论居民身份证收费的存与废——兼评我国行政收费制度

政府以提供公共服务为职能，并且在其所提供的公共产品中唯有其提供准公共产品时才允许向消费该类公共产品的居民适当收取费用。而身份证属于政府部门根据自身的行政管理需要而向全体社会成员提供的纯公共产品，因此政府首次发放和更换身份证应该实行免费制度。随着政府服务职能的提高和公民权利意识的增强，类似的证件收费以及其他不合理的行政收费也应该得到清理和废止，从而最终实现行政收费领域法治化目标。

On the Retaining and Abolishing of Resident Identity Card Charges

Government has the function of offering services to the public and only collects proper charges for those who are consuming the quasi-public goods offered by the government.However,identity card is a pure public product offered by the government to its whole citizens in according to its requirement of administrative management.Therefore,the initial issuing of identity card and its replacement shall be free of charge.As the im-provement of government's service function and the strengthening of citizen's righ...