Article: China Reports Robust Tax Revenue Growth

China has witnessed a robust growth in tax revenue in the ninth five-year-plan period ( 1996- 2000), a top taxation official said today.

"The ninth-five-year-plan has been a period characterized by the strongest tax revenue growth for China," head of the State Administration of Taxation, Jin Renqing said in an exclusive interview with Xinhua.

He estimated that China's tax revenue during the period might hit 4.67 trillion yuan, which is almost 220 percent over that of the eighth five-year-plan period(1991-1995), representing an annual growth rate of 15 percent.

According to Jin, the government's tax revenue has been increasing at 100 billion yuan per year since 1996.

In 1999, the tax revenue ...

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