While the focus of economic policy gradually shifted to the south and west, Weishuo also opened a storm of personal income tax. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In recent years, with the continuous development of maritime trade, more and more families and businessmen with huge wealth have appeared in Liaodong.

Although Liaodong has suppressed the concentration of wealth to a small number of people to a certain extent by virtue of the policy of 'gentry and grain payment', the taxes levied by this policy are just a drop in the bucket for the major families and tycoons, and they are not worth mentioning.

In order to further prevent the polarization of wealth, Weishuo intends to put personal income tax on the agenda.

"What is personal income tax? What is the role of personal income tax? ”

"Personal income tax is a way to redivide social wealth, which can be used to regulate social wealth and prevent the gap between the rich and the poor from widening, causing polarization, so as not to cause violent conflicts within society, which can lead to political turmoil."

"Like the civil unrest that broke out at the end of the Qin Dynasty and the end of the Han Dynasty, in a sense, it was also caused by the uneven distribution of social wealth, at the end of each dynasty, there will always be a concentration of wealth in the hands of a few people, but the majority of the people in the world live a life of hunger, so it is strange that people do not rebel!"

After listening to Wei Shuo's words, except for the four henchmen like Wen, Gao, Pei, and Mo, who had received some news in advance, other bureaucrats, especially some bureaucrats from families, changed their faces greatly.

At the moment, everyone's minds were in turmoil, and they couldn't understand what Wei Shuo's intention was to suddenly propose to levy everyone's income tax. They don't believe in any arguments such as redistributing social wealth, if it weren't for Wei Shuo's always principled and bottom-line behavior, everyone couldn't help but wonder if Wei Shuo was planning to rob each family's wealth.

Wei Shuo looked at the chaotic expressions of everyone below, and his heart was full of helplessness. Of course, he knew what was in everyone's hearts, and in such an insecure era in ancient times, not to mention personal wealth, sometimes even personal wealth and life could not be saved.

Therefore, Wei Shuo suddenly proposed to levy personal income tax, and everyone will inevitably think about it more.

Thinking of this, Wei Shuo felt that it was necessary to explain more to everyone, so he pondered it for a moment and said, "Everyone, the concerns in your heart are known. Ran Shuo solemnly promised to everyone: I will not and will never allow my descendants to rob my subordinates and the common people of their personal legitimate wealth in any name, now and in the future. ”

"You don't have to worry about the wealth of your family, as long as it is obtained through legal means. Neither the government nor anyone else has the right to plunder your lawful gains. And even if you commit a crime, the government has no right to confiscate your lawful gains, unless your wealth is illegally gained, which will not be protected by law. ”

"In the future, in Liaodong, we must strive to require everyone to follow a principle, that is, personal legal gains are sacred and inviolable!"

At this moment, the people who were still bitter just now suddenly became bright again, and some people even automatically regarded the collection of personal income tax as paying a 'protection fee' to Da Sima. In other words, only after paying personal income tax, Da Sima will spare no effort to protect the so-called sacrosanctity of personal wealth.

Although most of them misinterpret the true meaning of personal income tax, Wei Shuo is not busy correcting it, believing that over time, the benefits of this policy will be understood by the public.

"Dare to ask the lord, what is the standard for this person's income tax to be levied? How much is appropriate? ”

The principle of collecting individual income tax in later generations is to levy more taxes on middle- and high-income groups, and middle- and low-income people also have to pay taxes, generally do not pay or pay very little, and the main role is to control the level of the gap between the rich and the poor.

This payment method is based on the extremely complex and clear social division of labor in modern society, and in the vague era of ancient times, it is somewhat unrealistic to want to levy personal income tax based on the amount of income.

For this reason, after consultation with Mo Han, Pei Wei and others, Wei Shuo planned to use the amount of family assets as the standard for levy.

"After discussing with the tax collector as a vassal, the pastoral government initially came up with a plan, that is, ordinary people with family assets of one million yuan, that is, less than one thousand yuan, will be exempted from personal income tax; Those who are more than 1,000 yuan and less than 50,000 yuan are required to pay 1% of the family income every year; Those who are more than 50,000 yuan to less than 100,000 yuan are required to pay 5% of the family income every year; ”

"Those who have more than 100,000 yuan and less than 300,000 yuan of household assets are required to pay 10% of the family assets every year; Those who have more than 300,000 yuan and less than 500,000 yuan are required to pay 15% of the family assets every year; Those who have more than 500,000 yuan of household assets are required to pay 20% of the annual household assets. ”

This person's income tax is ruthless enough! After listening to Wei Shuo's introduction, except for a few century-old families with millions of family assets and giants, most of them felt that the standards set by the pastoral government were basically within the psychological tolerance of everyone.

Although a very small number of wealthy businessmen and century-old families have quite objections to this standard, under the suppression of Wei Shuo, it has no impact on the implementation of personal income tax. And after Wei Shuo's repeated rectification, the family that remains in Liaodong is no longer arrogant in the Wei and Jin dynasties, and Wei Shuo is now completely able to suppress them, whether it is economic or political, he is dominant.

As Wei Shuo expected, a few days later, when the Liaodong Pastoral Government announced the individual income tax collection plan, although it caused huge waves, there were no serious problems such as capital flight.

In fact, this is not difficult to understand, even if some giant businessmen and wealthy families want to run, he has nowhere to run! Except for Liaodong's public commitment to protect the sanctity of personal wealth, no matter where they go, people like them are fat sheep in the eyes of the superiors.

At least in Liaodong, Da Sima is principled in his actions and will not directly snatch it like some superiors. It is distressing to pay a huge amount of personal income tax, but compared with the destruction of the family, this loss is nothing at all.

In addition, although Liaodong has no tax-free privileges for the family, it also gives everyone a lot of opportunities to make a fortune, among which the profit from sea trade alone is no less than hundreds of thousands, which is enough to pay the so-called personal income tax. Coupled with the workshops all over the country, even with the collection of personal income tax, the wealth of the family is still increasing every year, but the increase is not as much as before.

In addition, some people with outstanding vision believe that paying personal income tax is an important guarantee to ensure the security of family wealth. As Da Sima said, after paying such a large amount of taxes, the principle of the sanctity and inviolability of personal legal income promoted by Liaodong was quickly accepted by everyone.

Even a hundred years later, his successors will not dare to overturn this principle that is in the interests of all. This avoids the recurrence of a tragedy like Shi Chong's, which is very important for the continuation of the family.

Resisting the levy of personal income tax are all wealthy families, and ordinary people are no longer subject to the scope of the levy, but out of some hatred of the rich, they have shouted and applauded it.

Newspapers from all over the country took the opportunity to interview people from all walks of life on the views of individual income tax, and for a time all walks of life in Liaodong discussed this matter, and after statistics, most of the people were very supportive.

Although the individual income tax was introduced, in order to prevent tax evasion, Weishuo, together with the tax collector and the Supervision Office, jointly formulated punishment measures for tax evaders. According to the relevant regulations, those who evade taxes of 10,000 yuan will have their family property confiscated, and this punishment is mainly for those with large family assets.

If the tax evasion reaches more than 100,000 yuan, not only will the family property be confiscated, but also face prison!

The reason for such a strict penalty is naturally to ensure the smooth collection of individual income tax.

Of course, Wei Shuo did not blindly rely on strict punishment and strict laws to ensure tax collection, he also launched public opinion propaganda, so that the government throat newspapers published articles one after another, in-depth analysis of the benefits of levying individual income tax, that is, moving with emotion and reason.

To this end, Wei Shuo also personally wrote an article in the newspaper to explain the significance of imposing personal income tax.

"The father of the eight states, the reason why the pastoral government wants to levy personal income tax is to further expand the fiscal revenue, make Liaodong strong as soon as possible, and at the same time to prevent the gap between the rich and the poor from widening, so that Liaodong can complete the great historical mission of expelling Hulu and realizing national rejuvenation as soon as possible!" (To be continued.) )