The main reason why Ye Dongqing bothered to pit Old Sam was that he wanted to make money through him, earn a slightly more wealth, and then use it to invest in himself and live a good life.

The last time I talked to this old man, I saw a scene where someone paid their rent in cash, and then the rent was discounted.

From this, he guessed that Sam was mostly using cash transactions to evade taxes, and there was no reason to advocate the use of cash to pay rent, and it was undoubtedly more convenient to transfer money online or swipe a credit card.

It is difficult for officials to trace cash transactions, so people like to use cash to evade the Federal Tax Service, and after working in the money laundering industry for so many years, Ye Dongqing has extraordinary insight and will naturally think about tax avoidance.

Flies don't bite seamless eggs, they are not good people who abide by the law, now it depends on whether he can deceive the other party and let himself benefit from it.

If there is only a little bit of unpaid cash, it is not worth Ye Dongqing's big fight, and even deceived old Sam into the trap he set.

He is still trying to find out the bottom line, and more importantly, the old man has cancer, but if he can think more about his children, he will choose to leave more money to them, such as this apartment that can bring a steady stream of income.

Cash can be given directly to the children, and it is unlikely to be traced, but real estate cannot, whether it is a gift during his lifetime, or making a will, so that the children can inherit after their death, they need to pay a large amount of taxes.

According to the regulations that have been extended since 1999, the inheritance threshold is 650,000 US dollars, and the tax rate is super progressive, with a maximum tax rate of 55 percent.

The gift tax is more complicated, taking into account the deductions, appreciation, etc., and the same needs to pay millions of dollars, which is much less than letting them get the inheritance, and it depends on how many children Old Sam has, because everyone can get the deduction.

The United States has been developing steadily for two or three hundred years, and its legal system is relatively perfect, and its policies are more inclined to take wealth from the rich and distribute it to the poor as welfare, so as to achieve a kind of rebalancing.

Unfortunately, the idea is very good, but the rich will not sit still, so on the basis of high inheritance tax, they prefer to achieve long-term transfer of wealth through the establishment of charitable trust funds, etc., and through charitable foundations to transition wealth, do not need to pay too much tax.

The pit has been dug and waiting for the old man to jump into it.

Old Sam didn't disappoint Ye Dongqing, and asked with a nervous expression: "Tell me, what exactly does your cousin do, how can I evade taxes? I have always insisted on paying taxes, and investigating me is purely a waste of public resources!"

"Hey, it's useless for you to talk to me about this. ”

Ye Dongqing held back a smile in his heart, seeing that Old Sam couldn't sit still, he was even more convinced that this old man had a ghost in his heart, and continued to open his mouth and said: "Special investigators, mainly on behalf of the IRS, find out suspicious non-taxpayers, and then send them to prison, and have to fine a large amount of money, which is punitive in nature, much higher than a reasonable tax rate."

I heard from my cousin that you've been collecting cash rent, some of which you pay taxes, but more of it is hidden by yourself. Combined with rent, occupancy rates, and the total amount of tax you pay each month, the discrepancies are huge, and you're trying to figure out where you're hiding your cash. ”

Where does he know the specific inside story, combined with past experience, he can guess a rough idea, many stores illegally avoid taxes through cash, but from the analysis of Old Sam's rental income, the amount of tax evasion should be indispensable, and it has been out of the category of petty fights.

Judging from the micro-expression of Old Sam's lips trembling, Ye Dongqing understood that he was probably right, and threw the bait at this appropriate time, not giving the other party too much time to think: "He asked me to tell you that he wanted to talk to you privately over the phone, and said that the investigation was only carried out secretly by himself and was not reported to the official system, what does this mean?"

Deliberately pretending to be ignorant and ignorant, when encountering this kind of thing, people generally don't like people who are too smart, because they are afraid of being deceived, and they will be wary.

Old Sam is not young, although his head is not very bright, but the accumulated life experience still makes him an old fox.

instantly figured out the deep meaning, guessed that most of it was blackmailed, and there was still room to operate, and secretly scolded a few words in his heart, and felt glad about it.

After weighing it again, I was going to talk to the special investigator of the Federal Tax Service, shook my head and said, "It's okay, it's probably wrong, what is your cousin's phone number?" I called him to talk to him, he was already a dying man, and he didn't want to be buried in the soil with a misunderstanding. ”

Big fish bites.

At this moment, Ye Dongqing just wanted to laugh, feeling that he had probably caught this old man, and he felt so comfortable in his heart.

It's hard to imagine that success in deceiving people will also produce a sense of achievement, mainly the feeling of crushing the other party in IQ and playing with others in the palm of your hand.

The reason why he embarked on a crooked path in his previous life was because he was poor, and on the other hand, because he was too smart and rational to understand that it was difficult to get ahead in a part-time job at a young age, he would rather take a risk and gamble, and finally end up in a situation where he lost everything.

This life is different, his body is young, but he is no longer young psychologically, he does things with a strong purpose, and he only intends to make the first pot of gold and stop it.

Since there is a brighter golden road in front of him, there is no need to continue to take risks, although it is not easy to break into the business world with this Chinese face, but those memories in the head are incomparable advantages of others.

didn't want to set himself on fire, Ye Dongqing followed the topic of Old Sam and said casually: "The number is in my mobile phone, I'll tell you later." ”

I was not prepared enough, and I was planning to buy a mobile phone for temporary use.

Hurriedly decided to catch the old man to take the bait, the specific implementation method has to be pondered again, first went out to buy a precharged bearer phone card, spent him thirty dollars, plus a bottle of water, this time there is really no money.

Whether it can succeed depends not only on what Old Sam thinks, but also on how Ye Dongqing talks to him.

After changing the mobile phone card, I waited patiently in the room for a while, and after an hour, I felt that it was not okay to wait like this, and my stomach was grunting with hunger, so I took two watches out to cash out.

……

It's snowing in New York.

Street lamps and high-rise lights shine together, and small snowflakes fall from the sky, blown by the wind to all parts of the city.

Even if this is the XC district, where prices are low, it is not easy for ordinary people to own a house of their own in the neighborhood, and more people only have half of their monthly income to pay rent.

Regular pawn companies will ask for invoices and other certificates, and occasionally keep certificates for the record, which is more troublesome. Ye Dongqing successfully sold two watches in Chinatown, and got 18,000 US dollars into his bank account.

The boss was too lazy to ask, and directly cleared the money and goods, probably thinking that Ye Dongqing was a thief, and he also said when he went out, so that he would sell the goods to himself when he had goods in the future.

Anyway, it is a good day to celebrate, seeing how dark it is, Ye Dongqing took a taxi as soon as he went out and went to Fifth Avenue.

I'm going to brave the snow to go shopping, and I'm going to have classes tomorrow......