"Lao Wang, some taxes in your village have been arrears for a long time. Should we be cleared?" On February 25, 1688, outside a small village south of Cuiwu Township, Jinglong County, Baoding Prefecture, Li Ergou, wearing a tax department uniform, sniffed the wind with a hat and said to a middle-aged man in front of him.

Li Ergou's original name was Li Ergou. His family originally opened a tea shop in Jinglong Town, the county town, and his business was pretty good. However, due to a triangular debt case, their tea shop could not be opened, and the capital chain was eventually broken and he was declared bankrupt. Fortunately, Li Ergou had some dog friends, all of whom had been rampant in the country for many years. At that time, they had been incorporated by the tax department and became tax collectors from various places. Later, he also introduced him and became one of the five tax police officers in the tax police room in Cuiwu Township, responsible for the tax collection of various villages and private markets in the south.

To be honest, since he took office as a tax policeman, he has been relatively peaceful and has not had many bad records. Like some other tax policemen, they are very familiar with them and often catch the tax-owing big tax-owers and lock them up until their families raise enough money and pay the money. To be honest, Li Ergou has never done such a thing and does not want to do it. Even if his performance is a bit ugly, it doesn't matter, because it does not conform to his principles of acting.

What's more, since the General Administration of Taxation was reorganized into the Taxation Department and Deputy Minister Huang Hanhua actually presided over the work, he was very lucky. He was originally promoted to the Deputy Director of the General Administration of Taxation. Later, the organization was reorganized. He was promoted from being out of thin air to becoming the Deputy Minister of the Taxation Department. Instead of the Minister who had been retiring for a long time, the actual work in the presidency of the Department has always emphasized the importance of "civilized law enforcement", that is, he requires local tax departments to change their work style and attitude, and no longer detain or beat and scold tax owers at will. Therefore, under such a general background, Li Ergou naturally had no need to change himself.

However, it is indeed a headache to talk about some big tax-owing households. Especially those in rural areas, their families are not without money, but they refuse to pay taxes! You should know that farmers' living costs are low and they do not need to pay much taxes. Logically speaking, they should not ow taxes so much. Li Ergou has carefully checked the information in the tax police room and also talked to some cadres of several villages he managed (note: a large village, with several small villages under his jurisdiction, namely production teams, numbersed by numbers). He learned that most farmers actually only need to pay movable property tax, real estate tax and field 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 required to collect them, such as the grassroots tax police in the countryside.

Compared with farmers like them, urban residents, mainly engaged in industry and commerce, in addition to paying movable property tax and real estate tax, they also need to pay personal income tax, deed tax, stamp tax and other taxes. Business operators also have to pay consumption tax, business tax, customs tax, tobacco and alcohol tax, four types of unified taxes, etc. (the inheritance tax is ignored). In particular, tobacco and alcohol tax and unified taxes, farmers have taken a big advantage in this regard, because now many people in rural areas make homemade wine, eat non-machine flour, and make homemade local tobacco, and do not have to pay any taxes at all (or in other words, tax evasion). In addition, the popularity of non-cash transactions such as barter among the people, and many craftsmen sell their own handicraft products privately, so the consumption tax of many items has also been evaded. The tax burden is not much lower than that of urban residents, but the degree of arrears is far higher than that of urban residents, which is indeed a bit speechless.

The focus of rural tax arrears is on movable property tax and real estate tax. Because the land tax can be paid by grain, there is almost no arrears. After all, there is nothing in rural areas, but there is no shortage of food. The two main taxes that are still the main source of finance in the East Coast are still the main sources of finance. The degree of arrears is relatively serious, so that 10.239 million yuan should be levied on the book, but in fact, only more than 60% of the tax was collected. The country directly lost more than 3 million yuan in taxes, which is indeed quite amazing.

In fact, the main energy of local tax departments is also spent on this. The county tax bureau is responsible for formulating an overall movable property tax and real estate tax collection plan and clarifying the overall amount. The township tax office focuses on evaluating the actual situation of each village and agrees with the village chief and village representatives to a specific tax collection amount. The tax police in the tax police station is responsible for supervising the collection. The three-level institutions are one link after another to ensure that the best efforts are made to collect the tax to benefit the country.

The village where Li Ergou came today owed a total of 327 yuan in the above two taxes in the fiscal year 1685-1686. If the accumulated owes over the years are included, it will exceed 1,000 yuan. This is an amazing number. Therefore, Li Ergou had to go to the countryside in person and ask the village chief for inquiries.

"Old Li, it is really difficult for people to pay money from their pockets. Whether he has money or not, especially a few of them are veterans, all of whom are fierce and I have worked at home, but they just don't pay them. What can you do? If you are really impatient, they threaten to find some good comrades to support you. What can you do? I am also a family and a family, so I can't get along with these fools." The village chief, who is known as "Lao Wang", shook his head and said frowningly: "I don't even dare to remove them from rural cooperatives, for fear of being beaten with someone in a sack at night. It is said that veterans are of high quality, but that also get points. These masters have fought wars and killed people. The look of the eyes of people is wrong. I dare not offend them. Lao Li, don't force me."

Li Ergou was speechless when he heard this. To be honest, he did not dare to offend these people, because of the large number of military-to-military cadres and frequent activities in rural military associations and other organizations, veterans at the grassroots level in the East Coast are indeed a very huge force. Under normal circumstances, due to the relationship between discipline and obedience, these people are powerful tools to stabilize the grassroots level. However, as the saying goes, feeding hundreds of people with such a large group of veterans and having a certain degree of organization, it is inevitable that some bad elements will be produced.

The people who owed taxes and did not pay the taxes mentioned above are pretty good, at least they have not disturbed others. But some people who rely on the relationship network of the village military associations are amazing. It is common for bullying others. It can be said that they have affected the economic order in the countryside to a considerable extent, so that grassroots cadres complained and strongly demanded rectification. For this reason, the State Council wrote to the Executive Committee in the middle of last year, asking them to coordinate with relevant personnel from the General Staff Headquarters to clean up and rectify the "filth-hiding" military associations and other organizations. After sending people to investigate, the military also promised to rectify them, but there are still many veterans who resisted taxes or transferred the tax burden to others in many places.

"Old Wang, you are also the village chief, so you can't do anything to them?" Li Ergou was a little upset now, so his tone was not so good. He just heard him say: "If these people can't be taken down, the village will report this year, asking the medical team to not come to your village, and the township central primary school will not allow the children in your village to go to school. You will be waiting to be scolded by one or two thousand people in the seven production teams in the village!"

"This, this, Lao Li, the village cannot be so cruel, right?" Village Chief Wang was anxious when he heard this and said in a rough voice: "Just just to collect a few dollars, the medical team is going to be cut off? What's the difference between this and killing people!"

"Lao Wang, there is nothing I can do about this. Your father came from the Qing Dynasty to Ningbo. I think he should have told you a lot about urging classes in the countryside? To be honest, our East Coast is really tolerant and civilized enough. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, people like those who do not pay taxes have been arrested and died, right? Even in the European countries, people will be auctioned off their property, become debt slaves, and sent to ships as slaves and oarsmen.

"Li Ergou sighed and said, "The court also needs taxes to maintain various expenses. Look, the navy has invested a lot over the years, and ships are just launched one by one. Don't these require money? It's time to go to the sea! You don't know about this when you stay in the countryside all day, but I read "Prince Truth" and "Bornman" to understand that the court is really expanding its military and preparing for war, and it is impossible to spend a penny in half. If you don't pay taxes at this time, no wonder the court will get angry. There is nothing we can do about it!"

In fact, from some perspectives, Li Ergou's words are correct. According to the figures in the fiscal years 1686-1687 calculated by the Ministry of Finance, the local Republic of China (including South Africa) with a total income of 37.829 million yuan was levied on paper, with a total income of 25.424 million yuan, and non-tax income of 12.405 million yuan. According to the tax-sharing reform, of which more than 15 million yuan was attributable to the central government and more than 22 million yuan was attributable to local governments at all levels.

In other words, the central government has only received 15 million of its fiscal revenue of 40 million yuan, but it has to bear all expenses including huge military expenses. No wonder the Executive Committee is planning to launch two new money-making machines including water conservancy lottery and education lottery after the Transportation Lottery. It's really poor!

Therefore, you can understand now why local tax departments are so concerned about paying the tax arrears. In fact, this 40 million tax is just on paper, and it would be quite good to collect 70% or 80% of it. If you don’t take some measures against those big owed investors, more people will follow suit, which will lead to various tax deficiencies. The national finance is limited to exhaustion and will eventually fail to do anything.
Chapter completed!