Is it a national policy to reduce rent during the epidemic?

Recently, many people asked me if rent reduction during the epidemic was a national policy. To this end, I have collected the following related contents, hoping to help you.

1. Is it a national policy to reduce rent during the epidemic?

Rent reduction during the epidemic period is not a national policy.

Rent reduction and exemption during the epidemic period is not a policy promulgated by the state, but a local policy promulgated by provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions to encourage lessors to reduce or exempt operators' rents according to local specific conditions. Such policies are mostly aimed at enterprises. If individuals want to reduce rent, they can start with the rental contract to see if it meets the conditions stipulated in the contract. If possible, they can also advocate rent reduction.

Second, the relevant provisions of the local rent relief.

General Office of Sichuan Provincial People's Government's policies and measures on coping with the novel coronavirus epidemic and alleviating the production and operation difficulties of small and medium-sized enterprises.

(1) Increase support for reducing burdens.

For small and medium-sized enterprises to lease state-owned assets for operation, the rent of 1 to 3 months shall be reduced or exempted. Operators of large commercial buildings, shopping malls and comprehensive markets are encouraged to reduce or exempt rents for small and medium-sized enterprises during the epidemic period, and all localities can give appropriate financial subsidies to owners who reduce or exempt rents. During the epidemic period, the provincial demonstration bases for small and medium-sized enterprises' entrepreneurial innovation will be reduced or exempted, and the provincial finance will give subsidies according to no more than 50% of the total rent reduction and exemption, and the total subsidy for each base will not exceed 2 million yuan.

(2) Increase financial support.

For small and medium-sized enterprises that are greatly affected by the epidemic and have development prospects but are temporarily trapped, they are not allowed to borrow, cut off loans, pressure loans or impose penalty interest. By changing the repayment arrangement and interest payment cycle, extending the repayment period, reducing overdue interest, and continuing loans without repayment, we will continue and increase credit loans and medium-and long-term loans to ensure that the credit scale of SMEs will continue to grow and the comprehensive financing cost of SMEs will drop by 0.5 percentage points in 2020. Encourage relevant parties to give relief to the insurance, guarantee, evaluation, appraisal, transfer, property registration and other related expenses incurred in handling bank loans.

(C) to further reduce the operating burden of enterprises

1, reducing corporate tax burden.

During the period of epidemic prevention and control, enterprises are allowed to postpone the declaration and payment of taxes. For enterprises that meet the conditions for deferred tax payment, the tax payment period shall be extended for no more than three months according to law. For enterprises that do have difficulties in paying taxes, property tax and urban land use tax shall be reasonably reduced or exempted according to law. For "regular quota" households, adjust the quota reasonably or simplify the closing procedures. Timely implement policies such as inclusive tax reduction for small and micro enterprises.

2. Reduce the rent burden of enterprises.

State-owned assets business premises are exempt from the first month's rent for private leasing enterprises that are greatly affected by the epidemic and cannot operate normally, and the rent for the second and third months is charged by half; Encourage other property owners to appropriately reduce or exempt rents according to the actual situation. For enterprises that have been rent-free for more than two months, tax relief shall be given according to the number of rent-free months.

3. Increase financial support for technological transformation.

If an enterprise expands the production capacity of urgently needed materials for epidemic prevention and control through technological transformation or converts the above materials within the prescribed time limit, it will increase incentives for its qualified equipment procurement.

4. Give play to the key role of state-owned enterprises.

Large and medium-sized state-owned enterprises and leading enterprises in the industry have increased their support for small and medium-sized enterprises in the industrial chain in terms of payment recovery, raw material supply and project contracting, so as to promote the stable operation of the industrial chain. For small and medium-sized enterprises that have signed contracts with state-owned enterprises, if they cannot fulfill their contractual obligations on time due to the epidemic, the contract performance period may be appropriately extended. State-owned enterprises shall, in accordance with the contract, pay the relevant funds of small and medium-sized enterprises and private enterprises in full and on time, and shall not form new overdue arrears.