State Council Outlines Implementation of Environmental Protection Tax Law

The implementation of the Law of Environmental Protection Tax is one of the most important policy changes in China to occur within the last several years and certainly a legislative highlight at the beginning of 2018. The preparation for implementation has been underway for over a year and a lot of local governments have already carried out their own tax levels. Along with the Law, the implementation rules of the Law which were published in late 2017 took effect on the same day and specified some definitions and requirements that were raised by the Law. ChemLinked summarized some key questions that the implementation rules tried to answer as follows.