Why is the income gap between Jiangsu farmers and Zhejiang farmers getting bigger and bigger?

The formation and expansion of the income gap between Jiangsu and Zhejiang farmers is not only related to the differences in traditional behaviors of farmers in the two provinces, but also related to the fact that the development environment of individual and private enterprises is not as relaxed as that in Zhejiang.

(A) Jiangsu rural individual economy is weaker than Zhejiang. In 2007, the proportion of household business income in Zhejiang was greater than that in Jiangsu, indicating that Zhejiang farmers are better at individual business, and the development environment of individual business in Zhejiang is more relaxed, which is also confirmed by the development status of rural individual industrial and commercial households in the two provinces.

1, the proportion of self-employed is lower than that of Zhejiang. Sampling survey data show that in 2007, the proportion of rural individual industrial and commercial households in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was 9.3% and 13.4% respectively, and Jiangsu was 4. 1 percentage point lower than Zhejiang.

2. The income of self-employed households is lower than that of Zhejiang. In 2007, the average income of rural individual industrial and commercial households in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was 3 1.04 1 yuan and 38 1.76 yuan respectively. Jiangsu is 7 1.35 yuan less than Zhejiang, and Jiangsu is 8 1.3% of Zhejiang.

3. The investment of self-employed individuals is less than that of Zhejiang. In 2007, rural individual industrial and commercial households that invested more than 5,000 yuan in the secondary and tertiary industries invested 20,553 yuan and 356 10 yuan respectively, and Zhejiang was 1.7 times that of Jiangsu. The original value of productive fixed assets per household is 4 1.424 yuan and 64,220 yuan respectively, and Zhejiang is 1.6 times that of Jiangsu. This shows that rural self-employed households in Jiangsu have difficulty in financing and weak competitiveness.

The tax burden of self-employed individuals is much heavier than that of Zhejiang. The income level of rural individual industrial and commercial households in Jiangsu is lower than that in Zhejiang, but the taxes and fees they bear are much higher than that in Zhejiang. In 2007, rural self-employed individuals who invested more than 5,000 yuan in production and operation in Jiangsu paid taxes 1438 yuan, while Zhejiang only paid 650 yuan.

5. The credit of self-employed households is far less than that of Zhejiang. In 2007, only 69 yuan got loans from banks and credit cooperatives, accounting for 5% of the funds raised. The average household in Zhejiang is 552 yuan, accounting for 2 1.7% of its external funds. The scale and proportion of loans obtained by Jiangsu are much lower than that of Zhejiang.

(2) The tax incentives for individual and private enterprises are not as good as those in Zhejiang. 65438-0997 The Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government stipulated in detail the conditions for income tax relief for non-public enterprises in the Notice on Vigorously Developing Non-public Economy such as Individual and Private Enterprises. For example, newly established non-public enterprises engaged in consulting, information and technical services may be exempted from enterprise income tax for two years from the date of opening with the approval of the competent tax authorities; Newly established non-public enterprises engaged in transportation shall be exempted from enterprise income tax in the first year and levied enterprise income tax by half in the second year with the approval of the competent tax authorities; Newly established non-public enterprises engaged in tertiary industries other than the above may, with the approval of the competent tax authorities at or above the county level, reduce or exempt enterprise income tax for one year from the date of opening. In 2000, the Opinions on Accelerating the Development of Private Individual Economy issued by jiangsu provincial party committee and the provincial government stipulated that newly established private limited liability companies engaged in independent accounting consulting, information and technical services, with the approval of the competent tax authorities, can be exempted from enterprise income tax for two years from the date of opening. The reduction and exemption policies for newly established transportation and non-public enterprises in the tertiary industry stipulated by Zhejiang have not been touched, which has led to the fact that the burden of private economy in Jiangsu is obviously heavier than that in Zhejiang. According to the information provided by the Provincial Bureau of Township Enterprises, in 2006, the average household tax paid by rural private enterprises in Jiangsu was 210.3 million yuan, which was more than that in Zhejiang.

(C) Jiangsu fresh agricultural products transport "green channel" less than Zhejiang. As early as 2005, Zhejiang Province stipulated: "Freight vehicles loaded with fresh agricultural products (including cold chains and hidden vehicles) can pass through toll roads (including bridges and tunnels) including expressways in this province free of charge with animal and plant quarantine certificates issued by the administrative departments of agriculture, forestry and fisheries or certificates of origin of fresh agricultural products (referring to fresh eggs and milk, fresh aquatic products, fresh bamboo shoots and fresh chestnuts). ). "(Article 3 of the Interim Measures for the Management of" Green Passage "of Fresh Agricultural Products Transportation in Zhejiang Province) There is no need for the so-called" green pass "at all. However, the green channel policy of agricultural products transportation implemented in Jiangsu has only issued about 2,000 green channel passes so far, and the expressways are not free (only after March 2008 did the "one vertical and two horizontal" expressways (Xuzhou East Ring Section of Beijing-Fuzhou Expressway, Xu Lian Expressway and Jiangsu Section of Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway) open green channels for agricultural products transportation, and other expressways still charge fees, which led to an increase in the circulation cost of agricultural products and affected the healthy and rapid development of agricultural products transportation).

(D) Jiangsu attaches less importance to the development of "farmhouse music" than Zhejiang. In recent years, Zhejiang regards the development of farmhouse music as a new point of increasing farmers' income. The provincial government not only arranges financial funds of 1.5-0.2 million yuan every year to support the development of farmhouse music, but also introduces preferential tax policies. In the initial stage of farmhouse music, business tax and income tax will be reduced or exempted for the first three years. After the preferential period, the business tax threshold for business households who pay taxes on time will be raised to 5000 yuan. The government and the media also frequently make moves to promote the healthy and rapid development of farmhouse music. In recent years, the Zhejiang Provincial Government has organized an experience exchange meeting on farmhouse leisure tourism, regularly published the province-wide information on farmhouse leisure tourism on the "Zhejiang Farmers' Mailbox", and held an exhibition and promotion meeting on Zhejiang (Shanghai) famous and excellent new agricultural products and leisure sightseeing agriculture (farmhouse) (up to 2007, it has been held for 4 times); In 2007, the Zhejiang provincial government also issued the document 1 "Opinions on Accelerating the Development of Leisure Tourism in Farmhouses". Zhejiang Daily also held the "Jiangnan Fishing Village Cup" farm food contest, attended by the deputy secretary of the provincial party committee, deputy governor and other leaders, which earned enough attention. The Zhejiang provincial government has also carried out the environmental improvement project of farmhouse tourist attractions. According to reports, the transformation of the "Thousand Villages Demonstration and Ten Thousand Villages Renovation" project has a very obvious driving effect on farmhouse tourism. After the transformation, the farmhouse tourist spots not only have good air and good environmental sanitation, but also have a significant increase in the number of tourists. However, at the end of 2006, Jiangsu only arranged a special support of 5 million yuan from the provincial government, and there was no other financial support.

(e) Jiangsu's entrepreneurial support for small and medium-sized enterprises is not as strong as that of Zhejiang. The Regulations of Zhejiang Province on Promoting the Development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises stipulates that "the relevant departments of the people's governments at or above the county level shall provide policy advice and convenient measures for entrepreneurs of small and medium-sized enterprises in industry and commerce, taxation, financing, personnel files, household registration management, schooling for their children, housing and social security, etc., so as to improve the quality of service". Comparatively speaking, the Regulations on the Promotion of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Jiangsu Province only requires that "relevant departments should provide policy advice and related services for small and medium-sized enterprises in terms of employee household registration, file management, social insurance, etc." Some of these suggestions and services are still charged. It can be seen that the scope and intensity of Jiangsu's support are not as good as those of Zhejiang.

(6) The financing channels of private enterprises in Jiangsu are less than those in Zhejiang. In order to dispel the concerns of commercial banks about small business loans, Zhejiang set up a small business loan risk compensation fund in 2005. In that year, the provincial finance allocated 25 million yuan for small business loan risk compensation, which increased to 45 million yuan in 2006. In 2006, more than 70,000 small businesses in Zhejiang received loan support, and 262 financial branches included in the risk compensation scope issued 24.475 billion yuan of small business loans every month, an increase of 65.438+0.0423 billion yuan over the beginning of the year. These small enterprises increased sales by more than 50 billion yuan, increased profits and taxes by more than 4 billion yuan, and created nearly 300,000 jobs. Although the measures for the management of risk compensation funds for small business loans in Jiangsu Province have been formulated and were originally scheduled to be implemented on June 5438+ 10/day, 2007, the real small business loans will be delayed until 2008.