What Li Tianyang has been pondering is how to assess the tax amount of commercial tax, which may not be accepted by other firms, which may affect the attraction of firms to settle in Jilong Port; But if it is low, the impact on Li Tianyang and them in the future will not be small, and the resistance to raising tax prices in the future will inevitably be great.

The Ming Dynasty also had a commercial tax, but this tax ratio reached an astonishing low rate of thirty taxes and one, and this was formulated by Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty, and it has been used by several dynasties without the slightest increase. Even in the Wanli period, tax evasion and tax evasion businesses abounded, and many large businesses were even more righteous and bright tax evasion, and the state did not take any action.

The final result was that there were nearly 200 million people in the Wanli period, and the commercial tax was only 3 million taels a year, most of which were still the income from the sale of salt, iron, and tea from the government.

Therefore, from the side of the Ming Dynasty, Li Tianyang really couldn't find an object to learn from, so he could only discuss it with a few partners. At this time, Li Tianyang felt that there were really not many people around him who could discuss things.

If there were a few erudite and talented literati around him now, it wouldn't be so troublesome! However, it was also at this time that Li Tianyang remembered that there was another scholar beside him-Zhang Ziyi.

Zhang Ziyi, as Li Tianyang's senior brother, has been full of books since he was a child, and studying poetry and books is not comparable to Li Tianyang's half-ass. Since setting foot on Dayuan Island, what kind of things like the Four Books and Five Classics have long been left behind by Li Tianyang, if he is taught by his cheap teacher Lu Zhang, he will not be able to cut off the teacher-student relationship with him immediately.

A flying pigeon letter, it didn't take long for Zhang Ziyi to be invited to the chicken coop harbor by Li Tianyang with a little wind and dissatisfaction. Not to mention, the reader is different, in the letter I learned that Li Tianyang asked him to come over because of Zhang Ziyi, and when he came, he also found a few books related to the two Song dynasties from the library in Bengang, which can be regarded as a reference for Li Tianyang and them.

The provisions on commercial tax such as 2% tax and 3% residential tax have long been a law in the two Song Dynasty, and although it is not very timely in today's Jilong Port, it is also suitable for temporary use in Jilong Port after a slight change.

This kind of circulation tax is not of much use in a place like Jilong Harbor today, but the tax of residential tax Li Tianyang intends not to collect taxes based on the volume of transactions, but according to the rules of individual industrialists and businessmen in later generations, the merchants in Jilong Harbor will be graded, and the fees that need to be paid for a year will be converted according to their size.

For example, small and medium-sized households in Jilong Hong Kong can open small teahouses and small wine shops, and it is enough to pay two to five taels of silver a year; A restaurant is generally between fifty and one hundred taels of silver; As for the industries that hinder folk customs and customs, such as green houses and gambling houses, the taxes and fees paid in a year are at least 3,500 taels or more, and the maximum can reach 1,000 taels.

As for businesses like Qixintang and Defuxuan, because of the large volume of import and export goods, even when the current Jilong Port was not developed, and because the goods of Bengang were transferred here for trading, several merchants also came to replenish their goods at least one or two times a month. Therefore, in addition to the living tax, Li Tianyang also has to collect fees according to the volume of cargo ships, and the import and export tax of 500 taels of silver for a standard 2,000 sea ships seems to be a lot, but it is really nothing when it is actually apportioned to a huge amount of goods.

Moreover, in order to take care of these allies who have always maintained a good relationship with Qixintang and opened a business in Jilong Port at the first time, Li Tianyang gave them a preferential policy of 80% reduction of commercial tax within five years under the pretext of attracting investment, and the tax collected was not too much.

It didn't take long for the government office building in Jilong Harbor to be made of pear wood, and a regulation on the top of the "Chicken Long Harbor Trial Commercial Tax Collection Measures" was quietly hung out.

In addition to a few businesses in Defuxuan, because there is no mention of the collection of this commercial tax in the Ming Dynasty, and there are some complaints, other merchants also feel that the proportion of commercial tax is not too high, and most of the teahouses and restaurants are opened by the villagers in Jilong Gangzhong, and everyone has no complaints.

As for the Qinglou and gambling houses with the highest tax collection, it is even more because the biggest proprietor behind them is Qixintang, and collecting commercial tax is equivalent to handing over the silver from the left hand to the right hand, and it is impossible to make any entanglements!

In this regard, the several pillars that support Li Tianyang's gradually growing team can be regarded as a successful prototype.

Among them, the largest one, of course, is a dry industry of Qixintang, in addition to the many workshops and farms under the hall, as well as thousands of well-developed land in Bengang, and at the same time, several restaurants, green buildings and gambling houses built in Jilong Harbor are also under the command of Qixintang.

These industries can be said to be the biggest pillar industries of Li Tianyang's team today, and the thousands of land in Bengang that can grow at least two seasons of grain a year have brought 60,000 or 70,000 stone of grain harvest to Li Tianyang's team. With so much food, Li Tian was able to feed the people in the three places under his command, luring the natives and foreign pirates to trade and interact with them.

Not to mention that there are more and more goods in many workshops, and now there are seventeen or eighteen varieties of goods, large and small, covering all kinds of consumable items needed by the people in their daily lives, bringing at least six or seven thousand taels of silver to Qixintang every month. Although the Zhongqing Building and the gambling house in Jilong Hong Kong were newly built, their ability to absorb gold should not be underestimated, and only in the past half a year of development, a few items have accumulated a small income of 2,000 taels of silver a month.

Of course, in addition, Hongtang's side also made a lot of profits, and after the Ryukyu waters gradually stabilized, the fees it extracted from passing ships also exceeded the income from the Penghu waters, and the two sides added up to nearly 20,000 taels of silver in a month. It's just that although the income is large, Hong Tang's expenses are not small, Wu Jie and his special combat team of only more than 500 people, the salary and benefits paid in January add up to no less than 5,000 taels, and there are nearly 4,000 ordinary team members, and there are about 20,000 taels of expenses in a month.

The income of the entire Hongtang can't even make up for the expenses of the Hongtang, and it is still necessary to transfer thousands of taels of silver and silver from Qixintang every month to fill the vacancy, which is also the reason why Li Tianyang insisted on establishing an ocean-going fleet at this time.

The larger the scale, the greater the logistical pressure Li Tianyang and the others face, that is, Li Tianyang's team, which now has so many foundations to support, can only keep so many silver taels in a year.

Of course, there is also a land tax of fifteen taxes and one in Bengang, plus the commercial tax implemented in Jilong Port now, the two can add up to more or less help the team subsidize one or two, but in a short period of time, if you want to rely on these two taxes, it will definitely be impossible.

Agricultural tax and commercial tax, the younger brother is just a superficial taste, not too cautious and meticulous, here is also more consideration of the development of an ordinary person, ordinary team, it is impossible to formulate too detailed and detailed rules at the beginning!

(End of chapter)