The cumbersome process of issuing invoices to farmers for sunflower seed purchases, once a major headache involving tedious information verification and high error risks, has been transformed. "Now, weighing, payment, and invoicing are completed in one seamless step," remarked Wang Ming, the person in charge of Wuyuan County Mintai Agricultural Trade Co., Ltd. in Bayannur, Inner Mongolia, after experiencing the new system.
This significant change is the result of the comprehensive rollout of the "payment triggers invoice" service for agricultural product procurement by the Bayannur Municipal Taxation Bureau of the State Taxation Administration. The slow invoicing, difficult information verification, and high risks in the agricultural purchase sector had long been a shared concern for both tax authorities and businesses.
To tackle this issue, the Bayannur tax authority has deeply implemented an invoicing mechanism that ensures the "integration of three flows"—where the flow of goods, funds, and invoices are matched and consistent. This approach allows data to "do the running around," significantly reducing hassle for farmers and enterprises.
To ensure the swift and effective implementation of this beneficial policy, the Bayannur tax system established dedicated task forces. They created ledgers for 1,815 agricultural product purchasing enterprises within their jurisdiction and executed a mapped-out strategy. For some small and micro-enterprises and cooperatives, special guidance counters were set up in tax service halls across the city, providing full-process, accompanied guidance by dedicated staff. Additionally, door-to-door services were offered to 153 key enterprises to ensure taxpayers could operate the system proficiently.
"We are committed to promoting the system for one business, standardizing its use for that business, and thereby influencing a wider group," stated Xu Xiangyong, a member of the Party Committee and Chief Economist of the Bayannur Municipal Taxation Bureau. The tax department simultaneously established a strict dynamic management mechanism, conducting daily scheduling and weekly briefings. Enterprises that do not issue invoices for extended periods or lack reasonable justification for not using the new "payment triggers invoice" model are managed in accordance with regulations to ensure the reform maintains its integrity and risks do not resurface.
The transition from requiring "multiple trips" to simply "scanning a code," and from "post-event checks" to "in-process control," is now a reality. Currently, over a thousand agricultural product purchasing enterprises in Bayannur have successfully implemented the "payment triggers invoice" system. This new model, beneficial to both businesses and the public, is quietly reshaping the agricultural product transaction ecosystem in the Hetao Plain of Inner Mongolia.
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