After the court discussion on the same day, Daqin's tax law, under the leadership of Li Yang, quickly opened the curtain of reform.

It abolished many of the previous overt taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and only levied income tax on merchants, and at the same time increased value-added tax on goods, also known as commodity tax.

In addition to the reform of income tax and commodity tax, the new Daqin tax also abolished the oral tax.

The so-called oral tax is a tax on the population as the object of taxation, which can also be said to be a poll tax.

In the Qin Dynasty, there were three main types of taxes: land rent, oral tax, and miscellaneous tax.

After the establishment of the Qin Dynasty, "the tax is levied on the number of acres of land, and the number of land is not surplus, and the number is necessary", no matter how much land there is, it will be levied according to the number of acres of land that the government should have in the hands of each person, even if there is not so much land, it must be taxed according to this amount.

The rate of land rent is "tithe", which is divided into two types: millet and weed.

At that time, the peasants were generally a family of five occupying 100 acres of land, and the income of 100 mu was not more than 100 stones, and the tithe should be paid 10 stones. The mouth fu is calculated to pay the money, and the Qin Dynasty's mouth fu is 120 money.

If the annual payment of 120 yuan per person is calculated, the family of five needs to pay 600 yuan, and the price of grain at that time was about "30 yuan of stone", 600 yuan is equivalent to 20 stone grain, and its amount is twice the amount of land rent.

Miscellaneous levies are temporary levies of various names, and these taxes, taken together, account for two-thirds of the peasants' harvest. Therefore, for the peasants of the Qin Dynasty, the service was extremely heavy, so there will be a record of "the first emperor then annexed the world, the internal meritorious work, the external Yidi, the collection of half of the Tai tax, the hair of the left, the men's hard work is not enough food, and the women's spinning is not enough clothes".

A farmer, or a businessman, tired all year round, two-thirds of them are handed over to the imperial court, which is obviously undesirable for Li Yang, a traverser.

If taxes are too heavy, society will lack initiative, let alone innovation.

If Daqin wants to develop and progress, it must make the people of the whole society full of enthusiasm and passion for the future, and only in this way will Daqin be creative.

And the only way is to cut taxes and benefit the people.

Therefore, abolishing the oral tax, which is twice as heavy as the land rent tax, is definitely a major burden reduction reform for the people.

In Li Yang's words, it is the reduction of the oral tax, so that the people have money in their pockets so that they can buy goods, and the tax deducted by the oral tax is actually earned back from the value-added tax of the merchants.

At the same time, when the people have purchasing power, then the commercial economy will also be motivated.

All in all, reducing taxes is a prerequisite for Daqin to build a commercial economy and society.

As soon as Daqin's tax law reform was released, the whole country was excited!

Both farmers and businessmen cheered and ran to tell each other. Some were so happy that they even cried with joy.

Especially for businessmen, Daqin's tax law reform made them ecstatic and moved to tears.

Why do you say that, first, Daqin's new tax law not only exempts oral taxes, but also moves commercial taxes to goods. In the past, merchants had to pay oral taxes for their workers, and the oral tax was twice as much as the field rent tax, that is, when the merchants' business situation became bigger and the labor was used, they would be unable to bear the taxes.

Now, the cancellation of the oral endowment is equivalent to the unlimited expansion of the business, and there is no need to worry about using too much labor and unable to bear the oral endowment.

In addition, in the past, there were also commodity taxes on salt and iron, but these commodity taxes were levied directly on their merchants, but now this commodity tax is directly imposed on goods and borne by consumers, which is also a great joy.

Of course, the most touching thing for businessmen is the income tax.

Because today's income tax is levied on a monthly basis.

What does that mean?

In the past, the family assets of merchants were to be registered, and how many family assets were recorded in the books of the imperial court, as if they were the family assets of the imperial court, and for the merchants, the family assets were only temporarily controlled by them, as long as the imperial court said a word, they had to donate directly.

Nowadays, the merchant's family property no longer needs to be registered by the imperial court, and only needs to register with the imperial court with the monthly income, and pay income tax according to the classification of income.

In other words, the court will not care how much money you will have in your family.

Whether you have 100,000 gold or 1 million gold, the court will not know, and they will not want to know, they are only concerned about your monthly liquid income.

For the merchants, it is not just the absence of excesses, but the meaning of the privacy of private property, or in other words, the meaning of absolute ownership of personal property.

This meaning is the most important thing for businessmen.

It is precisely for this reason that on the day of the release of the Great Qin Tax Law, the representatives of the wealthy businessmen in Xianyang, led by the Ba family, all ran to Li Yang's mansion to thank Li Yang for his tax law reform.

This made them see that the status of businessmen was slowly improving.

"Uncle Wu, let's meet Zhenguojun, please!"

"Yes, let's go in and thank Zhen Guojun!"

Outside the gate of Li Yang's mansion, the Xianyang merchants led by Ba Shi were asking Wu Bo one after another.

At the beginning, Li Yang told them that he would definitely improve the status of businessmen, but everyone didn't believe it before, but today they really believe it.

Zhen Guojun has indeed been working hard for the status of a businessman.

This is something that all businessmen are grateful for.

If you don't go in and thank you, it's not enough to express your gratitude.

However, Li Yang really didn't dare to see it.

The tax law reform is the tax reform of the imperial court, and it is not that the tax reform can be carried out by saying that the tax reform can be carried out, if you meet these businessmen, it is equivalent to taking the credit for the tax reform by yourself.

This is absolutely unwise.

Although Fusu may not care about this, as a Li Yang who has watched countless historical dramas, if a courtier is too self-assured and reduces the court's kindness to the people to the credit of the courtier, this kind of courtier will definitely not live long, and there are too many stupid B deaths in history.

Although Li Yang is usually arrogant and arrogant, and even dares to pretend to be forced in front of the court and even the emperor, he will not be stupid enough to do it if he takes the kindness of the court as his own.

Therefore, Li Yang directly asked Wu Bo to resign.

"My son-in-law said that the tax reform is a matter of the imperial court, and the credit lies in the imperial court, in Your Majesty, and in the eldest son, I hope you will please come back, otherwise my son-in-law will be unhappy." Wu Bo said to the merchants.

"No, if the king of the town is gone, we won't go back."

"Yes, we're not going back, we're just waiting."

However, these businessmen seem to have carried it and did not listen to persuasion at all.

Someone also said: "We are here to thank Zhenguojun, how can Zhenguojun be angry, we don't believe it." ”

Li Yang was also very helpless.

Your mother is a bitch, you will kill Lao Tzu like this, and I don't believe that Lao Tzu will be angry?

Seeing that these guys were so ignorant, Li Yang had no choice but to come to the gate of the courtyard, pointed at Ba Shi and shouted angrily: "Ba Shi, you are confused, what are you doing with me!" ”

Everyone was stunned, but they didn't expect Li Yang to be really angry.

"In this tax reform, Xianyang businessmen all said that they would come to thank you." Seeing that Li Yang was displeased, Ba Shi said cautiously.

Li Yang said: "Do you really want to thank you?" ”

The crowd nodded.

Li Yang said: "Okay, then you will follow Benjun into the palace and go directly to thank the eldest son!" ”

"This ......" everyone was stunned.

"What, you don't want to thank the eldest son?" Li Yang frowned and asked.

Everyone nodded in fright: "Yes, I want to go to thank you." ”

"Let's go!" Li Yang nodded with satisfaction, then waved his hand and walked towards Xianyang Palace with a group of merchants......

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