The sudden parachute landing of the tax department not only interrupted the government's interpretation of the law, but also sucked the fuel out of the cauldron, leaving the officials feeling somewhat at a loss.

They really did not expect that such a change would occur. Although they all knew that the imperial court had ordered that a tax department would be established in Hezhong Prefecture, they all predicted that the tax department would not arrive until next year at the earliest and would not be able to operate until the year after.

When I got up, I never imagined that it would be the end of this year and how could the efficiency of the imperial court become so high.

The battle over the purchase tax is essentially a power game between the government and the imperial court. This is also the first time that the government has directly challenged the imperial court's decree. Although this is not the first time they have had conflicts, they have always had conflicts in the past.

Under Yuan Jiang's operation, the government chose to turn "crisis" into "opportunity" and use the imperial court's decree to implement the government's new policy.

For example, Salt Debt was born out of the dispute between the two.

But this method always makes officials feel aggrieved. Although they have not lost much in terms of political performance, in terms of power, they feel that they have been suppressed by the imperial court, but they cannot counterattack the imperial court.

Holding back a sense of resentment.

However, the imperial court's further aggression made them feel that there was no need to endure this anymore.

So they chose to fight back by buying taxes.

But this day was not as good as others' calculations. The arrival of the tax department directly caused their counterattack to be aborted.

The fundamental reason is that they have lost the power to collect tax.

this!

It's really embarrassing.

The government has no right to decide whether to implement the puma tax, so how can it argue with the imperial court? The key tax department directly stated that they want to abolish the puma tax. Regardless of whether they did it intentionally or not, this decision will definitely be beneficial to the imperial court.

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Because the imperial court wanted to ban the purchase tax, but they didn't agree.

In addition, Chen Ming's attitude made the officials feel very uncomfortable. They believed that Chen Ming, like the public security bureaucracy, did not belong to the entire bureaucracy and was relatively independent.

If this is true, it would be a disaster.

However, everything in the officialdom is based on interpersonal relationships, so they immediately conducted an investigation on Chen Ming to see which faction this person belonged to.

It would be okay if I didn't check it out, but I would be even more stunned if I checked it out.

It turns out that Chen Ming was a warehouse manager in the Neizangtreasury, specializing in serving the emperor's private money. He was recently promoted to tax envoy and had nothing to do with the entire bureaucracy.

This person doesn't belong to any faction, that is, he belongs to the emperor.

It seems that the tax department is directly subordinate to the emperor, which is by no means groundless.

And Chen Ming seemed to really not intend to get close to them, or even to establish a friendship with them as colleagues. He directly released the official documents from the court and immediately took over the tax collection power of Hezhong Prefecture.

The first thing Chen Ming has to do is to resolve the imminent lawsuit over the purchase tax. After all, he has already taken over the power in this area.

He ignored the quarrel between the government and the imperial court, directly hired Lu Bangxing, and appealed to the imperial court with a piece of paper, expressing his dissatisfaction with the imperial court's previous decision, which meant that those people were exempted from tax.

The reason is that now that the government has changed people, all tax collection matters are now under the control of our tax department, and our tax department believes that the imperial court's decision is unfair, so we need to appeal.

Of course the imperial court happily accepted it.

In fact, whether everyone believes in the imperial court's judgment is not the key. It is impossible for every judgment to convince everyone. The key is whether everyone accepts the entire process of the public prosecutor, prosecutor and law.

For example, if the government is dissatisfied and chooses to continue the appeal, even if the appeal is successful and Zhang Fei's judgment is overturned, Zhang Fei is very supportive, because what Zhang Fei pursues is not to keep his word, but to hope that everyone will use the public prosecutor's procedure to solve the problem.

In fact, the government took the right path this time. This was indeed what Zhang Fei feared the most. He repeatedly made sure not to settle old accounts because he was also worried that this would happen. But unfortunately, it failed in the end.

Now that the Taxation Department is willing to appeal to the Royal Court to resolve disputes, the Royal Court will certainly be willing to give you another chance.

After learning about this incident, the procuratorate also took the opportunity to disgust the government and directly publicly stated that it would withdraw the lawsuit against the government and contact the Department of Taxation directly.

On the surface, withdrawing the lawsuit against the government seems to be a good thing for the government, but in fact, it tells everyone that the government has lost this power and there is no point in competing with the government.

They are all outdated, and the Tax Department is the upstart in Hezhong Prefecture.

This made Wei Yingfang and the others very angry.

Are we no longer even qualified to be sued?

Is there any more royal method?

But the fact is that the public security organs, prosecutors, and courts no longer interact with the government, and instead all choose to hand over to the Department of Taxation.

Imperial Court.

"Tax Commissioner Chen, please take a seat."

"Thank you."

Chen Ming bowed his hands and sat down.

Zhang Fei looked at Chen Ming and saw that this guy had a serious face, which was very similar to Li He from the Capital Taxation Department. He couldn't help but smile and said, "Are all the people in your Taxation Department so unsmiling?"

Chen Ming was stunned for a moment, then forced out a smile and responded to Zhang Fei.

Zhang Fei couldn't bear to tease him anymore, his expression changed, and he said seriously: "I'm really sorry, this plan can't keep up with the changes, so you have to arrive early. I don't know how well prepared you are?"

Chen Ming said truthfully: "There is still some lack of preparation now. The information we have at the moment can only temporarily deter them. But fortunately, taxation will start next year. We still have at least half a year, so there should be nothing."

questionable."

"wrong."

Zhang Fei shook his head and said: "Strictly speaking, you still have almost a year to prepare."

Chen Ming looked at Zhang Fei doubtfully.

Zhang Fei took out a copy, handed it to Chen Ming, and explained: "In the past, the government's tax collection method was to use private forces as much as possible. For example, this purchase tax is to use businessmen and wealthy people to collect taxes, and

For example, the two taxes are collected by the head of household in the village, and this obviously does not apply to the tax department.

The Taxation Department collects taxes through independent declarations. If they were collected separately, it would be impossible to achieve this with the human and material resources of the Taxation Department. At the beginning, many ministers were not optimistic about the independent declaration of tax exemptions in the capital.

In the end, it was barely completed, and it took several months, so I worked out a system for the tax department to unify taxes.

Of course, this entire tax system must be coordinated with the Service Exemption Law, because the existence of the Service Exemption Law not only allows taxes to be determined according to different incomes, but also exempts all people from labor and military service.

Turn into money.

Based on these two points, all taxes can be combined into one and each family pays taxes according to their different incomes each year."

Chen Ming did not question Zhang Fei's proposition, because before he came, Zhao Xu told him that everything would be obeyed by Zhang Fei and he would just implement it. So he just asked: "So the Taxation Department is short of manpower.

Did the government propose this method?”

"Yes."

Zhang Fei nodded.

In fact, Zhang Fei had already written to Zhao Xu about this idea of ​​unifying taxes. He just said that the specific tax rate had not been calculated at that time, but he won Zhao Xu's approval.

Because this self-declaration is very troublesome to review, you must know that most people are illiterate, and you have to send people to help them fill in the tax returns. If you have to check two or three types of taxes and fill in the returns three or four times every year, how can you have so much manpower?

The material resources and the tax department are working all year round, so they may not be able to do it, and the key people do not have such a lot of energy.

Unifying all taxes into one and formulating different tax rates based on different incomes is very consistent with the tax collection method of the Taxation Department.

People only need to declare once.

They also only need to investigate one tax.

But if you look at it from a deeper perspective, it is actually to collect taxes from those wealthy households, and this is entirely due to Wang Anshi's exemption law.

Because Wang Anshi's exemption law included everyone, including officials, monks and Taoists, female households, etc. Although it did not completely abolish their privileges, it was very important to give them taxes.

But this is really the first one, and the second is that the exemption tax is determined based on the difference in income. When the taxes are unified, this attribute will be added to all taxes, and the rich will have to pay more money.

These are all legal basis.

If there was no exemption law, Zhang Fei would not be able to do this. The imperial court must abide by the law.

Chen Ming asked again: "Then what do we need to pay attention to?"

"Check taxes."

Zhang Fei answered simply and clearly: "There will definitely still be people who evade taxes, but now it is different from before. Now it depends on the evidence. The tax department must get conclusive evidence before it can proceed with the lawsuit.

Of course, at that time I will promulgate new penalties for tax evasion, cancel some tortures, and then increase fines. As for the fines, the tax department and the finance department will divide the fines 70-70, and the government only needs to keep 30 percent, and the rest will go to your tax department."

Chen Mingdao: "This is used to motivate those people to check taxes."

Zhang Fei's eyes flashed with praise, then he nodded with a smile.

Chen Mingdao: "Then they will definitely check the taxes of the rich."

Zhang Fei smiled and said: "I didn't say that, and I suggest you don't say that either."

Chen Ming nodded in understanding and said: "We have summoned the tax collectors from Hezhong Prefecture who are proficient in various tax collection methods. Tax inspections should not be a problem, but in the face of these wealthy people and big landowners, what should we do?

How to enforce the law.”

Zhang Fei said: "The police department has trained a force of 500 fully armed elite soldiers for the Taxation Department. When your Taxation Department officially opens, the police department will transfer these elite soldiers to the Taxation Department. This elite force is enough

Destroy any large farm in Hezhong Prefecture. There is only one type of people you need to pay attention to, and you must report to me first before you can decide whether to take action."

Chen Mingdao: "What kind of people?"

Zhang Fei said: "Even for those general families, their soldiers are experienced in many battles. At present, the tax department may not be able to defeat them, but people like them can be solved through political means. In short,
To be continued...