颁布日期：19960705 　实施日期：19960705 　颁布单位：财政部、 国家税务总局

　　CaiShuiZi [1996] No.62

　　July 5， 1996

　　The financial departments （bureaus）， the state tax bureaus and the local tax bureaus in various provinces， autonomous¹ regions， municipalities directly under the Central Government and municipalities separately listed on the State plan：

　　In order to encourage the foreign enterprises and enterprises with foreign investment （hereinafter referred to as enterprises ） to exploit the overland coal gas level of our country， the taxation² policy should be clarified as following：

　　I. The tax of the business earnings³ and other income of enterprises that exploit the overland coal gas level in our country should be paid on basis of the Income Tax Law of the People's Republic of China on Enterprises with Foreign Investment and Foreign Enterprises and Rules for its implementation⁴.

　　II. The provisions on the enterprises with undertaking⁵ of the petroleum⁶ exploitation in Rules for the Implementation of the Income Tax Law of the People's Republic of China on Enterprises with Foreign Investment and Foreign Enterprises apply to the enterprises which exploit the overland coal gas level.

　　III. The provisions on the income tax of the enterprises that undertake the petroleum exploitation by collaboration⁷ stipulated⁸ by the Ministry⁹ of Finance， the State Administration of Taxation and Offshore¹⁰ Oil Tax Administration are all applied¹¹ to the enterprises which exploit the overland coal gas resource unless the additional prescriptions¹² serve.

　　IV. The enterprises with undertaking of exploiting the coal gas should pay the value-added tax and mine usage fee according to Circular of the State Administration of Taxation on the Payment of Value-added Tax on Chinese-foreign Cooperative Exploitation of Petroleum Resource （GuoShuiFa [1994] No.114） and Interim¹³ Provisions on the Payment of Mine Usage Fee for Chinese-foreign Cooperative Exploitation of Land Petroleum Resource （Decree [1990] No.3 of the Ministry of Finance）

　　V. The enterprises with the undertaking of exploiting coal gas should pay the tax of real estate， the tax of licences and the stamp tax on basis of the Interim Regulations on Tax of Urban Real Estate， the Interim Regulations on Tax of Licences for Vehicles and Vessels¹⁴ and the Interim Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Stamp Tax respectively.