As an important starting point for stabilizing foreign trade, the export tax refund (exemption) policy provides reliable support for foreign trade companies to go overseas and brave the waves.
According to statistics, in 2025, Zigong Taxation will process a total of 225.095 million yuan in tax refunds (a year-on-year increase of 12%), and there will be 1 new departure tax refund store, bringing the total to 3.
Behind the data are the optimization of policy services, the “speeding up” of the tax refund process and the solid foundation for development.
In recent years, under the guidance of the “Shilutong” service brand, the Zigong City Taxation Department has given full play to its taxation functions, focusing on the development needs of export enterprises, and has continued to make efforts in precise policy drip irrigation, optimizing tax processing procedures, and pocketing tax refund dividends. It has continuously enriched the connotation of the “Shilutong” service brand and created a three-in-one service system of “fast, excellent, and stable” to escort export enterprises to sail and break the waves.
So, how does the tax department use export tax rebates to help foreign trade companies “go smoothly, run fast, and stand firm”?
“Going smoothly”, proactive service escorts the entire development cycle.
As the first Sino-Japanese joint venture introduced in Rong County, Sichuan Start Leather Products Co., Ltd. has grown into an industrial enterprise above the county scale by optimizing the production process and expanding overseas customers.
In 2024, the output value will be more than 23 million yuan, and in 2025, the output value will exceed 30 million yuan, which is an important driving force for the high-quality development of the regional economy.
The growth and development of enterprises not only benefit from the precise drip irrigation of enterprise-friendly policies, but also cannot be separated from the powerful escort of “policy implementation and compliance guidance” from the tax department.
The Rong County Taxation Bureau has established a normal communication mechanism with it, pays close attention to its business dynamics and tax-related demands, continues to carry out policy publicity and guidance, optimizes export tax refund services, and organically integrates tax compliance concepts into the entire service process to effectively enhance, enhance credit and protect the development of enterprises.
“As soon as the company settled in Rong County, the tax department took the initiative to come to our door. They not only pushed the latest policies, but also continued to track and coach us on how to enjoy the benefits.” Yang Hongbo, the person in charge of the company, said, “What makes us more reassured is that the tax staff not only explained ‘what can be enjoyed’, but also provided detailed guidance on ‘how to enjoy it in compliance with regulations’, helping us prevent and control potential risks in advance.”
In Yantan District, the park’s tax service team composed of business backbones also accompanied Zigong Dayang Art Co., Ltd.’s voyage and expansion.
The company’s products are sold all over the world, and it will be selected as a key national cultural export enterprise in 2025.
“We not only need to ensure that the policy is ‘delivered’, but also that enterprises can ‘accept it, use it correctly and move forward steadily’.” Liu Li, head of the tax service group of the park, said.
In recent years, the Park Tax Service Team of the Yantan District Taxation Bureau has insisted on regular visits and pre-emptive services, combined with the production and operation characteristics of the industry, established a dynamic ledger for export enterprises, provided full-process services from filing, declaration to tax refund, and regularly carried out risk warnings and compliance guidance to help enterprises build a solid foundation for tax compliance through “one-on-one” explanations.
“Now the tax department guides us to standardize operations and prevent and control risks, which truly makes our ‘going global’ pace more stable and more confident.” Wu Xiuxi, the company’s financial director, is deeply touched.
“Run fast”, smart services run out of tax rebate “acceleration”.
For export companies, capital turnover efficiency is the lifeline.
The taxation department of Zigong City closely follows the demands of enterprises, takes the word “fast” as the focus of optimizing services, and continues to improve the speed of export tax refund processing.
In the production workshop of Sichuan Saier Valve Manufacturing Co., Ltd., a batch of floating ball valves that will be sent to Russia are completing final testing.
As an industrial valve manufacturing enterprise, Saier Valve’s products are not only stably supplied to large domestic enterprises such as PetroChina and Sinopec, but about 60% of its orders are sold to the Russian market.
“Now the period from submission to tax entry when applying for export tax rebates is greatly shortened, and it only takes one working day at the fastest.” said Liu Ying of Saier Valve.
The Gongjing District Taxation Bureau has established a direct “application-review-withdrawal” channel for export companies such as Saier Valve.
The efficient tax refund process directly speeds up the return of funds. In 2025, the company processed a total of more than 1 million yuan in export tax refunds, effectively ensuring the procurement of raw materials and production arrangements for overseas orders.
In recent years, the Zigong City Taxation Department has further polished the cross-border service tax sub-brand of “Tax Road Connected to All Rivers”, focusing on speeding up and increasing efficiency, and launched a “quick review, quick approval, quick refund” service combination to promote the “acceleration” of the export tax rebate business.
Starting from 2025, the average processing time for export tax refund business will be compressed to within 2 working days, realizing the policy dividend of “refunding all the refunds that should be made, and refunding them quickly and early”.
“With the tax refund coming soon and funds being available, we will naturally have more confidence in expanding overseas markets.” Yang Hongbo, the head of Star Leather Products Co., Ltd., also said with emotion.
In 2025, nearly 2 million yuan in tax refunds will arrive quickly, effectively alleviating the financial pressure on the company’s technology upgrades and employee training. It will also increase the company’s production efficiency by 15% and reduce the defective product rate to less than 0.5%.
“Stand firm”, precise services empower transformation and upgrading.
While tax rebates have been accelerated and services have been improved, batches of export companies have accelerated their transformation and upgrading by relying on “tax power”, showing a strong upgrading and development trend in the international market.
Enter Zigong Xinya Lantern Cultural Industry Co., Ltd., the “Light City of the South”. The lantern products, which use iron wire as the bones and plain silk as the clothes, carry the millennium intangible cultural heritage, will soon cross the ocean and convey China’s excellent traditional culture and cultural confidence to the world stage.
Capital and innovation are the two wings of cultural inheritance.
Through the “bank-tax interaction”, the company obtained a credit loan of 10 million yuan with good tax credit, which relieved the pressure of stocking funds in a timely manner.
In 2024, under the guidance of tax officials, enterprises will collect research and development expenses in a standardized manner and enjoy a super deduction of more than 3 million yuan. These funds will be used for the research and development of new technologies such as AI interaction and 3D projection, allowing traditional intangible cultural heritage to take on new life in modern technology.
In the production park of Sichuan Huvis Chemical Fiber Co., Ltd., the intelligent production line is operating at full speed.
As a key foreign-invested enterprise in Zigong and one of the top 30 foreign-invested enterprises in Sichuan Province, it is now the enterprise with the largest hollow fiber production capacity in a single factory in China, with an annual output of 220,000 tons of polyester staple fiber and an annual output value of more than 1 billion yuan.
In 2025, a total of more than 14 million yuan in export tax rebates will be obtained.
Huvis Chemical Fiber Co., Ltd. has focused its tax rebate funds on green process research and development and high-end production capacity.
“At present, our overseas orders continue to grow. This is inseparable from the efficient and professional services provided by the tax department. It not only helps us mobilize funds, but also gives us the confidence to expand the market and engage in research and development of high-end materials.” Song Yanli, the company’s tax handler, said.
The company has added 2,528.76 tons of new production capacity, and its equipment is operating at full capacity throughout the year. Order volume has increased by more than 18% year-on-year, and its import and export volume in 2025 has increased by 17.5% year-on-year.
The relevant person in charge of the Zigong Municipal Taxation Bureau said that in the next step, the taxation department will continue to anchor the construction of the “Tax Road Connected to All Rivers” service brand, continue to deepen tax collection and management reform with the service concept of “fast, accurate and stable”, implement various tax preferential policies, help enterprises improve their international competitiveness with higher standards and better services, and contribute more tax power to export enterprises to bravely enter the international market and serve local development.
