With April 2017, Vice Minister of Environmental Protection Zhao Yingmin arrived in Langfang to carry out heavy pollution weather supervision. Langfang Wood Industry started to dismantle coal-fired boilers throughout the industry, and the enterprises were transformed and upgraded. They were far away from the qualitative comprehensive production environment of "small and scattered pollution", and the production equipment, sewage and exhaust were greatly rectified. Fulfilling the government's environmental protection requirements is an obligatory civic obligation for enterprises. A few days ago, a number of wood enterprises have passed some of the standards required by the rectification and reform, gradually improved, and started to transform and produce again. At the same time as the comprehensive rectification of wood enterprises, a new national law is about to be implemented: environmental protection tax.

On December 25, 2016, President Xi Jinping issued the 61st Presidential Order of the the People's Republic of China: The the People's Republic of China Environmental Protection Tax Law was adopted at the 25th Session of the Standing Committee of the Twelfth National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China on December 25, 2016. It is hereby promulgated and shall come into force on January 1, 2018. Kan Kan

It is reported that the object and scope of the environmental protection tax are basically the same as the current sewage charges, and the scope of the tax is clearly defined as air, water, solid and noise pollutants directly discharged to the environment. Kan Kan

Based on the current sewage charges, the environmental protection tax is set. For example, the tax on air pollutants is 1.2-12 yuan per pollution equivalent. The tax on water pollutants is 1.4-14 yuan per pollution equivalent. According to different types of solid waste, the tax amount is 5-1000 yuan per ton. According to the number of decibels exceeding the standard for noise, the tax amount is 350-11,200 yuan per month. Kan Kan

In addition, in order to prevent pollutant discharge enterprises from thinking that they can discharge arbitrarily after paying taxes, the Environmental Protection tax Law makes it clear that enterprises, institutions and other producers and operators that directly discharge taxable pollutants to the environment shall, in addition to paying environmental protection taxes in accordance with the provisions of this Law, be liable for the damages caused in accordance with the law. Kan Kan

The environmental protection tax law is my country's first separate tax law that specifically embodies the "green tax system" and promotes the construction of ecological civilization, which further improves my country's "green tax" system. The reform of environmental protection fees and taxes has risen to the legislative level, demonstrating the country's attention and determination to environmental improvement, and prompting our companies to pay more attention to environmental protection and more firmly reduce emissions and pollution. Kan Kan

According to the analysis of people in the wood industry, taking the annual output value of 50 million yuan as an example, the medium-sized wood industry enterprises need to pay air pollutant tax every year, totaling about 6-120000 yuan. Water pollutant tax shall be paid, totaling about 8-150000 yuan. Sawdust, dust, chemical waste, and other solid waste taxes shall be paid, totaling about 15-300000 yuan. The noise tax is required, the cumulative amount is about 5000-20000 yuan per month. To sum up, the annual environmental protection tax of a medium-sized wood production enterprise should be 30-700000 yuan.