The report describes how tax authorities deliver innovation-related tax benefits to companies. In the first half of 2026 such policies cut burdens by nearly two trillion yuan, and 2.744 million policy messages were pushed to taxpayers. To reach the right recipients, many local tax bureaus now profile companies with big data: Beijing's Shijingshan district used the electronic tax bureau to push benefits and risk alerts 52,290 times with accuracy above 99%, while Nanjing turned policies into short videos explaining common start-up pitfalls. The article also mentions that the China Ship Scientific Research Center in Wuxi claimed over 71 million yuan in R&D super-deductions and about 7.7 million yuan in income tax relief, and that tax staff in Suzhou and Luzhou helped companies with overseas qualification filings and repair of tax credit scores. For practical problems such as how to aggregate R&D spending and allocate personnel costs and equipment depreciation, local bureaus provided face-to-face guidance.
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Making tax incentives land in the pocket of innovation
A China Taxation Magazine report reviews how tax authorities deliver innovation-related tax incentives. In the first half of 2026, major policies supporting scientific and technological innovation saved taxpayers nearly two trillion yuan, and authorities pushed relevant policy messages 2.744 million times. Examples include the China Ship Scientific Research Center in Wuxi, which claimed more than 71 million yuan in R&D expense super-deductions and about 7.7 million yuan in corporate income tax relief; Beijing's Shijingshan district tax bureau used tax big data profiling to push benefits and risk alerts 52,290 times with accuracy above 99%; Nanjing produced short videos on common start-up pitfalls; and tax staff in Suzhou and Luzhou helped firms with cross-department qualification filings and tax credit repair.
2026-09-29