My Courtyard Refuge

Fifty-Three Household Separation

On June 1st, the annual Children’s Day, Xu Dong took a special day off and took the two sisters, Ke Ke, to Yanjing Universal Resort for a whole day.

In the middle, I also took the Decepticon roller coaster, which is considered to have fulfilled the promise I made before.

On June 5, the Henghe River, the largest river in the Yanjing area, completely stopped flowing due to the deepening drought.

So far, the five major water systems in the capital have been lost, and Yanjing City has officially become a city without rivers.

On June 10, in order to cope with the increasingly severe drought, the entire Yanjing area began to implement a water supply plan by region and time.

Taking the block where the courtyard house is located as an example, there are only two water supply periods every day, one is from 6:00 am to 7:00 am, and the other is from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm, roughly equivalent to the time of breakfast and dinner.

On Monday, June 13, after waiting for half a month, Xu Dong finally got the real estate certificate of the new house.

At his strong request, the names of Xu’s father and Xu’s mother were written on the real estate certificate.

Mother Xu didn’t care, she just thought her son was filial, and she was afraid that the two of them would feel insecure staying here.

In order to celebrate the addition of a house in the family, and for the filial piety of her son, Xu’s mother happily cooked a large table of meals.

During the meal, Xu Dong showed an absent-minded look, and tried to speak several times, but finally held back.

Xu’s mother has long seen her son’s performance in her eyes. She is the kind of character who can’t tolerate sand in her eyes, so she simply made it clear:

“Son, if you have something to say, just say it, don’t put on a bitter face, and make the whole family lose their appetite for dinner.”

Xu Dong’s face froze for a moment, but he soon returned to normal, and then said cautiously: “Dad, Mom, there is something… I want to discuss it with you.”

“What’s the matter, tell me quickly!” Dad Xu said impatiently.

Xu Dong considered his language for a while, and slowlyHuan said: “Dad, I want to move out your and my mother’s household registration separately.”

On the family register, Xu Dongcai is the head of the household, and Xu’s father and Xu’s mother belong to the parents who rely on their children to settle down.

As soon as Xu Ma heard this, she immediately became furious, and cried out at the top of her voice:

“My life is so miserable…Xu Dong…You feel your conscience and say, how can your father and I feel sorry for you? Do you think our old couple is getting in the way here?

I said, how did you transfer the new house to our name? It turned out to be premeditated.

Well, you don’t need to rush, I don’t want the new house either, your dad and I will go back to Luyang tomorrow…”

While comforting the children, Yang Lina cast a reproachful look at Xu Dong, telling him to quickly take back his words.

Xu Dong is full of black threads, where is this going, why does it involve returning to Luyang again?

So he stood up and explained:

“Mom, where are you going? No one can leave our family without you! What I mean is that we only separate households in name, but we still live together, no different from now.”

Xu’s mother seemed to realize that she would make a mistake, but she couldn’t let go of her face, and she became angry from embarrassment for a while and said:

“Okay, why do you need to separate households? Aren’t you taking off your pants and farting, isn’t it superfluous?”

Xu Dong explained with a wry smile:

“I’ve read a lot of news in the past two days. It seems that the country is going to collect property tax. We now have two houses under our family’s name. They must be taxed heavily. That’s why I came up with this idea.”

In fact, this has nothing to do with property tax at all, and Xu Dong doesn’t care about the money.

The real reason is that in the near future, Daxia will launch a top-down real estate reform, referred to as housing reform.

There are many contents of the housing reform, but the core one is to limit each household to only own one set of real estate, and the extra real estate will be expropriated by the state at a low price.

Moreover, before the housing reform, the state will freeze the household registration of all citizens to prevent people from taking advantage of policy loopholes through fake divorces and other means.

It is precisely because of this that Xu Dong intends to let his parents form a separate household to avoid future housing reforms.

“Old man, is our country really going to collect property tax?”

Mama Xu doesn’t usually care much about state affairs, so she can only ask Papa Xu for confirmation.

Dad Xu nodded: “Dongzi is right, there are indeed many rumors about this recently.”

Now it was Mama Xu’s turn to hesitate. Since the property tax was to be collected, household division was not unacceptable, but she still couldn’t pass that test in her heart.

Elderly people are conservative in their thinking and don’t want to be separated from their children, even in name.

Xu Dong decided to add fire: “Mom, isn’t it worth hundreds of thousands of dollars a year? It’s no big deal. If you don’t want to, then forget it.”

“What, hundreds of thousands a year, how can there be so many?” Mama Xu exclaimed.

“Of course, when the state collects real estate tax, it must be the expensive house. It is no problem to estimate the value of our courtyard at 100 million. According to international practice, even if only 0.5% of the tax is levied, it is still 50 million yuan a year. One hundred thousand.”

===Section 40===

Xu Dong is actually talking nonsense. Even if property tax is to be levied, it is also levied according to the area of ​​the house. It is impossible to simply use the number of houses as the taxation standard.

“Forget it, isn’t it just splitting households? Your dad and I agreed.”

Xu’s mother immediately changed her attitude. It is not easy for her family to make money, and it is hundreds of thousands a year. Thinking about it makes people panic.

Xu Dong was secretly happy, but he continued to persuade: “Mom, it really doesn’t matter, our family is not short of this little money.”

Mama Xu waved her hand fiercely, saying that the matter is settled like this, and there is no need to waste any more words.

…

Early the next morning, Xu’s father and Xu’s mother came to the government affairs hall in the district with their ID cards (including Xu Dong’s), household registration booklet, real estate certificate, and certification materials issued by the street office.

Queued up to receive the number, and soon it was the old couple’s turn.

“Hello, we want to apply for household division.” Father Xu said.

The clerk glanced at the old couple, and kindly reminded: “If the children are separated, the children need to come over in person.”

“It’s us who want to separate the households. My wife and I belong to the households that only depend on our children.” Dad Xu explained.

“Oh, in your case, you need to provide the local private property title certificate. If you can’t provide it, you won’t be able to separate the households, or you can choose to move back to the place where your original household registration is located.”

Father Xu took out the real estate certificate and handed it over, “Is it this? This is the house we just bought.”

The clerk took a look and nodded immediately: “Yes, since you have independent real estate in Yanjing, according to the regulations, you can divide the households.”

“Thank you then.” Father Xu said politely.

Ten minutes later, Xu’s father and Xu’s mother finally got the freshly released household registration booklet. From now on, they and their youngest son’s family belong to two families in name.

Although a little reconciled, but thinking of the hundreds of thousands of property taxes every year, Xu Ma directly threw this reluctance to the sky.