Smart Verification Program Eases Collection of State Land Transfer Revenue

To manage state land transfer revenue properly, the underlying fee-source data has to be verified first. The Tongling Tax Bureau in Anhui wrote its own program, Shui Zhi Di Kong, to check whether land transfer revenue records are compliant. Officers used to pull data from the provincial smart non-tax interconnection platform and compare it line by line with the Ministry of Natural Resources website and the China Land Market portal, a slow manual job that was easy to get wrong. Now data from several sources is loaded together and sorted into 11 categories by bidder name and electronic supervision number; the program cleans, validates and standardises it automatically and produces a one-click consistency report. Plot location, parcel number and land area are gathered in the same place and tied to map imagery and boundary coordinates, so staff can make an initial judgement on screen instead of travelling to every site. Since the start of the year Tongling has compiled information on 82 plots, processed more than 500 verification records and found and resolved four risk points, cutting on-site inspections by over 90%.