The noon sun shone on the ground, and Liu Xiaoyi carried a basin and sprinkled water on the ground. However, in a short while, it was steamed without leaving any trace. Only the tall ginkgo trees covered a large area of ​​shade, and it was particularly comfortable to sit down.

Li Shen stood under the tree and thought for a long time before sighing: "This Tong Qilang is really sloppy. He opened the cellar here and made a lot of money, but he did not buy a house or make land. He just had some money, no taxes, and no taxes. In addition, the counterfeit wine vessels burned in the cellar never gambled in the casino. It can be seen that he was a complete troublemaker! But what he did was not a serious crime, but only dozens of sticks. How could such a punishment be cured? If such a person is gone from Heyin County, Jiang Da's family will be more lawless?"

Xu Ping nodded: "I went to Jiang Dayou and stood up. Isn't this a tiger rejection at the front door and a wolf entering the back door?"

"What can you do? The law is so strict, and the subordinates can only rule him according to the law. It's amazing that they just use some force when they are on the stick! When you are in charge, do you just watch such people get away with the law? You have to think of a way!"

After hearing this, Xu Ping couldn't help laughing: "After talking for a long time, I have come up with a solution here. I don't know if Li Tong can do it!"

"If you can't do it, you have to do it. Even if you want to do it, just say that. Except for Tong Qilang, this Heyin County will still be in peace!"

Xu Ping walked a few steps back in the shade of the ginkgo tree before saying to Li Shen: "You just said that Tong Qilang has not paid taxes in Heyin County for many years. Then I ask you, how did he get the money he doesn't pay taxes?"

"Of course, it's the income from selling porcelain. After checking, Tong Qilang really has no land in Heyin."

"If you sell porcelain, don't pay taxes? In Mengzhou City, let alone opening a cellar, do you have to pay taxes if you open a store even if you only sell needles and threads?"

"Of course, when opening a store to do business, you naturally have to pay the housing tax." Speaking of this, Li Shen suddenly understood what Xu Ping meant. "Doing the system means that Tong Qilang has evaded taxes over the years?"

"Isn't it? The porcelain he made is always sold. Where did he get the money if he doesn't sell it? The porcelain is sold but does not pay taxes. What is this not tax evasion?"

After hearing this, Li Shen pondered: "But, Tong Qilang did not open a store, and others didn't know how his porcelain was sold. It is hard to say whether it was sold in Heyin County or in other prefectures and counties."

At this time, commercial tax was divided into residential and commercial business, residential and commercial tax, and commercial tax was thirty, and commercial tax was thirty, and commercial tax was thirty. But in general, it was taxed on transactions and trafficking, but it was not taxed on production. Tong Qilang was a producer, and there was never a record of his transactions in Heyin County, so there was no tax.

Li Shen also felt that taxes should not be paid, which was also the difference in thought brought about by the different times. In the eyes of people in this era, as long as taxes are imposed on the transportation process and transactions, merchants will naturally transfer the burden of taxes to the producers, and there is no need to pay special taxes to the producers.

Xu Ping had different ideas and consciousness in his previous life and was in Sansi. He had always wanted to slowly transfer fiscal revenue to industry and commerce, so he naturally understood the unreasonable aspects of this than Li Shen.

If only taxes are imposed on transactions and trafficking, in places like Kaifeng Prefecture, if large households produce and sell their own products and sell them, and the upstream and downstream production chains are opened up, they can avoid the intermediate transaction tax and thus obtain excess profits. Profits and excess profits in commercial activities, absolute land rent and differential land rent in land rent, people nowadays do not have a rational understanding, and the tax structure is naturally unreasonable. Not levied on production is a huge loophole in Xu Ping's view.

But this kind of thing cannot be solved overnight. You can't propose to pay tax on Tong Qilang's production now. Xu Ping thought for a while and said to Li Shen: "Prime Minister Li Tong, the matter is not that complicated. Tong Qilang must have made a lot of porcelain over the years, and he must have sold these porcelains. Just look at how he sells it. If there is a store in other prefectures and counties, you can check it. If there is no one, you can be determined to be trading in Heyin County."

"So how do you know how much you sold? How much tax should you pay?"

"This is simple. Just go to his cellar now and see how much porcelain he produces in a month. If you can't check it out for a month, then check it for a day or two, and then push it back."

Li Chan nodded, but always felt something was wrong. He thought for a while and asked, "When it is done, there are always omissions in doing this? Maybe Tong Qilang has burned a lot now, but there were not so many people in the past few years and there were so many cellars, so he couldn't burn so many. Isn't this wrongful criticism of him?"

When Xu Ping heard this, he laughed: "If he feels wronged, he can take out evidence and evidence. Why do you care about so much? He evades taxes, and you just care about taxes. How can it be proved that it is his business! Also, if those who hide goods do not tax, confiscate one-third of them. If they do not pay taxes for expired, the tax will be doubled. You must calculate the accounts carefully!"

Li Chan looked up at the sun in the sky, feeling a little dizzy. When Xu Ping first said that he was evading taxes, he felt that he was nothing to Tong Qilang, and he could only lose some money. When Xu Ping finished the calculations, he suddenly found that if he continued to investigate, he would collect all Tong Qilang's wealth, and even sell him, he would probably not pay back the tax he owed. This tax recovery would cause people to die if he accidentally!

Xu Ping knew very well that for businessmen, or those who make a living by doing business activities, they held their lives with the power to collect taxes and check taxes, and they could do whatever they wanted. This era was pretty good, but in the kind of business society in his previous life, there were only problems of whether they wanted to investigate or not, and no one could escape after investigation.

For people like Tong Qilang, it is completely unnecessary to find him for his illegal and criminal mistakes, just check the tax. In order to evade taxes as a customer, he actually does not buy any real estate in the local area. It is rare for him to be able to pay the tax honestly. As long as he is not asked to pay the tax, but to hold him accountable for hiding goods and evading taxes, all the wealth he has accumulated over the years is not enough.

Li Shen let out a sigh: "The official knows what to do."

Xu Ping nodded and said nothing.

After the affairs of the two local tyrants in Heyin County, Xu Ping has a clearer understanding of some economic conditions in this era. Especially for the rural economy, some places that I didn’t think clearly before finally began to have a contour in my mind. Using large farms to destroy the foundation of small peasant economy and using industry and commerce to replace tax revenue from agriculture is simple to say, but in fact it involves all aspects of society. If you do it simply and roughly, it is likely to cause great social turmoil, good things will be done into bad things, and the original supporters will become opponents.

This small county may be used as a pilot program for Xu Ping's rural supporting reform system. It will not be continued.

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Chapter completed!