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Former finance minister calls for tax base expansion

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Former finance minister Lou Jiwei believes China needs to significantly expand its tax base.
On Friday, Lou – who was finance minister from 2013 to 2016 and oversaw the last round of major fiscal reform – said China’s demographic challenges:

“Are difficult to cope with without sufficient fiscal res...