NABC Chapter 601 Commercial Tax Regulations
Chapter 601 Commercial Tax Regulations
Chapter 601 Commercial Tax Regulations
In fact, for Zhang Fei's plan, the tax department came a bit late, so Zhang Fei did not dare to be too strong in some financial issues, and still had to accommodate the government everywhere, because the tax department did not arrive, and many tasks could not be carried out. , He can't control the finances through the tax department, and he can't ensure how much the tax can be collected.
It is easy to spend money, but difficult to make money!
But this is not his mistake, but Sima Guang's reason, because Zhang Fei was originally arranged to go to Jiangnan, which led to Shi Tingxiu and Feng Nanxi being transferred to Jiangnan.
As a result, Zhang Fei made a 180-degree turn, so the tax department had to be redeployed, but it was already infiltrating the Hezhong Mansion and recruiting troops everywhere.
However, the officials of the Hezhong Mansion have not yet noticed that the tax department has quietly attacked, and a tax reform is already brewing.
At this moment, everyone's eyes are still focused on the negotiation between the procuratorate and the government.
This is really a very rare anti-crime operation since Taizu Taizong.
The key point is that all those targeted are related households.
And the common people really hate these relationship households, because these relationship households can not only monopolize resources, but also have extrajudicial rights. If you are not a relationship household, you will not be able to compete with them, and you will even be exploited by them.
But this is not based on their ability, it is difficult to convince people.
After the government surrendered, and after several days of negotiations, and the mediation of officials, the procuratorate finally reached a settlement with those related households, and a total of 98 charges were revoked. It can be said that all prosecutions were revoked, and more than 320 people were released and fined. A total of more than [-] guan, in addition, a total of more than [-] guan compensation to the victims.
royal court.
Zhang Fei and Su Zhe walked on the stone path wet by autumn frost.
"Is everything going well?"
Zhang Fei asked.
Su Zhe said with a smile: "It was much smoother than expected. As you expected, many of them were afraid of being imprisoned and wanted to compromise early on. After negotiating with the government, the rest of them accepted their punishment one after another. "
At this point, he paused for a while: "But there are many people outside who expressed their dissatisfaction with this. After all, our procuratorate did not prosecute any of them, but only fined them a little money.
But how did they know that once the old accounts were settled, the Hezhong Mansion would immediately fall into chaos, and the cost would be hundreds, or even thousands of times. "
The reason why the other party was willing to compromise was because the procuratorate did not prosecute. If the procuratorate wanted to prosecute, it would never be so easy to understand. After all, the other party is also a powerful person.
Zhang Fei said with a smile: "So we still need publicity, which is very important."
"press?"
Su Zhe said immediately.
Zhang Fei nodded and said: "The movable type printing workshops here have been completed. I plan to launch the Procuratorate, Alarm and Legal News immediately, and try to make the entire judicial process as public as possible. Set the tone first. In this way, even In the future, if we leave, no one will leave the government, and we will not be easily destroyed by others."
"That's a good idea."
Su Zhe nodded, deeply agreeing with this, and then said: "Speaking of which, the impartial law enforcement really makes people feel refreshed, but the source of the chaos lies in finances.
I heard that Bachelor Yuan will pay out the official's salary in full starting next year, which should not be lower than that of the Royal Police. Then the annual expenditure for each official may reach [-] yuan, plus the compensation for the soldiers, and Can the Hezhong government's finances afford our public security expenditures? "
Many officials look forward to this kind of fair pleasure, but the premise is that you can bear the consequences!
Zhang Fei said: "It depends on the means of Bachelor Yuan."
Su Zhe frowned and said, "But there's only so much money. If there are many officials, there are few people. Why did the government turn a blind eye to the behavior of those people before? It's because the people behind them can collect money for the court.
Yuan Xueshi can only use another method to collect money to meet the government's expenditure. The money still has to be collected from the people. At that time, the public, prosecutors and law can only compromise for this, and things will eventually return to the original state. "
Zhang Fei laughed and said, "It seems that Mr. Su Xiao doesn't trust Xueshi Wang's financial management skills."
Su Zhe shook his head and said, "Financial management is just about distributing wealth, not increasing wealth. I'm not opposed to financial management, but since ancient times, all financial management techniques have been to distribute more wealth from the people to the imperial court. It is not about distributing the wealth of the court and the rich to the poor, because the one who distributes the wealth is the court.
Xueshi Wang is just talking nicely, but if you study his new laws and regulations carefully, it is not difficult to find this point. This kind of distribution is just to catch the fish, it is better not to divide. "
Zhang Fei said: "The distribution that Mr. Su Xiao mentioned was in the absence of the Public Prosecution Law. Once there is a Public Prosecution Law, the situation will be different. The case of the Young Crop Law is a good illustration of this point."
Su Zhe nodded and said, "To tell you the truth, that lawsuit did eliminate some of my concerns about the Young Crop Law, but it doesn't mean that I will support the new law. I would rather support the behavior of the Taxation Department than The new law, in short, the imperial court has already collected taxes, so it should no longer compete with the people for profit."
He and his elder brother Su Shi are very consistent in this proposition. They are very opposed to the official system. The court should only collect taxes, and the rest should be handed over to the people.
However, Wang Anshi believes that decentralizing these wealth will not flow into the hands of the people, but will be monopolized by strong people, thus forming a threat to the people and the court.
Zhang Fei knew very well in his heart, to be honest, he couldn't judge which was right and which was wrong, so he just smiled: "Actually, there is another way."
Su Zhe asked, "What way?"
"Borrow money!"
Zhang Fei said with a chuckle: "Who doesn't have an emergency, people are like this, and the court is like this, you can borrow money to meet the emergency."
Su Zhe was stunned for a while, and smiled wryly, "Who would dare to borrow this? Because no one can guarantee that the court will pay back the money."
Are you crazy to lend money to the court? Can the court pay you back?
If the imperial court doesn't come to grab the money, it's a blessing, and you will send the money to your door.
Zhang Fei said solemnly: "The public prosecution law can guarantee it. Isn't the Hezhong government deeply in debt now, but does Mr. Su Xiao think this has formed a crisis?"
Su Zhe frowned when he heard this, and fell silent.
Looking back, the Hezhong government is really heavily in debt at present. It has to pay the interest on the salt debt in the front, and the military salary in arrears in the future, and now it has to increase the expenditure of the officials.
In the past, no matter which government it was, there would have been a financial crisis long ago, and the government would definitely find a way to renege on its debts, but now no one seems to take this seriously.
The government is still increasing spending.
The reason for this is that everyone believes that the government will pay back the money, and this trust does not come from the government, but from their public prosecutors.
"But how long can this kind of living without food last?" Su Zhe couldn't help asking again.
Zhang Fei said: "This is just an emergency need. The purpose is to spend money to rebuild the government's credit. If everyone doesn't trust the government, many problems will not be solved. Then during this period, we can find a way to eliminate bad governance and solve the disaster of three redundancy , so that the finances can breathe, then the court will soon pay off the old debts.
From the perspective of financial management, it is not a wrong strategy to eat more than enough food. We are only betting on a better future. If the people in the future are richer and richer, then tax revenue will increase, and we will win. "
Su Zhe said: "But there is always a winner or loser in gambling. We may not win, so what if we lose?"
Zhang Fei laughed and said, "Then die early, what else can I do?"
Su Zhe looked at Zhang Fei in astonishment.
Zhang Fei said: "Does Mr. Su want to continue to muddle along like this? In fact, governing the country is like sailing against the current. If you don't advance, you will retreat. We have no choice."
Su Zhe fell into deep thought.
Although he is talented, like most people, he is still conservative in his heart. His ideal society is a Confucian world of peace and prosperity, where labor is light and taxes are light, and everyone saves money to deal with natural disasters.
This is actually a major defect of the Song Dynasty Wenchen Tiantuan. Although there are countless geniuses among them, they are extremely lacking in this kind of economic thinking, and they are still opposed to this kind of thinking.
Not to mention Wang Anshi, like Xue Xiang, he is one of the few masters in financial management in the court, but in their view, Xue Xiang is just an opportunistic, profit-seeking villain, and cannot be used.
This is a deep-seated reason for the failure of Wang Anshi's new law. As far as the economic structure of the Song Dynasty is concerned, it is necessary to manage money because there are too many economic exchanges, but this kind of thinking has always been regarded as a kind of heresy, so it is difficult Inject political power into it, whether you choose a state-owned economy or a private economy, you need political support.
Yuan Jiang is also one of the few officials with such wisdom, so he and Zhang Fei are very compatible, and Yuan Jiang agrees with some of Zhang Fei's economic strategies.
For example, Yuan Jiang is very supportive of the strategy of issuing salt bonds and salt banknotes, and also regards this as the main means for the government to deal with expenditures during this period.
Because the young crop law and the exemption tax have not yet been officially implemented, it will take a while to make a profit, but government expenditures are increasing day by day. How to solve the debt of military pay over there and the expenditure of subordinate staff here?
We can only issue salt bonds and salt banknotes to tide over this difficulty.
The first project of the reorganized Changping Division is not to implement the Young Crop Law, but to issue salt debts to the outside world.
The transshipment department decided to issue a batch of salt bonds worth 100 million yuan for a period of three years. The interest rate is 5.00% or 5.00% per year. If the due principal and interest are settled together, you can get [-]% interest, but If the interest needs to be settled every year, it is [-]%, and grain and coins can be used to buy salt bonds.
In addition, the customer can choose whether to ask for salt or coins when purchasing the due principal.
The whole government also hopes that this salt debt can solve the urgent need.
It's a pity that the sky failed to fulfill people's wishes. After the news was released, there was really loud thunder and little rain.
Everyone is talking about it, but no one is buying it.
Although this is not the first batch of salt debts, the first batch of salt debts is the salt merchants who were forced to convert the salt bills into salt debts in desperation.
Now let everyone spend money directly to buy, but everyone still doesn't dare to do so.
Three years!
This is too outrageous!
This made Cai Yanqing and other officials very worried. If they did not borrow this sum of money, they would have to reduce the tax paid to the court, and it would even affect the military pay.
The budget is already in deficit, will the court agree?
If not, how will the promise made by the government be fulfilled?
Things have come to the last step, and money can no longer be avoided.
This is the root of all evil.
And at this moment, the police station issued the first warning, explaining that during this period, the entire operation of the police station to eradicate gangsters and evil was announced to the public one by one.
The Public Prosecution Law subsequently released the first procuratorial report, announcing the reasons and reasons for the entire settlement negotiation to the public.
These two newspapers are really exciting for the common people.
In the past, the government usually only announced the results they wanted to announce. If there was a black box operation, the government generally didn't say it, and it was just some gossip outside.
Now the alarm has already ignored the crimes of those bullies.
The Procuratorate directly told the people that after negotiations, the 98 indictments were revoked, only for the victims to pay compensation and some fines, and they were all released at the same time.
If you read these two newspapers together, you can see the problem at a glance.
The charges have been convicted, but you are not punished?
However, the facts are unanimously recognized by the people, singing praises for the police station and the procuratorate.
The article on the Procuratorate was written by Su Zhe himself. He just told the people directly that the Public Prosecution Law does not settle the old accounts before the Public Procuratorate Law came, because many of them are suspected of being forced to break the law, such as tax evasion, such as brewing wine without permission. Another example is the sale of private salt, and so on.
This sentence alone completely reversed the people's views on this matter.
Because what Su Zhe said is true, everyone has violated the law more or less, and to settle old accounts, many people may face liquidation, not just those related households.
After this incident, the procuratorate and the police station are famous. First of all, the police station has established a firm foothold. The people are already aware that when they encounter problems, they turn to the Royal Police.
The Royal Police can get rid of even those bullies easily, and of course they can call the shots for them.
At the same time, the bureaucratic group and the landlord class are re-examining the procuratorate. The power of this department is no less than that of the imperial court, and it is more worthy of their study.
When it comes to criminal cases, the imperial court can decide whether to give a light sentence or a heavy sentence. This cannot be negotiated, it depends on the evidence, but the procuratorate can, and you can negotiate with the procuratorate. There is room for manipulation.
Only after they had lost their limelight did the imperial court publish its own law report.
The imperial court is the imperial court after all.
As soon as this law report came out, everyone immediately realized clearly that father is still father and no one can replace him.
The content of this legal report is very simple. In a word, it is to reiterate the "Commercial Tax Rules" promulgated during the Taizu period, with [-]% tax and [-]% residential tax.
As soon as the news came out, the whole city was shocked.
Because there are many problems here, such as commercial tax on many crops and agricultural implements, according to the "Commercial Tax Regulations", these are tax-free products, but now these are also subject to tax.
There are also many exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes, such as ship landing tax, that is, power money, which are not included in the "Commercial Tax Regulations".
Are these taxes still collected?
This made the government messy.
The government immediately sent Zhang Fei to him.
We haven’t even borrowed money here, and you are going to cut off our financial resources here. Your public prosecutors are giving us a long time to go to the government. This knife-to-blade scraping is really endless.
"I have no way."
Zhang Fei spread his hands, "I also very much hope that the government can collect more taxes and give us more bonuses, but now some businessmen have come to the imperial court to sue, and the taxes they pay cannot be relied upon.
At present, the commercial tax law of our dynasty is only the "Commercial Tax Regulations" set by the Taizu. The court has not made any amendments to this. ?Could it be that our royal court does not abide by the laws set by Taizu? "
None of the officials said anything.
Who dares to speak out?
This "Regulations on Commercial Taxation" can be said to have been revised and completed by Taizu Taizong. You can not abide by it, but you can't say it out. If you say it out, this problem is very big. If you don't handle it well, you may be sentenced to death!
The imperial court will make a judgment according to the "Commercial Tax Regulations", what can you say.
But what about finances?
Zhang Fei said again: "Our imperial court has no intention of interfering in finances, but if the government wants to collect more taxes, it must first amend the regulations. Otherwise, our imperial court has nothing to follow, and the government can only be judged to lose."
Yuan Jiang blew out her beard and stared, "You really don't feel pain in your back when you stand and talk."
Zhang Fei smiled wryly, "It's not a backache, but a headache!"
Everyone looked at Zhang Fei indifferently, as if to say, do you think you are very humorous?
This wave was not settled, and another wave broke out. The matter was still being negotiated, and Su Zhe suddenly came with several prosecutors.
"Chairman Zhang is here?"
Su Zhe was taken aback when he saw Zhang Fei.
Zhang Fei said: "I'm here to discuss something with Zhifu Cai and Bachelor Yuan."
Seeing that they had not made an appointment, Wei Yingfang felt even more uneasy, what happened, so he asked, "The Chief Prosecutor of Su University is here, what's your business?"
Su Zhe said: "That's right. We heard that the Changping Secretary is going to issue 100 million salt bonds, so we came here to investigate. What is your basis for issuing 100 million salt bonds? Why do you want to issue them?"
After hearing this, Yuan Jiang became even more furious, "What does our Transshipment Department issue salt bonds to your procuratorate? Don't deceive people too much."
Zhang Fei hurriedly got up and cleared the relationship and said: "This matter has nothing to do with our imperial court, you talk about it, I will go first."
"You sit down first."
Yuan Jiang pointed to Zhang Fei and said.
Zhang Fei was taken aback in fright, and sat back awkwardly, looking aggrieved.
Su Zhe replied: "For the sudden issuance of such a large amount of debt by the government, our procuratorate must of course exercise its procuratorial power. After all, it is not you who pay back the money, but the state treasury. This involves national interests."
"Why do we issue salt bonds? Isn't it all forced by you? You want to investigate, you go and investigate, I don't care. If you can't pay the salary at that time, you will bear it."
After finishing speaking, Yuan Jiang waved her sleeves and left angrily.
He Chunlin, Cao Yi and other officials from the transit department also got up and left one after another, leaving only Cai Yanqing, Wei Yingfang and other government officials.
Zhang Fei rubbed his nose and muttered, "It's not kind to ask me to sit down and run away by myself!"
Cai Yanqing knew that it was time to act on his own. He asked Su Zhe to sit down first, and then said, "Procurator Su, we have no choice but to issue salt bonds. The government is really short of money right now."
Su Zhe nodded and said, "How can I not know this?"
Before he could finish speaking, Wei Ying said angrily, "Then you still come to investigate?"
Su Zhe said: "I'm just following the rules. Of course, the government is allowed to issue salt debts, but why are there so many issued? Is there any proof, and whether the government has a plan for repayment? According to the law of our ancestors, things are To prevent it, to make it right, any system must be carefully considered.”
Wei Yingfang was speechless for a moment, and couldn't help but glance at Zhang Fei again.
The two of you have discussed it, one is Taizu's "Commercial Tax Regulations", and the other is the law of the ancestors.
Can we still have a good chat in the future?
Are those unwritten rules still useful?
Cai Yanqing had no choice but to take out the relevant accounts and hand them over to Su Zhe, and said that their debt was based on the recent increase in expenditure, and the entire repayment plan was based on disarmament.
It's just because the disarmament will not be effective immediately, and a sum of money has to be paid out, but it is expected that the fiscal expenditure will be reduced on a large scale in the next year, and it will be enough to pay off the sum of money by then.
It is well-founded.
However, Su Zhe took the relevant accounts back to the procuratorate for research as usual.
However, this greatly angered the government.
You keep saying that politics and law have nothing to do with each other. As a result, your public security, procuratorate and law are interfering in administration everywhere.
After the procuratorate conducts such an investigation, how many officials there are and how much they should be paid, these officials must be very cautious, and they cannot randomly set salaries, and the related households will be further supervised.
Just at this moment, news suddenly came from the capital that the imperial court would appoint Han Jiang as the observer envoy of Shaanxi Road, responsible for investigating the case of the Prohibition of Green Crop Law.
The morale of the government suddenly boosted!
Because according to the system of the Song Dynasty, envoys are the most powerful. Since Han Jiang came to investigate the case, his power must be above the public prosecutor's law.
"Good good!"
Yuan Jiang was very excited and said: "Let's bear with it now and don't care about them. When Mr. Han comes here, we want them to look good."
Wei Yingfang, Cao Yi, He Chunlin and the others couldn't help but look at each other, all with happy faces.
Their plan finally succeeded.
Han Jiang is Wang Anshi's man, and he must come to overturn the case. As long as the imperial court's judgment can be abolished, the authority of the public prosecutor's law will inevitably be greatly reduced.
This elbow must not be able to twist the thigh.
Just at this time, Zhuo Qun suddenly walked quickly into the hall, "Report to Zhifu Cai, Bachelor Yuan, some merchants are buying salt bonds today."
"really?"
Cai Yanqing said happily.
Zhuo Qun nodded and said: "It's absolutely true, Tiju Changping Division has sold [-] salt bonds."
Is that much?
When everyone heard the words, they couldn't help but be overjoyed!
Is this really a blessing, double happiness!
Wei Yingfang suddenly asked curiously: "Before, no one paid any attention to it, not even selling a penny of salt debt. Why are so many people coming to buy it today?"
"It's because. because."
Zhuo Qun seemed to have something difficult to say and stammered.
Cai Yanqing was also very curious, and asked anxiously: "What is the reason, you said it!"
Zhuo Qun said: "It is said that they are relieved to buy salt bonds because they learned that the procuratorate has investigated the issuance of salt bonds."
".?"
The whole hall was instantly filled with embarrassment.
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(End of this chapter)