"Mr. Mayor, I have to say that your accounts are doing a very good job!", the investigator from the State Tax Office put down the ledger in his hand, he took off his glasses and closed his eyes tiredly. There was already a mountain of accounts around him, all of which he had already read. It took him three days to take a cursory look at all the ledgers, and I have to say that the tax ledgers in Turnaire City are very well "compiled", and they are made by veterans.

As soon as you open any account book, you will see accounts full of cents, tens, and at most a few dollars, and occasionally one or two tax returns with large funds, which will eventually be either proved to be "small profits" or "charity". In the imperial tax system, no taxes were levied in either case.

In the commercial activities stipulated by the empire, most of the low-profit trade refers to the trade related to people's livelihood, such as wheat kernels, beef and other essential daily necessities. The government set uniform wholesale and retail prices, which were not affected by fluctuations in market supply and demand, and the existence of "grain protection areas" and "pastoral protection areas" exempted the empire from taxes on these low-profit trades.

As for charity being tax-exempt, it is actually normal, you must know that the charity dinner that has just ended has raised more than 40,000 donations, which can be directly distributed to poor citizens in need, but in order to avoid corruption and embezzlement, the empire has regulations that all funds used for charity cannot be directly distributed in cash to those in need, but in the form of materials.

For example, using the money to buy food, buy cloth, buy all kinds of things to distribute, so as to avoid the greed of people as much as possible with a large amount of money, and to prevent the money from being snatched from poor citizens by certain gangs or groups in various ways. The materials purchased with the donation are used for charity, so there is no need to file a tax return.

Perhaps this would explain why there is almost one charitable donation a month on the territory of the old party, which is a way for them to legitimately hide tax problems.

The mayor, who was sitting on the side, smiled, not knowing whether to affirm the investigator's statement or dismiss his statement.

The inquisitor smiled and shook his head, he took out a handkerchief from his pocket, wiped the lenses, put the glasses back in his pocket, and then looked at Peter, "Mr. Mayor, nothing in this world can be foolproof, nothing can be done perfectly. He casually picked up a book of accounts and shook it, "These numbers may be relatively reasonable, but I believe there must be some loopholes in them." I'm a state tax collector, and I've had access to more books than Turnnell had done in a hundred years combined, and it only took one mistake to find them, and all the accounts would naturally collapse. ”

He put the ledger back on the table, took a sip of the already cold coffee, "You may not know, but this midterm election will have a new decree announced, and the tax reform plan has been passed in the Imperial Parliament, and it will be implemented throughout the Empire. These tricks of yours will last for a maximum of two years, and after two years, when new laws and regulations are introduced, comparing the new taxes with the current ones will seem meaningless, no matter how good the fraud. ”

"Even the more real the fake you make, the more painful it will be if you fall in the future. ”

Peter's eyebrows jumped, he really didn't know that the reform of the tax system had actually passed, and he had heard of such a plan to turn active tax filing into passive tax filing. The current way to file a tax return is that the store sells a thing, and then the shopkeeper records some information such as the price and type of the thing sold in a book, and sends this book to the tax office for registration at the end of the month.

The tax office will use each sales record indicated in this account to calculate the total amount of tax to be paid, and call for it in the first half of the next month.

In the final analysis, the current way of tax collection depends entirely on the consciousness of businessmen, but can businessmen really have such a high consciousness?

No way!

Many merchants sell three or five items and only register one item, which is a way to save on taxes. For example, a bakery in the city sells as much as twenty or thirty pieces of bread a day, and as little as ten or so dollars, but they only sell two or three dollars of bread a day in their books. Coupled with the initiation and phased collection of commercial tax, the tax that needs to be paid every day is only five cents, and when it is more, it is very money.

In this way, it is only three dollars a month!

However, after the tax reform, everything will be different, and in short, it will be a semi-compulsory tax, and each trading company will be taxed in a mandatory manner according to the nature of its business and the number of employees employed. To give a simple example, let's take the damn bakery as an example, first characterize the bakery as "food processing retail", and set a tax standard for this, say three dollars.

For every employee hired in the bakery, the tax paid is three dollars more per month, and if the bakery, along with the chef and the guys, employs a total of seven people, plus the owner himself is eight, the tax will be twenty-four dollars a month. The tax office doesn't care how much bread you can sell or how much profit you make, that's how you pay taxes. If you feel that the management is not good and it is difficult to make a profit, then you can completely not hire employees and the boss is involved in the operation. Two chefs and bosses, only nine yuan a month, won't it drop all at once?

Each business premises must strictly register the number of employees and the nature of the business, and no mistakes are allowed, and this file will be kept by the tax bureau to facilitate the preparation of spot checks in the future.

Of course, there will also be some problems, such as the boss only hires two cooks, and then the boss's wife, children and even parents do the sales, and only file nine dollars a month in taxes. No problem, you can do this, but the tax bureau will conduct random inspections and unannounced visits from time to time, and once it is found that there is an illegal operation like this, it will pay the tax at 30 yuan per person per month, and the span of the tax is one year.

With a penalty of 120 times, it is very likely that some small, medium and micro enterprises will declare bankruptcy at one time because of the penalty.

But that's the law, and when the law is enforced to protect the law's own wallet, there's no human thing to say.

In the Imperial Parliament, some people also pointed out that this kind of crude taxation method would be extremely problematic, and some small enterprises with poor operations might go bankrupt directly because of this law, but compared to the money bags of the entire empire, the bankruptcy of some small enterprises was not put in the eyes of these big people at all.

Peter didn't say anything, just kept smiling, but there was a contempt in his eyes. Perhaps the New Party can only think of such a crude method to raise the country's revenue, and this just proves that the New Party is extremely poor at governing the country. Even if the taxes in Turnell City did increase in the future, it had nothing to do with him, it was all the fault of the district tax collectors and the treacherous merchants.

He slapped his legs and stood up, and let out a long sigh, "Then you can continue to work, I hope you can find the 'key point' you mentioned in these accounts as soon as possible, and I wish you success here." I still have business to attend to, so I'll take my leave, goodbye!", he stepped forward and shook the investigator's hand, nodded in acknowledgment, and turned to leave with his coat and hat. He didn't worry about these accounts at all, didn't spending so much money every year to hire the most professional people to do it just to avoid problems?

After going out, the mayor was obviously not as relaxed as he looked in the house before, his face became a little gloomy, and the local tax collector followed closely beside him, "Keep an eye on him, you must notify me as soon as anything happens, if the matter is too serious, ......", he stopped, looked back at the local tax officer behind him, and his cold eyes made the local tax officer tremble involuntarily.

The magistrate gritted his teeth and nodded, and the mayor patted him on the arm and got into the car.

If this investigator really discovers a possible hole in the accounts, then kill him.

This kind of thing has been done more than once by the old party, every year a large amount of taxes in the city are concealed by them and given to the top in the form of blood transfusions, once there is a problem here, it means that many people will lose their official positions, so Peter has to be careful, and he has to be ruthless.

He closed his eyes after getting into the car and asked for a moment, "Did the guy named Jon find out?"

As he drove, the driver replied, "Not yet, but it should be soon, there are already people wandering around the police station, and now only the first person to stand up is missing." ”

Peter closed his mouth in satisfaction, he knew very well that no one could resist the temptation of a bounty, and no one had yet come forward to identify "Jon", not because they were talking about brotherhood, but simply because they were afraid of reprisals. At the same time, this made Peter understand one thing, that is, there are people behind "Jon", and there is a certain deterrent effect on those who know.

But our mayor doesn't seem to know that his plans are facing a huge threat, and this threat comes from a car washer.

"You mean, he's half-blooded?"

Durin looked at Dover in amazement, the car washer was a mixed race, a mixed race between the provincial Ya and the Gualts, and his mother was a Gualt. The status of women in this society is not high, so in such a family the customs from Guarte are compressed to the extreme, and the car washer does not even know how his actions will be treated.

Du Buddha pursed his lips, whether the half-blood should be judged by the gods and the previous kings, everyone actually did not have an accurate statement, so in the end, this choice returned to Du Lin.