With the approval of the State Council, the Ministry of Finance, the General Administration of Customs, and the State Administration of Taxation jointly issued the "Notice on Expanding the Implementation Scope of the Pilot Tax Refund Policy at the Port of Departure" , approving that from April 1, 2023, 7 ports including Ningbo Zhoushan Port will be used as The port of departure implements a tax refund policy at the port of departure. Among them, Ningbo Zhoushan Port is equipped with 25 ports of departure. It is the only departure port covering both the north and south coasts of my country and the main ports of the Yangtze River. Its policy services and benefit range rank the most in the country.
The port of departure tax rebate policy is a catalyst and accelerator for building an international shipping and logistics hub. It can effectively gather various resources and advanced production factors, effectively enhance the logistics and transportation radiation capacity of Ningbo Zhoushan Port, and accelerate the building of an international shipping and logistics hub. Enterprises bring a real sense of gain, attract more foreign sources of goods to enjoy the tax rebate bonus at the port of departure, and support and drive local enterprises to become bigger and stronger. The port of departure tax rebate policy includes Wenzhou Port, Taizhou Port, and Jiaxing Port in our province for the first time as the port of departure with Ningbo Zhoushan Port as the departure port. At present, the first port of departure tax refund policy in the province has been officially implemented in Jiaxing Port . On May 4th, Tongkun Group Co., Ltd. successfully applied for an export tax rebate of 13,556 yuan from the tax department after a shipment of polyester elastic yarn worth 15,120 US dollars was released by the Jiaxing Customs Office in Zhapu. This batch of goods will be transferred to Ningbo Zhoushan Port for export. It is the first shipment in Zhejiang Province to enjoy the "port of departure tax rebate" policy bonus. "According to the original process, these goods depart from Jiaxing Port and need to be transferred at Ningbo Port. The tax refund can only be processed after they actually leave the country. In the past, it took at least two weeks. After applying for the tax refund at the port of departure, the goods depart from Jiaxing Port the next day. I just received the tax refund." The manager of the foreign trade department of Tongkun Group Co., Ltd. introduced. The "port of departure tax refund " policy can help export companies shorten the tax refund cycle and improve capital turnover efficiency. Under normal circumstances, export enterprises need to transport the goods to the export departure port and go through customs clearance procedures before they can apply for tax refunds from the tax department. After the implementation of this policy, once the qualified goods are shipped from the port of departure, they will be deemed as exports, and enterprises can apply for tax refund procedures. In the next step, the Provincial Department of Commerce will, in accordance with the work deployment of the provincial party committee and the provincial government on the implementation of the world-class strong port construction project, play the role of the pilot free trade zone, coordinate the promotion of the development and construction tasks of the free trade zone and Hong Kong trade, and continue to promote Ningbo Zhoushan Port's port of departure tax rebate policy has been effective, ensuring that the policy is fully utilized.
