Sihai network: in the second half of this year, there will be many major events, including the cancellation of traffic 'roaming' fees, a discount of 6.5% on some high-speed rail fares, the full payment of pension adjustments, the adjustment of civil natural gas prices, a considerable reduction in automobile import tariffs, a large reduction in import tariffs on consumer goods, the suspension of patent registration fees and other charges & hellip; & hellip; These will more or less affect you and my money bag.
Cancel traffic 'roaming' fee from July
From July, traffic 'roaming' fees will become history.
At the executive meeting of the State Council held on April 4, it was emphasized that the traffic 'roaming' fee should be cancelled from July 1 to ensure that the traffic tariff will be reduced by more than 30% this year, and that the price of family broadband will be reduced by 30% and the price of small and medium-sized enterprise special line will be reduced by 10% - 15%, further reducing the roaming tariff of international, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.
These measures will benefit a large number of users and save a lot of 'real gold and silver'. According to the latest data from the Ministry of industry and information technology, by the end of April this year, there were 1.08 billion 4G users and 1.22 billion mobile Internet users in China. In April, the average mobile Internet access traffic per household reached 3.41gb, an increase of 154% year on year.
Discount of 6.5% for some high-speed trains
According to China Railway Corporation, from July 5 this year, the ticket price of high-speed EMUs with a speed of 200-250km per hour will be optimized and adjusted only for the early opened lines from Hefei to Wuhan, Wuhan to Yichang, Guiyang to Guangzhou, Liuzhou to Nanning, Shanghai to Nanjing and Nanjing to Hangzhou.
This time, the highest price limit is the published price. According to the passenger flow situation, the relevant railway enterprises can carry out price reduction within the price limit by season, time, seat and section, with a maximum discount of 6.5%. Compared with the current fare after adjustment, the overall price has increased or decreased.
The maximum discount is 6.5%, and the discount is not small. With the arrival of high-speed rail fares, passengers will save a lot of travel costs.
Pension adjustment will be fully paid in place
This year, the basic pension level of retirees in enterprises, government agencies and institutions has been raised by about 5% on the whole. According to the requirements of the Ministry of human resources and social security, all localities shall formulate specific implementation plans in combination with the actual situation of the region and submit them to the Ministry of human resources and social security and the Ministry of Finance for approval before May 31, 2018.
At present, Shanghai has announced the specific implementation plan of pension adjustment. The increased pension for enterprise retirees and urban and rural residents has been paid in place on May 18, and the increased pension for retirees of government institutions will be paid in place on June 20.
In the second half of the year, with the announcement and implementation of pension adjustment plans in other regions, all pension adjustments will be paid in place, and retirees will get more money, and it is expected that 114 million retirees will benefit.
Residential natural gas' wholesale price 'will be adjusted
The national development and Reform Commission decided to straighten out the price of civil valve stations and improve the price mechanism from June 10. Based on the benchmark gate price, the supplier and the demander can negotiate and determine the specific gate price within the range of 20% up and down floating, so as to realize the linkage with the non residential gas price mechanism.
According to the requirements, after the price of residential valve stations is straightened out, if the sales price needs to be adjusted in 2018, in principle, the adjustment should be completed before the end of August.
According to the national development and Reform Commission, the adjustment range of terminal sales prices varies from province to province due to different adjustment ranges of gate prices. For urban households, the basic living gas consumption of each household is about 20 cubic meters per month, which is calculated as 0.35 yuan per cubic meter according to the maximum price adjustment, with an increase of about 7 yuan per month. For urban low-income groups, the basic life will not be affected by the measures of providing subsidies and improving the minimum living security standard.
A considerable reduction in automobile import tariff
Starting from July, China will reduce the import tariff of automobiles considerably. Since July 1, 2018, the tax rate of 135 tax numbers with 25% of the total vehicle tax rate and 4 tax numbers with 20% of the tax rate has been reduced to 15%, with the tax reductions of 40% and 25% respectively.
Tax cuts can drive car prices down and give consumers more benefits. At present, many car companies have announced different degrees of price reduction of their products.
How much can you save? Take the imported car with a guiding price of about 900000 yuan in China's market as an example. The CIF price of the car is 240000 yuan. When the tariff rate is 25%, the tariff is 60000 yuan. The tariff accounts for 7% of the manufacturer's guiding price in China. After the tax reduction, the tariff rate will be reduced from 25% to 15%. This imported car will be charged with a tariff of 36000 yuan, a decrease of 24000 yuan compared with the tax reduction.
Reduce the import tariff of consumer goods in a large scale
From July 1, China will reduce the import tariff of consumer goods in a large range. Since July 1, 2018, the most favored nation tax rate of some consumer goods has been reduced, involving 1449 tax items. The average tax rate has been reduced from 15.7% to 6.9%, with an average decrease of 55.9%.
This tax reduction covers all kinds of consumer goods directly needed by people's daily life, including clothing, shoes and hats, household general merchandise, sporting goods, household appliances, food and beverage, daily chemical products and medical and health products, involving more than 70% of the purpose of daily consumer goods tax, and the general trade volume is about 38 billion US dollars.
The reduction of tariff reduces the cost of import to a certain extent, which in general helps to reduce the price in the domestic market. This also means that domestic consumers are expected to buy more high-quality and cheap imported consumer goods.
From August 1, the patent registration fee and other charges will be suspended
At the executive meeting of the State Council held on April 4, it was proposed to suspend the collection of patent registration fees and other fees from August 1, and extend the period of reducing the annual patent fees.
According to the notice issued by the Ministry of finance, from August 1, 2018, the patent registration fee, announcement and printing fee, description change fee (change of patent agency and agent's entrustment relationship) and transmission fee in PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) patent application fee (international stage part) in the patent fee (domestic part) will be suspended; for eligible applicants, the reduction period of annual patent fee will be The time limit shall be extended from 6 years to 10 years from the year in which the patent right is granted; for an application for a qualified invention patent, 50% of the examination fee for the substantive examination of the patent application is allowed to be refunded if the application is withdrawn voluntarily before the expiration of the reply time limit for the first notice of examination opinions (except for the submitted reply opinions).