Corporate income taxes and turnover taxes paid by "non-citizen" firms in China rose 40.7 percent in the first half of the year, the State Administration of Taxation said last Friday.

国家税务总局国际税务司上周五发表声明指出，上半年我国非居民企业所得税和营业税总收入增长40.7%。

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But in the first quarter of this year the year-on-year growth in sales taxes was a nominal 3.3%, compared with an 8.2% jump in the first three months of 2000.

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