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China’s fiscal revenue down 3.9 pct in 2020

Abstract : China's fiscal revenue decreased 3.9 percent year on year to around 18.29 trillion yuan (about 2.8 trillion U.S. dollars) in 2020, official data showed Thursday.

BEIJING, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) — China’s fiscal revenue decreased 3.9
percent year on year to around 18.29 trillion yuan (about 2.8 trillion
U.S. dollars) in 2020, official data showed Thursday.

The central government collected about 8.28 trillion yuan in revenue,
down 7.3 percent year on year, while local governments saw revenue down
0.9 percent to about 10 trillion yuan, according to data from the
Ministry of Finance.

Tax revenue totaled 15.43 trillion yuan, down 2.3 percent year on year.

Specifically, revenue from domestic value-added tax last year went
down 8.9 percent from one year earlier to about 5.68 trillion yuan,
while that from domestic consumption tax dropped 4.3 percent to 1.2
trillion yuan.

Revenue from individual income tax rose 11.4 percent year on year to 1.16 trillion yuan in the period, the data showed.

Meanwhile, revenue from value-added tax and consumption tax on
imported goods stood at 1.45 trillion yuan, down 8.1 percent from one
year earlier, while that from tariffs declined 11.2 percent to 256.4
billion yuan.

The data also showed that the country’s fiscal spending expanded 2.8
percent year on year to around 24.56 trillion yuan in 2020. Enditem

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