"Commercial taxes and customs duties~"

"Tariffs are the best thing to do, and you only need to set up municipal shipping departments in open ports, such as Tianjin, Nanjing, Songhu, and Guangzhou, to collect tariffs."

"Well, not only in places like Daming, but also in Ryukyu City, the Silver Mountain Port of the Wa Kingdom, and the Crescent City of Hyogo and Nanyang, these places also have to set up a city port division to collect customs duties."

"In the future, as many ports as there are cities, there will be as many shipping divisions as there are, and tariffs are the majority."

Liu Jin pondered carefully.

Collecting taxes is not an easy task, especially in Daming, where there are too many people to offend.

From the princes and nobles, down to the ordinary merchants and hawkers, they are all the objects of taxation, and the emperor was deceived in the past, and now he lets himself be this wicked person, and he will definitely be scolded by countless people.

After all, since ancient times, no one has been willing to take the initiative to pay taxes and taxes.

"Commercial tax is the most difficult, and it is also the most important."

"The first thing to do is to formulate various taxes, such as factory tax, workshop tax, commercial tax, real estate tax, shop tax, special business tax, ......"

"The most difficult thing is how to collect taxes, and it is certainly unrealistic to expect businessmen to pay their own taxes, and a special tax structure must be set up to collect taxes."

Soon, Liu Jin frowned again.

Thinking of later generations, there are a lot of various tax evasions, and the taxes of later generations are indeed very heavy.

But Daming is different, the commercial tax is thirty taxes one, and this tax ratio is extremely low.

But even with such a low tax, the businessmen of the Ming Dynasty will still try their best to evade and evade taxes.

"The collection of commercial tax must be carried out gradually in large cities."

"However, it was not easy to collect taxes from merchants, the landed gentry, and the big families."

"Give it a try first, if you can't collect it, then you will have to learn from the bald eagles of the next generation, and set up a special tax catch."

Soon, Liu Jin had a rough plan in mind.

Taking out a pen and paper, Liu Jin also began to quickly sort it out, preparing to write a detailed plan and submit it to Emperor Hongzhi and the cabinet.

A few days later, Tobe.

"Gong Tong, this is the plan on tax reform drafted by Xiaguan, please take a look at it."

Liu Jin handed the tax reform plan he drafted to Tong Zhong.

Well, it's still the same sentence, give him face, after all, he is the secretary of the household department, although Emperor Hongzhi said that he could report to the next level, but Liu Jin felt that it was better to discuss it with Tong Zhong first.

"How fast?"

Tong Zhong looked at Liu Jin, this Liu Jin is really resolute in doing things.

Through getting along with each other during this time, he felt that Liu Jin was still quite good, he respected his old comrade very much, he would not be arrogant and domineering, and no one was in his eyes, so his tone was much better.

"I wrote it casually, and I want to ask you for more advice."

Liu Jin smiled and replied.

"Hmm~"

Tong Zhong nodded slightly, picked up the plan and looked at it carefully.

Liu Jin's restructuring plan is very huge, mainly involving two places, one is to set up a city shipping department in major ports to collect tariffs, needless to say.

Originally, the yamen of the City Ship Division existed before, but it was revoked after the sea ban, and now it has been re-established, and there is no problem.

It's just that Liu Jin's setting and conception of the City Shipping Division are set up with reference to the customs of later generations, which is very different from the traditional City Shipping Division.

Customs duties are not simply levied on the size of the ship, as in the past, but on the value of the goods.

There is no big problem in this regard, and Tong Zhong nodded straight after reading it.

But soon, when he saw the collection of commercial taxes, Tong Zhong couldn't help frowning.

Liu Jin has carried out very detailed planning and setting up, and has set up more than a dozen kinds of taxes alone, and all kinds of taxes, each of which has a completely different basis and proportion.

For example, the factory tax is levied according to the output value of the factory, and the ratio is 100 taxes and 5, which is very low, and the original 30 taxes are about the same.

There is also a workshop tax, the scale of the workshop is smaller than the factory, and there is also a distinction between the two, the number of workers less than 50 belongs to the workshop, and more than 50 people belong to the factory.

For small workshops, a fixed amount is levied on a monthly basis.

It can be said that the collection plan of the entire commercial tax is very detailed, with detailed distinctions, and different tax rates and collection standards are adopted.

This is completely different from the previous taxation.

In the past, when taxes were levied, they all sat in the yamen drinking tea, waiting for the merchants to take the initiative to come and pay the taxes, and the tax rate was uniform, and the collection standard was the same.

For these officials and masters of the Yamen, it is naturally very simple and easy, and anyway, it will not have any impact on them if they levy more or less.

Therefore, the taxes of the Ming Dynasty were generally only a few special taxes that could be collected.

The bulk of it is the salt tax, because of the silver opening, so if you want to get the salt, you must pay a certain amount of silver, of course, generally speaking, you pay 10,000 taels of silver, and you can open 1 million taels of silver to draw out the salt.

Sometimes, even a symbolic sexual intercourse point of silver is needed, and the salt is casually opened.

As for the other taxes, they are basically not collected, and even if they do, the amount is pitiful.

Liu Jin naturally wants to change this situation, formulate detailed taxes, detailed collection standards and proportions, and levy different taxes for different businesses, basically learning from future generations.

Distinguish so that the tax can be used.

"Liu Jin, if you follow this plan, even if we have ten times more manpower, it will not be enough~"

Tong Zhong watched it very seriously, and he watched it for a long time.

After reading it, he said in deep thought.

"Yes, so we need more manpower."

"The city shipping department alone, Tianjin, Nanjing, Songhu, Guangzhou, Ryukyu, Crescent City, Yinshan Port, Hyogo no Tsu, and so on all have to set up the city shipping department, and all of them have to levy tariffs, and the city shipping department in each of these places needs at least thirty or forty people, and this alone requires an increase of more than two hundred people."

"In addition, in terms of commercial taxation, because we are separated from local taxation and set up a special tax yamen, so we have just started, we need to set up tax yamen in major cities under the jurisdiction of Daming, and we need at least thousands of people."

"And this is just officials, in addition, we need a large number of officials, so we are willing to increase the number of personnel on a large scale."

Liu Jin nodded and said.

The Ming Dynasty is very large, and it is far from being comparable to those small countries in the West.

When it comes to the entire Daming tax reform, I don't want to be a salted fish like before, I need a lot of people to do it first, and if there are not enough people, how can we collect enough taxes?

Do you still expect the same as before, the salted fish to drink tea in the yamen and wait for someone to come and deliver silver?

It's not that easy, at least for now, it's definitely not going to work.

Unless it is to the extent that it can be achieved in the future generations of bald eagles.

Once tax evasion and tax evasion, it will have extremely serious consequences, so that no one dares to evade taxes, and then you can almost drink tea in the yamen and wait for the cashier.

Otherwise, Liu Jin needs a lot of manpower.

This is just the beginning, if you can't collect taxes, Liu Jin is also ready to learn from Bald Eagle, come up with a special tax catch, and wait for prison if you don't pay taxes.

There will be more officials and officials in demand.

"How many people are needed at once, the burden on the court will be much heavier."

"When the time comes, Your Majesty and the cabinet will definitely not agree."

"In addition, you have also set up an assessment and reward mechanism for tax collectors and officials, will this lead to the following officials and officials who are mercenary, and when the time comes, in order to get promoted and make a fortune, regardless of the death of the people below, they will indiscriminately collect taxes?"

Tong Zhong looked at Liu Jin, after all, he was still too young.

The benefits of taxation belong to the imperial court and the emperor, not to you Liu Jin, but it is you Liu Jin who offends people, so why work so hard and be more serious.

What's more, once the son of heaven and a courtier, Emperor Hongzhi trusts you, and the next emperor may not be, the system that has been established with so much effort may change in one sentence at that time?

In the final analysis, it's not that the ministers in the court are not capable, and it's not that everyone doesn't want to change what they are now.

It's just that everybody knows these things very well.

This world belongs to the old Zhu family, and after all, it is the people of the old Zhu family who have the final say.

There is no need for everyone to offend everyone, and the old Zhu family is cheap.

Once the public resentment boils or something happens, then you Liu Jin will be the scapegoat that will be pushed out, are there few such examples since ancient times?

Shang Ying changed the law, the Qin State was strong, and Shang Ying ended up with a car split.

Wang Anshi changed the law, the treasury of the Song Dynasty was full, and in the end, Wang Anshi did not end well.

Now that you Liu Jin are very much going to do this, there will definitely be no good end in the future.

Unloading the mill and killing donkeys, crossing rivers and demolishing bridges, these emperors have done too much, too much since ancient times.

For those of us who are courtiers, although the emperor's explanation is important, we must also think about ourselves in the future.

"Tong Zhong, if there is no assessment and reward mechanism, then how can the officials and officials below have the incentive to collect taxes?"

"When the time comes, it will be the same as the scene again, so it's better not to change it, and it's good to go the way it is now."

"It's just that taxation is one of the foundations of the operation of the court and the country, and without taxation, the court and the country have no way to operate, and there is no way to concentrate on doing great things."

"When the time comes, there will be an invasion from outside the enemy, and we will be bullied again, and if there is a famine, we will not have enough food and silver to provide relief."

Liu Jin thought about it and replied, the tax still has to be collected, not to mention that this is the task given to him by Emperor Hongzhi, although Liu Jin knows that he will offend many people, he still has to do it.