PART A1 - Taxes will be raised on big cars and reduced on smaller ones from Sept 1 to save energy and reduce pollution.
2 - Owners of cars with engines above 4-liter capacity will have to pay 40 percent tax, double the existing rate, the Ministry of Finance said yesterday. The tax for vehicles with engines between 3 and 4 liters will be up from 15 to 25 percent.
3 - And the tax on cars with engines below 1-liter capacity will be reduced from 3 to 1 percent.
4 - China is one of the biggest and fastest growing auto markets, with vehicles accounting for the lion's share of its gasoline.
5 - The proportion of imported oil to total consumption in the country has risen to about 50 percent, prompting it to adopt policies to improve energy efficiency, analysts said.
6 - The country has pledged to lower energy consumption per unit of GDP by 20 percent and cut emission of major pollutants by 10 percent during the 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-10).
7 - Last year, however, it could not meet its annual target of 4 percent reduction, falling short by 0.34 percentage points.
PART B8 - Cars with engines between 3 and 4 liters sold the most last year. The increase in their sales was phenomenal: six-fold to 12,100 units, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers has said.
9 - In contrast, the sale of cars with engines below 1 liter fell 31 percent to 251,700 units.
10 - In another vital step to reduce the use of energy, the government increased gasoline and diesel prices in late June.
11 - The move was aimed at preventing the country's oil producers and refiners from suffering huge losses, too, because of rising global prices.
12 - The tax move is a good first step for the country toward an energy efficient and environmentally friendly economy, Zhong Shi, a Beijing-based industrial analyst, said.
13 - "It's good to see that the government has started using taxation policies as a tool to achieve its energy efficiency goals."
14 - The tax increase, however, is not likely to stop the rich from buying big cars because such people are not very sensitive to price changes, he said.
Source:
Chinadaily
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