Daily life of an American TV drama agent

IRS, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, is known as "the most feared government department in the United States." It is affiliated with the U.S. Department of the Treasury and has its own independent office at the east end of Washington National Park.

Normally, all the people working here are civilian staff, and it looks just like any other government agency, but today is an exception. If anyone walks into this agency at this moment, they will definitely be greeted by the most notorious person in this agency. He was shocked by Zhang Zhang's fierce face.

Because all the feared tax collectors from every state in the United States are gathered together today, it’s time for the annual tax collectors’ annual meeting.

Generally speaking, the annual meeting of all organizations or companies will be held at the end of the year, that is, around Christmas, to summarize the gains and losses of the year, and to distribute benefits and have an internal party to build relationships.

But the IRS is an exception, because their most relaxed time of the year is not Christmas, but the end of April.

The deadline for tax filing in the United States is April 15. Within a week after this, the actual tax revenue of each state can be almost calculated. The rest is just waiting for the tax work of each state to proceed normally.

The captains of the special operations teams from all over the country took advantage of the opportunity to report on their work and gathered here. While bragging to each other, they also complained about their respective shortcomings.

Among these people, although Ron is recognized as the most capable, his tax performance is not the best among this group of people. He only ranks second, and the first is a Surrounded by other colleagues, who kept mocking Ron, was a man named Sophie Shaflin.

"Oh my God, man, I thought that if you were assigned to a prime place like Los Angeles, your performance this year would be better. There was probably a slight possibility of surpassing me. But I didn't expect that your performance was only better than the assigned one. Tom in Atlanta is less than $10 million higher, and gosh, I seriously doubt you're going to be on this table next year."

"Oh my god, I really don't understand what you people are doing every day. Big cities are obviously full of big companies and rich people, but the taxes collected in the end are not as much as in small places like us."

Tax officials are accustomed to calling the amount of tax revenue in their jurisdictions as performance, and then compete with each other like salesmen in a sales company. They sit at different tables according to performance. Four people can sit at each table.

Shafrin's words caused the surrounding tax officials to burst into laughter, and the air was filled with a happy atmosphere, but Ron was not moved by his words and spread his hands without any intention of being offended:

"There's nothing we can do about it. We all know that the more large companies are concentrated in a place, the harder it is to collect taxes. If you change your jurisdiction from Des Moines to New York, I estimate that your performance will not even be in the top 50. You can’t get in even if you’re famous, the financial roosters in New York are notoriously hard-earned, and they’re not as easy to deal with as the farmers in Iowa.”

Des Moines, the capital of Iowa, is the second largest agricultural state in the United States. The first is California, where Ron is located. However, unlike the large farmers all over California, Iowa’s agriculture is dominated by small and medium-sized farms. The Lord is Lord.

Compared with the large farmers who have been corporatized and have various tax avoidance methods, these small and medium-sized farmers are much cuter. As long as they show their identity as the IRS and threaten them, there will be few who will not pay taxes obediently, so Sha Flynn's performance was always the best of the bunch.

"Is there still this situation?" Shafrin had obviously stayed in the countryside for too long and was unfamiliar with the situation in the big city: "Is there anyone who dares to resist taxes in the face of the guns of our IRS?

Have you forgotten what your teacher taught you back then? If the tax cannot be collected on the rifle, use a rocket launcher; if the tax on the rocket launcher cannot be collected, use the tank. This is how the teacher collected the tax from the Chicago gangsters. From then on, we, the IRS, have completely established a reputation. You can Don't let the reputation of the IRS be ruined in your hands. "

Shaflin's tone clearly tinged with complaints about his colleagues working in big cities, and so it was.

A very interesting phenomenon is that the performance of these special operations teams that specialize in collecting bad taxes is inversely proportional to the GDP of the region. The more economically developed the place, the lower the performance of the special operations teams. Ron is the only exception. .

He is the only person who ranks second on the performance list as the captain of the special operations team in Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States. Apart from him, no captain from the top ten cities in the United States is on the list.

But before Ron could speak, someone immediately took the initiative to explain to him: "The situation now is different from the past. Those financiers are much smarter than the gangsters in the past. Although they don't use weapons to resist taxes, they can use Even more cunning legal means of tax avoidance, such as charitable foundations.”

"Charitable fund? How do you avoid taxes on this thing?" Shaflin asked confused like a layman.

Forgive his ignorance, but the people he usually deals with are all honest farmers. Apart from being armed with manure forks and shotguns to resist taxes, he can't do anything new.

“For example, most wealthy people will set up a charitable fund for their own family, and then put all their stocks, real estate and other assets into this fund!

In this way, they can legally and reasonably transfer all the assets to anyone's name in an open and fair manner through the simplest and most direct method! What's more important is that they don't have to pay any taxes! "

"What? Can you avoid all taxes? Including inheritance tax? You mean, all taxes?" Shafrin opened his mouth in surprise.

"Of course, many wealthy people have recently been using this method to avoid taxes reasonably and legally, and the court has accepted many such cases. But according to federal law, this is completely legal!"

Ron looked at Shafrin with disdain, as he had never seen the market before, and continued to explain:

"In the United States of America, especially in California, charitable funds can be exempted from all taxes as long as they donate a certain percentage of funds to charities every year! After the donation amount reaches the initial capital of the charitable fund, the owner of the charitable fund will You can withdraw all the money from the charitable fund reasonably and legally, or transfer all the assets to anyone tax-free! The proportion of this donation is different in each state, and we have the lowest in California, only 5%!"

Shaflin was shocked, but still puzzled: "But Ron, if you donate 5% every year, it will be 100% donation after 20 years! What money will they get after 20 years?"

At this time, even the good-tempered New York manager Tom couldn't help but roll his eyes. He was in charge of the place with the most financiers, and of course he was also the person who had seen the most work done by the capitalists:

"Shafrin, your stupidity simply astonishes me. Think about it, the law only stipulates that they must donate 5% every year, but other money can still be used for investment and profit. Those vampires on Wall Street are dedicated That's what he did. Besides, do you think the 5% of the money was really donated?"

"Is not it?"

"Of course not," Ron also joined in the popular science: "There are too many things that can be done here. The law only stipulates the amount they must donate, but it does not stipulate in what way the donation should be made, let alone the donation. The price of something.

For example, if a place is hit by a hurricane, they need to donate a batch of tents, and then they will register a company and price the tents that originally cost 200 US dollars each to 2,000 US dollars each. In this way, they can directly arbitrage 90%, and this is still them The simplest of countless means.

In fact, 90% arbitrage is already the most conscientious among these charitable foundations. For most charitable funds I have seen, the arbitrage ratio is generally 99%. And the most ridiculous thing is that we all get the bad reputation. The tax officials took the blame, but they gained a reputation for being charitable, really FXXK! "

"Then we can't levy personal income tax on them? Just raise the tax directly from the source?" Shaflin was hit hard by two friends one after another, and his voice couldn't help but become much weaker.

"Personal income tax? Are you kidding me?" Ron sneered: "If you don't take out the capital gains tax that cannot be collected from company and stock income, you can have unlimited income by just investing the money in a new project. The cycle, even the salary, they give themselves a ridiculous salary of one dollar a year.”

"How do you ask me to charge them one dollar? A top rich guy like Bill Gates may not pay more taxes in a year than his secretary!"

The situation in the United States is so magical. The richer the people, the less taxes they pay. Therefore, Ron often wonders when he can hang these people from street lamps.

"Wait! No," Shafrin was confused after hearing this, but vaguely felt something was wrong. He quickly shook his head and reorganized his thoughts: "But how do you raise taxes in California? If they If it’s just like what you said, then your performance should be at the bottom like Tom in New York..."

"I know!" Halfway through Shafrin's words, he suddenly realized: "California is the largest agricultural province in the United States. You also collect farmers' tax arrears to improve your performance, right?"

"Tch~ I'm not as stupid as you think. How much money can those mud-legged people get from me?" Ron sneered again. In fact, not only did he not use violent means to pursue taxes from those small farmers, he even Within the scope of power, we turn a blind eye to some farmers who really don't have enough money.

Ron's opening once again focused everyone's attention on himself, especially those in charge of those whose jurisdictions were also in big cities: "Then how did you do it?"

"Of course there are some tricks, do you want to learn?" Ron said seductively in a devil's tone.

Everyone nodded in unison, and Ron also heard the sound of several people swallowing.

There is no way, Ron's secret is too tempting for them. The meaning of the existence of the Special Operations Team is to recover those taxes that are difficult to collect and are in arrears. The Special Operations Team can keep 30% of the recovered taxes. Just hand over 70%.

As for the money left behind, it is said to be funds, but it is not up to you to decide how to spend it, right?

If you pay it in the form of salary or bonus and you have to pay taxes, then you might as well not pay it at all, but it’s not too much to improve the food treatment for your subordinates, right? Or to equip a sports car for easier mobility, and reimburse the gasoline at the same time...

The tricks here are no less than those used by big capitalists to avoid taxes.

To put it bluntly, the special operations team was specially set up by the tax bureau to compete with big capital.

"Of course I do!"

"Tsk, tsk, I have plenty of ways, but I figured out this method bit by bit. You don't know how hard I have been~" Ron changed the subject. Instead of telling them his own way, he started to complain about his pain. Come on, eyes narrowed with laughter.

If Sheldon was here, he would run away quickly because he knew his brother was going to trick people again.

"I think back then, when I first took over the Los Angeles Special Operations Forces, I was the only commander. Let alone a human being. I didn't even have a gun. I brought all the weapons with me. That was all my belongings. .”

"I went to Mr. President to ask for it. What do you think the president said?" Ron stood up and angrily recounted the bitter past: "The president said: 'If you want money, my subordinates can find it themselves! Otherwise, Ron, you can't see the president. How much is the White House worth? Sell it and use it to fund your expenses!'"

"What should we do?" Shaflin was attracted by Ron's story and couldn't help asking.

"That's what I asked too!" Ron made an angry look on his face: "I said, President, after all, I am also a person from the IRS, right? I can't be inferior to the Los Angeles Police Department. This is not to hurt you. A sign?"

"But the president said: 'I want money and people, so what do I want you to do? Since you can be the captain, you have the ability to make money and people. Otherwise, you can go home and take care of your children, and don't embarrass me there.' "

"Then how did you do it?" When it came to the key point, everyone held their breath, fearing that someone would accidentally miss Ron's secret of success and fall into the poor class of the IRS.

It doesn't matter if you are a little poorer yourself, but if the brothers below you become poor too, then you really don't have to do this as the captain.

"Then..." Ron trailed off in a long tone, and then continued until everyone's tastes were full, "Then, I went to find my former friend, Dominic Toretto, Some of you may have heard that this is a very remarkable person. He used to travel around various states to commit drive-by robberies. As long as he targeted the truck cargo, there was nothing he could not rob."

Shaflin was a little confused: "But what does this have to do with taxing large capital?"

Old Ron narrowed his eyes: "Then do you want to guess whether the people he robbed have paid taxes? Or are they people who have not paid taxes?"