Directive on Printing and Distributing Several Documents Concerning the New Tax System Issue
(June 5, 1953)

Comrade Shangkun [1]:
Please have these five items [2] printed and distributed to all comrades.
The overall title shall be: Several Documents Concerning the New Tax System Issue from January to February 1953.

Mao Zedong
June 5

Printed based on the manuscript.

**Notes**
[1] Shangkun refers to Yang Shangkun, then Director of the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
[2] Refers to five documents concerning the new tax system issue, namely: the telegram from Xiang Ming, Second Secretary of the Shandong Sub-Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and others, regarding market chaos caused by hasty price adjustments during the implementation of the new tax system; reflections from the Beijing Municipal Committee on the implementation of the new tax system; Mao Zedong’s letter to Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Chen Yun, and Bo Yibo on the new tax system issue ; the reply letter from Bo Yibo, Deputy Director of the Financial and Economic Committee of the Government Administration Council; and the report by Wu Bo, Vice Minister of Finance of the Central People’s Government, and others, on the advantages and disadvantages of the old and new tax systems and the causes of the recent price fluctuations.