On March 29, the General Office of the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government issued the “Several Policies and Measures for Shanghai to Fully Fight the Epidemic to Help Enterprises Promote Development” (hereinafter referred to as the “Measures”). These include implementing large-scale value-added tax credits and refunds for enterprises, intensifying tax and fee reduction policies, and reducing or exempting small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial household rents and other measures to reduce the burden on various enterprises.
In the rescue and support measures for the tourism industry, the “Measures” clarified that for eligible travel agencies, the temporary refund ratio of the tourism service quality deposit has been increased from 80% to 90% %, and carry out the pilot program of insurance instead of security deposit in the whole city. Encourage government financing guarantee institutions to provide financing and credit enhancement support for eligible tourism business entities, and help enterprises affected by the epidemic to renew their policies and loans. Increase the support of special funds for tourism, and provide loan discount support to qualified travel agencies, A-level tourist attractions and other tourism enterprises.
Chunqiu Tourism Deputy General Manager Zhou Weihong told the news (www.thepaper.cn) that it is well known that the tourism industry has been hit hard and long by the epidemic. Since March this year, inter-provincial travel in Shanghai has been suspended first, and then intra-city travel has also been suspended. Tourism enterprises and practitioners have faced unprecedented difficulties.
Zhou Weihong pointed out that the anti-epidemic assistance policy launched by Shanghai this time should be said to be “very accurate and very timely”.
“From the aspects of human resources, financial support, tax incentives, etc., multiple methods and types are superimposed. When implementing national policies, top-level configuration is carried out, so that Shanghai’s Enterprises feel the warmth of our city. For example, providing travel agencies with a 10% temporary refund of the quality deposit will undoubtedly supplement part of the liquidity gap for large-scale travel agencies; policies such as social security discounts and job stabilization training subsidies will not Encourage enterprises to continue to assume social responsibilities, try their best to keep employees’ jobs, and lay the foundation for the normal restart and recovery of the tourism industry.” Zhou Weihong said, “The business of large-scale tourism enterprises is relatively rich and comprehensive, and this launch involves exhibitions, transportation and other aspects. Tax concessions will also ease the difficulties of many subsidiaries of Chunqiu Group.”
and the head of the Shanghai branch of the Beijing-based travel agency told the news that their company As far as the 10% increase in the security deposit amount is concerned, the temporary refund amount is mainly beneficial to the Beijing head office, and the most effective measure for the branch office is the reduction or exemption of rent: “In this way, we don’t have to consider rent cancellation for the time being, and strive to end the epidemic as soon as possible, we still have a The place can work.”
According to the “Measures”, renting state-owned houses to engage in production and business activitiesSmall and micro enterprises and self-employed industrial and commercial households will be exempted from rent for 3 months in 2022. In 2022, the administrative areas of streets and towns that are listed as high-risk areas of the epidemic or their business activities are seriously affected by the implementation of epidemic prevention requirements will be exempted from rent for another 3 months. A total of 6 months rent waiver per year. If there is an indirect lease, the sublessee does not enjoy this reduction or exemption policy, and the relevant state-owned enterprises and institutions must ensure that the rent-free measures benefit the ultimate lessee.