Its main functions and responsibilities are:

1. To carry out state policies, laws, guidelines, rules and regulations on taxation; to draw up draft statutes, regulations and policies on local taxation and see to their implementation; to draw up and implement regulations and detailed rules on local taxation; to supervise and check up the enforcement of the local guidelines, policies, rules and regulations on taxes; to take charge of the usual explanation for the implementation of rules and regulations on taxes.

2. To organize the collection and administration of local taxes; to establish the local taxation plan based on the tax collection plans issued by the State Administration of Taxation, the economic development plans of our province and the allocation of budget, and see to their implementation.

3. To organize the collection and administration of various fees, funds and fee Supplements; to make practical suggestions and organize the enforcement.

4. To organize and implement the reform of the collection and administration system of local taxation; to establish a scientific, rigorous and effective collection and administration system of local taxation, draw up and implement the rules and regulations on the local taxes collection and administration; to organize and handle the details on industrial and commercial tax reduction and agricultural tax deduction under serious natural calamities.

5. To be responsible for the inspections on taxation. Formulates the implemental suggestions and methods of the inspections on local taxation, supervise and check up the local tax bureau at all levels to inspect tax evasion according to the laws, organize and coordinate the investigation and punishment of the serious cases on local taxation in Zhejiang.

6. To administrate the local taxation systems in Zhejiang in a vertical manner

7. To be responsible for the educational training, ideological and political education and the spiritual civilization construction of the local taxation system.

8. To organize and guide the popularization of tax laws and conduct researches on tax policies and theories; to carry out investigations and researches on local taxation; to organize the management of Certified Tax Agents, to regulate the operations of tax agents.

9. To undertake other tasks assigned by the provincial government.