Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 2012 Financial Planning ([-])

"Old Wang, some taxes in your village have been in arrears for a long time, shouldn't it be cleared?" On February 1688, 2, outside a small village south of Cuiwu Township, Jinglong County, Baoding Prefecture, wearing a tax department Li Ergou, who was in uniform, fanned his hat to the wind, and said to a middle-aged man with a frowning face in front of him.

Li Ergou's original name was Li Ergou. His family originally opened a tea shop in Jinglong Town, the county seat, and the business was pretty good.But later, because of a triangular debt case, their tea shop could not continue to operate, and finally the capital chain broke and they declared bankruptcy.Fortunately, Li Ergou originally had some dog-meat friends, all of whom were rangers who had roamed the countryside for many years. At that time, they were all recruited by the taxation department and became tax collectors in various places. One of the five tax policemen in the Wuxiang Tax Police Office, responsible for collecting taxes in various villages and private markets in the southern generation.

To be honest, since he took office as a tax policeman, he has been relatively peaceful on the whole, without too many bad deeds.Like some other tax policemen, they have a deep habit, and they will arrest the big tax owers and take them to the tax police office to lock them up until their family members gather enough money to pay the money.To be honest, Li Ergou has never done this kind of thing, and he doesn't want to do it. Even if his performance is a bit ugly because of this, it doesn't matter, because it doesn't conform to his principles of conduct.

What's more, since the General Administration of Taxation was reorganized into the Department of Taxation, and the deputy director Huang Hanhua actually took charge of the work - this gentleman is also very lucky. He was originally promoted to the deputy director of the General Administration of Taxation. , became the deputy minister of the taxation department, and took over the actual work of the department instead of the long-term retired minister. taxpayer.Therefore, under such a general background, there is no need for Li Ergou to change himself.

However, when it comes to some large tax debtors, it is indeed a headache.Especially for those in rural areas, it's not that they don't have money at home, and the result is that they refuse to pay taxes!You must know that the cost of living of farmers themselves is relatively low, and they do not need to pay much tax. Logically speaking, they should not owe taxes like this.Li Ergou has carefully checked the information in the tax police room, and also talked with some cadres of several villages under his management (note: a large village, under the jurisdiction of several small villages, that is, production teams, numbered by numbers), and learned that In fact, most farmers only need to pay movable property tax, real property tax and land tax. Other taxes and fees are either not targeted at them, or have been collected in the wholesale or production process, and they are basically not collected by rural grassroots tax police.

Compared with farmers like them, urban residents mainly engaged in industry and commerce, in addition to paying movable property tax and real property tax, also need to pay personal income tax, deed tax, stamp duty and other taxes, and business operators also need to pay consumption tax, business tax, customs duty , Tobacco and alcohol tax, four kinds of unified taxes and other taxes (inheritance tax is ignored).Especially the tobacco and alcohol tax and the unified tax. Farmers have taken advantage of this. Because there are still many people in rural areas brewing local wine, eating non-machine-made flour, and making homemade tobacco, they don’t have to pay any taxes at all (or tax evasion).Coupled with the prevalence of non-cash transactions such as barter among the people, and many craftsmen selling their handicrafts privately, the consumption tax on many items has also been evaded, and the tax burden is lower than that of urban residents. How much has been paid, but the degree of arrears far exceeds that of urban residents, which is indeed a bit speechless.

The focus of rural tax arrears is on movable property tax and real property tax. Because land tax can be paid by grain, there is almost no arrears. After all, there is nothing in the countryside, except that there is no shortage of grain.As for movable property tax and real property tax, the two main types of taxes that are still the main source of finance on the east coast, the degree of arrears is so serious that 1023.9 million yuan should be collected on the books, but in fact only more than 300% is collected. , The country's direct tax loss exceeded [-] million yuan, which is indeed quite astonishing.

In fact, the main energy of taxation departments in various places is also spent on this.The county tax bureau is responsible for formulating an overall movable property tax and real property tax collection plan, and specifying the approximate amount. The township tax office focuses on assessing the actual situation of each village, and agrees with the village head and village representatives on a specific tax amount. The tax police office The local tax police are responsible for supervising and urging the collection, and the three-level organization is connected with each other to ensure that the tax is collected as much as possible for the benefit of the country.

In the village where Li Ergou came today, in the 1685-1686 fiscal year, a total of 327 yuan in arrears for the above two types of taxes was owed. Li Ergou had to go to the countryside in person, and asked the village chief to inquire.

"Old Li, it's really difficult for people to take money out of their pockets, no matter whether they have money or not. Especially there are a few of them who are veterans, and they are all very brutal. I also come to do it I have worked, but they just don’t pay me, what can you do? It’s really urgent, and they threatened to find some good comrades-in-arms to support, what can you do? This bunch of idiots can’t get through it.” The village head known as “Old Wang” shook his head repeatedly after hearing this, and said with a sad face: “I don’t even dare to exclude them from the rural cooperatives now, for fear that they will be beaten in a sack at night. Yes. It is said that veterans are of high quality, but that also counts. These masters have fought in battle and killed people. Their eyes are not right. I dare not offend them. Don’t force them, Lao Li. me."

Li Ergou was speechless after hearing this.To be honest, he didn't really dare to offend these people, because there were a large number of cadres transferred from the army, and the frequent activities of organizations such as the township military association, the veterans at the grassroots level on the east coast were indeed a very large force.Under normal circumstances, because of the relationship between discipline and obedience, these people are sharp weapons for stabilizing the grassroots.However, as the saying goes, the same rice supports all kinds of people. With such a large group of veterans and already having a certain degree of organization, it is inevitable that some bad elements will emerge.

The aforementioned people who owe taxes and don't pay are not bad, at least they haven't bothered others yet.But some people who do business relying on the network of the military association in the village are great. Bullying others is a common occurrence. It can be said that it has affected the economic order of the countryside to a considerable extent, so that the grassroots cadres complained and strongly demanded rectification.For this reason, the Government Affairs Council wrote to the Executive Committee in the middle of last year, requesting it to coordinate with the relevant personnel of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to clean up and rectify the "filthy" military associations and other organizations in the countryside.The military department also promised to carry out rectification after sending people to investigate, but it has not yet seen much effect. In many places, there are still many veterans who refuse to pay taxes or pass the tax burden on to others.

"Old Wang, you are also the village chief, so there is nothing you can do about them?" Li Ergou is a little upset now, so his tone is not so good, just listen to him say: "If these people can't be taken down, this year The township will issue a report, demanding that the roving medical team not come to your village, and the township central primary school will not let your village’s children go to school, then you will be scolded by one or two thousand people from the seven production teams in the village!"

"This, this, Lao Li, can't the village be so cruel?" Village head Wang became anxious when he heard this, and said in a rough voice: "Just to collect a few money, the medical team is cut off? What does this have to do with killing people?" different!"

"Old Wang, there is nothing you can do about it. Your father came here in Ningbo by smuggling from the Qing Dynasty. I think he should have told you a lot about urging teachers in the countryside? To be honest, our Dadong'an is really enough. Tolerance is already civilized enough. In the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, people like these who did not pay taxes, I am afraid that they have already been arrested and died in prison, right? Even in the European countries, their family property will be auctioned off. There are too many people who have been reduced to debt slaves and sent to ships as slave oarsmen." Li Ergou sighed and said: "The imperial court also needs to collect taxes to maintain various expenses. You see, the navy has invested heavily in these years, and the ships Just ship after ship, don’t these need money? The sea is gone! You don’t know this all day in the country, but I read Pravda and Kommersant and I understand that the court is real During military expansion and war preparations, one penny cannot be broken into two halves, if you still don’t pay taxes at this time, no wonder the court will get angry, there’s nothing you can do about it!”

In fact, from a certain point of view, what Li Ergou said is also true.According to the statistics of the Ministry of Finance in the 1686-1687 fiscal year, the Chinese East Coast Republic (including South Africa) collected a total of 3782.9 million yuan of income on paper - tax revenue was 2542.4 million yuan, and non-tax revenue was 1240.5 million yuan. —According to the reform of the tax sharing system, the revenue attributable to the central government is more than 1500 million yuan, and the fiscal revenue attributable to local governments at all levels is more than 2200 million yuan.

In other words, the central government only got 4000 million out of the small 500 million yuan in fiscal revenue, but it has to bear various expenses including huge military expenditures. After the lottery, two new gold-making machines including the water conservancy lottery and the education lottery will be launched. It is really poor!

Therefore, you can now understand why the taxation departments in various places are so concerned about paying the tax arrears. In fact, the small 4000 million taxes are only on paper, and it is quite enough to collect [-]% to [-]% of them. Not bad.If some measures are not taken against those who have large debts, I am afraid that more people will follow suit, which will lead to various tax collection disadvantages, and the state's finances will be limited to exhaustion, and eventually nothing can be done.

You must know that the situation in Europe is now at a very delicate point. People on the east coast began to invest heavily in naval construction a few years ago, and some results have been achieved so far.And all of these undoubtedly require a huge amount of funds to maintain. Wouldn't it be wronged if there was no money at a critical moment?Therefore, the country is now desperately trying to clear up its debts, and not only that, a new round of tax reform is probably coming soon.As for the reason, it is actually very simple, that is, tax increase!

(End of this chapter)