IRS-, the Internal Revenue Service, is also one of the most powerful and mysterious government agencies in the United States, it is closely related to the life of American citizens, as long as you are an American, as long as you have income, then you must pay taxes, and tax evasion is not a very low-cost thing, because IRS can directly freeze your assets without the consent of the court, it can be said that this is a very powerful, and there are almost no checks and balances, especially for the rich, they talk about IRS discoloration, The reason is also very simple: there is hardly a rich American who does not avoid taxes, if there is a company, then there are more unclear places in the accounts, the IRS has to check, it is almost difficult to find evidence, and when the time comes, you have to pay a high fine, not to mention, the most annoying thing is that the turnover caused by the freezing of all assets remains unchanged.

Of course, such a situation is not very common, because the IRS is not a very abusive agency, the internal management is also quite strict, and they also have to weigh the cost of investigation actions and final profits, for some problems are not very serious, and the evidence is not easy to collect objects, the IRS has not unearthed all the power of tax evaders, so for the average people, as long as they find a good accounting firm, as long as they are not too unlucky, they will generally not deal with the IRS, even if there is a problem, There are also accountants who come forward to negotiate.

Jenny has had her own accountant since she signed with Cesare, of course, she also avoids taxes, but it is all in a reasonable range, and Dameng did not use illegal means to evade taxes, and the tax avoidance methods used are at most a little gray...... Falsely reporting some shooting costs or something, of course, is reasonable, after all, making movies has been washed. One of the several major means of money, but there won't be too many flaws left for the IRS, of course, no company likes to hear that they are being targeted by the IRS, but even if the IRS is really investigating Big Dream, Jenny believes that Big Dream will not be in great trouble. - It stands to reason that she and Cesare sat up straight, but they didn't need to be too afraid of the IRS......

"Who do you think is doing this?" After breaking up with Harvey, Jenny didn't continue to stay in the company, but went back to the hotel with Cesare - when their car drove out of the company, some paparazzi filmed her and Cesare very hard, but judging from their demeanor, at least most of the paparazzi didn't take her and Cesare's scandal very seriously, however, Jenny didn't think that what Harvey said was a lie, and the paparazzi in Hollywood have always been very powerful, from the day they consulted the county prosecutor, and the county prosecutor inadvertently leaked the news, The paparazzi knew that the news was nothing more than a matter of time, and they have not reported it until now, probably because there is no real evidence yet. But now the undercurrent has begun to surge, and there are a few more sticks that have begun to stir in the water, which is also an indisputable fact.

Cesare didn't answer Jenny's question right away, he had obviously been thinking about it - although Harvey had just given them a hint, and from a determined attitude, it was not a lie (Jeanne certainly didn't think he had a reason to lie), but he refused to reveal the source of the information, and only told them in an ambiguous manner that it was an old friend who had revealed it to him, and that when this 'old friend' found him, the news that Harvey and Big Dream were going to start working together on the "Monroe" rush had not yet spread, The outside world still thinks that the relationship between Big Dream and Weinstein is slowly estranged, and after Weinstein wanted to join "Monroe" and was rejected, he and Big Dream were only one public turn of face.

"Whoever it is, this person is very ruthless." Without waiting for Cesare's answer, Jeanne was not willing to remain silent, she strode back and forth on the carpet, and said angrily, "And he knows us quite well, he knows what Big Dream's shareholding structure means, and he knows what we are most afraid of now." The IRS may just be the beginning, and then maybe someone will really break the news about your foundership. ”

- Yes, that's what Big Dream fears the most now, in fact, it stands to reason that Cesare's investment of five million into any company is not a crime, and there is nothing to fear when the IRS comes to investigate, even if his offshore transactions and marriage to Jenny are to avoid paying taxes, it is impossible for the IRS to freeze their assets without real evidence. Even the inner workings of Big Dream have always been very regular, but if things are only viewed from this one point of view, it would be too one-sided - when Cesare had five or six million assets invested in an 'overseas investment fund', Big Dream ushered in a capital injection of five million, and a shareholder who only injected five million into the capital and got half of the equity at that time, and never appeared in the company. This fact, coupled with the fact that Cesare has actually managed Big Dream for many years, even if he is careful enough, will always leave some clues, and the revelation that Cesare is actually the founder of Big Dream, is enough to provide CAA and any star and director who has been represented by CAA and whose business has crossed with Big Dream to provide materials for a lawsuit with Cesare and Big Dream, and the next thing has nothing to do with IRS, and commercial detectives and those civil litigation lawyers will naturally peel back the cocoon, Go and find out the real source of funds for this offshore company, as long as they can return to Cesare in the end, Da Meng will have to pay a huge price to end the matter, otherwise he will wait to fight the lawsuit to death. After all, the U.S. stipulates that agents cannot be responsible for production business at the same time, because they are afraid that your agent will be both an athlete and a referee, and sign a contract with a cheap price to damage the rights and interests of the represented customers. And it is impossible for Big Dream not to have a relationship with CAA, in addition to CAA's actors, they also act as directors and even screenwriters, and Big Dream doesn't know how many packaging contracts he has signed with CAA in the past few years.

Using lawsuits to consume fast-growing competitors is a common tactic for large companies, so Jenny still puts the suspect in the Big Six, but the annoying thing about this matter is that the suspect is not very certain, because there are not many people in the industry who know that Cesare is important in the big dream, as long as most of the companies that have cooperated with the big dream have their own guesses, that is, the CEO of CAA, Eno. Martin must also know this, otherwise his relationship with Cesare will not gradually ease with the steady development of Big Dream - although Jeanne's momentum has been rising, Cesare did not force Ino, nor did he expand his business scope, obviously distracted, and Ino must be very happy to see it, and he wished to send Cesare to the promising Big Dream to work the next day.

"In the past few years, Ino must have given you the green light, and may even take the initiative to cover for you," she quickly analyzed as she walked, "but it can't be ruled out that he is suspicious now, because you have left CAA, and if he still holds a grudge against the past—"

"It won't be Ino," Cesare shook his head, breaking the silence for the first time, in contrast to Jenny's impatience and anger, his extreme calmness and composure, he took over the conversation almost indifferently and began to analyze, "Ino has a more suspicious and sensitive personality, I have only been away from CAA for a few months, Ino is still busy running in with the big clients I left behind, he won't make trouble for himself until he has completely swallowed my inheritance, and he will not make trouble for himself until he has really digested these inheritances." , Even if there is resentment, it has dissipated, in essence, Eno is a businessman, and Big Dream is rising very quickly now, and your brokerage contract is still in CAA, he will not get along with CAA's big customers. ”

Jenny's current brokerage contract is indeed still in CAA, Cesare did not take her away, but her contract with CAA is quite broad, the agency fee is very low, just a symbolic number, if it is her own contact business, CAA does not even take a cut, keep Jenny, just to keep the superstar signboard, for CAA to attract more popularity - every year there must be countless scripts looking for Jenny to star, Jenny is not eye-catching for her is an ineffective resource, to the agent B-R, C-R is even a nobody's CAA is a very valuable vein, some Jenny doesn't act, they can recommend others to act, so even if they don't charge agency fees, they hope Jenny can stay, and for Jenny, her channel for receiving scripts is not controlled by CAA, and she has also established a very complete network in the circle, so there is no loss for her in this agency relationship, and she has to pay some money to hire an entertainment lawyer to consider the contract, when Da Meng cooperates with CAA, This relationship can also help to reduce some agency fees, which can actually reduce the price offered.

From this point of view, CAA really has no reason to want Big Dream to be in trouble, and Ino, as the CEO, can't retaliate for a little old competitive relationship, but should hope that Big Dream is thriving, after all, Big Dream's faction has a strong CAA color, which is also very important to them. - Cesare nodded a little, and Jenny understood, "So, now the suspects are concentrated on the Big Six, and my heavyweight competitors, because only they can ask the IRS to be the attacking force, right?" ”

IRS, as the IRS, is a business detective like those wild dogs, and the authority is not much higher, if there is enough evidence, they can directly ask the internal accounts of Big Dream, will they trace the internal flow of funds from Big Dream to overseas, and then trace back to Cesare from overseas, Jenny is really not sure, she and Cesare are just ordinary businessmen, and the company was only a small company at that time, and it is impossible to follow the peddle. The standards of the drug syndicate come to demand themselves, and the daily work of the IRS is to wash with these. She really doesn't know how clever their methods are, and whether they will directly find out the truth about Cesare's capital injection, so that Da Meng will be deeply troubled in the lawsuit, and let herself fall into the quagmire of 'knowing the law and breaking the law'.

"It's not going to be your competitor," Cesare shook his head and said calmly, "It's late January, the Oscars are just a few weeks away, your rivals should have launched an offensive earlier, I left in October to join Big Dream, if anyone really wants to use this as a strike, you can do it as early as October, so you are likely to be affected by scandals and be frustrated on the Olympic journey." Jenny, you have to learn to analyze the hidden information in the conversation, Harvey has actually hinted a lot, and when he was approached, 'Weinstein and Big Dream will work together on the "Monroe" Olympics have not yet spread', which means that the time point must be between us and Harvey reaching an agreement and Harvey officially launching the public relations campaign, which is only a short 5 or 6 sky slots. ”

He opened his calendar on his computer and flipped to the date of 'Negotiations with Harvey', "It's December 26th, so our opponent approached Harvey in the last week of last year to want to cooperate, and you have to look for his motivation a few days ago." ”

Cesare's mouse moved forward, and Jenny's eyes followed him, and she had a sudden realization, "December 25th is the day 'Monroe' and 'Marley and I' will be released...... The box office of these two films made the opponent very uncomfortable...... The Big Six. ”

"Of course, it's the top of the Big Six," Cesare opened a new page, "this is last year's box office statistics, Big Dream is seventh, and it's quite close to Disney in sixth place - but I suggest we don't think about who wants Big Dream for the time being, I find that this is a habit of yours, and when attacked, you are very keen to find the mastermind and retaliate-"

He glanced at Jenny, who smiled a little embarrassedly, thinking of the struggle she had with a female lead actress whose name she couldn't remember when she starred in the musical "Chicago", which was indeed her habit.

"But when the market share of Big Dream is close to the Big Six, we have to have the awareness and preparation to be attacked at any time, and the relationship between the company and the company cannot simply follow the original logic of 'you shoot me an arrow, I shoot you an arrow', if this is done by Disney, in order to weaken Big Dream, make us troubled, and unable to plan independence, what can we do? Obviously, we can't break up with Disney right away, and you can't hurt the decision-makers, and any effort in this way will escalate the war, and even put our lives in danger. Cesare succinctly said, "At this stage, the big dream should be more self-preservation than against the enemy, which is why I suggest that we start to prepare some cover-ups, if we have to use a marriage to completely solve the weakness of ownership, then this marriage should undoubtedly be impeccable, at least not to make it another weakness of ours." ”

Jeanne nodded wordlessly, it was indeed a topic they had already discussed, and it was the reason Cesare had started spending the night in her presidential suite, and although they slept separately, it was still proof of the overnight stay for outsiders. At present, this has not attracted the attention of the media, after all, there are many opportunities and reasons for celebrities and agents to live together, but if the marriage is unfortunately exposed, this is very convincing evidence.

"For now, though, it seems risky to continue with our original idea," Cesare continued, his hands gathered in a tower shape against his chin - a position he used to think about, "If the other person wants to open a breakthrough in me, then a marriage seems to complicate everything, and when we were discussing it, we didn't expect Monroe and Twilight to do so well at the box office, and based on the box office revenue of Big Dream this quarter, the closing period in half a year, Big Dream can earn more than 200 million, which is only a conservative estimate, because overseas dividends are not calculated. At that time, the amount of money in the offshore account is enough to invest in Disney, and then there is no urgent impetus for this marriage. ”

"But it also means you still won't be able to use your share of the dividends." Jenny blurted out, "And as time goes on, as our friction with the Big Six intensifies, this problem will become more and more difficult to solve." ”

Cesare made a noncommittal expression, and did not pick up Jenny's words, and the silence slowly fell, enveloping the suite's living room.

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If Jenny were to express her opinion on this marriage, she could only smile bitterly - fake love and fake engagement for the sake of her career may still be within her acceptable range, but the fake marriage, like the relationship between Sidney and her, is more or less an act that touches Jenny's bottom line. The only thing that made her feel a little better about this incident was that the fake marriage was not for her own career, but for Cesare, and this was the reason why she finally agreed: she had no reason to refuse, even if she didn't consider the relationship between the two of them who had supported her for many years, and Cesare's character of rarely asking for help, from the perspective of power, if Cesare could never get his dividends at the same price as her, and would always have to wash this part of his income in, Then it is obvious that he will not regard the big dream as his main business, and he will never have the legal heart to develop the company with peace of mind.

Of course, Big Dream could carry out a series of complex restructurings to solve this problem, so that Cesare, who is now whitewashed, can get his own money and legally take a stake in the company, but this is costly, not to mention, Jenny is not sure that Disney will take the opportunity to abolish the AB class equity, and she is not willing to let Cesare pay a higher opportunity cost because of her idealized insistence, anyway, at the time, their time was very limited, and marriage was indeed the roughest and most advantageous way, And she didn't want Cesare to get a 'no' answer the first time she opened his mouth to her.

Marriage is marriage, about the prenuptial agreement and some details after marriage, she also actively cooperated with Cesare, providing her own advice, including premarital foreshadowing, the duration of the marriage, and during the marriage, some agreements on the life of the two parties, have had sufficient communication in advance, after marriage they will buy a set of Chris-style manor, each has its own suite in the manor, private life will not be affected too much, even if there is some emotional life, you can also cover each other, It's basically like having an extra roommate, and the fact that she doesn't want to live on her own can be well addressed......

Although she repeatedly told herself that this marriage had almost no effect on her, and that nothing would change except for the publication of this in the paperwork, Jenny still had a faint rejection of this thought in her heart. Now, when Cesare offered to annul the agreement, to say that she did not feel relieved would be to tell a lie, that people are selfish, and that it was indeed an instinctive reaction.

However, this did not mean that she could not wait to accede to Cesare's offer, and whether as Cesare's student, his partner, or his entrepreneurial partner, his friend, Jeanne, had too many reasons to hesitate. On the one hand, she was somewhat suspicious of Cesare's motives, could it be a test for him to see if he could face the trouble with him, rather than flee before the storm and leave him to face the IRS investigation and possible follow-up proceedings by the CAA, and if Cesare decided that she was not worth relying on, would he be disappointed in her? Will he be brewing to leave the big dream? He is the actual operator of the big dream, and of course he doesn't have to worry about where to go after leaving the big dream, even if he doesn't talk about this, his private wealth is enough for him to live a life without working and food and clothing......

On the other hand, she couldn't help but ask herself repeatedly, was she really not ashamed to accept Cesare's offer like this? Cesare was invited by her to join Big Dream, although he had a long period of consideration before, but once he made this decision, his work attitude is obvious to all, even now, he also puts the interests of the company first - his proposal is undoubtedly to take Big Dream and her out of the matter of taking shares, if this crisis breaks out, she can still not be affected, and the company has less joint and several liability, in general, there will be a lot more room for manoeuvre, The only price is that the risk he has to take is much greater, once the crisis breaks out, his career will be greatly affected, with a lawsuit, even if he wants to develop in other companies in the future, he will encounter many obstacles...... Cesare has a lot of faults, but he has one of the greatest strengths: he can never fault his attitude when it matters most, and you will know very well that when the storm comes, you can seek refuge under his umbrella.

As for her, although she also said that she would share it with him, but so far, she seems to have been in a sheltered position, which may not be her intention, maybe just because Cesare is always too strong, he doesn't need the help of others, but on the scoreboard of the two, Cesare has already recorded an astronomical number with her silent commitment to official work in the past few years, and her score is still an embarrassing 0......

Jenny sighed inwardly as she stared at Cesare, wondering if he was calculating the next steps to cancel the engagement, and took a deep breath to break the harmonious silence in the room.

"If we're paying for the mistakes we made in the early days, it's the mistakes we made together," she said, smiling at Cesare's gaze as she felt her clothes gliding down her goosebumps-covered arms, like a person who was afraid of heights going to bungee jump, forcing herself to do something she didn't want to do, she was afraid of, and her body faithfully reflected that. "Now we should also solve it together, and this is also the best way - Jim and I can cover up your management traces, and the equity matter is still settled by marriage, once and for all......"

Cesare has always been cautious in these matters, and it is evident that he has not laundered the dividends precipitated by offshore companies back to China, so although they did not know that anyone would really make a fuss about this before this, in order to guard against those omnipresent journalists, and the possibility of marriage exposure (high probability), they still meticulously prepared to have competitors take advantage of them. Cesare had a high status in Big Dreams before he left office' in the media's response to this. Therefore, the leak of the news that they may be getting married by the county attorney's office did not really make Jenny panic, Cesare and she agreed on this point, and with the attention Jenny received, it was almost impossible to hide it from the paparazzi for a long time.

The only omission is that the opponent hidden in the shadows has such a large energy that they can move IRS as a pioneer, but at this point, they are not without preventive efforts to do, and there is no big problem with the accounting and taxation of Big Dream, and the box office of "Monroe" can also provide them with a little advantage......

Jenny said while thinking, "As for the accounting part, we can be more careful now, we don't need to use your cash in China, we will pay dividends once in half a year, and there will be enough cash in the account of the overseas company to buy stocks, after changing the owner, this part of the money belongs to me completely, and the IRS can't find anything wrong, so they can only attack me for using the offshore company to avoid taxes, but this will not be too much of a problem." ”

Cesare didn't speak, but his expression showed that he was listening, and Jenny looked at him and continued in an unquestioning tone, "The media, don't give them hints, don't give them the opportunity to break the news, let's take this position down first, people will always prefer lace news to conspiracy theories - and the masses have an imprint effect, and once they accept our story first, conspiracy theories will lose their market." Why do you go to Big Dream so often, because you're there to date me, why do you 'occasionally' personally take care of Big Dream's day-to-day management, because that's what I do, because you're the person I trust the most—the plan has to be modified slightly, and this time we're no longer resigned to fate with the idea of letting it all go through in a low-key way—"

Speaking of this, she paused, sighed for the last time in her heart, and forcibly held back an inexplicable trembling desire. Looking, forcing himself to show a confident smile, he held out a hand to Cesare and said jokingly, "Would you like to talk to me about a passionate, affectionate, sensual, dramatic, paparazzi-kissed relationship?" Cesare. Vijri, are you—will you marry me? ”