Chapter 277: What is the will of the people?
Judging from the current situation, the oil industry can bring him tens of millions or more in a year, and the other taxes in the 22 towns under his rule are only two or three million a year.
And even if the tax is cut, it does not mean that there will be no tax at all, but that the tax rate will be restored to a relatively normal level.
The vital tax on acres was restored to 40 percent of what it was before the collapse of Daheng, and it was promised that once the war ended, the tax would return to 30 percent of what it was in normal years.
Although there is still 40 percent, compared with the previous rate of 70 or even 80 percent, this is definitely a huge tax relief measure.
Not only in agriculture, but also in the industrial and commercial industry, some unnecessary and messy taxes are directly canceled, for example, the impact is very large, but in fact, the grain export surtax in Lin Ziran is not worth the loss, this thing is actually not a high tax rate, but it has pushed up the cost of local grain sales, resulting in little competitiveness.
However, he also retained some of these taxes, such as personal income tax and corporate value-added tax, but the tax rates have been greatly reduced.
According to the calculations of the Inland Revenue Department, after the implementation of the tax restriction order, the fiscal revenue of the 22 towns under its jurisdiction will plummet by 50 percent.
But what is 50 percent?
The Inland Revenue Department's statistics are about 1.2 million!
Lin Ziran ruled 22 towns, and the regular tax revenue in Cheng Lingfeng's era was only 2.5 million.
If you cut it in half, you will cut it by 1.2 million.
Is this a lot of money?
Personally, that's a huge number, so it's a lot of money.
But for Lin Ziran, is this a lot of money?
In fact, it is just a month's profit of Tsingshan Petroleum Company after the expansion is completed!
More critically, more wells are being developed and refineries are being expanded.
Lin Ziran, who holds Tsingshan Petroleum Company, said: Lao Tzu is not bad for money!
Use 1.2 million to buy the hearts of the people of the twenty-two towns under his rule, tie the whole army and even everyone to his chariot, and even let the people in the surrounding areas support him and wait for him to kill him!
Worth!
After the issuance of the tax restriction order, the huge impact is also directly reflected.
The most direct thing is that the recruitment point was overcrowded for a while, and even many middle-aged men who did not meet the recruitment conditions came to apply.
Although it was not difficult to recruit soldiers in the past, the reason for this is that in fact, these young men came to serve as soldiers, more to fill their stomachs, and then earn a meager salary to subsidize their families.
In these years, the family planted hundreds of acres of fertile land and couldn't eat enough, and the salary for other jobs was also very low, and it was actually difficult for people at the bottom to have enough to eat.
It's not that Daheng doesn't have food, it's just that people can't afford to eat food.
A lot of grain was expropriated by the feudal towns, on the one hand, it was to feed the army with high standards, and on the other hand, it was sold to the outside world in exchange for funds.
The easiest and most direct way for people at the bottom to have enough to eat is to join the army.
The exploits of the various feudal towns are so bad, but they still treat the soldiers under their command more favorably, although the money is small, but there is absolutely no problem with a full meal.
But now, Lin Ziran found that many people who came to join the army were not just for food, but mixed with some other factors.
They hope that the tax restriction order issued by Lin Ziran can be maintained!
And if this tax restriction order is maintained, Lin Ziran can't fall and can't let other feudal towns occupy twenty-two towns.
The public opinion in the people changed very quickly for a while, not only the farmers responded positively, but even the industry and commerce and even the local upper class generally applauded Lin Ziran's policy!
Before, the locals didn't have much special feeling about Lin Ziran's coming to power to rule Twenty-two Towns, and they felt that Lin Ziran was just a new feudal town, no different from the previous feudal towns, the taxes were still so heavy, and life was still so difficult.
But now, they feel that Lin Ziran is different from other feudal towns!
Because with the implementation of the tax restriction order, they can eat enough after hard work in farming!
They didn't dare to expect to be able to return to the kind of life they had in the unification of Daheng fifty years ago overnight, they only hoped that their life would be better than before, if only slightly better.
And this situation is not only happening at the bottom, but also at the middle and upper levels, because Lin Ziran's tax restriction order is comprehensive, not only in agriculture, but also in industries such as industry and commerce.
In the simplest and most violent way, it is a one-size-fits-all solution to reduce the burden on everyone.
For the low-income farmers, they can eat enough after the tax cut, for the middle-income earners, their personal income tax is reduced, and for the upper echelons such as factory owners, the tax burden of their enterprises is reduced and the profits are more.
Therefore, even the local upper class has expressed their goodwill and even support for Lin Ziran!
Some entrepreneurs and prestigious gentry even took the initiative to come to the door and ask Lin Ziran if he had enough military spending......
And said that they pooled a sum of money for military supplies.
It's not much, it's just 100,000 Hengyuan!
But this 100,000 Hengyuan let Lin Ziran know that the local upper class has already made it clear that they support him!
After that, it turned out that a professional officer took the initiative to come to him!
When Lin Ziran knew that there were professional officers coming to join him one after another, and even three students who were studying at Luohai Military Academy had dropped out of school and ran over to join him, to be honest, he couldn't believe that all this was true.
You must know that Lin Ziran didn't actually shout any nonsense slogans, and he didn't even publicly promote some of his ideas to people.
From beginning to end, he only did one thing, and that was to issue a 'tax restriction order' to reduce taxes.
Moreover, the reason for the tax cut was purely because the income of his Aoyama Oil Company was too high, and the tax cut would not cause any problems to his financial situation, so he decided to cut the tax.
But!
In the entire Luo'an County, even the entire Nanhai Prefecture, and even the entire Thirteen Prefectures of Daheng, there is not a single feudal town and Lin Ziran who directly cut the tax rate by half!
Therefore, after the tax restriction order was issued, even Lin Ziran himself did not expect that his tax reduction measures would have such a big impact.
Especially when he saw the three young men in his early twenties in front of him, who had specially dropped out of Luohai Military Academy early and were about to return to their hometown to join him, Lin Ziran's mind was blank for a short while.
In the past, he was tired and tired of digging people everywhere, but he couldn't dig up a few professional officers, and he was able to dig either because of high salaries or because they were desperate.
However, now three students from the Luohai Military Academy have come back to join him, and other professional officers have come to him one after another.
For the first time, he felt what the people's hearts were!
He can't be sure whether the one who wins the hearts of the people will win the world, but at least at this stage, this popular support can allow him to gain huge support!
People are tired of civil wars, they hate super high tax rates, and they want to change all that!
Now Lin Ziran has changed all that.
So they didn't hesitate to stand on Lin Ziran's side!
When Lin Ziran learned about the reaction of the entire Twenty-two Towns, especially after the wave of support that broke out in a short period of time, he wondered if the feudal towns in other places could get the support of the local people.
But he can now say with certainty that since the fifty years of Xuanping, the people under his rule have definitely supported him Lin Ziran.
Because from this day on, Lin Ziran represented their interests!
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