中央决定从今年起全面取消农业特产税,并用5年时间在全国范围内全面取消农业税。在日前的全国农村税费改革试点工作会议上,温家宝总理指出,深化税费改革,是我国农村一次重大的制度创新和社会变革,要充分调动广大农民和基层干部的积极性,确保税费改革顺利进行。 回溯两千年历史,中国始终是以农业为经济基础的大一统国家,维持国家机器运转几乎均仰赖农民,这在 The central government decided to completely abolish the special agricultural products tax this year and completely abolish the agricultural tax across the country in five years. At a recent plenary session of the pilot rural tax reform in the country, Premier Wen Jiabao pointed out: Deepening the reform of taxes and fees is a major institutional innovation and social change in rural China. We must fully mobilize the enthusiasm of farmers and grassroots cadres and ensure a smooth tax reform get on. Back two thousand years of history, China has always been a unifying state based on agriculture as its economic foundation. Maintaining the operation of state machinery almost depends on the peasants,