今年上半年起,我和冯兴元教授带领一个课题组,先后赴贵阳、武汉、杭州、大连等四个城市进行民营企业税费负担社会调查。期间我们召开了十几场研讨会,与100多位企业家座谈,填写和收回了数百份调查问卷,获得了一些基本数据,调查持续了一年,于近日在北京召开了信息发布会。我们在调研中发现了几个以往大家都不太注意或较少涉及的问题:第一, In the first half of this year, Prof. Feng Xingyuan and I led a research group that visited the four cities of Guiyang, Wuhan, Hangzhou and Dalian to carry out social surveys on tax burden of private enterprises. During the seminar, we held more than a dozen seminars, talked with more than 100 entrepreneurs, filled out and retrieved hundreds of questionnaires and obtained some basic data. The investigation lasted a year and a news conference was held in Beijing recently. We found in the survey several issues that were not paid much attention or less involved in the past. First,