Section 7: Difficult to choose

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As soon as they got off the plane, Ye Mu and Zhang Dongsheng took out their mobile phones at the same time and opened the website of the New York Times, with the headline: American Heavy Treasure Falls into the Middle East.

The American treasure refers to the extraterrestrial meteorite gold, and Sotheby's month-long hype has raised this meteorite gold to the level of a national treasure.

Natural gold nuggets are also called dog's head gold, in China, dog's head gold has the legend of the town's house, and the large piece of dog's head gold is respected as the treasure of the town, which can be met but not sought. Sotheby's hype about meteorite gold can be said to be to the point of madness, during this time, Ye Mu clicked on the news to see the sound of Sotheby's late summer auction, and paid special attention to: meteorite gold.

Sotheby's vigorous promotion and the price of the meteorite gold itself attracted worldwide attention, not only from the wealthy in the United States, but also from China, Europe, Japan, and the Middle East. The reserve price rose directly from 200 million to 730 million, and was finally obtained by the oil tycoons in the Middle East.

The article is a typical American imperialist commentary. In the current downturn of the world economy, the Middle East tyrants still show their true colors of not being bad for money. After reading the article, it is not difficult to see that the newspaper organization ridicules the local tyrants in the Middle East. Saying that they don't know how to invest and manage money is typical of the essence of oil nouveau riche......

There is a lot of news about meteorite gold, and many senior precious metal collectors and trading institutions have come forward, saying that the price of this meteorite gold is seriously overestimated, which may affect the natural gold bullion trading market and the meteorite trading market in the future.

Of course, there is also the envy of this mysterious meteorite gold winner, and in the discussion, envy, jealousy and hatred.

Ye Mule's eyebrows smiled, good guy, 730 million, you have to pay 0.7% of the commission of the auction house, and you have 678.9 million in your hand. Once rich, nothing more than that.

Zhang Dongsheng was envious: "730 million, according to the current exchange rate, it must be 5 billion yuan." ”

Ye Mu's heart was beating hard, but he still pretended to be calm, and said, "It's not enough to buy the land of Garrison Investment Company." ”

"Damn, you still have a hammer field with so much money."

Following the crowd through the security check and coming to the entrance of the passage, Ye Mu found that someone was holding a sign with his name, the Chinese word 'Ye Mu', which was written crookedly, and then looked at it, it was Ike who had a relationship with Ye Mu.

Ye Mu went over and hugged Ike.

"Welcome to the Big Apple."

"Thank you."

Follow Ike out of the airport and get into a Cadillac stretched, with two people in the car, one fat and one thin. The fat man is about fifty years old, and the young white man is not thin, and the figure is well maintained, just next to the fat man, and he looks very thin.

Ike invited the two to sit down and introduced, "This is Mr. Furens, my dearest boss. This is the Investment Account Manager at Chase Bank in California. Benonte. Morgan. ”

The two shook hands with Ye Mu respectively, looked at Furence and said, "I didn't expect you to pick me up in person." ”

"Of course, you are the one who brought me good luck. If it weren't for the reporters chasing after me, I would have held up your sign in the airport lobby. Flence laughed and made a not-so-funny American joke: "Carl is my nephew, a member of the famous Morgan family......"

Flence smiled and continued, "The Morgan family is almost mythologized, but you don't know that most of the people in this family are 'poor ghosts'. Well, relative to you, the vast majority of their family members are poor ghosts. My nephew, Carl, has inquired about you before and wants me to be an intermediary and introduce you to each other. ”

Carl is about thirty years old, not much different from Ye Mu, listening to Flens's words, he smiled, opened the freezer on the car, took out a bottle of champagne, poured it, and handed it to Ye Mu and Zhang Dongsheng: "I heard before that you are going to invest in farms and ranches, and I can help you in this regard." Not only investment, but also a wide range of services, including financial management and tax filing. It's September, and January is the time to file and pay taxes......"

"Isn't paying your taxes right away?"

"Of course. Individual income tax can be paid on a monthly basis or at the beginning of the year......"

Fluns handed Ye Mu and Zhang Dongsheng a cigar and said with a smile: "It seems that you are not very clear about US taxation." It's only four months until January, and if you don't want the IRS vampires to take half of your income, you'll have to figure it out. ”

"You're calling me a tax evader?" Ye Mu frowned and asked.

"Tax avoidance, legal tax avoidance. How much tax you pay depends on how much money you have in the bank, and the easiest way to avoid taxes legally is to invest and turn cash into real estate, stocks, and funds...... You've got to get it as soon as possible, 670 million, and IRS and state IRS officials are staring at you and drooling. Your situation is a little better than the lottery, and there are two main types of taxes, one is the accidental income tax levied by the Federal Tax Service, and the other is personal income tax. ”

"I ...... Depend on! ”

Ye Mu knew that what Frens said was not an exaggeration at all, so he couldn't help but scold. I once saw a news that won the lottery, saying that a foreign tourist won 10 million lottery tickets in the United States, and wanted to return to China to enjoy happiness, but the relevant lawyer told him that if he wanted to take the money and leave, he could only get 3 million, and finally forced the tourist to settle in the United States.

The United States is a country with a double taxation system, and taxes are frighteningly high. As a result, most Americans do not have the habit of saving.

When he came to Sotheby's, the IRS officials were already waiting for him, and he paid a part of the taxes that had to be paid immediately, and he only got 556 million in money. This money also has to pay 40% personal income tax, and Ye Mo has already applied for a deferral of tax payment.

Next, Ye Mu applied for a black palladium card from the Bank of ********, commonly known as the bus card 'bus card'. Chase Black Gold can enjoy private investment advisory and financial advisory services, as well as more than 600 airport VIP lounges and star-rated hotel upgrade services around the world. Don't look at it mysteriously, it's just a little more difficult to apply.

In terms of practicality, it is not as good as the Yuntong Centurion card.

560 million in cash, a lot of money wherever you put it. In the bank, the interest is 20 million US dollars a year.

The next step is to spend the money.

Ye Mu is reluctant to contribute a large amount of money to the U.S. government, he has seen several farms and ranches before, in addition to Garrison Investments' property in California, Ye Mu's favorite is Weber Farm in Montana.

Land prices in California are on the high side, and the potential for appreciation is leveraged. Montana is mainly farms and mining, the natural environment is excellently preserved, and there is no heavy industry, but the land of the sky is not called for nothing. Montana's largest cities are no different from the countryside in Ye Mu's view, and Webb Farm is also remote, with a population of less than 2,000 people from the nearest town of Mount Wheels. It is a few buildings around the train station, a few small supermarkets, if you go to Montana, Ye Mu has to force himself to change his living habits.

The two places have their own different attractions for Ye Mu, and it is really difficult to choose.