Lianyungang: Smart Sentinel Platform Tightens Farmland Occupation Tax Enforcement

Farmland occupation tax has long suffered from a familiar problem: land gets used while declarations lag, and disconnected departmental data makes grassroots verification laborious. Lianyungang's tax bureau tackled this with an information platform called Tax-at-a-Glance. It merges land-approval red-line maps from the natural resources department and permanent basic farmland data from the agriculture department with the tax bureau's own geographic information system to draw a city-wide electronic map showing where farmland is, what has been approved and what is actually occupied. The system also integrates approval data, farmland distribution, filings and rate standards, automatically matches the applicable rate, calculates the tax due and generates a statement for taxpayers to check, while cross-checking declared area and amounts against approval and field-verification data to flag mismatches or wrong rates immediately. Officials no longer wait passively: they pinpoint suspect plots on the map first, then navigate to the site for evidence. Data flows into the system as soon as a land approval is issued, sharply reducing missed or unmanaged cases.