Li Ergou finally went to the homes of the villagers who refused to pay taxes with the village chief.

It was at this time that he finally learned how difficult these guys were. Grandma, these tax-owers either spoke sarcastically, sarcastically, tax police like Li Ergou only dared to stay at home and act arrogantly, saying that when they went to fight to kill enemies to seek benefits for the country, Li Ergou and others didn't know where to play mud; either spoke very rushingly, blew their beards and stared at them at any time, and even went to the kitchen to threaten them; or they simply closed the door and let Village Chief Wang shout outside and broke his throat and didn't open the door, which made people so angry that they were so angry that they were smoking.

Village Chief Wang and Li Ergou spent three days traveling all the seven production teams in the village, but in the end they threatened and persuaded each other, and finally recovered about 100 yuan of taxes, which was really unacceptable. Li Ergou was determined to seize some of their property, such as cattle, sheep, horses and mules, but was afraid of causing some bloodshed (this time he did not bring any armor, swords and guns), so he finally endured and planned to go back to the tax police room to discuss with several seniors before talking.

He told Village Chief Wang that the village was going to stop the medical team. In fact, they did not have this power now, and the county did not advocate this "sanction" method that would overturn everyone. To deal with these deadbeats, basically, they can only start with the soldiers in the village. Now the superiors attach great importance to the work of paying arrears of taxes. I believe that the soldiers in the village are not lawless organizations. Even if they protect their shortcomings, they should check whether the direction of the wind is right. The country has actually given it.

Veterans have great preferential measures, and have reduced taxes for many years, but it would be a bit too much if you regard this tax reduction policy as a lifelong thing. It is hard to say that this time the county tax bureau will work with the soldiers in the township to act together, first be courtesy and then the soldiers. If the work is not done, I'm sorry, the tax police in all villages will probably gather together and then start a battle to clear tax arrears, and take down these difficult bones one by one. Then see if they are still tough or not.

Of course, it is not that trouble for ordinary tax owers who have no background. The tax police have long been familiar with these things. They go to the court to sue first, and then come to arrest people after taking notes. You must know that their tax police have the power to enforce the law. More than a dozen tax police officers came over with high heads, holding swords, guns, swords and halberds. How many people dare to bear it?

Paying taxes in accordance with the law is the obligation of the people. If you don’t pay taxes, I won’t pay taxes. Damn, what do we eat and drink? Well, there seems to be something wrong with this. Well, changing to not paying taxes will seriously disrupt national order, weaken government functions, and thus affect the country’s development strategy. Can you afford this big hat?

Li Ergou finally returned to the tax police room located in the Cuiwu Township Government compound on the evening of February 28, and then reported the information to the director. The next day, the director wrote a report and handed it to the postman to deliver it to the county tax bureau. The following is the process. There is not much of their business, just wait for the news.

Just when Li Ergou and others were busy paying their tax arrears, on March 4, 1688, Huang Hanhua, the deputy minister who actually in charge of the work, was discussing with Kong Dahui, who was the deputy director of the Policy and Regulations Department of the Ministry of Taxation of the Ministry of Taxation, located in Qingdao Port.

"Old Confucius, seeing that the country's expenses have increased year by year, the central government's financial resources have been reduced after the tax sharing system reform. What do you think should the finance be spent this year?" Huang Hanhua extinguished the cigarette butt in his hand, got up and walked to the window, looking at the quiet blue bay outside the window, but he couldn't calm down.

The tax-sharing reform of the central and local governments has been implemented for several years. The current trend is that local financial strength has been greatly strengthened, so they have relatively sufficient funds to popularize education and sanitation, and at the same time, they have a large-scale construction to complete various buildings, highways, railways, canals and flood control facilities. In addition, they also have a strong impulse to invest in small local state-owned enterprises, such as small brick kilns, small cement factories, small lime factories, small food factories, hotel stations, small machinery factories, small textile factories, etc. They really exert their strength once they have money, so they won’t mention their ambitions.

Taking Qingdao County, where the Ministry of Taxation is now located, as an example, the county expanded its dock and ship repair factory last year, and also offered a large amount of resettlement fees to attract the Dayuhe Naval Shipyard to relocate (the local area of ​​Dongfang County is no longer suitable for the further development of this large shipbuilding company), not to mention that they recruited professional talents in finance, foreign languages, trade, logistics and other fields all over the world to work, and for this, they did not hesitate to give settlement fees ranging from hundreds to more than one thousand yuan, which shows how rich it is.

But before the tax-sharing reform, Qingdao County had to pay a large amount of taxes to the central government, and the government Council would arrange the expenditures uniformly. The money on hand was limited, so it could only do some repairs and repairs. Even the funds for building branch lines of the urban light rail system had to be deployed through the issuance of local bonds. The two were nothing compared with each other.

The reason why the central government makes this arrangement mainly considers that with the continuous expansion of territory, population and economic scale, the central government no longer has the meticulous and comprehensive management ability. Therefore, if the power is delegated to local governments and the funds are handed over to them, this seems to be able to improve the efficiency of capital utilization, eliminate waste, and build a good place.

Of course, this model is not without its disadvantages. In fact, those who oppose him accused this model of weakening the financial resources of the central government and making it impossible for them to balance regional development through transfer payments. Think about it, when more than 60% of the domestic fiscal revenue is taken away by the local government, the rich will naturally have a lot of funds to build and consolidate their advantages. The poor will only stare at them and build some local third-class national highways and second-class national highways, so why should they seek bank loans?

For example, the cadres of the county on the Brazilian Plateau often complain that local governments are so poor that they are so poor (the income from selling land in some areas even accounts for the majority of the fiscal base), and central investment is closely related to the Pampa Plain and the Hejian region. Is this the rhythm of abandoning them and letting millions of people fend for themselves? If this is true, what is the significance of the immigration policy that the country has persisted in implementing over the years? Could it be that the Pampa Plain is a border area and the Brazilian Plateau is not a border area? The men of the State Council might as well look at the map. They cut off a large area of ​​the Brazilian Plateau from the Portuguese in one breath, but the development level is still very pitiful. Is this the right thing to do?

Unfortunately, their calls were directly ignored by the upper class, or they did not receive real attention. At that time, Liao Xiaoyao's government attached importance to the development of Pampa, but now it has changed to the Ma Wenqiang government. While continuing to invest in the Pampa Plain, it also plans to open up the Hexi land of the Chako Plain. This made them angry, but there was no way.

"Now, we encourage food and cloth exports. Although there are concerns about tax refunds, the treasury should be becoming more and more abundant. Why did the owner worry about this?" Kong Dahui, a man in glasses, said in confusion: "But there have been changes in military spending?"

"That's right!" Huang Hanhua slapped the window hatefully and said angrily: "The Central Executive Committee has decided to reorganize the three divisions of the National Army, the National Protection Army, and the Loyal Army. The posts are initially set at 6,000 to 9,000 people. All weapons, equipment, food, medicine and other materials are all expensed by the treasury. At the same time, the first and second fleets are transferred to combat readiness, especially the strongest first fleet, most of which leave the port and head north to wait for changes. In this way, military expenditures have surged and the treasury funds are quite insufficient. In addition, the army is also clamoring to increase the organization of four mixed battalions. Whether it is successful or not, this is another potential place for expenditure. The fiscal budget is simply impossible. Even our tax department has to lose all its efforts to clear up the accumulation of debts. This is a job that offends people. Alas, it's really difficult."

Kong Dahui frowned when he heard this, and sighed for a long time and said, "The tax reform has been going on for several years, and it is difficult to remedy it. Local districts and counties intercept rent and taxes and overpayment. Whether it is legitimate or not, the central government has no way to ask about it. Another soldier has risen and discussed increasing expenses. The whole country is paying more attention to it (it is inevitable that military expenditure will exceed 60% of the central government's fiscal revenue this year). This is really..."

"Master, can't you stop the expansion of your army and preparing for war?" Kong Dahui asked again.

"I'm afraid it can't!" Huang Hanhua shook his head and said helplessly: "The current situation in continental Europe is subtle, not only the Ottomans, Russia is fighting fiercely in the Balkans and the Black Sea, and the Kingdom of France is ready to move, as if it wants to annex the surrounding areas, especially the Northern Italy and the Iberian Peninsula, which threatens our country's interests, and we have to guard against it. In addition, what the Executive Committee's most worried about is that it is related to England and United Provinces in the North Sea, where the situation is unclear. The superiors are worried about the merger of Britain and the Netherlands, and Prince William III of Orange serves as the head of the two countries at the same time. This is very unfavorable to the market sales on the east coast, and countermeasures must be taken. Of course, these are all cost money."

"The European countries are different from pigs!" Kong Dahui was also a little upset, and he only heard him say, "For twenty years, disasters have been chaotic, and there is almost no peace. The country's income is consumed by military expenditure. It is almost impossible to describe the people who are used for construction. The Ottomans are anxious and have lost their treasury under the military force. After the war, ordinary income is not enough to help the country. After the war, the only way to invest is to borrow money from me. Kong looked at it. The Ottoman had to borrow money and stamp it for the purpose of wartime. Even if it was to make up for the war and prepare for the important matters after the war, we also need to borrow money. If our country wants to occupy its market and curb Russia, Austria's strategy is probably to be affected. The owner, this is not easy to pass the fiscal year 1687-1688, and the pressure from the Ministry of Taxation is more than a thousand pounds."

"Okay, don't call me the boss. Lao Kong, you are a state cadre now. You sip yourself as if you were my personal aide. Now it's not like Guangzhou. Be careful in the future." Huang Hanhua walked to the wine cabinet, poured himself a glass of wine, and then said distressedly: "The matter is very clear now. There are so many places in the country that need to spend money, so he put his ideas on our Taxation Department. This action to clear up tax arrears must be implemented, and it must be implemented vigorously. At least 5 million yuan of tax arrears are charged. This is a bottom line paid by the State Council to me.

The original words are five million, and ten thousand, and you must not be too much. In short, you have to see the money, otherwise our tax department will be evaluated one by one. The new second tax police camp will be 100% gone. Lao Kong, this is the case, and I was forced to this point, and I have no choice. Oh, of course, I came to you today, not only to tell you about this, but also to study it. Under our existing fiscal and tax system, are there any new tax types to increase to expand fiscal revenue? Don’t have any pressure, just speak freely, there are no outsiders here anyway.”

It has been almost eight years since the last tax reform. The East Coast government, which tasted the sweetness of tax increases, has now put its ideas into this aspect. It is actually very natural. If you make money, which government can’t do it? It can be said that they all learn from one's own teachings, and the East Coast lighthouse is no exception.

The finances of the East Coast Republic of China have always been divided into two parts: sub-tax income and non-tax income. The former is easy to understand, which is tax, while the latter is more complicated, but generally mainly includes the profits paid by state-owned enterprises, public income such as land, forests, rivers, etc. (land rent, transfer fees, etc.), fines and confiscations, etc. Taking the fiscal year 1686-1687 as an example, the total amount of non-tax income is about 12.4 million yuan, which seems to be quite a lot, but compared with tax income, the growth rate is actually not satisfactory. The main reason is that state-owned enterprises face the challenges of becoming stronger and stronger private economy, and the profit margins have begun to decline slowly. Some small state-owned enterprises in non-regulated industries (i.e. industries with low thresholds for funds, technology, etc., and fully competitive industries) have not even made much money. Even though they are still very profitable.

Some state-owned enterprises that have money have to reduce dividends to major shareholders (i.e., the central government), and keep funds more in the enterprises, either improve technology, add machines, train personnel, or build marketing channels. In short, in order to survive better, they don’t have much energy to support the central government. After all, it is not a decades ago, and it is not the era when they can make a lot of money while lying down. Of course, competition still does not exist for enterprises with extremely strong profitability such as Nanhai Group, Tieling Heavy Industry Consortium, Ping An Coal and Steel Consortium, Heishan Industrial Company, Northern Pharmaceutical Factory, Northern Chemical Factory, etc., but it is undeniable that the overall profitability of state-owned enterprises is indeed declining year by year, even when the overseas market has expanded, this is still the case. This is an objective fact and it is not transferred by anyone’s will.

In this case, it is understandable that the national fiscal non-tax income growth is slow. If this item is to grow significantly, in addition to the state-owned enterprise group's profitability, it is probably only possible to significantly increase the land sales indicators and rely on land finance to prosper. But the problem is that now agricultural development has entered a bottleneck period, and the grain planting industry is in a slight depression, and industrial and agricultural income has begun to widen the gap. In this case, how can the citizens actively participate in the immigration and border movement and vigorously purchase land and open up land? Huang Hanhua feels that, in addition to new immigrants and non-nationals who have become regular, the enthusiasm of locally born citizens in this regard should be declining year by year, unless the government now formulates policies and strives to solve the inversion of industrial and agricultural income, but it is so difficult.

After all, this is an act that destroys the laws of the market economy and is a choice for the government to forcefully interfere in the market. No one can guarantee what kind of results will be born in the future.
Chapter completed!