Qian Hao walked into the office early in the morning. As the parent official of Xihu County, the "big granary" of the East Coast Republic of China, and also serving as a member of the Standing Committee of the Nanyazihu ​​District, he is really too busy now. He has to deal with a variety of affairs in industry, finance, agriculture, military, etc., and he has to work on his desk from morning to night.

By the way, Qian Hao was transferred from the position of county magistrate of Ping'an County to Xihu County as the county magistrate (the county magistrate of Ping'an County was replaced by Yang Mingyang, a retired army officer who returned from the Far East). Although he was promoted to half a level and served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Prefectural Committee, in the eyes of many people, it is hard to say how the gains and losses of the backbone of the Shao Shude faction were gained and lost. After all, the importance of Ping'an County is the highest in the country. The difference between rashly being transferred from the position of county magistrate of an industrial county is still quite large.

What made Qian Hao even more unhappy was that perhaps the group of people above were so idle that they actually had some fun with local officials below them last year, which was the so-called serious supervision of the promotion and publicity of the new tax system, and at the same time ensured that all kinds of taxes included in the seven major taxes can be collected in full to supplement the central and local finances.

But the problem is that in Qian Hao's opinion, those taxes are not so easy to collect! Why? First, there is no independent tax department on the East Coast. All tax inspectors are affiliated with the Ministry of Finance, and most of the grassroots tax collectors are part-time jobs. They have their own jobs, so the efficiency of tax collection can be imagined. Second, ordinary people are naturally unwilling to pay taxes, and they will try their best to conceal their property and income in order to evade taxes. If they really can't escape, try to pay as little as possible. If they want to find out the property and income of each household, this is another huge project. The executive committee may have to set up a tax department separately, employing thousands or even tens of thousands of people, and spending several years to investigate, but this is unbearable, so it is not realistic at all.

We just need to look at the tax data last year. Among the total taxes of 1.914 million yuan throughout the year, the two main taxes, movable property tax and real estate tax, were levied 432,000 yuan and 724,000 yuan respectively last year, accounting for 60% of them. It is worthy of the name of the main tax. However, these two taxes also encountered great problems in the collection process. First of all, the people's disagreement is the right thing to say. After all, the number of real estate in the country is similar now. Except for a few people, no one has one more house than others. This creates good conditions for the valuation and taxation of real estate - but there are still not a few people who are not paying it.

The collection of movable property tax is very troublesome. After all, you cannot monitor the property income of each resident in all aspects, so in the end you can only agree on the tax amount based on regional differences, and then let each village pay it out themselves - this seems to be the lowest-cost method of tax collection. Of course, there is also huge room for fraud, but this is also impossible.

At this time, property tax collection in Europe is all about public auctioning of the tax right, and then the tax collector finds a way to collect it himself. The process of "finding a way to collect" is naturally very disharmonious. Compared with this method of auctioning tax right, the tax amounts set by people from East Coast who have been repeatedly discussed and determined by various places cannot be completely harmonious, but they are much more "gentle" than the rough method of Europe.

Of course, no matter how gentle your tax method is, it is the same for the common people. Anyway, they have to pay money from their pockets, so they are reluctant to hide and misreport and cheat. Therefore, the movable property tax of 432,000 yuan in the end is actually far lower than the initial expectations of the Ministry of Finance (at least 60% off). What makes the Ministry of Finance even more collapsed is that out of the 432,000 yuan, only about 290,000 yuan is actually about 290,000 yuan, and the remaining 142,000 yuan is in arrears. The households who arrears are actually not without money to pay the tax, but are only for various reasons (such as being dissatisfied with the amount distributed by the village cadres to themselves, etc.). As for when to pay, it is probably possible until they solve these troubles with the village - of course, if compulsory measures are taken, it will be collected soon.

"In the long run, the collection of movable property tax and real estate tax is really a difficult problem." Qian Hao put down the information in his hand and said to himself: "Fortunately, the people in our East Coast Republic are generally rich, and the resistance to taxation has been reduced a lot. If this is placed in Europe, where the tax burden is extremely heavy, something might happen! But by the way, we East Coast people are really rich. In theory, only seven tax types can be levied at a tax of less than 2 million yuan, which is really good."

Speaking of the total tax of 1.914 million this time, in addition to real estate tax and movable property tax, there are also deed taxes of about 5,000 yuan, business tax of 117,000 yuan, and consumption tax of 198,000 yuan (this is also a tax that is extremely missed), personal income tax of 218,000 yuan and tariffs of about 220,000 yuan - of course, in addition, there are public grains paid by farmers, but because they are not physical taxes, they have not been included in the tax for the time being.

"The people are still sensible. They know that low taxes and even no tax collections were not normal for the government and would not last long. Therefore, from the overall perspective, the one-year tax collection year of 1652-1653 was still stable. Of course, perhaps this is related to their accustomed to the heavy tax burden in the old continent. Those monarchs who levyed heavy taxes created many shocking taxes, and the tax collection process was also simple and crude. They could tolerate these, but there was no reason that they could not tolerate them when they came to the East Coast. As long as they endured at the beginning and got used to the current taxation later, there would be no problem. These taxes could be implemented all the time." Qian Hao took his own mind

I ordered a pipe for myself, and while enjoying the pleasure of the lung leaves being soaked in smoke, I thought: "The tax of two million is calculated based on the latest national population of 397,000 (about 46% of Ming people and 20.5% of mixed-race new generation of East Coast people) last month (the number of people in the country accounts for 20.5%). On average, one person paid less than five yuan in taxes. Of course, if you count more than 90,000 non-national numbers, the average tax of one person is more than four yuan. Compared with the UK, which had a lighter tax burden in Europe at this time (the average tax of 20-30 shillings per person, about 4-6 yuan), this tax is not high, not to mention that the average income of East Coast people far exceeds that of the UK, which is even more unfair..."

Of course, the total tax of 1.914 million yuan above is actually only theoretical. In the actual collection process, due to various factors, only 1.4-1.5 million yuan was collected before the end of the year. The remaining money was basically owed - among which movable property tax and real estate tax were owed to large investors - which was quite helpless.

"Since real estate tax is the main force of tax collection, then the real estate registration system should be well implemented nationwide." Qian Hao thought: "It will be difficult for this matter to be implemented in the later Celestial Empire, and I can confirm it by 100%. At this time, the Ming Dynasty could not be implemented. Europe is also like a bird. The British Chancellor of the Finance Department was originally a big tax evader and tried every means to hide their own property. How can we estimate the value of their real estate? Fortunately, our East Coast Republic of China is an immigrant country in the New World, and it is a piece of blank paper. At this stage, except for a few people, everyone has only one house and thirty acres of land, which is easy to calculate. However, the promotion of this real estate registration system should be early rather than late. The delay is the greater the resistance. We must settle it while the initial stage of the national system is established, otherwise it will definitely be a big trouble in the future. After all, the Chinese people pay attention to wealth and not reveal their money."

"Europeans will definitely envy us when they know it, hehe." Qian Hao took a sip of cigarettes and then suddenly laughed: "They must not understand how the tax base is so wide in a country with a population of 400,000 and 500,000, and how the total tax amount is so high. They auctioned almost all of the taxes because they understood that the government could not collect these taxes, so they could only auction the tax rights to local nobles, merchants and even underworlds, and let them find a way. We collected more than 1.4 million in taxes last year, and their ability was greatly exaggerated. You must know that this part of the money is taken directly from the people and can be used directly in national construction. It is the best source of funds. There is no need to worry that the gold and silver obtained like digging gold mines cannot be used directly in China. In this way, tax collection will be treated as one of the most important tasks of the county government in the future."

It is actually normal for Qian Hao to have this idea, because anyone with a discerning eye knows that this is a good thing for both local finance and central finance. In particular, Qian Hao vaguely heard from friends in the capital that the central government is now discussing giving some taxes that are not easy to collect to local governments, that is, the local governments are responsible for levying these taxes, and the money received is also included in local finance, which should be very attractive to local governments.

Thinking of this, Qian Hao rang the bell and called his secretary, and then said to him: "I will hold a meeting of various departments tomorrow. The top leaders of the department must be present. If you really can't arrive, you have to ask for leave. This meeting is very important and you will focus on the next stage of work. Among them, the promotion and popularization of the new tax system are the top priority. This year, the tax payment limit in the county is not very ideal, which has a certain relationship with everyone's slackness and lack of attention. Therefore, I want to sound the alarm for everyone to let them know what the tax payment limit is.
Chapter completed!