the charge is phased and flexible, if the future to limit the purpose of car emissions, and even can be canceled.

Yue Xin concluded that the vehicle sewage charges are not expropriated, but they must be fully justified. They must not impede the improvement of urban residents' living needs, or increase the cost of urban residents' travel. They must also be used for special purposes. Improved environmental quality.