“Tax islands” of hot and Hainan January 2011 introduction of the “departure tax” policy, in stark contrast to cold, it was lamented, in the end or the Chinese people, “not bad money.”
Correspondent / Ren Huilan intern / Zhuoshu Fan
wearing Armani suits, pedal Adidas running shoes, Chanel Messenger bag, while holding a loud fight iPhone4 phone, while pointing to a row of shelves luxury brand bags, “all to the” This is a lot of people heart China “wide master” image. Do not fly either by the Chinese people love of luxury and consumption for all to see. However, recently a group of people is not the main battlefield of Hong Street, Paris or New York Fifth Avenue, but Hainan duty-free shops.
5000 Without a thirst
do not know how many people give up the “51″ exit permits to do the idea, or cancel a trip to Jeju Island, Korea, one reached the Sanya duty-free shops, while back, grab the salt out of the crazy effort to sweep the park where the products. Because the price is indeed very lethal.
a Chanel50 ml of perfume, duty free shops in the Plaza Sanya Luhuitou close to 475 yuan in the label, and in the Hong Kong price equivalent to more than 600 yuan. Chanel spring and summer of 2011 a limited edition colored eye shadow, in the U.S. price of $ 65, plus 8% tax, amounting to nearly $ 450, but here the price is 385 yuan … If the column over a price comparison catalog, enough to make “shopaholic” who Xuemaibizhang.
However, this is limited to 5,000 yuan of goods.
According to “tax islands” policies,shoes usa jewelry, watches, cosmetics, eyewear and other 18 kinds of commodities have been identified as pilot products duty-free, non-residents of Hainan Island twice a year to enjoy duty-free shopping, island Residents can enjoy the time. 5,000 yuan to buy the goods, due to eliminating tariffs, import VAT and consumption tax, and tax imported goods, the price discount of about 30% to 50%.
5000 yuan can buy? A low-end of GUCCI bags, plus a highmountain hardware usa-end cosmetics, perfume bottles, or a few pieces, like a pen, crystal-like products. Of course, this is not to buy 5000 yuan Han bought what, if you want to buy a few pieces of lip balm or perfume after trying like the distribution of small pieces of my colleagues, will experience “limited” embarrassment. According to “tax islands” policy, perfumes, jewelry, watches, glasses, etc. up to buy two, buy up to four small leather goods, cosmetics, apparel, candy, etc. up to buy five. Is said to prevent people from shopping in Hainan and then resold to other places. Many of the “tax islands” policy long-awaited people shouted, “do not quench their thirst.”
“Hainan is integrated in the formulation of policy considerations of Okinawa, Japan and South Korea Jeju Island current tax policy, and select a more affordable and compromise between the two programs.” reform of China Hainan nectar researcher explained.
number of experts interviewed said that Okinawa higher tax rate, the maximum amount of about 40 million yen, equivalent to about 1.6 million, not limited to, frequency of purchase, but only exemption from the more low import tariffs. Jeju Island and Hainan, as in addition to import duty-free things, free of excise duty and import VAT. Jeju Island, the maximum amount is 20 million won, or about 2400 yuan, a purchase of four years; Hainan limit of 5,000, a number of years purchased two, so the overall tax-free amount of view, basically the same as Hainan and Jeju Island.
However, compared to Jeju Island and Okinawa, Hainan policy seems to be more “lenient” place, “Islands free” policy for additional regulations, visitors paid the price by paying in full entry goods under the conditions of import duty, each person can buy a unit of more than 5,000 products.
but this “import duty on goods entering the country,” What? Is not equivalent to “three tax”? And people often hear inorth face tents usan the news “and mail tax” so what the difference? This makes a lot of people, including experts puzzled.
“This is an explanation of the SAT people do not understand, I think the import duty on goods entering the country is Parcel taxes, including customs duties, import VAT and consumption tax, but some interpret that tax is lower than those three. “Tianjin University of Finance and Professor Huang Fengyu feel a little confused.
“If you buy a commodity more than 5,000 yuan, then to pay the full tariff, but the import of consumption tax and value-added tax is not paid, I think in this condition, in fact, there are certain concessions, but only to buy a commodity. “Overseas Education College of Shanghai Jiao Tong University Wang Weiqing, head of tax teaching and research, told reporters, imported goods entering the country tax rate is generally lower than the same overall rate of import of goods (including tariffs, import VAT and consumption tax).
Lu Yong, deputy director of Hainan Provincial Department of Finance in an interview a few days ago, also expressed similar views, to buy a unit of more than 5,000 products, eliminating value added tax and consumption tax due, tax benefits of about 15% to 30%. Sanya
but the actual price, more than 5,000 goods does not reflect the “15-30%” margin of preference. By Cartier (Cartier) 2010 年 Kali Bo series, for example, duty-free price of 40,359 yuan in Sanya, buy this table to pay 30% of the Parcel tax, the price will reach 52,466 yuan; price of RMB 40,983 in Hong Kong yuan, the Beijing price of $ 50,000, the price of Sanya than in Hong Kong, Beijing, respectively, 11,483 yuan and 2466 yuan expensive. Another Omega (OMEGA) Museum Series table collection is priced at 88,065 yuan in Sanya, pay 30% of the Parcel tax 26,420 yuan, consumers have to pay 114,485 yuan, and Shanghai, the price is almost the price of Omega store , slightly more expensive than in Hong Kong.
“free” in the end is expensive or cheap? This has confused people.
Moreover, not all less than 5,000 yuan in commodity prices are so “thirst”, a lot of people a fierce pass rush and find that spreads are not worth the “labor value”, “price depression” mainly in perfumes, cosmetics.
“Not all products are related to three taxes, VAT and customs duties are all products of the consumption tax on luxury goods and environmental significance of the product collection. 18 categories covered by tax-free islands products, the jewelry, perfume, luxury cosmetics, luxury watches, golf and ball to levy consumption tax, the general watches, general sporting goods, handicrafts, pens, glasses, scarves, ties, cotton wool would not sign the original. “Huangfeng Yu explained. .
In addition, Sanya, China Duty Free Group, by the duty-free shops in the business, Okinawa, Japan, Hong Kong is the world capital DFS management, which explains some of the goods duty-free price of Sanya is not enough “bottom.” “DFS purchase through intensive easy to control the cost, to achieve parity price of our own business and they may not the same as we used to get the price itself. And now this one only on Hainan Island, can not be achieved through intensive scale effects. “Wang Weiqing told reporters.
have users apply “love trading” ridicule “Islands tax” not to force:
not you want to buy duty-free, buy you can buy, domestic tourists a year, only can buy two back!
not back you want to buy two, buy you can buy, documents, tickets are ready, the island to buy!
not out of the island you want to buy, buy you can buy, one can never exceed five thousand, over the added tax!
than five thousand you want to buy, buy you can buy, each class of goods are limited, it is best settled to buy!
“free” than “tax rebate” to facilitate
“tax islands” of hot and Hainan in January 2011 issued a “departure tax” policy, in stark contrast to cold, Some people lamented, in the end or the Chinese people, “not bad money.”
feet of wealth and prosperity, from housewives are the experts and scholars to stimulate domestic demand, stimulate the economy to talk about a tax policy suddenly ignite enthusiasm for public consumption, but it can not continue to attract people to Hainan shopping, in addition to commodity prices are low, but also the “duty-free islands,” whether it is more convenient than shopping abroad.
From a policy point of view, “tax islands” and European non-exempt tax-free island of non-implementation of the “shopping tax” system is different from Sanya duty-free shops in the duty-free price is the price after the consumer Islands pick up at the airport. Europe approach is that foreign consumers with receipts after shopping at the airport tax, but some businesses will have a minimum purchase amount limit.
“ordinary shopping in the UK can tax, but some do not store the following provisions to refund the amount of money, such as providing tax rebates do not apply for the following 50 pounds, these are the provisions of their own businesses.” Huang Fengyu memories , calculate the tax amount in the UK store is a tedious job.
“at the mall buying things you say to a tax rebate, shopping list will give you a tax rebate, tax rebate for each person responsible for both shopping centers, more complicated, not everyone will be considered, they have a tax refund table, the amount you are shopping him in accordance with different rates of tax are not the same, you will follow the tax table to figure out you should keep a good list, grouped together in the departure time. “
have Huang Fengyu found by shopping once calculated the amount of the refund amount, and the number listed on the list is different from the other side is to tell the difference between the middle of her fee. “You bought what may be in this mall, that mall is also bought, shopping malls are counted separately from tax rebates, we should pay more of a few charges.”
“If you buy something the price comparison cheap, in fact, tax ratio is very low, you would have to buy less, but also pay a fee, not much on the back, while Hainan price itself is tax-free to buy things, and do not involve handling of problems. “
to be considered from the economic accounts, apparently “tax islands” of the concessions more thoroughly, and sweating at the airport than the blunt language used to fill tax refund directly to the airport to pick up leave a lot easier.
“departure tax is certainly not as good as a direct tax in the territory of convenience, not as tax-free islands convenient foreign tourists are not familiar with local, personalized tax and then have to fill in a form and then a simple process to complete the procedure. especially when time is tight at the airport queuing more than one person, if they do not fill in tax form, you may be very inconvenient. “Wang Weiqing said.
Huangfeng Yu recalled to the airport departure tax refund counter, as pre-filled tax refund at the store, only to produce documents, but also the entire process took more than an hour. “Live list of refunds to fill the time even longer.”
“Will certainly be a part of more than a waste of a very long time, go there for a long time when the tax audit documents. In other words, bought something, you should have kept the documents to running a tax rebate. Sometimes we are not familiar with the procedures outside of in there to fill out tax returns, you need to have some knowledge of foreign languages, fill it out with documents and tax returns for, if only to pick up the customs thing, after the inspection is not a good number of other problems. “Wang Weiqing remember when returned see rebate transit counter, each time to give up tax,” because time is too tight there when the team will see the refund schedule for a long time. ”
“and retreated to the tax rebate is not on the spot directly on your card, but a few months before arrival. how to do that if not retired? if there are problems just can not go back to tourism and their representations, it is extremely troublesome, this will involve a lot of potential, non-controllable factors. “
policy makers in view, the management of tax-free islands is much more convenient than the tax rebate. “Hainan is more than 97% of tourists from China, there are 25.87 million people overnight visitors, of which domestic customers accounted for more than 22 million people, if these domestic tourists to the duty-free shopping, and requires the airport tax, then the customs The management is very bad, the whole process will be quite complex, so for the huge domestic consumer market, duty-free islands for the implementation of domestic tourists in the city is tax-free duty-free shops to buy the product, then just go to the airport to pick up it for foreign tourists, they are relatively fewer, only 97 million or so for such consumer groups, the implementation of foreign tax policy, customs management system or can afford. “nectar explained.
However, in the first test Yingti Hainan shopping experience was not successful, duty free shop opened at the beginning of Sanya airport, visitors encounter frequently mention the arrival of the dilemma, desperation “will be returned.” “Some people are first come first destination to buy things, take a few days after the return flight; some people in the afternoon or evening of the aircraft, after what may be bought only one or two hours. Logistics and distribution, data transmission and convergence process needs to run. so much consumer traffic, a certain kind of goods is likely to be interrupted. “
However, Wang Weiqing believe that, after run-in” tax-free islands advantages will gradually play, “Jeju Island and Sanya Islands almost tax-free way, of course, there has developed, we buy something, no encounter any trouble, do not need to fill the shopping card and the like, very smoothly at the airport on the mentioned goods, and do not have any reloading Korean form, in short, people feel well-organized. “
” shopping paradise “far
There is a joke years ago, leading to accompany a parent night Sanya Luhuitou, Sanya said pointing to the direction of their superiors: Sanya night as we see Hong Kong? Superior replied: ah, like Hong Kong when the power outage.
Sanya people probably do not think this is a joke “highly ridiculous nature”, but does not deny duty-free shopping in Hong Kong as a reference blueprint.
duty-free planning at the beginning of Hainan, Hong Kong, for it will shake the “shopping paradise” status of the dispute will be heard. Many four-tier cities in Mainland residents can apply for exit permits individuals, only through travel agents to handle, convenient shopping tour of Hainan undoubtedly charismatic.
“the true meaning of duty should be like Hong Kong, for any person, or need to leave no restrictions Islands tax-free, that is, for example, if the residents not to leave Hainan Island Hainan Island, then they actually can not enjoy duty-free concessions, which is the difference between tax-free Hong Kong, Hong Kong tax tantamount to a duty-free port of Hong Kong made, all the people to buy things in Hong Kong are free objects in people living in Hong Kong , does not require any passport without restrictions by the departure, you can enjoy tax-free policy. “Wang Weiqing said.
whether in Hong Kong duty-free shops around the streets of cosmetics, such as excellence, salsa, DFS and Harbour City to buy such big-name merchandise, or in the street Xiaopu buy a second-tier brand of lipstick, can enjoy tax-free, duty-free consumer choice is much greater than Sanya.
“Hainan policy has just introduced a novelty when it will sought after, calm down and will want to buy a luxury There are other ways, such as you can go to Hong Kong, or other alternative means of consumption From cost to get on, go to Hong Kong to Hainan than expensive, especially from a place near Hong Kong, more choices of goods, the price is not expensive, and no limits. and the mainland tourists to Hong Kong Shumenshulu. “Huang Fengyu also believe that .
However, the combination of “policy of expanding domestic demand,” coupled with the rapid development of real estate in Hainan in recent years, the introduction of tax policy is very time shopping for the Hainan add a fire.
2010 年 9 1st, Customs will Parcel tax allowances from 500 yuan to 50 yuan, tightened overseas Shopping hole. “Go abroad just to buy what you can, to come in with the words, look at” checkpoints “success.” Hainan just divert a portion of foreign duty-free shopping spending power.
abroad, after all, as easy to Hainan, such as a weekend vacation, going abroad to take into account the passport, visa of the type of problems, choose to avoid a lot of domestic headaches. Coupled with an immediate tax stimulus, Hainan is still attractive.
“tax-free plus the equivalent of a policy of Hainan tourism itself has a very high base points of our tour in Hainan in the amount of consumption is still relatively low, shopping in the total consumption accounted for 20% of Hainan traffic so adults, consumption has much room for growth, many people anyway go to Hainan, would be less than buy now buy more. “
” tax policies to guide consumption structure changes, many people from outside to buy a house in Hainan, since he bought a house always fixed to a few times a year, which is a fixed source, with the tax stimulus, he bought what is certainly more than the original, that he was bought abroad, buy now in Hainan, resulting in a substitution. “
This is a free carnival, the most indifferent about the number of local people in Hainan, once a year tax-free shopping opportunities more symbolic than practical, And the premise is to get out of the island by plane. Of course, Hainan has been rising prices under pressure, may not leave much to the local consumer space
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