14 Administrative and Institutional Fees to Be Reduced or Waived, Including the Printing Business License

[ppzhan abstract] Recently, an official from the Hunan Provincial Department of Finance stated that 41 administrative and institutional charges would be abolished, including the cost fee for printing business licenses.

On the 9th, in order to effectively reduce the burden on enterprises and the public, the official from the Hunan Provincial Department of Finance revealed at a press conference on the institutional development of the Party's mass line education and practice campaign in the province that, on the basis of fully implementing this year the 14 administrative and institutional charges abolished or exempted in the province by the Ministry of Finance and the National Development and Reform Commission, the provincial Department of Finance, together with the provincial price department, plans to abolish another 41 administrative and institutional charges. According to preliminary estimates, after these 41 administrative and institutional charges are abolished, the number of charge items in the province will decrease by 27.5% compared with 2012, and relevant enterprises and individuals across the province will pay about 780 million yuan less each year.

Among the 41 administrative and institutional charges abolished this time, those involving the burden on individuals mainly include: certificate cost fees such as technical school graduation certificates, in-service training fees and pre-employment training fees collected by human resources and social security departments; certified public accountant registration fees, certified public accountant annual inspection fees, registered appraiser registration fees and registered appraiser annual inspection fees collected by finance departments; door (building) plate cost fees collected by public security departments; practice registration fees for grassroots legal service workers collected by judicial departments; and nurse practice certificate cost fees collected by health departments.

Those involving the burden on enterprises mainly include: verification fees for publicly distributed newspapers and periodicals (including certificate renewal fees) and printing business license cost fees collected by press and publication departments; road transport business license (four certificates) cost fees, road transport certificate (including teaching vehicle certificate) cost fees and passenger transport sign plate cost fees collected by transport departments; railway tank car repair and inspection license fees, automobile tank car repair and inspection license fees, chemical cleaning license fees, water quality monitoring license fees and boiler room design drawing review fees collected by quality supervision departments; public civil air defense engineering maintenance fees collected by civil air defense departments; and government procurement bidding document cost fees collected by government centralized procurement agencies.

To ensure that this policy is fully implemented, the provincial Department of Finance, together with relevant departments, will, on the basis of a comprehensive review of administrative and institutional charge items, issue the Catalogue of Administrative and Institutional Charge Items of Hunan Province, publish the administrative and institutional charge items that are still retained, and actively accept supervision from enterprises, the public and all sectors of society, thereby enhancing the transparency of administrative and institutional charges. At the same time, special charge inspections will be carried out to strictly enforce charge discipline and regulate charging practices.

——This article is reprinted from China Packaging Network (pack.cn). Original link: http://news.pack.cn/show-361866.html