Vital Center / Reported by Zhang Jianing
Due to the improvement of the overall national economy, the government’s tax surplus has reached 450 billion this year, so some legislators have called on the central government to “repay taxes to the people”, and the topic has aroused many discussions. Compared to the triple and quintupled coupons that the government has introduced in the past, the economic costs and benefits are different. Therefore, some officials admitted that the distribution of cash may not help the domestic economy much. The reason is all related to the habits of the Chinese. .
▲ The feasibility of “tax refund to the people” has attracted the attention of the Chinese.
In 2009, due to the impact of the financial tsunami, Ma Ying-jeou’s government issued 3,600 yuan per person of “Economic Stimulation Consumption Coupons”, which included 6 coupons of 500 yuan and 3 coupons of 200 yuan; in 2020, the three coupons will issue 4 coupons of 500 yuan and 5 coupons.200 yuan per ticket, a total of 3,000 yuan; last year, five coupons of 5,000 yuan per person were issued, including 3 coupons of 1,000 yuan, 2 coupons of 500 yuan and 5 coupons of 200 yuan.
The three types of coupons mentioned above cost 85.653 billion, 51.051 billion and 110 billion respectively, but they all have some advantages in stimulating domestic demand and boosting economic growth, including consumer coupons which increased GDP to 0.43 percentage points at that time, and triple coupons. Furthermore, scholars estimate that the issuance of quintuple coupons will increase GDP by 0.6 to 0.9 percentage points. Therefore, even if the “repaying money to the people” method is adopted in the future, it is also attracting attention from the outside world.
According to the “ETtoday News Cloud” report, some ministry officials pointed out that because Taiwanese people have a concept of savings, if the money is distributed, it may be saved, but it will not stimulate consumption, and frankly, “it may not be of much help to the ‘household economics.’ In addition, an anonymous official said that since the distribution of money involves the allocation of resources, whether to adopt the weakest and get more, increase wealth exclusions, etc. need to be discussed in detail .
It is worth noting that Ruan Qinghua, acting minister of the Ministry of Finance, yesterday went to the Legislative Yuan for investigation (26) and stressed that if it is simply cash, it is better to use the previous triple and five-fold coupons coupons. Only in this way can it be related to the economic recovery.” At the same time, he also said that he is still in the inter-ministerial decision-making stage.
