Recently, the environmental protection tax law, which has attracted much attention, is the most important concern.

"The full text of the release, openly soliciting opinions from all sectors of the community.

The draft stipulates that in the field of People's Republic of China and other sea areas under the jurisdiction, enterprises and institutions and other producers and businessmen who directly discharge pollutants into the environment shall be paid tax on environmental protection.

Taxable pollutants refer to air pollutants, water pollutants, solid wastes, construction noise and industrial noise and other pollutants.

The draft proposed that the environmental protection tax should be classified according to key monitoring (sewage) taxpayers and non key monitoring (sewage) taxpayers.

The so-called key monitoring (sewage) taxpayers refer to thermal power, steel, cement, electrolytic aluminum, coal, metallurgy, building materials, mining, chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, light industry (brewing, paper making, fermentation, sugar making, vegetable oil processing).

Taxpayers in key polluting industries and key monitoring enterprises in other polluting industries.

At the same time, the State Council and the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government may increase (adjust) the key points according to the needs of environmental protection.

Industry categories.