The “Pilot Implementation Measures on the Levy of Volatile Organic Compounds Environmental Protection Tax” was issued recently. Why should the pilot environmental protection tax on volatile organic compounds be promoted step by step? Relevant officials from the Ministry of Finance, the State Administration of Taxation, and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment said that there are many sources of volatile organic matter emissions, and there are many process steps involved, and the calculation of emissions is complicated. In order to smoothly advance the pilot work, we launched the pilot project in two steps, taking into account the emission scale, environmental protection supervision requirements, collection and administration conditions of enterprises in different industries. First, pilot projects were carried out in eight industries, including “printing,” “chemical raw materials and chemical product manufacturing,” “petroleum, coal and other fuel processing,” “pharmaceutical manufacturing,” “ironmaking, steelmaking,” “general equipment manufacturing,” “special equipment manufacturing,” and “automobile manufacturing.” These eight industries account for more than 70% of the total emissions of volatile organic compounds from industrial sources. In the next step, the Ministry of Finance, the State Administration of Taxation, and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment will closely follow up the pilot situation, summarize experiences in a timely manner, evaluate the pilot effects, and comprehensively implement pilot work to levy environmental protection taxes on volatile organic compounds in other industries in due course.

The “Pilot Implementation Measures on the Levy of Volatile Organic Compounds Environmental Protection Tax” was issued recently. Why should the pilot environmental protection tax on volatile organic compounds be promoted step by step? Relevant officials from the Ministry of Finance, the State Administration of Taxation, and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment said that there are many sources of volatile organic matter emissions, many process steps involved, and the calculation of emissions is complicated. In order to smoothly advance the pilot work, we launched the pilot project in two steps, taking into account the emission scale, environmental protection supervision requirements, collection and administration conditions of enterprises in different industries. First, pilot projects were carried out in eight industries, including “printing,” “chemical raw materials and chemical product manufacturing,” “petroleum, coal and other fuel processing,” “pharmaceutical manufacturing,” “ironmaking, steelmaking,” “general equipment manufacturing,” “special equipment manufacturing,” and “automobile manufacturing.” These eight industries account for more than 70% of the total emissions of volatile organic compounds from industrial sources. In the next step, the Ministry of Finance, the State Administration of Taxation, and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment will closely follow up the pilot situation, summarize experiences in a timely manner, evaluate the pilot effects, and comprehensively implement pilot work to levy environmental protection taxes on volatile organic compounds in other industries in due course.