Sustainability of China’s Tax Revenue Growth: Experience and Prospect*

Wang Daoshu
Department of Revenue Planning and Accounting, State Administration of Taxation, Beijing, China

 
Abstract:

This paper summarizes the main characteristics of China’s tax revenue growth during the period of 1994-2010, and probes the causes behind the sustained and rapid growth of China’s taxation from its sources including the fiscal and taxation system, and tax collection mechanisms. Additionally, the author lists the major challenges confronting China’s sustainable tax growth during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period (2011-2015), for example, slowed growth in sources of taxation, a mismatched tax system, lagging reform in fiscal structure and the management system, and restrictions in tax collection and administration capacity. The author proposes the following suggestions: 1) a structural taxation reform should be carried out to promote sustainable economic growth and a change in development model, thereby consolidating the source base of taxation; 2) to consolidate the fiscal and taxation system through taxes and fees reform, standardizing the government budget, advancing reform in the tax-sharing system1, and optimizing fiscal expenditure; and 3) to strengthen tax collection mechanisms by promoting taxation by law, implementing comprehensive taxation administration in the government, and improving the tax collection capacity.
Key words: tax, sustainable growth, tax reform, fiscal system, tax collection and administration

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