Chapter 269 Tax collection is a business seeking support)
“Charging taxes is of course a business!”
In the private room on the second floor of "Yichen Village", Shi Yiwen said with a smile.
"Oh? Why did tax collection become a business?"
Zhu Yijun asked back.
"The core of doing business is to make relatively generous profits at a certain cost, and this taxation also has costs. For example, just like the shops in Beijing, if the government collects taxes, there are only two ways. One is to collect fixed store taxes, which is to divide the upper, middle and lower levels according to the industry, and the taxes are divided into three levels according to the size of the store. The taxes are collected according to the fixed quota, ranging from a hundred yuan to a hundred taels, or the three tax system worth 100 yuan, and a business tax of 3.3% is levied..."
In front of Zhu Yijun, Zhu Mingzhong carefully taught him taxation. In fact, many people don’t know anything about taxation at all, and some even think that taxation can be received with just one mouthful. But the actual situation is extremely complicated.
"Just like our "Yichenzhuang", the monthly turnover is no less than 10,000 taels. Now, according to the store, it only costs 36 taels per month..."
"Thirty-six taels! This is less than one-tenth of what you should accept!"
The example of "Yichangzhuang" surprised Zhu Yijun.
"Then why doesn't the government collect taxes based on a tax system worth 100 yuan?"
"cost!"
Shi Yiwen said with a smile.
"According to a tax system of 100 to 300, the monthly turnover must be determined. How can the government obtain this turnover?"
"You can check the accounts!"
"What about fake accounts?"
"Fake accounts are always fake."
"You must be able to find out if it is fake first. He has reduced his turnover by dozens of times. How can the government distinguish it?"
"You can send someone to the shop to stare."
"Can you keep an eye on it every day? And there are tens of thousands of shops in the capital. Does each shop send someone to keep an eye on it? How much salary do these people need in a month, and how many accountants do the government need to hire?"
As he talked and refuted, Shi Yiwen said with a smile.
"This is the cost of taxation. The cost is high. It requires 80 taels to be imposed. Such a price is undoubtedly unacceptable. Therefore, the government now collects taxes based on the size of the store, but even so, tax evasion is a common phenomenon. Just like in our restaurant, someone has handed over the words that as long as we pay twenty taels of silver a month, we can change our restaurant into wait, and we only need to pay less than three taels of silver a month!"
Shi Yiwen's answer made Zhu Yijun feel angry, and then said in a depressed mood.
"It is really hateful that the evil officials are so full of their own pockets."
"It's really abominable, so the key to rectifying the money gate in the future is to employ people, and the system, especially the system. How to use the system to restrict the money gate officials from being able to embezzle and accept bribes is the most important thing."
As soon as the topic changed, Shi Yiwen still mentioned the money. He could only complain about the tax collectors all over the country who were fond of their own pockets. Such things could not be eliminated in hundreds of years, let alone now.
"system?"
Zhu Yijun said in confusion.
In the education he received, he always said that "officials dare not embezzle and accept bribes" and never heard of "can't".
"How can I not be greedy?"
Zhu Yijun has always been curious about fresh knowledge. Since he met Shi Yiwen, he has indeed learned a lot of fresh knowledge. Now he is also very curious about "not being greedy".
"First of all, we must be independent from the structure and make it completely independent outside the officialdom, so that we can avoid being affected by bad habits in the officialdom. However, there is no problem. After all, after the money is reclaimed, it is the royal private business, so we can naturally maintain independence."
The money is independent of other departments and isolates it from the corrupt officialdom, not just for taxation. Shi Yiwen also has his own selfish intentions. What he wants is a "official world" that is independent of the officialdom and can even fight against the traditional officialdom in the future.
"The General Taxation Department reports to you directly. The main management positions of each banknote are not ordinary officials, but only heroes. One of the important reasons is that heroes are not afraid of the intervention and pressure of local officials."
At this point, Shi Yiwen borrowed from the customs of the late Qing Dynasty, and even in the entire structural system of future banknotes, he fully borrowed from the late Qing Dynasty customs. Even if the late Qing Dynasty customs rely on its system to maintain integrity in the highly corrupt late Qing officialdom, it is absolutely true to learn from their system.
"Although those honorary officials are not afraid of local officials' intervention and pressure, what if they are in a relationship with those people?"
Obviously, even Zhu Yijun knew who those honorary ministers were, and they were also human beings, and they would also embezzle and accept bribes.
"So, this requires introducing a certain system."
In the face of the emperor's inquiry, Shi Yiwen said seriously.
"Inside the cashier, an independent supervision system needs to be introduced. I plan to abandon the traditional Chinese accounting method and introduce the current Yulon Bank accounting, auditing and statistics system. After this system is introduced, it will become very difficult to make fake accounts within the cashier."
Listening to Shi Yiwen's explanation of the establishment and operation of the future Chaoguan, Zhu Yijun nodded from time to time. He has not asked about the Chaoguan for a while. After all, as the emperor, he naturally cannot sit idly by and earnings ranging from millions of taels per year, tens of millions of taels, or even tens of millions of taels in the future.
"Of course, we cannot just work and not give people food. In addition to the supervision system, we should also introduce a humanized salary and welfare system. For example, a detailed assessment system is introduced. Those with excellent performance will receive additional salary ranging from 1 to 6 months. A reasonable job promotion system has been formulated. There is also a high salary and a generous pension. This is a very generous reward, which is directly linked to the ethics of employees. If you are found to have dereliction of duty or embezzlement, you will be fired and you will not get a pension. Cherishing high-quality welfare benefits can also greatly weaken people's desire for illegal corruption."
Then, Shi Yiwen looked at Zhu Yijun and explained.
"The reason I designed such an integrity mechanism is because I don't know what others say, "human nature is good." I think human nature is evil, so it is necessary to increase the risks and costs of corruption among employees. Of course, I think that in addition to these, when the money is shown, there will inevitably be external supervision, such as the court and local officials. They will inevitably pay close attention to the income and whereabouts of the money tax in the name of supervision, and wait for an opportunity to seize the money. External "independent supervision" will also prevent the money officials from daring to step over the line."
Although Shi Yiwen's explanation of "human nature is evil" will definitely cause a lot of noise if it is spread, Zhu Yijun doesn't care. Compared to this, he cares more about the benefits that "Chaoguan" will bring to him in the future.
Chapter completed!