Can overseas students enjoy the tax-free car purchase policy if they have not gone abroad due to the epidemic and have online classes throughout the course? On the 7th, the General Administration of Customs replied to this question on the message board of the leaders of the people's network On the leaders' message board, there was a message "about the problem of tax-free car purchase by overseas students affected by the epidemic", which was left on December 16, 2021.
The netizen said that he was a British student enrolled in october2020 and graduated in early 2022. However, in the second half of 2020, "the epidemic situation in the UK is extremely severe. There are no direct flights in the mainland, and the school told us that even if we fly there, we can only conduct online courses in isolated dormitories. Therefore, it is willing to approve our 2020 students to choose the whole online course." "After careful consideration, many students have accepted the option of full online courses. In addition, according to the information available on the social platform, a large number of international students have chosen the full online course."
The above netizens said, "now a large number of our students are in an embarrassing situation where they can't buy duty-free cars. The existing policy for overseas students to buy duty-free cars makes no mention of us students.".
Source: message board of leaders of people's network
In response, the General Administration of Customs replied on June 7 that around the 1990s, in order to encourage overseas students to return to work, the state successively issued relevant policy documents, including: Several Interim Provisions on the work of overseas students, Interim Measures on the work arrangement of returned overseas students, notice of the General Office of the State Council on issues related to overseas students, etc. It is also one of the policies to provide duty-free treatment for returning students to buy domestic cars, which is implemented by the General Administration of customs and other departments in cooperation with the State Education Commission. To this end, the General Administration of customs and other seven departments jointly formulated the notice on issues related to the purchase of domestic cars for personal use by overseas students who return to China for service with cash exchange (sj2 [1992] No. 1600), which made it clear that overseas students can apply to the customs, National taxation and automobile manufacturers for car purchase procedures with the certificate of overseas students issued by our embassies and consulates abroad. In August, 1993, the former International Student Department of the State Education Commission printed and distributed the notice on the use of the certificate of returned overseas students, which officially used the certificate of returned overseas students as a necessary certificate for returned overseas students to purchase domestic cars. In 2004, the Department of international cooperation and exchange of the Ministry of education further specified that the time required for overseas students to study and study abroad should be no less than 9 months. Since then, with the changes in the national economic and social development, the General Administration of Customs has continued to optimize the management requirements for the purchase of vehicles by returned overseas students within the statutory duties of the customs, including the cancellation of the limited requirements for agency enterprises and the Limited vehicle types. At the same time, the General Administration of Customs cooperated with the education department to expand the scope of application of the policy from the initial overseas students to those who went to Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan for further study.
According to the General Administration of customs, in the early stage of the epidemic, taking into account the actual situation of the people affected by the epidemic, the special affairs office of the customs and the competent department of business education allowed the returned students to the United States to provide the electronic version of the certificate of returned students to go through the car purchase procedures. For returned students who have studied in other countries and regions, if there is a delay in receiving the certificate of returned overseas students due to the impact of the epidemic, it is allowed to extend the processing, that is, relevant personnel are allowed to apply to the Customs for retaining their qualifications within the time limit, and continue to process after obtaining the relevant certificates. In 2020, the Ministry of Education announced that the certificate for returned overseas students would be cancelled from November 2020, proposing that relevant departments and units, according to actual needs, can identify the identity and experience of overseas students through the certification materials provided by overseas students or the certificate of overseas academic degree issued by the overseas service center of the Ministry of education, and can determine the duration of overseas study of overseas students through passports, visas and relevant bills. Since then, when handling the car purchase procedures for overseas students, local customs have accepted them in accordance with the spirit of the announcement and the requirements of previous documents.
The General Administration of Customs stressed that on March 19, 2021, the study abroad service center of the Ministry of Education published on its official website the supplementary instructions on the certification of academic qualifications and degrees of students studying abroad during the COVID-19, saying that some universities and intermediary institutions in some countries have used the epidemic as an excuse to continuously launch various online courses, and wantonly recruit Chinese students by reducing admission conditions, graduation requirements or shortening learning hours, These acts are suspected of selling diplomas in disguise, and the center will not certify such diplomas . At the same time, for the overseas students who are forced by the epidemic to choose to study part or all of the courses online, after meeting the degree granting conditions set by overseas universities, their degrees can obtain normal certification . Since the outbreak, the study abroad service center of the Ministry of education has issued several announcements to strengthen or suspend the certification of academic degrees of colleges and universities in some countries and regions.
The General Administration of Customs said that to sum up, the Customs has always actively cooperated with the competent education authorities, and has provided a lot of support for the vast number of returned overseas students to purchase domestic cars in the past three decades. Considering that the education department is the leading department for the management of overseas study affairs and the application of relevant policies, it is recommended that overseas students actively reflect their demands to the competent education department. The customs will continue to support and cooperate within its duties.