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Chapter 609, Tax Reform Plan

"Commercial taxes and customs duties~"

"Tariffs are the best thing to do. You just need to set up shipping departments at open ports like Tianjin, Nanjing, Songhu, and Guangzhou to collect tariffs."

"Well, not only places like the Ming Dynasty, but also places such as Ryukyu City, Ginzan Port and Hyogozu in Japan, and Crescent City in Nanyang, these places also have to set up shipping departments to collect customs duties."

“As many ports as there will be in the future, there will be as many municipal shipping departments, and tariffs will be a big factor.”

Liu Jin thought carefully.

Taxation is not an easy task, especially in the Ming Dynasty, which offended too many people.

From the princes and nobles to the ordinary merchants and hawkers, they are all the targets of taxation. In the past, the emperor was deceived into doing frivolous corvee and low taxes, but now he allows himself to be this evil person, and he will definitely be scolded by countless people.

After all, no one has been willing to take the initiative to pay taxes and pay taxes since ancient times.

"Commercial taxation is the most difficult aspect and the top priority."

"The first thing to do is to formulate various types of taxes, factory tax, workshop tax, commercial tax, real estate tax, shop tax, special business tax..."

"The most difficult thing is how to collect taxes. It is definitely unrealistic to expect businessmen to pay taxes themselves. A special tax structure must be established to collect taxes."

Soon, Liu Jin became worried again.

Thinking about future generations, there will be many kinds of tax evasion and tax evasion, and the taxes in future generations will indeed be very heavy.

But it was different in the Ming Dynasty. The commercial tax was 1 in 30 taxes. This tax ratio was extremely low.

But even with such a low tax, businessmen in the Ming Dynasty would still find ways to evade taxes as much as possible.

"The collection of commercial taxes must be carried out gradually in large cities."

"However, it is not an easy task to collect taxes from businessmen, landowners, gentry and big families."

"Try it first. If you can't collect it, you will have to imitate the bald eagle of later generations and set up a special tax police force."

Soon, Liu Jin had a rough plan in mind.

Taking out a pen and paper, Liu Jin began to organize it quickly, preparing to write a detailed plan and submit it to Emperor Hongzhi and the cabinet.

A few days later, Hube.

"My lord, this is the tax reform plan drafted by Xiaguan. Please take a look at it."

Liu Jin handed the tax reform plan he drafted to Zhong Zhong.

Well, again, give him face. After all, he is the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. Although Emperor Hongzhi said that he could report beyond the level, Liu Jin thought it would be better to discuss it with Zhong Zhong first.

"How fast?"

Ji Zhong looked at Liu Jin, Liu Jin was really vigorous and resolute in his work.

After getting along with each other during this period, he felt that Liu Jin was quite good. He respected his old comrade very much and was not arrogant or arrogant, so his tone of voice was much better.

"I wrote it casually, and I would like to ask for your guidance, Zhong Zhong."

Liu Jin smiled and replied.

"Hmm~"

Ji Zhong nodded slightly, picked up the plan and read it carefully.

Liu Jin's restructuring plan was very huge, and it mainly involved two places. One was to establish municipal shipping departments at major ports to collect customs duties. Needless to say, this.

Originally, the yamen of the Municipal Shipping Division existed before, but it was later abolished after the sea ban. Now it has been re-established, and there is no problem.

It's just that Liu Jin's establishment and conception of the Municipal Shipping Department were based on the customs of later generations, which was very different from the traditional Municipal Shipping Department.

Tariffs are not simply levied based on the size of the ship as before, but are levied based on the value of the goods.

This aspect is not a big problem, Zhong Zhong just nodded after reading it.

But soon, when he saw the commercial tax collection, Zhong Zhong couldn't help but frown.

Liu Jin carried out very detailed planning and settings in this regard. There were more than a dozen types of taxes alone, all kinds of taxes, and the basis and proportion of each tax were completely different.

For example, factory tax is levied based on the output value of the factory. The ratio is 5% tax per 100%, which is very low, similar to the original 30% tax per 1%.

There is also a workshop tax. The scale of a workshop is smaller than that of a factory. There is also a distinction between the two. If the number of workers is less than 50, it is a workshop, and if the number of workers is more than 50, it is a factory.

For small workshops, a fixed amount is levied on a monthly basis.

It can be said that the entire commercial tax collection plan is very detailed, with detailed distinctions and different tax rates and collection standards adopted.

This is completely different from previous taxation.

In the past, when collecting taxes, you would sit in the yamen, drink tea, and wait for the merchants to come and pay taxes on their own initiative. The tax rate was uniform, and the collection standards were also the same.

For officials like the Yamen, it is naturally very simple and easy. Anyway, more levies and less levies will not have any impact on them.

Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, only a few special taxes could be collected.

The bulk of it is the salt tax. Because of the silver tax, if you want to get salt tax, you have to pay a certain amount of silver. Of course, generally speaking, you pay 10,000 taels of silver, and you can get 100 taels of salt.

Ten thousand taels of salt were brought out.

Sometimes, you only need to pay a token amount of money, and Yanyin can be opened at will.

As for other taxes, they are basically not collected, and even if they are collected, the amount is pitifully small.

Liu Jin naturally wanted to change this situation, formulating detailed tax types, detailed collection standards and proportions, and levying different taxes for different businesses. Basically, he wanted to learn from later generations.

Make distinctions so that taxation can play a role.

"Liu Jin, if we follow your plan, even ten times more manpower in our household department won't be enough~"

Zhong Zhong looked at it very carefully and for a long time.

After reading it, he thought deeply and said.

"Yes, so our household department needs more manpower."

"Just the Municipal Shipping Department, Tianjin, Nanjing, Songhu, Guangzhou, Ryukyu, Crescent City, Ginzan Port, Hyogo no Tsu, etc. all have municipal shipping departments and tariffs are levied.

The Shipping Department also needs at least thirty or forty people, and this alone requires an increase of more than two hundred people."

"In addition, in terms of commercial taxation, because we are separated from local taxation and established special tax yamen, so at the beginning, we need to set up tax yamen in the major cities under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty. After all, we will need at least thousands of people."

"And this is just for officials. In addition, we also need a large number of officials, so there will definitely be a large-scale increase in personnel."

Liu Jin nodded and said.

The Ming Dynasty was very big, far beyond what the small countries in the West could compare with.

When it comes to the entire issue of Ming Dynasty’s tax reform, if you don’t want to be a salted fish like before, the first thing to do is to need a lot of manpower. Without enough people, how can it be possible to collect enough taxes?

Do you still expect to be like before, drinking tea in the yamen and waiting for someone to give you money?

It's not that easy, at least for now, it's definitely not possible.

Unless you can reach the level of the bald eagle of future generations.

Once taxes are evaded or evaded, there will be extremely serious consequences, so that no one dares to evade taxes. By then, they can almost drink tea in the Yamen and wait for the cashier.

Otherwise, Liu Jin will need a lot of manpower.

This is just the beginning. If the tax cannot be collected, Liu Jin is also prepared to imitate the bald eagle and hire a special tax agent. If he does not pay the tax, he will be imprisoned.

At that time, more officials and officials will be needed.

"How many people are needed at once, the burden on the court will be greatly increased."

"When the time comes, His Majesty and the Cabinet will definitely not agree."

"In addition, you have also set up an assessment and reward mechanism for tax-collecting officials and officials. Will this lead to the following officials and officials being just profit-seeking, and then taxing people indiscriminately in order to get promoted and make money regardless of the death of the people below them?"

Ji Zhong looked at Liu Jin, after all, he was still a little too young.

The benefits of taxation belong to the court and the emperor, not to you, Liu Jin, but it is you, Liu Jin, who offends others. Why do you have to work so hard and be so serious?

What's more, once you are the emperor and your courtiers, and Emperor Hongzhi trusts you, it may not be the case with the next emperor. The system that you have worked so hard to establish may change with just one word.

In the final analysis, it is not that the ministers in the court are incapable of talents, nor is it that everyone does not want to change the current situation.

It’s just that everyone knows these things very well.

This world belongs to Lao Zhu's family, and after all, it is the people of Lao Zhu's family who have the final say.

There is no need for everyone to offend everyone and take advantage of Lao Zhu's family.

Once public dissatisfaction boils over or something happens, you, Liu Jin, will be pushed out as the scapegoat. Are there many such examples since ancient times?

After Shang Yang's reforms, the Qin State became stronger, but Shang Yang's car ended up being broken.

Wang Anshi's reforms made the Song Dynasty's treasury full, but Wang Anshi did not end well in the end.

Now you, Liu Jin, are very determined to do this, and it will definitely not end well in the future.

These emperors have done too many things since ancient times, including tearing down mills and killing donkeys and crossing rivers and bridges.

For those of us who are ministers, although the matters assigned by the emperor are important, we must also consider them for our own future.

"Zhong Zhong, if there is no assessment and reward mechanism, then how can the officials and officials below have the motivation to collect taxes?"

"Then it will be the same as the scene again, so it's better not to change and just stick to the current way."

"It's just that taxation is one of the foundations for the operation of the court and the country. Without taxation, the court and the country would not be able to operate, and there would be no way to concentrate their efforts on major things."

"When foreign enemies invade, we will be bullied again. If there is a famine, we will not have enough food and money to provide disaster relief."

Liu Jin thought for a while and replied, taxes still have to be collected, not to mention that this is a task assigned to him by Emperor Hongzhi. Although Liu Jin knew that he would offend many people, he still had to do it.


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