I henhold til Interim Rules on City Maintenance Tax of the People's Republic of China er beskatningsgrundlaget for skatter vedrørende byvedligeholdelse og byggeri beløbet af produktskatter, moms og selskabsskat betalt af skatteyderne, og skatten skal betales samtidig med produktskat, moms og selskabsskat.
According to the Interim Rules on City Maintenance Tax of the People's Republic of China the tax basis of the city maintenance and construction tax ‘is the amount of product tax, VAT and business actually paid by the taxpayers, and it shall be paid at the same time respectively as the product tax, VAT and business tax’.