Conditions and policies for enterprises and farmers to establish cooperatives

1. Conditions:

1. Preliminary review of name

Before registering a cooperative, you must first give it a good name. Generally, the name of a cooperative consists of four parts, "jurisdiction area, font size, industry nature, professional cooperative", such as "Fuping County Hongda Planting Professional Cooperative". The name pre-examination must be handled by the industrial and commercial department at or above the county level where the cooperative is registered. To put it bluntly, it is the county industrial and commercial bureau, the municipal industrial and commercial bureau, and the provincial industrial and commercial bureau.

2. Register and apply for a business license

If the name is approved, that is, it does not have the same name as other cooperatives in the same area, and it complies with the provisions of the Cooperative Law, you can start the next step of registration.

3. Business license review

After receiving relevant documents, the industrial and commercial department will apply for a business license within a certain working day, which will be determined according to the specific circumstances of the local industrial and commercial bureaus.

4. Apply for the organization code

After applying for a business license, the cooperative must go to the Quality and Technical Supervision Bureau at the same level to apply for the organization code.

5. Go through tax registration

In addition to the above, you must also go to the tax department at the same level to go through tax registration.

6. Apply for the official seal

Go to the Public Security Bureau to apply for the official seal of the cooperative

7. Open a bank account

Go to any commercial bank or rural credit bank The cooperative opens a cooperative public account

2. The policies are as follows:

Tax preferential policies

For farmers' professional cooperatives to sell agricultural products produced by their members, they are regarded as agricultural products. Producers who sell self-produced agricultural products are exempt from value-added tax; tax-free agricultural products purchased by general taxpayers from farmers' professional cooperatives can be deducted from the input value-added tax at a deduction rate of 13; agricultural products sold by farmers' professional cooperatives to their members can be deducted from the value-added tax. Films, seeds, seedlings, chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and agricultural machinery are exempt from value-added tax; purchase and sale contracts for agricultural products and agricultural production materials signed by farmers' professional cooperatives and their members are exempt from stamp tax.

Financial support policies

Incorporate all farmer cooperatives into the scope of rural credit assessment; increase credit support, focusing on supporting industries with solid industrial foundations, large business scale, high brand effect, and service capabilities Strengthen and promote professional farmer cooperatives with many farmers, good standardized management, and good credit records; support and encourage rural cooperative financial institutions to innovate financial products and improve service methods; encourage qualified farmer professional cooperatives to develop credit cooperation.

Financial support policies

The state’s subsidy policies for rural cooperatives include land transfer subsidies, loan subsidies, agricultural machinery purchase subsidies, grain planting subsidies, comprehensive agricultural input subsidies, and standardized large-scale pig breeding farms. (Community) construction, agricultural insurance subsidies, minimum grain purchase price policy, subsidies for returning farmland to forests, grassland ecological protection subsidies, etc. Project application is somewhat different according to the specific regulations of each province and city.

In addition, there are also preferential treatment for water and electricity: the price of water and electricity for large-scale pig, vegetable and other production is the same as that for agriculture; the power department charges the lowest price for electricity used for grain drying machinery according to the electricity price for agricultural production. Implemented policies. Extended information

To register a cooperative, you generally need to prepare the following materials:

1) Articles of association of the cooperative

The articles of association stipulate the basic information of the cooperative, as well as the management system, surplus distribution, etc. The core content is the core document for cooperative operations.

2) Cooperative capital contribution list

The capital contribution of cooperative members follows the principle of voluntariness. Generally, the cooperative sets its own capital contribution standards. There is no lower limit or upper limit specified by law. It is best not to have too large a gap in capital contributions among cooperative members in order to maintain an equal relationship among members.

3) Minutes of the cooperative's founding meeting

The minutes mainly record the contents of the cooperative's founding meeting, including review of the charter, election of board of directors and supervisory board members, and legal representatives, etc.

4) Proof of use of the cooperative’s office space

It is necessary to provide the ownership certificate or lease contract certificate of the office space.

5) Appointment documents of cooperative legal persons and directors

6) List of cooperative members

7) Proof of appointing or entrusting an agent

If the cooperative appoints a person to register, proof of designation or entrustment of an agent needs to be submitted.

National People’s Congress Network-Farmers’ Professional Cooperatives Law of the People’s Republic of China