Chapter 381
Buying a million-dollar car is a heavy burden on a working-class person. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info very easy for a businessman, or an executive.
In the same way, we will be surprised by the high income of those European and American countries, and think that they have a really high income, and I want to say that life should be easy then.
But how many people would think that their prices are just as staggering? Yes, when you travel, you will be surprised by their prices.
As for the collection of commercial taxes, he thinks it should not be less. Again, it shouldn't be more. Although it is said that an increase in commercial taxes will raise prices, businessmen will definitely reflect the excess taxes on prices, which will cause prices to take off.
Li Chen disagreed. Those are completely profiteers, what kind of price increases, is it possible that if you raise taxes, you won't make money?
Of course, taxes can't be too high, but how do businessmen make money? Aren't they a member of the state, and the farmers and industrialists are telling lies? As a result, all the taxes are on the peasants? Inexplicable point of view.
It's nothing more than that you think those small farmers are easy to bully, and you can't run away if you have land. If you run, you'll starve to death. I feel that the tax is unfair, I want to resist, but I have no power. I can only say whatever I want. So it's better for small farmers to bully.
As for the industrial and commercial tax, it is difficult to collect. In all dynasties, it has always been a problem to collect commercial taxes, and you don't know how much to collect. That is, the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty had more commercial taxes. In the Ming Dynasty, it was impossible to harvest it at all.
Commercial taxes must be collected, otherwise the amount of taxes on the peasants will be too small and unfair. But how to collect the business tax, Li Chen didn't know. In fact, he has been thinking about this question for a long time.
In the 21st century, how exactly is the commercial tax collected? How do those tax authorities know your company's business number, how much you collect annually, and how much tax you should pay? He really didn't have a clue. There is nothing to refer to.
He had read a lot of these novels before he traveled, and none of them talked about how to collect business taxes. Although those protagonists pay great attention to commercial taxes, Li Chen has never seen them mention how to collect commercial taxes. Therefore, Li Chen was also at a loss. You can only start with the commercial tax of the Tang Dynasty.
Li Chen first answered Cui Yuan's question just now, tax exemption, impossible. It is only possible to re-impose the tax rate.
He simply said, those businessmen, don't pay taxes when they make money? Why? They are not the people of the Tang Dynasty? Or can they not be protected by the law of the Tang Dynasty? When an alien invasion occurs, can you ignore their life or death? No, in that case, why don't businessmen have to pay taxes?
As for them passing taxes on prices, that's sophistry. Didn't businessmen make money before? If you add a little tax, you have to completely pass on the tax to the people?
In addition, it is very simple to deal with this trick, stipulating which necessities for people's livelihood can be taxed at low or even tax-free. Others, such as luxury goods, etc., should not only not be levied less, but should also be increased.
What does it matter if this commodity is added to the price? Anyway, if you can afford it, you can't afford it, and if you can't afford it, you still can't afford it.
Confucianism has influenced China's financial management thinking, try to be save, try not to spend indiscriminately, and restrain your desires. Everything should be self-sufficient, don't buy anything, and produce it yourself. Selling things is a favor to others, and those nomads should be grateful.
It seems that there is nothing wrong with it, but it is not human nature at all. No matter how you save, you have to spend money, and even, a lot of money, you don't usually spend it, and when you have to spend it, you will find that you have to pay a greater price. Moreover, the light and thin endowment under this concept is completely just talking.
Thin endowment, may be able to do it for many years. But what about the light? I have studied history, or I know a lot about it. The most bitter thing for the Chinese people in the past dynasties was not taxation, but forced labor. How many dynasties have risen up because of forced labor, which caused the people to be unable to survive.
However, under this concept of saving what can be saved, forced labor is still repeatedly requisitioned, and it is becoming more and more unrestrained. Because then you can save money. As everyone knows, you don't know how much you're spending.
Take Yang Guang as an example, if it wasn't for the levy and conscription, but for spending money, could he get rid of the Sui Dynasty so quickly? He only knew that he had to give orders to build, and he had no intuitive impression of how much he would have to pay.
And this notion will only give the fat sheep, the big businessmen, an excuse not to pay the taxes due. It's just that businessmen don't laugh too happily.
As I just said, you and Ben don't know how much you have to pay for it, but it's still useful. Usually do not pay taxes, and when the court is short of money, they will slaughter fat pigs. Pigs don't laugh at sheep being shaved, and cattle work hard to plow the fields. Because the sheep pay for wool, the ox pays for labor, and the pig pays for life.
Is that good? Of course, it was convenient for the imperial court, and even Qianlong deliberately raised a fat pig for Jiaqing to slaughter. It's not good for the people... How can a court that only slaughters fat pigs make the people trust them?
Chinese businessmen are also influenced by this kind of thinking, not that Li Chen wants to be dissatisfied with Chinese businessmen, but he wants to complain very much. Don't look at where the Chinese go, there are many rich and big households. After several generations, it has become a wealthy family. But that was a far cry from the real merchant race of Jews.
The Jews have carved business into their blood, and they are real merchants. You can imagine that businessmen have bad roots, and they all have them. Based on one truth, the poor must have something to hate. What happened to the Jews was, in many cases, their own accumulation.
In the case of Chinese businessmen, it is different. Most of the money that Chinese businessmen get is saved up. It is not that Chinese businessmen do not have those bad businessmen, but most of them do a lot of business, and they pay great attention to the principles of honesty and economy. To accumulate one's own capital one by one, the emphasis is on harmony and wealth.
Jews don't speak of integrity? Speak, they sign contracts, and there are laws that can endorse them. It's just that... As long as the law doesn't say it, you know...
Chinese businessmen save money, Jews spend desperately. They will spend every penny to generate revenue. China is a martyr, and it is necessary to save money and seek profit from its capital. Jews have no capital to ask for profit, and for the sake of business, they can ignore any human feelings and morals.
Well, of course, Li Chen doesn't like Jews either, but the only thing he agrees with is that money is earned, not saved. He does not intend to imitate the traditional Chinese way of managing money, he wants to bring the correct concept of financial management to the imperial court to see if it can influence future generations.
He hopes to try to use some of the financial management concepts that future generations have acquired, and gradually reverse the traditional financial management concepts. To save money, of course, you have to save, but it is not that kind of provincial law.
There are several principles of taxation, equality, certainty, convenience and economy, Li Chen expounded his views to several prime ministers that he brought from later generations, and discussed them with his ministers again when Li Xiang returned to the court.
He can say that in the last hour, in front of these ancient elites, he showed off his knowledge from modern times. brainstormed for them, but thinking that when Li Deyu returned to the court, he would have to say it again, so he didn't want to say it, so he explained it briefly, and let them go back to their own understanding. Let's talk about it in detail, and wait for everyone to arrive.
Who will tell me how the commercial tax of my dynasty is collected? , if you don't understand, just ask, and ask these prime ministers directly for the fastest. Before improving the tax law, Li Chen wanted to understand how the Tang Dynasty collected commercial taxes. Understand it first, and then you can prescribe the right medicine.
In the end, it was Cui Yuanshi who came forward and answered in detail for Li Chen, and Li Chen heard only one answer, which was messy...
In the Tang Dynasty, how to collect business taxes? Basically, it is levied by local governments. Li Chen was a little dizzy, saying that it was a commercial tax, but there was no customization, how much should be charged.
What the hell, it's a mess. , Li Chen shook his head when he heard this, this is really bad, there is no norm at all. I don't know if it's because of the ostrich mentality, or the struggle between the traditional bureaucrats and those financial bureaucrats, there are no rules about commercial taxes in the Tang Dynasty at all.
First of all, in the first half of the Tang Dynasty, before Xuanzong, there were places to evade taxes from time to time. It's not tax evasion, it's tax leviment. This has a name, called the Campaign of Closing the City. Taxes are collected at the gates and bazaars. Not the norm, though. After arriving in Xuanzong, this kind of tax was secretly collected from the local government itself and became customized.
It becomes customized, but what should be collected, how much to collect, there is no accuracy at all. The bamboo and wood tax during the Dejong period is just one example. The bamboo and wood tax is a commercial tax, the tea tax is also a commercial tax, and there is also a lacquer tax, wine tax... There are also various taxes under the name of ingenuity.
It's very disorderly, and it shows that no one thinks about whether all transactions are taxed or not. No one thinks about what should be taken and what is less or not received. It's just that the head is healed by headaches, and the feet are healed by foot pain, and when they find that there are many things, they go to collect taxes from each other.
The Tang Dynasty was not without some financial experts, or bureaucrats specializing in finance and economics, but they were usually called ministers in the history books, and they were rarely evaluated. During the period of Daizong, Liu Yan was able to clean up the river and salt politics, which was rarely evaluated.
Roughly understanding the financial situation, Li Chen first wanted to sigh. Those people are not so much experts in finance and economics as they are experts in finding money. Find ways to get money for the emperor. In fact, they don't have any financial management concepts. The commercial tax above is an example.
Originally, in the first two tax laws, there were provisions for commercial tax, thirty taxes and one tax. Later, in the Dezong period, for military spending, it was increased to ten taxes and one. In another year, Huainan Chen Shaoyou asked for an additional 200 per 1,000 yuan. Dezong approved, and also forwarded the recital to all parts of the country, so that all parts of the country could raise taxes by themselves.
As a result, the increase varies from place to place, with some adding more and others adding less. It's not just a matter of how much, it's actually getting less and less. The result of the mess of commercial taxes is to give people the opportunity to do their own thing.
In addition, there has been little improvement in the situation of indiscriminate local harvesting. Commercial taxes have been officially collected, but local governments still often set up cards to collect taxes without authorization. Meow, it turned out that the late Qing Dynasty was full of indiscriminate tax collection, and the Tang Dynasty had it. (To be continued.) )