They wish to defer our decision until next week.
他们希望推迟到下星期再作出决定。
Eric deferred to her superior knowledge.
埃里克折服于渊博的知识。
1. We decided to defer making a decision until we had more information.
我们决定延迟做决定,等我们有更多信息再说。
2. The doctor advised me to defer surgery for as long as possible.
这位医生建议我推迟手术尽可能地晚点做。
3.The meeting was deferred because the minister couldn't attend.
会议被推迟是因为部长无法参加。
4. I prefer to defer judgement until I've heard both sides of the story.
我喜欢推迟评判,直到听完该故事的两方面为止。
To encourage foreign investors to continue to expand their investment, China has issued a deferring tax policy, which would exempt the withholding tax temporarily if foreign investors' profits from Chinese domestic enterprises were directly invested in China, said Cong Lin, an official in charge of the international sector with the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area Tax Service, State Taxation Administration.
北京经济技术开发区税务局负责国际部门的官员丛林表示，为了鼓励外国投资者继续扩大投资，中国出台了延期税收政策，如果外国投资者从中国国内企业获得的利润直接投资于中国，将暂免预扣税，国家税务总局。
- China has stepped up support for epidemic-hit small market players by deferring their loan repayments, according to a circular jointly released by the country's central bank and five other government departments on Monday.
-根据中国央行和其他五个政府部门周一联合发布的一份通知，中国通过推迟偿还贷款，加大了对受疫情影响的小型市场主体的支持力度。
On Tuesday Qingdao city government released 18 policies to support small and medium-sized enterprises in tacking challenges brought on by coronavirus, including deferring social security premium collections and a reduced rent and tax burden for enterprises.
Sentiment has largely been cautious and there has not been much room for investors to leverage their holdings," said Shen Meng, director of boutique investment bank Chanson & Co. Shen said that Xiaomi's plans to defer the CDR issue will not have any long-term impact or determine the course of its HK float.
The country could also provide more financial subsidies to reduce tax burdens on enterprises, and further reduce and exempt value-added taxes and income taxes for SMEs, while entitling them to defer or reduce social insurance premium payments.
On top of these inclusive tax and fee incentives, an executive meeting of China's State Council last week decided to temporarily defer payments of certain government-levied charges and deposits to further ease the burden on market entities, especially micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, self-employed households and manufacturing firms.
China will allow market entities to defer payments of certain government-levied charges to further reduce financial burdens, and offer tax concessions for private pension schemes, according to a State Council executive meeting.
As of July 20, almost 1.4 million employees have benefited from a phased supportive policy on deferring the payment of housing provident fund contributions, according to the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development on Thursday.
Those workers, who come from 23,000 enterprises, are allowed to defer contributions of roughly 7.1 billion yuan ($ 1.1 billion), said ministry spokesman Wang Shengjun at a news conference on Thursday.
China earlier implemented policies such as deferring social insurance contributions by employers, and refunding unemployment insurance premiums for enterprises that make no cuts or minimal cuts to staff number.
The country will also allow medium, small and micro enterprises to defer payments of their contributions to the basic medical insurance, launch initiatives to end unjustified charges levied on businesses, and postpone payments for government administrative charges, it said.
Banks will be supported in deferring, within this year, principal and interest repayments on loans made to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises and self-employed households, as well as truck loans, home loans and consumer loans borne by individuals facing temporary difficulties.
"For the catering, retail, tourism, civil aviation, highway, waterway and railway transportation industries, the policy to defer payments of old-age insurance premiums will be implemented during the second quarter of this year.
Small and medium-sized enterprises in the manufacturing sector are permitted to defer certain tax payments for the fourth quarter, while small and micro enterprises severely impacted by the pandemic, floods and raw material price hikes can receive more lending support.
China will defer tax payment for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing sector to ease the impact of rising costs, a State Council executive meeting decided on Wednesday.
The decision would in effect defer around 200 billion yuan ($31.32 billion) of tax payment for manufacturing SMEs, the meeting said.
The meeting also decided to defer tax payment of around 17 billion yuan for coal-fired power companies and heating firms to ease their operating difficulties.
Such measures include cutting taxes and fees, provisionally deferring social insurance payments, and finding ways to directly benefit smaller businesses.
"The tariffs forced American companies to accept lower profit margins, cut wages and jobs for US workers, defer potential wage hikes or expansions, and raise prices for American consumers or companies," analysts at Brookings Institution were quoted as saying.
In 2020, the government unveiled several policies, such as lowering import tariffs, deferring income tax payments, and cutting taxes and fees, in order to stabilize employment, promote consumption and improve people's livelihoods.
Those tools were the loan extension which encourages local banks－urban and rural commercial banks and rural credit cooperatives－to provisionally defer smaller businesses' inclusive loan repayments with incentives in place, and inclusive credit loans which provide local banks with concessional funding support.
During the first 10 months of this year, China's financial system has helped firms save a total of 1.25 trillion yuan ($188.8 billion) through cuts in interest rates and bank charges, allowing qualified micro, small and medium-sized enterprises to defer payment on loan principal and interest.
China will start to implement mandatory certification for lithium-ion battery products starting from August 1 this year, despite calls from South Korea to defer such applications for South Korean companies.
The move aims to guide financial institutions to continue deferring loan payments for real estate enterprises while propping up financial support for real estate enterprises to ensure the delivery of housing projects.
In addition, the bank will continue to allow customers with COVID-19-related repayment difficulties to defer repayments on mortgage loan principal and interest, Yao said at a news conference announcing the bank's 2022 interim results on Tuesday.
China has taken multiple measures to help the civil aviation sector tide over difficulties, such as offering financial support through emergency loans and bonds and deferring social insurance premium payments for civil aviation companies.
But thanks to the favorable tax treatment for manufacturing enterprises, Li's company has so far been allowed to defer the payment of taxes worth 1.52 million yuan (about $229,687), which mobilized capital and supported production activities.
In the meantime, a slew of cities including Wuxi of Jiangsu province, Xi'an of Shaanxi province, Shanghai, Shenzhen of Guangdong province, Xiamen of Fujian province and Nanchang of Jiangxi province have announced favorable policies for real estate developers by deferring payment dates, tax cuts, and subsidiaries for leasing among others.
According to a recent report from market research company Strategy Analytics, nearly 37 percent of the over 1,300 respondents it surveyed said they would defer plans to buy new smartphones, while 32 percent indicated they would postpone plans to upgrade to 5G services.
They can also apply to defer repayment of the loan principal for a year without penalties or compound interest, Assistant Finance Minister Ou Wenhan said on Friday.
The country has supported small and micro businesses to mitigate the epidemic's impact by deferring their repayments of loan principal and interest.
The country has allowed micro, small and medium-sized enterprises and self-employed households in the manufacturing sector to defer the payment of certain taxes and fees worth around 440 billion yuan till the end of the year.
For homebuyers who have difficulty in repaying mortgage loans and suffer protracted delays in the delivery of presold homes, banks could allow them to defer principal and interest repayments.
However, China has ramped up policies to defer tax payments for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, which help them maintain a relatively healthy balance sheet.
BOC will continue to give financial support to companies facing temporary operational challenges due to COVID-19, strengthen services to safeguard people's livelihoods, make flexible adjustments to repayment arrangements for mortgage loans, and defer repayments on loan principal and interest for eligible market entities and individual clients.
A recent State-level notice stated that in addition to the five sectors — catering, retailing, tourism and transportation — that have been hardest hit, companies in 12 other sectors will also be allowed to defer pension insurance payments until the end of this year.
Small and medium-sized companies and individual businesses that have experienced difficulties because of the epidemic can also apply to defer insurance payments until the end of this year without incurring charges.
The notice further stipulated that companies applying to defer insurance payments must ensure that workers' rights are respected.
Chinese authorities Tuesday rolled out a phased supportive policy on deferring housing provident fund contributions to help enterprises and individuals tide over difficulties amid the epidemic.
For COVID-19-hit sectors, the CBIRC will require banks to renew loans or defer repayments without penalties for eligible small businesses, and adjust car loan or mortgage repayment schedules in favor of truck drivers.
Some national joint-stock commercial lenders, such as China Zheshang Bank Co Ltd based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, even allowed personal clients to defer consumer loan and credit card payments, in addition to mortgage payments.
Last year, the country rolled out a slew of preferential policies on deducting and deferring taxes and fees to shore up the industrial economy and support micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, Wang Daoshu, deputy head of the State Taxation Administration, told a press conference.
Announced by the State Council in late October, such policies entitle small and medium-sized companies in the manufacturing sector to defer tax payments to ease the impact of rising commodity costs.
"This will allow us to defer tax payments of about 100,000 yuan, and we will invest this money in research and development for the fourth quarter," Xia said.
Chinese tax authorities will further implement preferential tax policies, including deferring tax on foreign-funded enterprises' reinvestment of profits, to support the country's opening-up strategy and enhance the confidence of foreign investment in China, according to officials from the State Taxation Administration.
A State Council executive meeting on Oct 27 decided to defer tax payment for small and medium-sized enterprises, especially in the manufacturing sector, aiming to ease the impact of a rise in material prices, according to a statement from the meeting.
It would defer around 200 billion yuan of tax payments for small and medium-sized enterprises in the manufacturing industry, the statement said.
China's forthcoming exit from the policy of deferring payments of principal and interests on inclusive loans to micro and small businesses next year will have a limited impact on the asset quality of China Construction Bank Corp, said Cheng Yuanguo, chief risk officer of the bank.
Owing to the lag effect of nonperforming exposures, the banking sector still faces the pressure of an increase in nonperforming loans, as China will exit the policy of deferring the payments on loan principal and interest for a number of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.
Authorities will extend the policy of deferring principal and interest payments on loans to small and micro businesses to cover truck drivers, taxi drivers, online shop owners and other self-employed individuals.
Moreover, the State Council executive meeting on March 24 announced that the policy to defer repayment of principal and interest on inclusive loans granted to micro and small businesses will be extended till the end of this year.
China has rolled out a set of measures to help small and micro businesses overcome difficulties caused by COVID-19, including encouraging financial institutions to provisionally defer loan repayments and increasing lending at concessional rates.
It is estimated that nonperforming loans in the banking sector will be on the rise, as the current policy deferring payments of loan principal and interest for small and medium-sized businesses will come to an end on March 31," Zhang said.
The PBOC devised two credit instruments in early June, the loan extension support tool, which aims to encourage banks to defer businesses' inclusive loan repayments, and the credit loan support tool, which is designed to step up loan issuances.
Since the beginning of this year, ICBC has surrendered a large part of its profit to boost the real economy through measures such as reducing financing costs for enterprises, waiving fees, and deferring payments of loan principal and interest for qualified micro-, small and medium-sized businesses.
The People's Bank of China (PBOC), China's central bank, devised two credit instruments in early June: the loan extension support tool which aims to encourage banks to defer businesses' inclusive loan repayments and the credit loan support tool which is designed to step up loan issuance.
To help enterprises tide over difficulties and secure employment amid the epidemic, the central bank introduced the loan extension support tool, which offers local banks incentives in an effort to encourage them to defer businesses' inclusive loan repayment with penalty exempted for a certain period.
It also introduced two new structural facilities in June－one is to defer the repayment of loans' principal and interest and the other is to purchase small business credit loans, to ensure market entities can receive sufficient funds.
Tax cuts, reducing or canceling value-added taxes for small-scale taxpayers and deferring their payment of corporate income taxes have played a crucial role in stabilizing market entities, employment and public well-being as well as economic fundamentals, Liu said.
To help various firms get through tough times, the central government will push financial institutions to sacrifice 1.5 trillion yuan in profits this year through a series of policies such as guiding lending rates lower, deferring loan repayments for small businesses, and granting small business collateral-free loans, according to the State Council, China's Cabinet.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, however, the revamping task, which entails debt repayment, has faced mounting difficulties partly because some businesses that have struggled to survive the contagion may need to defer repayment, the PBOC said.
Since the COVID-19 outbreak, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) has stepped up measures including strengthening counter-cyclical policies, keeping liquidity reasonable and deferring loan and interest repayments for micro, small and medium firms, PBOC governor Yi Gang said at a recent symposium.
The meeting also urged financial institutions to defer the principal, interest repayments on loans taken by micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.
To help various firms get through tough times, the central government will push financial institutions to sacrifice 1.5 trillion yuan ($212.1 billion) in profits this year through a series of policies such as guiding lending rates lower, deferring loan repayments for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, and granting small businesses collateral-free loans, according to the State Council, China's cabinet.
To that end, the country will take a series of measures like guiding the reduction of loan and bond rates, extending loans at concessional rates, deferring loan and interest repayments for micro, small and medium firms, as well as lowering fees incurred in banking procedures, according to the meeting.
The regulator said it will lead banking institutions to further defer repayments of loan principal and interest according to the trends of the pandemic and the state of operation of MSMEs, with a focus on helping small businesses with a total credit line of up to 10 million yuan per borrower.
The PBOC said that small businesses are allowed to apply for deferring their inclusive loan repayment maturing by end-2020 to March 31, 2021, with penalty payments exempted.
China will defer income tax payments for small companies with thin profit margins, as well as individually-owned businesses, to help them resume business and production, said the State Taxation Administration.
So far, the government has focused on targeted measures, including tax cuts for SMEs, reductions in companies' social security payments, and deferring loan principal and interest payments for small businesses affected by the outbreak.
In addition, companies can apply to defer payments to the housing provident fund, while those undergoing severe difficulties due to the epidemic are eligible for the deferral of the three types of social insurance payments for as long as six months.
Under the plan, individuals are allowed to defer tax on part of their income that is used to buy commercial pension insurance until they retire and draw money from the fund.
The policies included, temporarily deferring payments of 14 government levies and some deposits, cutting or waiving highway tolls for trucks, reducing or merging charges at ports and subsidizing utility bills.
Dai said that this year, the government granted a temporary exemption on value-added tax payments to small taxpayers, including self-employed business owners, adding that they are also covered by policies that allow businesses to defer their social security contributions.