The war is over, and if the previous tax revenue of 30 percent is not restored, it will continue to be raised to 50 percent, so many Daheng peasants directly took out their muskets at home to join various rebel armies......

As a result, Daheng was finished, and the taxes collected everywhere in the feudal towns were even higher, so the peasants of Daheng were even more miserable!

In the Hengao War and the subsequent financial problems and tax issues, whether it is the Ji royal family, the upper echelons of Daheng, or the core group of Daheng, the farmers of Daheng.

All losers!

Of course, some people are happy and some are sad, Daheng is finished, and the people in the surrounding countries, even the same miserable Orissa Empire, and even the countries of several other continents, are quite happy.

There is no way, there is such a big heng on the blue star that has been aggressive for thousands of years, has a strong desire to expand, and it is also a country that has completed industrialization, and other countries are all on guard.

For thousands of years, the country where Daheng has been a neighbor has all been unlucky people who have been unlucky for eight lifetimes!

The peasants, who were the main force of Daheng in those years, were unhappy, which was one of the most important reasons for the civil strife in Daheng.

The reason why it is said is that when Daheng raised taxes that year, it was not only limited to the agricultural field, but also raised taxes for the industrial and commercial fields.

After all, Daheng is a country that has completed industrialization, and the industrial and commercial tax accounts for more than half of the fiscal revenue, and the weight of the industrial and commercial field is not light.

In addition to the agricultural field, Daheng also came up with a large number of new taxes such as personal income tax, value-added tax, and grain export surcharge, and at the same time increased the proportion of the original taxes.

Some of these increased taxes at that time were seen from the perspective of later generations, especially the inheritance tax, personal income tax, and value-added tax, which were advanced and symbolic of a country's tax system moving from primitive to modern.

It's just that at the beginning of the stage, the rules formulated are not perfect, and they are completely formulated with a pat on the head, and the tax rate is generally high.

For example, the tax exemption rate of the inheritance tax was only 100 Heng Yuan, and the value of the land owned by most of the farmers in Daheng exceeded this 100 Heng Yuan, which means that almost all farmers could not pass on the land to their descendants smoothly......

There are also some tax measures and new taxes that are purely chaotic.

As a result, the business community, and even the upper echelons of society, did not agree, and supported the rebels from all walks of life and even organized their own armies to resist taxes.

When the upper, middle and lower, almost all strata of workers, peasants and merchants are dissatisfied, it means that the Daheng Dynasty has come to an end!

However, the most important thing is that when Daheng was in civil strife and feudal towns appeared one after another, the feudal towns in various places did not reduce taxes in order to compete for hegemony, but continued to increase the tax ratio on the basis of Daheng's taxes.

Many of the new taxes formulated by Daheng, such as inheritance tax and personal income tax, have been taken out by various feudal towns to continue to be used, and even the tax rate is even higher, and even more than 20 years ago, there was a feudal town in Dongding Prefecture that came up with a new tax that refreshed people's three views.

It's called 'property tax'.

What is Property Tax?

It is to be taxed directly from the property already owned by the individual!

Even if you have 100 dollars in your pocket now, you have to pay 10 dollars in property tax......

So, less than half a year after this fool came to power in the local area, three days after the promulgation of the property tax, he was killed by his own army, because the property tax set by this fool was levied by everyone in order to show fairness, including the soldiers under his command.

As a result, the soldiers who supported him directly pulled out heavy artillery to bombard the county guard and refused to accept the surrender.

That scene, tsk!

The big soldiers of the people carry their heads to earn you some military salaries, and the military salaries are quite low!

Carrying a gun for several years, and fortunately not dead or injured, this is how to save such a little possessions, just wait for one day to retire and return to your hometown to build a hut and marry a silly girl, you actually hit Lao Tzu's idea of saving money for so many years, and if you don't pull out the twenty-four pounds of heavy howitzers, you can't live up to the expectations of the majority of soldiers!

Naturally, there are not many such stupid feudal towns, but other feudal towns are actually no better, and the overall tax rate is very high, so people are even more miserable.

Another very interesting thing is that after the exploitation of the feudal towns, in fact, it is also to further improve the various tax systems, which has made Daheng people accept a lot of new tax concepts, such as personal income tax, and now Daheng people are basically not disgusted by this, but they generally feel that the tax rate is too high.

However, when Daheng first introduced personal income tax, it was angry.

Some idle and bored later generations have made statistical estimates, conservative statistics show that at least 200,000 Daheng people directly carried guns out of their homes after hearing the news, and brought their own dry food to participate in various rebel armies, which is no less than the number of uprisings caused by the previous increase in land tax.

Nowadays, personal income tax is generally levied in various feudal towns, and the tax rate is higher than that levied by Daheng back then.

Nowadays, no matter what the feudal town is, the tax rate under their rule is very high.

Luo'an County in Cheng Lingfeng's era is a typical example, although Luo'an County is not large in terms of area, but economically it is the second largest county in Nanhai Prefecture, second only to Luohai County, and people lived relatively rich in the past.

But now, life is not good, especially for the lower classes, and the reason is that the taxes are too heavy.

With the superior climate and geographical conditions of Luo'an County, a peasant family with hundreds of acres of land 50 years ago did not dare to say anything else, but there was definitely no need to worry about basic expenses such as food and clothing, and careful planning could allow children to receive education.

But now, an ordinary peasant family owning the same land has a hard time to eat after a busy year, and even needs to do some odd jobs during the slack period, and go out to work to support the family.

Fifty years ago, the male literacy rate in Daheng was able to exceed 50 percent, but now there has been a significant decline, and many adult men are illiterate.

In the final analysis, it is because in the past 50 years, the feudal towns have been in chaos, the taxes have been heavy, and the overall life of the Daheng people with farmers as the main body has been poor, and they can't even afford to eat.

After Lin Ziran took over a total of 22 towns in Lianguan Twelve Towns, Lingchang Six Towns, and Nan'an Four Towns, he felt that this tax was too heavy, so he did not raise taxes on the basis of the heavy taxes in Cheng Lingfeng's era like Li Kun and them.

But even if Lin Ziran did not raise taxes, after nearly a year of observation, Lin Ziran found that the current tax rate was still too heavy.

The reason why there was no action before was because of a lack of funds.

And now after Tsingshan Petroleum Company's No. 12 oil well has produced oil, the refinery has expanded production, and the income from kerosene has increased, Lin Ziran finally plans to take action on the tax issue.

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