Announcement on Consumption-Tax Exemption for Insulating Oil Products

[2010-09-28 14:33:56]


The State Administration of Taxation of P. R. China issued an Announcement on consumption-tax exemption for insulating oil products.

Matters concerning the collection scope of consumption tax are hereby announced as follows:

Insulating oil products, such as transformer oils and heat conducting oils, do not belong to "lubricating oils" which are subject to the consumption tax as stipulated in the Notice of the Ministry of Finance of P. R. China and the State Administration of Taxation of P. R. China on Raising Consumption-Tax Rates on Product Oils (CAISHUI [2008] No. 167), and shall be exempt from any consumption tax.

The Announcement shall take effect as of October 1, 2010 and the Reply of the State Administration of Taxation of P. R. China on Matters Concerning the Imposition of Consumption Tax on Insulating Oil Products (GUOSHUIHAN [2010] No. 76) shall be repealed simultaneously. There shall be no supplement of consumption tax for previous non-collection thereof, and the paid-in tax amount may offset consumption taxes payable for other goods in future taxation period.

The State Administration of Taxation of P. R. China
August 30, 2010
 
Source: ETCN