Winter is coming and spring is coming. Just after the New Year, a fleet of ships sailed south on the Si River. Looking at their flag, it was the former Xuzhou Muslim fleet who had stepped down and returned to Beijing.

On one of the ships, Zu Qi was explaining his experience to Li Li: how to evade taxes.

Zu Yi is a strange guy who dares to cheat under the eyes of the powerful minister and the emperor. This "expert" has appeared and made Li Li deeply understand what it means to "black like a crow in the world".

Whether it is the Wei State (Eastern Wei), Qi State or Liang State, the ills of the bureaucratic system are the same. The dark side of the Northern Dynasties also existed in the Southern Dynasties.

Among them, the same is true for tax evasion and even tax resistance.

In short, taxation is easy to set, but taxation is difficult to collect.

Taking commercial tax as an example, it is nothing more than a tax (the tax levied on merchants can be regarded as circulation tax) and housing tax (the tax levied on business tax can be regarded as business tax).

Passing taxes is mainly reflected in the customs and Tianjin tax, which means that the team transporting goods passes through the pass and must pay taxes when the Jinkou entrance is in place.

At this time, the tax collector estimated the value of the goods based on the inspection results and taxed the merchants in proportion.

As for housing tax, it means that the city of each city is taxed by tax collectors on the turnover of merchants (sitting for business) in the city.

However, because the turnover is difficult to accurately calculate, this tax is generally levied according to the quantity purchased by the merchant.

However, the tax collector has a lot of "rooming room" to estimate the total value of goods that pass the customs. Similarly, when checking the merchant's purchase books, the tax collector has a lot of "operation space".

Moreover, the store must make fake accounts, and there are yin and yang books. How should the tax collector check the actual quantity of goods purchased?

If you want to check clearly, how much accounting cost will it cost?

Therefore, the tax system formulated by all dynasties looks very good, but when implemented, the effect is very poor. The reason is that the tax collectors are.

No matter how good the system is, it must be implemented by people. If there is a problem with the person who executes it, the system will naturally have problems.

If the person who executes it has no problem, but if the execution encounters problems and cannot be implemented, this system will be useless.

The tax system depends on tax officials and tax collectors to implement it. Therefore, when Zu Yi and a group of officials evade taxes and even resist taxes, they basically "attack the heart" of the tax collectors to achieve "a war without fighting" and "a war without fighting."

In fact, this is not a difficult task. As long as the official position is large enough or can be used to pretend to be a tiger, tax collectors are easy to pass on.

There is no way to use the trick of forging official documents.

Whether the collection of commercial tax can be levied must be levied with goods does not depend on how to set the tax rate or the tax method, but on how to collect taxes from the privileged.

Small business deals made by small vendors, selling some daily necessities, are not worth a lot of taxes.

The big part of commercial tax lies in those bulk goods transactions and various luxury goods transactions.

Which of the merchants who can do these business is not a wealthy businessman, and which one has a backer who is still higher than the other?

Such privileged people have serious damage to the tax system, and the more serious behavior is that the royal family takes the lead in "exceptions".

Who in the world dares to tax the emperor's things?

Who can verify the fake goods under the "royal exclusive supply" sign? Who dares to verify the fakes!

Even if it is just the goods of King XX and Marquis XX, even if the tax collector wants to collect taxes, the official army and official officer who escort the goods to death are not much different from killing a dog.

Therefore, whether the tax system can be implemented and whether it can be collected depends on whether the taxes that are to be collected by the privileged person.

If you cannot collect it, it means that the bulk of the commercial tax cannot be collected, and the so-called "income income" will naturally become a joke.

Zu Yi said bluntly, in Yecheng, who was not very obsessed with tax collecting taxes from officials, businessmen and wealthy merchants?

Not to mention the merchants who bought goods signs for the royal family and royal family, when they saw tax collectors, they looked disdainful like seeing a mangy dog ​​on the street.

Li Li nodded: "That's right, let a small tax collector who is with his family to collect taxes on tigers, leopards, wealth and wolves, that is, let him die, and only fools will work hard."

"So, Junhou supervises Jiankang's tax affairs, which is a great opportunity to establish his authority." Zu Yi replied, this was the solution he thought for Li Li to "get to the next level."

Gao Yang suddenly passed away, and Liang Guoxin suffered a defeat in Henan, so Zu Yi judged that there would be no war between the two countries in recent years. So Li Li wasted his time in Xuzhou and did not change the place and did something.

"Either Junhou becomes a villain who everyone calls to beat in Jiankang City, or he becomes a strong man who everyone fears and conquers in Jiankang City."

"If Junhou wants to succeed in the new tax system, it will be inevitable to impose taxes on merchants and even officials and businessmen with royal family backgrounds. The acquisition means that Junhou can suppress the lackeys of these privileged people."

"I can't get it... Haha, I think this is not a problem for Junhou."

"The royal family... Since King Dong of Xiang and King Poyang have expressed their intention to take the lead in abiding by the tax system, I think it is not a problem to have these two people set an example."

"As for the royal family... Taifu Temple and Shaofu Temple, which provide services to the royal family, obey the emperor... The emperor was young and was the empress dowager. This orphan and widowed mother were very easy to be beaten..."

The orphan and widowed mother are very easy to deal with. This is a pun. Li Li coughed dryly: "It has always been difficult for evil servants to deal with, so you can't take it lightly."

Zu Yi smiled: "The evil servant dares to be arrogant, but he is just a dog who relies on his power. The king and the lord are not even afraid of his master, and are they still afraid of the evil servant?"

"What if that evil servant beats the tax collector to death and hides at the owner's house and doesn't leave? For example, the evil servants of the royal family and princes have always been lenient to the royal family, and the royal family will not punish them." Li Li asked, meaningfully.

Zu Yi was still laughing: "Tax-resistant people, kill them directly on the spot, which is more troublesome."

"What if the royal family blocked it?" Li Li asked again, and Zu Qi shrugged: "An accident occurs during disputes, it is inevitable, just get used to it."

Li Li raised his eyebrows when he heard this and stopped saying anything.

When he becomes a wicked person, he will have to be like a wicked person, and the consequences will of course be to offend a large number of powerful people.

Zhang Ying and Zu Yi wished that he would offend all the royal families, royal families and even the powerful, and would also stop his thoughts of being loyal ministers.

However, even collecting personal income tax will make people angry. Is Li Sanlang of Poyang so incompetent?

"You have read the implementation details of the new tax system." Li Li took out a thick stack of information and handed it to Zu Yi: "This is a summary of prices in Jiankang City."

"And the price trends of these goods over the years, by year, in monthly terms."

Zu Yi probably looked through it and was shocked by the dense data in the information: "Where did Junhou get the price information for the past years?"

"A few years ago, I asked someone to collect it. At the beginning, I just wanted to do a better job."

Li Li smiled. Although he had very little time in Jiankang, he had arranged personnel to conduct "market surveys" in Jiankang since ten years ago.

Over the past decade, his subordinates have collected a large amount of data and are well aware of the price trends of various goods, commodities, and approximate sales on the Jiankang market.

It is precisely because of all kinds of sufficient preparations that Li Li dared to accept such a "script" that no one dared to accept.

According to his arrangement, Zhang Ying was responsible for the daily affairs of the shogunate, while Zu Qi was responsible for tax supervision and assisted Wu Xiang in establishing the new tax system.

"I am in Jiankang, and there are always people who help manage the industry. One of them is surnamed Hu Mingwei, who is a good player. When I arrive in Jiankang, I will ask him to be an assistant for you and win the first battle."

After hearing this, Zu Yi felt aroused: Use a person in charge of the industry to be my assistant and win the first battle? Could it be that the opponent in the first battle is...

Li Li continued: "Before the New Year, I wanted to return to Beijing to work. The news of the tax supervision and tax system has spread in Jiankang."

"The new tax system is actually nothing to hide. Raozhou and Xuzhou are implementing it, so those who are interested can find out after a little inquiries."

"Before the New Year, I had sent people to Jiankang to prepare related matters, and announced the announcements in various customs and centres around Jiankang to promote them to the past business travelers, so people have time to think about the new tax system."

"This also means that some unscrupulous merchants have plenty of time to prepare for the offensive, and now, just after the New Year, the offensive has begun."

Li Li said and laughed: "Year-year compared with the beginning of recent years, now, Jiankang's prices have begun to rise abnormally, and there are obviously some people who are going to raise them, and they are going to raise them layer by layer, especially grain prices."

"Now spring is the beginning of the year, and the green and yellow people are not in line with each other. Ordinary people are very sensitive to food prices, so some people take the opportunity to make efforts."

"Food is the most important thing for people. Once the food price rises, other prices will naturally rise."

"The reasons are surprisingly consistent, that is, the court wants to increase taxes, and it is all small business. In order to support the family, there is a price increase."

When Zu Yi heard this, his eyes lit up: "These profitable merchants have indeed begun to challenge the new tax system. If they really succeed, they will make people in the city panic. Before the new tax system is implemented, they may have become famous."

"Who said no? Now, there is no need for evil servants to attack the tax customs. Just relying on profiteers to raise prices is very lethal. If this wave of offensive can't stand it, my "Jiankang Tax Affairs" has become a laughing stock."
Chapter completed!