Chapter 779 (1/2)

Li Mu had an afternoon meeting with senior brother Liu and several staff specially in charge of logistics business. The purchase order of Taobao logistics in the first stage has been basically finalized.

In the first stage of procurement, the most important thing is vehicles, storage and sorting equipment. Because there is no automatic sorting equipment for the time being, the first stage of Taobao logistics mainly relies on the traditional conveyor belt with manual sorting. Although the efficiency is not comparable to the automatic equipment, it is the most appropriate sorting solution in the early stage.

As the government hasn't given a clear reply, what kind of preferential policies can Taobao logistics enjoy in the future, Li Mu decided to control the capital investment for the time being. The demand plan for vehicles purchased in the first stage is: 60 heavy imported tractors, 100 domestic medium-sized trucks, 300 Iveco light vans.

At present, the tariff of foreign imported vehicles is divided into several grades. The tariff of passenger vehicles is 25%, and the tariff of traction vehicles is very different according to the tonnage, type and fuel consumption. That is to say, even the same tonnage of gasoline and diesel trucks also have different tariffs. The gasoline vehicle tax is the highest, and the diesel vehicle is relatively low. Taobao logistics needs to solve the point-to-point problem The heavy-duty tractors for transportation are all high tonnage diesel tractors, and the current tariff is 21%.

21% of the tariff, if we add in the purchase tax, has reached the standard of 30% as a whole, which is a very large proportion. For Li Mu, if we can solve these two taxes, Taobao logistics can greatly improve the import of heavy vehicles.

Taobao's chief financial officer also told Li Mu and Liu Qidong that they had not considered before: if it is for the daily vehicle import, it will involve 17% value-added tax, which is finally added to the vehicle price. If the government can also exempt 17% value-added tax, the overall tax preference will be greater.

Generally speaking, if the projects supported by the government involve the import of equipment and raw materials, the government will give certain preferential policies. The tariff is only one aspect, and the import value-added tax is also one aspect.

The value-added tax is collected from the customs declaration enterprises. If Taobao logistics orders directly with overseas enterprises, when the vehicles arrive at the customs, Taobao logistics needs to pay 17% of the purchase tax to the Customs at the time of customs declaration. If it can only pass through the domestic dealers, the value-added tax will be paid by the dealers and transferred to the added vehicle price. Finally, Taobao logistics must bear it.

However, the government has always encouraged and subsidized enterprises with far-reaching significance, and there is no precedent in value-added tax. Most of the preferential value-added tax is collected in advance and retreated, that is to say, Taobao logistics pays value-added tax at the same rate of 17% when declaring customs, but the money will be returned to the enterprise account of Taobao logistics immediately after customs clearance.

Li Mu knows that he can't find any more leaders to ask for exemption of VAT, so VAT can only be seen from the meaning of leaders.

If the leaders really value and encourage the development of Taobao, they will think that if they don't think about the value-added tax, it doesn't matter. The reduction of tariff and purchase tax is of great significance to Li Mu.

However, Li Mu secretly calculated the price with his fingers. If the government really exempted the purchase tax, the price of imported trucks would be greatly reduced.

If you want to meet your own requirements for logistics capacity, the number of heavy tractors responsible for the long-distance transportation of the trunk line alone will reach at least 300, and may reach 500 or even higher in the far stage. If there are sufficient preferential policies, the funds saved will definitely be more than 100 million.

If this money is saved, the automatic sorting equipment can be put on the horse ahead of time, so Li Mu asked Liu Qidong, ”I said last time that you should send someone to Germany to visit Berman machinery, and start to arrange it?”

Liu Qidong nodded: ”I have arranged a three person group. I just left a few days ago, and I have already contacted Berman there. However, the feedback from them seems to be perfunctory. They don't seem to believe that a private express company in China will be able to automatically sort equipment on a large scale.”

Li Mu was stunned.

”What's the fucking age? Do Germans still wear this kind of colored glasses?”

Liu Yidong smiled awkwardly and said, ”it's not that they wear colored glasses. They also politely received our people and took our people to visit their equipment demonstration. However, when it comes to specific customized details, they are not very interested.”

Said Liu Qidong: ”Berman thinks that the Chinese market is not mature for the time being, not to mention the low penetration rate of automatic sorting in China. At present, the national express logistics industry has only three sets of equipment in China, which is used by our postal elder brother. At present, quite a part of the airports in China have not realized the automatic sorting of bags, let alone fast Yes, Berman doesn't have many customers in China, not even branches. ”