Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1802 Inland Revenue Commissioner

In terms of finance, in addition to the branches in the urban area, Delong Bank has opened special counters in various credit union branches, ready to receive silver and copper coins, and make preparations for deposits and loans.In the Shishi treasury of Delong Guangzhou Branch, wooden barrels and baskets for storing miscellaneous silver and copper coins have been prepared.In particular, a large amount of bank bills were prepared. After the Ministry of Finance and Economics prepared for the implementation of the new currency system, it began to fully implement the inter-bank settlement of corporate accounts to reduce the use of cash.

Liu Xiang ordered the police station and Zheng Shangjie to conduct a secret investigation on the inventory, sales and prices of daily necessities in Guangzhou through the Federation of Industry and Commerce, involving more than a dozen categories including textiles, meat, aquatic products, salt, and tea.At the same time, in order to ensure real-time analysis of market data during the currency reform period, it is also preparing to build a regional data processing center in Guangzhou World to process the data collected every day.As the basis for the research and judgment of the financial team in Guangzhou.

Finally, there is the establishment of the Guangzhou Municipal Taxation Bureau.Under Liu Xiang's tireless calls, Wudaokou finally sent him the head of the tax bureau.

In a special suite for veterans in the "inner world" of the big world, veteran Ai Zhixin looked at himself in the mirror, with short hair, well-maintained titanium frame thin-frame glasses, a Swiss watch on his wrist, and the most advanced The white Dutch linen shirt and light-colored khaki trousers set off a "yuppie" flavor of the financial elite.

It's a pity that there are no real leather shoes. Although the special cloth shoes are good, they are a bit too artistic to wear.Elder Ai Yuan thought with regret.

He looked at himself again to make sure that everything was in order, and then he turned around.Ai Yixin, the life secretary who was waiting on the side, immediately handed him a high imitation BOSS briefcase.

"Thank you." He took it over. Although the bag fished out from Lando's fishing boat is only A-grade, it is exquisite in workmanship and exquisite in materials, and it is not inferior to the genuine licensed one.Very popular with Ai Yuanlao——Ai Yuanlao was also a fashionable person known for his love of exquisite items when he was working in the Internal Revenue Service.

Ai Yi gestured heartily and asked if he was going out?This young life secretary has a good appearance and figure, but she is a mute—fortunately, her loss of voice is acquired, not deaf.It saved Ai Yuan the trouble of learning dumb language.

Of course, if it weren't for this physical defect, this maid who can be rated as A-level would not only be rated as D-level when she graduated.So much so that some venomous elders called him "the man who took over the pan".

Ai Yuanlao didn't care if he took the offer.Although Ai Yixin can't speak, she was still illiterate when she first arrived in Lingao, but she has a strong learning ability, and when she graduated, her academic performance was among the best.After working under him for a few years, with self-study and his guidance, he is already one of the most professionally capable among the naturalized civilian cadres in Wudaokou.If she hadn't been Elder Ai's maid, he would have promoted her to an important leadership position, and now he can only be satisfied with letting her be his personal secretary—not just "the secretary of life".

Mr. Ai Yuan was in charge of finance and taxation work in Wudaokou for a long time. In the Wudaokou system, finance and taxation work was not taken seriously at the beginning.This is also a helpless move, neither Lingao County nor Qiongzhou Prefecture is a place of prosperity, and agriculture is still backward, let alone industry and commerce.Therefore, the financial revenue of the Senate has relied on "trophies" and "trade" for a long time.The collections that were gradually carried out later were mainly land taxes and fishery taxes.Although the customs has formulated taxes such as import and export taxes and mooring taxes, many of them are exempted or reduced in order to encourage import and export trade, which is in name only.

It wasn't until Lingao's industry and commerce prospered that the taxation department really started to become active, and the naturalized civilian cadres of the taxation department realized for the first time the "Ten Thousand Taxes of the Senate"-tax collection, even in the Ming Dynasty. The 17th century also lagged behind the advanced international level-there were so many types of taxes and the complexity of tax rate calculations far exceeded their imagination, which gave them a solid conceptual shock.

Now Mr. Ai Yuan brought the tax team he trained in Hainan—mainly in Lingao—to Guangzhou.

"You don't need to cook at night, I will eat in the bureau. You pack your luggage and move to the dormitory in the bureau early tomorrow morning." Ai Zhixin ordered, "The General Affairs Office of the Municipal Government will send sedan chairs and laborers, you have to listen to them Make arrangements. Don’t go out alone, it’s not peaceful in Guangzhou right now.”

Ai Yi nodded heartily.

The place where Ai Zhixin was going was the Guangzhou Branch of the State Administration of Taxation—it was said to be the Guangzhou branch, but in fact this branch was also responsible for the tax work of the entire Guangdong province. Generally speaking, where the Fubo Army could establish rule, the tax work would be carried out.Policies vary between natural core areas, appeasement areas, and law and order areas.

In terms of power, Ai Zhixin's authorization is unprecedented and unprecedented.In addition to customs duties, the collection of all industrial and commercial taxes, agricultural taxes, and fishery taxes in Guangzhou and even Guangdong are all in his hands, and the monopoly work is also under his management.It has the power to "act cheaply without violating the general direction" in terms of tax types, tax rates and collection methods.

Naturally, there is a price for him to obtain such great power, and that is to complete taxation work in an extremely complicated environment-this burden is not light.Not only is there a lot of things to do, but it is also necessary to complete the work in the case of extremely scarce personnel and institutions.At the same time, he had to cooperate well with Chen Ce's financial and economic working group in issuing new coins.Tax collection is not only to increase fiscal revenue, but also an important means to stabilize currency.Taxes can effectively force merchants to collect and use new currencies.

Ai Zhixin was carried into the Salt Department in a sedan chair under such circumstances: now there are two signs on the door: Guangzhou Branch of the State Administration of Taxation and Guangzhou Branch of the Monopoly Bureau of the Ministry of Finance.Salt and tobacco monopoly is also an important income in Wudaokou's fiscal revenue. At present, there is no veteran in the monopoly bureau, and it is also represented by the tax bureau-in a broad sense, monopoly is also a kind of tax.

He had gotten used to the stagnant water and the stench of the sewers in the June sun, but when he got out of the sedan chair, he felt the air was refreshing.The Yankesi Yamen is an old yamen, almost as long as the Ming Dynasty, and the latest renovation is also a matter of the Jiajing Dynasty.Here, the walls are high and the house is deep, the courtyard is wide, and there are many hundred-year-old trees inside, which are lush and green.

Because Guangzhou had just calmed down not long ago, there were soldiers from the national army standing guard at the main entrances and exits.Ai Zhixin knew how complicated the situation he was facing was when he found out that there was a samurai escort from the Japanese Guard next to his sedan chair when he entered the city.

The staff of the Taxation Bureau and the Monopoly Bureau have already greeted him at the gate of the ceremony.There were naturally two groups of people on both sides of the corridor.On the left are the naturalized workers headed by Hu Xuefan, some of whom were transferred from Hainan, and some of them were the staff of the Wansheng renting warehouse under the Guangzhou Urban Industry Department.These are the basic teams of Ai Zhixin's tax bureau.The ones on the right are the old personnel who have been selected and retained, the clerks, scribes, grain messengers, ambassadors of the river ponds and salt warehouses, and subordinates of various book offices...all kinds of officials who have never entered the stream. , to the "li" with the lowest rank of subordinate staff, everything is available.

Hu Xuefan, as the most senior civil servant of the tax bureau, welcomed the arrival of the new head.Afterwards, the old official of the Salt Division led the way to the office.

The office is located in a fairly neat small courtyard - as the old man walked past the tall buildings, he realized that these houses were dilapidated, the walls in disrepair were mottled, covered with moss and mildew, and the roofs were It is full of wormwood, and some have grown small trees.He heard from the old official that some houses here have been in disrepair for a long time and have been locked up for a long time.Some of the old salt bins have collapsed.

It's really spooky here.Ai Zhixin thought.

The courtyard of the office and dormitory has been cleaned up, furnished with furniture and various daily necessities.Ai Zhixin asked the accompanying clerk to open the file box he had brought, and organize and put it on the shelf.I seized the time to read the compilation of financial and taxation work sent by the Ministry of Urban Industry.

The fiscal and taxation situation in Guangzhou is relatively complicated. This is not only because the fiscal and taxation system of the Ming Dynasty itself was very chaotic, but the Senate itself has collected "reasonable burdens" and "fishery taxes" in Guangzhou and the Pearl River Delta for many years, and also sold a large amount of private salt in Guangzhou. .

In the past, Ai Zhixin had studied Daming's fiscal and tax policies in Lingao, but the Qiongzhou government was too poor and backward, and the local yamen's specific taxation practices were pitiful.Looking at the tax information of the Guangzhou government now, I can't help but feel a little eye-opening.

Daming did not pay much attention to industrial and commercial tax. Except for land tax and salt tax, other taxes were collectively referred to as "variety".And this motley collection is chaotic and complicated. Although there are clearly written "ministerial regulations", they go their own way everywhere.

Among them, the most important tax for local governments is the commercial tax, which is similar to the "lijin" in the Qing Dynasty.It's just that there is a quota for commercial tax, and each state and county has a specific commercial tax quota, some are surprisingly high, and some are ridiculously low.As for the basis on which this quota was originally formulated, no one knows.

The government sent subalterns to block roads and ferries to collect taxes. The tax rate was very low, but the collection area was very wide. Anything could be taxed, even a chicken or a basket of vegetables had to be taxed.The principle of double taxation is implemented.That is to say, if a farmer brings vegetables to the market to sell, he has to pay taxes several times after passing through several tax cards on the road.

The subordinate officials and secretary offices sent to the tax card to collect taxes not only have no income, but also have to complete additional tax income.Therefore, the tax card for commercial taxation has become a tax package system in disguise, and it is inevitable for tax collectors and tax collectors to corrupt and blackmail business people.The result is that there is a lot of public grievances, but the taxes collected are negligible, and a large amount of taxes are fed layer by layer and flow into private pockets.

(End of this chapter)