Legal analysis: to pay the housing provident fund, it must be handled by the unit, and individuals cannot pay it. In addition, the provident fund is divided into two parts, one is paid by individuals and the other is paid by companies. Housing accumulation fund refers to the long-term housing savings paid by state organs, state-owned enterprises, urban collective enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises, urban private enterprises and other urban enterprises, institutions, private non-enterprise units, social organizations and their employees.

Legal basis: Article 14 of the Interim Measures for Special Additional Deduction of Individual Income Tax. If a taxpayer or his spouse uses a personal housing loan or housing accumulation fund of a commercial bank to purchase housing for himself or his spouse in China, the interest expenses incurred from the first housing loan shall be deducted according to the standard quota of RMB 1 000 per month in the year when the loan interest actually occurs, and the maximum deduction period shall not exceed 240 months. Taxpayers can only enjoy a first home loan interest deduction. The term "first home loan" as mentioned in these Measures refers to the housing loan that enjoys the interest rate of the first home loan when buying a house.