2005年享受免征农业税的农民将达到8亿人。这是财政部部长金人庆在向十届全国人大常委会第十六次会议报告2005年前5个月全国财政收支的主要情况时透露的。金人庆说,今年全国在稳定去年“三农”政策的基础上,继续大力推进农村税费改革。到目前为止,已经明确免征农业税的省份新增山西、内蒙古等19个,加上去年已经免征和基本免征农业税的8个省份,2005 In 2005, 800 million peasants will enjoy the exemption from agricultural tax. This was disclosed by Jin Renqing, minister of the Ministry of Finance, at the time of reporting to the 16th meeting of the Tenth National People’s Congress Standing Committee on the major aspects of the national fiscal revenue and expenditure for the first five months of 2005. Jin Renqing said: This year, on the basis of stabilizing the “three rural issues” policy last year, the government continued to vigorously push forward the reform of taxes and fees in rural areas. So far, 19 provinces, including Shanxi and Inner Mongolia, that have been explicitly exempted from agricultural tax, and 8 provinces that were exempted and basically exempt from agricultural tax last year, 2005