Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 958 Local Finance
Chen Ce thinks that Qiongshan's industry and commerce is the most developed in Hainan in this time and space, and it developed completely naturally.

"The county magistrate has only been working for a few days, and the tail of localism has been exposed." Chen Ce said secretly.It seems that this tax issue will cause a famine in the future.At present, there is no specific tax sharing system in Lingao, and how to distribute the collected taxes seems to be a troublesome matter.

Although Chen Ce is in the head office of Delong Bank, he is busy every day planning to establish sub-branches and primary taxation agencies in various places, but the contradictions in the financial system gradually surfaced with the awakening of spring and the end of the security war.

County-level governments in various places have been established one after another, and local finance and taxation have become an unavoidable topic.

Although Lingao County has Xiong Buyou, the oldest county office director, Lingao County has not established any independent administrative organization. All construction and investment are directly invested by the executive committee, and have nothing to do with local finance and taxation.

As for the Sanya region, it is not considered a local government, it is only a dispatched agency-because there was no population, no industry, commerce or agriculture in the area, Sanya was a colony completely established by the Senate.Most of its output: minerals, agricultural and forestry products, and fishery products are all transported to Lingao, and the materials needed by the local area, from clothes, food, tools and even used fuel, are all transported from Lingao.All the investment comes from Lingao's appropriation, and the operation also depends on the materials and cash allocated by Lingao.The Sanya region is completely attached to the parent body of Lingao, and economically it is a complete vassal.

But now the states and counties they control, although the economic status of each county is different, each county is an independent economy.There is a city, several villages, with varying populations.There are fields, and some industries and businesses of various sizes.In the past, the model of Lingao being the senate could no longer continue. Every county had a senator as the county magistrate and set up a set of administrative teams.

With an administrative team, it involves local financial issues.Daming’s fiscal policy in the Zhu Baba era was basically that the central government took everything, and the local government left almost nothing.From the perspective of centralization, it is indeed fruitful, but it is a disaster for local administration.Because the county does not have enough financial resources, the county magistrate can hardly do anything.Even maintaining basic administration is unsustainable. Naturally, if you don't use any brains, you can't get officials out of the system if you use some liquidity outside the system.

The drawbacks of this system can be clearly seen by the elders.But how to improve it involves a big article, not only involves the tax system, fiscal system but also involves the important issue of the distribution of power between the central and local governments.The Executive Committee has recently been holding enlarged meetings on this issue, often discussing until midnight before adjourning the meeting.

Before a definite plan is formulated, the method of allocating administrative funds in full is temporarily used.When the director of each county office takes office, he will be issued a one-time circulation coupon by the Finance Director's Department.The current circulation coupons still use grain as a reserve.According to the appropriation figures, an equivalent amount of grain will be allocated by the Planning Institute as a reserve fund.Of course, the food itself does not need to be transported long distances. After the public security war ended, the Planning Institute has a considerable amount of food in each county, mainly the original official warehouse food in each county and the food confiscated and seized during the public security war and Qingzhang Tianmu. food.Except for some of these grains being transported to Lingao, the rest is still stored in the granaries of the counties, and it only needs to be checked in the accounts.

The funds distributed to the counties are not directly in the hands of the county office directors, but deposited in the special financial account of the local Delong sub-branch, and the county office directors will spend them in detail.Because local administrative expenditures are complex, the Financial Directorate has specially compiled a list of recurring project expenditures.In this way, you can roughly know the number of funds that need to be allocated each month. This expenditure is a special fund, and the director of the county office cannot use it in other names.In this way, there will be no embarrassment that the leader spends too much money for a while and cannot pay wages at the end of the month.

It is not easy to compile a table of recurring expenses, and no one knows how much a seventeenth-century county will need in administrative expenses each month.And Lingao's financial expenditure does not have any reference value-it has always been accounting.Especially in terms of financial support personnel expenses, how to arrange the institutions in each county, how many personnel to set up, what is the level and salary of the personnel... So far, it has not been fully decided.So management can only be relatively rough.Cheng Dong asked that the temporary quota should be tight rather than loose, so as not to make it difficult to collect in the future.

For the time being, other expenses other than recurrent expenses will be spent by the county office director himself within the monthly total, and there can only be savings and not overspending.

As for the income of each county: including taxes, confiscations, confiscations, etc., all of them are turned over to the Planning Institute and the Finance Director's Department.

This kind of financial policy of unified revenue and expenditure is of course very inappropriate, especially when it completely obliterates the financial autonomy of the counties. For now, that's all there is to it.The Executive Committee's requirement for the local government is "stability". While maintaining local law and order, resources from various places will be collected first to supply the operation of the Senate.As for economic construction, it is not the primary job of the county office director.

This system has been officially implemented since the end of last year, and it has been more than a year now. Almost every county on Hainan Island has established a financial system according to this system.It's working fine.

But for Chen Ce, he has already felt some rebound during his financial and official travel around Hainan Island-the county office directors of various counties, especially the counties with relatively high agricultural level and relatively good economic conditions in the past: Qiongshan, The county directors of Chengmai, Wenchang, and Ding'an counties are quite dissatisfied with the fiscal system of unified revenue and expenditure, and strongly hope for reform.

Chen Ce somewhat understood their thoughts.The director of the county office is Bailihou.Most people have a certain sense of enterprise. Even if they rule a poor small county with a population of only tens of thousands, they still want to make a name for themselves.Business simulation games are always booming, which just shows the mentality of most people.What's more, all counties in Hainan Island are rich in resources, and there are too many projects that can be developed and constructed.Chen Ce has been to Changhua Fort—a small fortress with only a dozen people stationed there. Although it is surrounded by barren sandy beaches and has no resources to speak of, just raising goats on the sandy beach before the Spring Awakening Battle is enough. It was a great success—in the autumn of 1630, Changhuabao provided [-] sheep to Lingao.

In order to invest and build, it is not enough to rely solely on the direct investment of the Planning Institute - the Planning Institute has too many projects to invest in, and with the limited manpower and material resources of the Lingao regime, it is impossible to take care of "central enterprises", let alone Talk about engaging in local industry.Moreover, the overly tight manpower gap also made the planning institute not very interested in local industries.

Chen Ce knew that Liu Xiang was dissatisfied when the executive committee took advantage of the typhoon to take away a large number of laborers in Qiongshan last month—on Hainan Island, no matter what you do, you must have talents.Although he managed to complete the task in the end, the contradiction between the central government and the local government has already revealed its clues.

I hope that after the population of Shandong arrives, the conflict will ease down.Chen Ce thought that as long as there is a population, it should not be difficult for the veterans to develop some local industries with their own abilities—of course, the financial system must also be reformed.

Chen Ce said with a smile: "When the refugees from Shandong come, it will be easier for you to raise fish—didn't Lingao prosper because of the large number of people from Guangdong?"

"Wait for the refugees in Shandong, at least until the end of the year, right?" Liu Xiang didn't know what he was thinking, but said happily, "I have some ideas now, and it doesn't take much investment, just someone can do the work." I and Tang Menglong told him about using the coal from Jiazi Coal Mine to start some small industries.

Chen Ce laughed and didn't answer directly.Turn the topic back to the summer tax collection.

The announcement of Qiongshan County's summer tax collection caused an uproar as soon as it was posted.Because this year is the first year for Australians to collect taxes after being in charge, everyone, whether they are poor or rich, white men or scholars, are very concerned about it.

As far as the teahouses in Qiongshan and the wild talks under the trees are discussed, most people think that Australians will still "follow the old rules" and continue to collect taxes according to the Ming Dynasty. That's how it's earned.In addition, the Australians collected grain taxes in Lingao last year according to the old Ming system, nothing more than improving the collection method and clearing up the land, which is much fairer than the previous collection.Everyone felt that since they cleared the land in Qiongshan, they would naturally follow Lingao's method.For ordinary people with no power and power, it is a good thing to be able to pay taxes according to the regulations and not be inexplicably burdened.

However, as soon as the announcement of the summer tax collection came out, everyone was taken aback. It was enough to shock the world for a single stall, and the strange progressive system caused an uproar even more.

All of a sudden, the streets and alleys, in front of and behind houses, in halls and courtyards, were full of whispering discussions.Ordinary people, although most of them could not read, begged someone to read the notice, and listened to the on-the-spot explanation from the propaganda team. All of them had smiles on their faces, and some of them were full of disbelief.

"In this way, don't we have to pay taxes?" A few peasants gathered in front of the notice to discuss, "My family only has six acres of land, no matter whether it is the 'standard' or not, it is the first Class."

"So I don't even count."

"Now I can take a breather. I was hit by a typhoon and I was just busy replanting sweet potatoes. I have to pay taxes again..."

(End of this chapter)