Disabled set for tax breaks, fee exemption

Disabled people who run businesses will get to enjoy favorable tax policies and be exempted from administrative charges, under a latest draft law amendment.

The draft amendment to the Law on Protection of Disabled Persons, submitted to the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee for second reading yesterday before it can be passed, makes it clear that the disabled do not have to pay government administrative fees if they operate private businesses.

Zhang Bolin, deputy director of the NPC's Law Committee, said the newly added stipulation aims to "better protect the disabled and encourage them to be self-employed".