Is there any country in the world where the gap between rich and poor is narrowing?

The gap between the rich and the poor will lead to wealth inequality, income inequality, etc.

If a country always has a large number of people living in absolute poverty, its economic momentum is underdeveloped, and ups and downs are inevitable, which will cause potential social harm such as increased crime rates, which will eventually affect everyone. The unfair distribution of social wealth, the polarization of the rich and the poor, and the abnormal concentration of social wealth will inevitably lead to social instability. The poor living conditions of the poor can also make individuals lose their motivation to work and reduce productivity.

Social injustice and inequality also cause people to gradually lose national cohesion, and a large number of people and resources are idle, leading to serious social problems and threatening the long-term peace and stability of society.

The gap between the rich and the poor is too large, which will lead to people's mental instability, and then rise to social contradictions, leading to problems in social order And the wealth has a certain impact on the sustainable development of society, and the stability will decline For example, if one side is in difficulty, the measures to support the eight parties will become sluggish There is also the sharp wealth and poverty will affect the values of people, and they will regard money as their life, leading to extreme cultural thoughts, and there are traumas to culture that are difficult to compensate for in other aspects The change in the value of the rich will bring good results to national consumption. However, the importance of culture cannot be commensurate with the disparity between the rich and the poor, and it is difficult for the country to maintain a commensurate increase in the standard of living for the masses.

The gap between the rich and the poor, also known as wealth inequality, income inequality, etc., refers to the disparity in the wealth possessed by individuals in a group or society. A large gap between the rich and the poor will lead to potential social harms such as increased crime rates.

There are many reasons for the gap between the rich and the poor, affected by different factors, there are gaps between the rich and the poor in various countries and regions, and the gap between the rich and the poor is not all unreasonable, but there are also unreasonable situations in which individuals and individuals take advantage of monopolies and loopholes to opportunistically get something for nothing.

The reasons for the gap between rich and poor are as follows:

1. The influence of individual differences;

2. Differences in development between regions;

3. The rapid development of the non-public economy;

4. The tax system is not perfect;

5. The social security system is not perfect.

1. Improve the individual income tax system and narrow the income gap. On the whole, China's taxation plays a more obvious role in organizing fiscal revenue, while its function of regulating individual income disparities has not been effectively played, which can be reflected in the collection of individual income tax in China. Since the individual income tax directly taxes the property income of the individual, and all the distribution of social wealth is ultimately reflected in the distribution of personal income, the individual income tax system has a direct and significant effect on adjusting the income gap and narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor.

2. Promote consumption tax reform and curb unreasonable consumption expenditure. Consumption tax is levied on the consumption expenditure of consumers, and buyers of taxable consumer goods generally have a higher consumption demand and consumption level, that is, a comparable income level. Therefore, consumption tax can adjust the unfairness of social distribution to a large extent, and partially make up for the lack of personal income tax on the failure of illegal income such as gray and black.

However, the current scope of consumption tax in China is small, the tax rate structure is unreasonable, and the collection method of in-price tax restricts the full play of the role of consumption tax. In view of this, China should study and expand the scope of consumption tax, such as entertainment consumption, high-end clothing, overseas tourism, luxury yachts, high-end villas and other consumption items, which can be considered to be included in the scope of taxation; For luxury consumption, the tax rate can be appropriately raised; In terms of the collection method, it is advisable to reform the current relatively hidden in-price collection into an out-of-price collection to improve its collection effect. 3. Timely levy of property tax to prevent "speculators" from squeezing the "snail dwellers" as a large property The house is generally the "big head" of personal property, and the possession of real estate often reflects the distribution of social wealth, so the taxation of real estate is an important means to adjust the income gap.

Legal basis: Article 9 of the Individual Income Tax Law of the People's Republic of China takes the income earner as the taxpayer and the unit or individual that pays the income as the withholding agent.

If the taxpayer has a Chinese citizenship number, the Chinese citizenship number shall be the taxpayer identification number; If the taxpayer does not have a Chinese citizenship number, the tax authorities shall give the taxpayer identification number. When a withholding agent withholds tax, the taxpayer shall provide the withholding agent with a taxpayer identification number.

The gap between the rich and the poor in China remains high.

Since the reform and opening up, China's economy has achieved rapid development, the people's income level has been greatly improved, and the per capita income has officially entered the ranks of upper-middle-income countries, and at the same time, it has also made great contributions to world development in reducing the number of people living in absolute poverty.

Internationally, the Gini coefficient is usually used to depict the difference in income distribution, and it is regarded as the warning line of the gap between the rich and the poor, in which the income is relatively average. At the time, the income was relatively reasonable; At that time, the income gap was wide; When it is exceeded, it indicates that the income distribution is seriously unequal.

In the early days of reform and opening up, China's Gini coefficient remained around the right, and then showed a rising trend, reached in 2008, and then showed a gradual downward trend, as of 2015, China's Gini coefficient fell to about the left, but still in a high position, but also higher than the level of developed countries. As a result, China's social structure is more like a pyramid than an olive shape with a balanced and reasonable balance.

Causes of combustion

1. The influence of individual differences;

In groups, individuals have different preferences for relative income, power, and reputation, and when this gap narrows, psychological well-being also decreases and disappears, so some individuals develop a sense of fairness aversion and work harder to close the gap.

2. Differences in development between regions;

In the early days of reform and opening up, a large amount of the state's resources and policies were tilted towards the eastern region, which helped the eastern region achieve leapfrog development, but the rapid development of the eastern region did not support the central and western regions enough, and the leading role was not obvious, but instead intensified the concentration of human resources and natural resources in the eastern region, resulting in the rich areas becoming richer and the poor regions getting poorer and poorer.

In addition, the comparative advantages of different regions are relatively different, with different geographical advantages, natural resources and other factor endowments, so whether they can achieve rapid development with their own comparative advantages also reflects the different degrees of affluence of residents.

The above content reference: Encyclopedia - China's wealth gap.

Legal analysis: It is not conducive to the upgrading of the economic structure of the number of disturbed segments. The majority of poor people will be extremely sensitive, enterprises can only produce inferior products to fight, high-quality products have no market, and the low profits of enterprises lead to low wages of workers, forming a vicious circle; In order to reflect their status, the rich often only buy high-end imported products, and often wander outside the system.

Legal basis: Regulations of the People's Republic of China on the Minimum Living Security for Urban Residents Article 2 Urban residents with non-agricultural household registration, where the per capita income of their family members living together is lower than the minimum living security standard for local urban residents, shall have the right to receive basic living material assistance from the local people. "Income" as used in the preceding paragraph refers to all monetary and in-kind income of family members living together, including alimony, alimony or maintenance that should be paid by the legally-prescribed supporter, supporter or guardian, and does not include the pension or subsidy enjoyed by the recipient of preferential care in accordance with state provisions.