Shanghai issued 21 policies to reduce the burden on enterprises, involving the social security subsidies for maternity leave and maternity leave for female employees. On February 21, the reporter learned from the Shanghai Development and Reform Commission that in order to effectively respond to the demands of enterprises, boost the confidence of business entities, and promote the recovery and improvement of the economy, Shanghai issued a total of 21 measures in five aspects: reducing tax and fee costs, reducing labor costs, energy consumption costs, and financing costs.

In terms of reducing tax and fee costs
Continue to implement the national structural tax and fee reduction policies, continue to implement the VAT credit refund, the additional deduction of value-added tax in advanced manufacturing enterprises, the additional deduction of R&D expenses of integrated circuits and industrial master machines enterprises, and the additional deduction of value-added tax, and the increase of the proportion of enterprise R&D expenses before tax.
Continue to reduce the "six taxes and two fees" to levy. Continue to levy "six taxes and two fees" for small-scale value-added taxpayers, small and micro-profit enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households with half the cost of resource tax, urban maintenance and construction tax, real estate tax, urban land use tax, stamp tax (excluding securities transaction stamp tax), cultivated land occupation tax and education surcharge, and local education surcharge. A policy of reducing property tax difficulties will be implemented for enterprises that meet the direction of industrial development in our city.
Continue to phase-down lower the registration fee standards for domestic drugs and the registration fee standards for domestic second-class medical device products by 50% and 65%.
Improve the policy of reducing and exempting urban land use tax difficulties. We will continue to pilot the implementation of preferential policies for offshore trade stamp duty.
In terms of reducing labor costs
From March, we will continue to phase down the employee medical insurance unit payment rate by 1 percentage point. Continue to phased reduction of the unemployment insurance unit fee rate by 0.5 percentage points. Combined and implemented one-time employment subsidy policies and one-time job expansion subsidy policies.

