Ladies, the reason why your TF and COCO grandma are so expensive is because of the tax!

Double Eleven has passed! After the sour taste of chopping your hands, you still have to fight against the Double Twelve with your hands that have been chopped into pieces, right? !

TF, YSL, Estee Lauder, Lanc?me, Chanel...lipsticks

YSL Saint Laurent lipstick is priced at 320 yuan on the Chinese official website

Dior Dior The lipstick is priced at 300 yuan on the Chinese official website

ARMANI lip glaze is priced at 310 yuan on the Chinese official website

You must have tasted Amway products from major beauty bloggers

< p>They all quietly added it to the shopping cart to pay, and now they are talking about it and becoming little fairies!

But... do you know that a 300 yuan lipstick actually costs 200... yuan...

If there were no taxes, how could lipstick be so expensive...

Today we will talk about the things behind the prices of cosmetics~

First, let’s take a look at a report from the Ministry of Finance A "Notice on Adjustment of Cosmetics Consumption Tax Policy" was issued on October 1 last year

As soon as this notice came out, major international brands, in response to the adjustment of cosmetics consumption tax, such as Estee Lauder, Dior, Lanc?me , Yves Saint Laurent, etc., etc. have all announced price reductions. It is said that the maximum reduction is 18%?

But the price reduction is a price reduction, not tax, and now there is a clear understanding of "high-end" cosmetics define.

Whether they are domestically produced or imported cosmetics, only high-end cosmetics with a duty-paid price (excluding value-added tax) of 10 yuan/ml (gram) or 15 yuan/piece (sheet) and above will be banned. Imposition of consumption tax. The consumption tax on high-end cosmetics has been reduced from 30% to 15%.

According to this notice, a lipstick is calculated as 3 grams, and any lipstick with a tax-paid price of more than 30 yuan is considered a luxury product...

So the price of a lipstick is 300 yuan What taxes did Yuan pay on lipstick?

Suppose the CIF price of a lipstick is 100 yuan (including transportation fees, insurance premiums and other expenses incurred before shipping to my country's customs territory)

Tariff = 100×10%=10 Yuan (the tariff rate for lip cosmetics is 10%)

The taxable price that needs to pay value-added tax and consumption tax during the import process = (dutiable price + tariff) / (1-consumption tax rate) = (11 10)/(1-15%) = 141.2 yuan

VAT at the import stage = 141.2×17%=24 yuan (VAT is 17%)

Consumption tax at the import stage =141.2×15%=21.1 yuan

So, the entry price of this lipstick is 10124+21.1=155.1 yuan

Total tax burden=55.1÷155.1=35.5 %

So, you see, 1/3 of every lipstick you buy is tax! ! !

This is still the tax burden after the consumption tax was reduced. Before the reduction, almost half of the lipstick you bought was tax.

Many people may not have heard of consumption tax. Consumption tax is an in-price tax that is directly included in the price of the product. When buying something, you generally don’t know whether you have paid consumption tax or not.

Unlike taxes, which are not mentioned on the pay stub, some local tax bureaus will also send you a special list to tell you how much meat you have cut in total in a year.

Although inconspicuous, consumption tax is a major tax, ranking third after value-added tax and corporate income tax.

Tax revenue in 2016

Value-added tax 4,071.2 billion yuan

Corporate income tax 2,885 billion yuan

Domestic consumption tax 1,021.7 billion yuan

The value-added tax and consumption tax on imported goods amounted to 1,278.1 billion yuan

The levy of consumption tax on cosmetics began in 1994. At that time, cosmetics were treated as non-daily necessities. In other words, treat cosmetics as luxury goods.

But the key point is,

Cosmetics were considered luxuries back then

Now, they have become fast-moving consumer goods

Which girl I don’t have one lipstick yet, but it’s not unusual to have ten. As long as I can become a little fairy, I’ll be as beautiful as heaven!

In 2015, the retail transaction size of China’s cosmetics market exceeded 300 billion. If we say it is less, based on a comprehensive tax rate of 30%, it has also contributed 90 billion in taxes.

The lipstick and foundation that girls wear away is actually a major pillar of our country’s finances!

Another role of consumption tax is to guide rational consumption.

For example, the consumption tax on disposable wooden chopsticks and refined oil is to protect the environment; the consumption tax on tobacco and alcohol is for the sake of people's health.

However, apart from eating two more mouthfuls of lead, wearing cosmetics does not seem to do any harm to people, yourself, or the environment, haha...

After the finance and tax man said this, Will you still lose your rationality and desperately buy more at "1212"?

Come and tell me what you think~