Chapter 1454: The Fourth Grand Scholar of the Tang Dynasty
The collection of individual tax on investment income is just a small attempt and has not caused much waves, because this supplementary plan is the same as the original individual tax plan and actually has nothing to do with ordinary people.
When ordinary people saw that they were not collecting their own money, but were collecting money from rich people, they all applauded and shouted, "Long live the Holy Emperor!"
As for the really wealthy people, they were a little panicked at first, because in their view, this new tax law would tax them, and the tax would be very high, 20 percent.
At the same time, a very important point is that the tax laws of the Tang Dynasty are quite complicated these days. There are not only many articles but several books related to taxation. Ordinary people cannot understand the complicated tax laws of the Tang Dynasty at all.
Currently, there are more than ten books of various tax laws in the Tang Empire!
Not more than ten articles, but more than ten books, which basically cover all aspects and are very detailed, especially the taxation of enterprises, which is quite complicated, and it is not just a simple matter of levying a certain proportion of value-added tax.
That's fine.
Ordinary individuals would say that it basically doesn't need to be complicated, but for those companies and wealthy people, it's much more involved. They can't understand it just by looking at the tax laws on their own.
So after hearing about this new tax law, I was a little panicked.
However, it didn't take long for those professional tax lawyers to start appeasing their big clients one by one!
Don’t be afraid, after professional research, our lawyer said that there are a hundred ways to bypass the new personal income tax law and avoid the so-called personal income tax on investment income.
The tax department wants to collect personal income tax on investment income? There is no way!
Boss, you invest directly in the name of the company, and the income from the investment becomes the company's profit, not personal income. There is no personal income, so what kind of tax is there?
As for the issue of corporate taxation, it doesn't matter. Nowadays, many industries or specific industrial zones, development zones, etc. in the Datang Empire have preferential tax policies. Finding a tax-free place to open a company is still the same.
There is no tax on the dime.
Even if you can't get preferential tax policies, you can still perform various legal operations, such as reinvesting the money you earn, or spending it. In short, you don't keep the money. The money you keep is profit, and you spend it.
It becomes a cost. In the final settlement, well, not to mention not making a dime, but also losing a certain amount. If your tax department still wants to collect money, get out of here!
But what they didn't expect was that this was exactly what the tax department wanted to see!
People are not afraid of you legally avoiding taxes, but they are afraid of you using cash transactions in private. As long as you use your company account, there will be many ways to collect taxes in the future!
In other words, the tax department actually leaked this loophole on purpose!
The ancients knew how to surround three enemies when fighting, and the same is true now for the tax department to collect taxes!
After all, this is no longer the period of the Unification War. Everything is for the purpose of war. Back then, the tax inspection team dared to bring artillery to the door to collect taxes.
But now, it is almost impossible to see people from the tax inspection team coming to collect taxes with artillery.
After the war of unification, the Ministry of Taxation carried out many reforms to the tax inspection team. After many reforms, the tax inspection team is no longer an armed force, but is mainly composed of investigators!
After all, under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, no one dares to openly resist taxes with arms!
However, the tax inspection team under the Ministry of Taxation still retains some operational personnel and is equipped with guns and artillery. In some areas, the tax inspection team's combat effectiveness is still relatively strong.
The new personal income tax plan developed by the Ministry of Taxation was met with little alarm after it was announced.
Ordinary people don't care, even the few who do care applaud and applaud. Ordinary people always want to see rich people being unlucky!
However, rich people feel that the impact is not big and they cannot handle it themselves, but they can hire professional tax lawyers and use various legal means to get around it and avoid taxes legally!
Coincidentally, the tax department is also very satisfied. They have successfully transformed a large part of the original private transactions into public transactions. As long as the money comes into their sight, it will be easy to collect taxes in the future!
This can be regarded as the first time in the past 20 years that the Datang Taxation Department has issued a new tax law, and it has been unanimously recognized by all parties!
Li Xuan was also surprised by this. He thought that although the new personal tax introduced by the Ministry of Taxation would affect a relatively small number of people, it would only affect wealthy people and would arouse opposition from the upper class. However, he did not expect that it would actually be the case.
Calm.
This also made Li Xuan recognize the ability of Xu Zisong, the new Shangshu of the Ministry of Taxation!
Unexpectedly, this man just took over the post of Minister of Taxation this year, and the first tax reform he carried out during his tenure was a success.
It seems that this person has some abilities and is qualified to succeed Qian Zuili!
In the autumn of the 22nd year of Xuanping, in addition to launching a war against the Portuguese, the Tang Empire also had a major internal event, that is, Qian Zuili, who had served as the Minister of Taxation for many years, no longer served as the Minister of Taxation.
The post of Minister of Taxation was taken over by Xu Zisong, Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Taxation.
Naturally, it is impossible for Qian Zuoli to become an official because of his age. In fact, he is not even sixty years old this year, and is far from the age to become an official.
However, during the Unification War, Qian Zuoli was already the Minister of Taxation and the Minister on Duty in the Royal Study Room. After the Unification War, he remained firmly in the center, and his position under his butt never changed.
In the past few years, Li Xuan has quite recognized Qian Zuoli's work. When he asked Qian Zuoli to step down this year, it was not because he did not recognize his ability or was dissatisfied with him, but because Qian Zuili
I spent too much time in the Imperial Study Room.
All the senior officials under the tax department are so tired that their hair has turned gray!
You know, during the period when Qian Zuili was the Minister of Taxation, the Zuo Shilang of the Taxation Department had changed five people one after another!
Five left ministers of the tax department failed to survive Qian Zuoli, and all of them entered the official service before Qian Zuoli!
In the autumn of this year, Li Xuan finally made up his mind to change the structure of the tax department and removed Qian Zuoli's title of tax minister.
However, he still let Qian Zuoli stay as the minister on duty in the imperial study room, and also gave Qian Zuili a new title, that is, Bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion!
This is the fourth great scholar appointed since the founding of the Tang Dynasty. He is also the first great scholar appointed by the Tang Empire after the Huang Zhushan era. He is also the second current great scholar in the Tang Empire.
When the Tang Dynasty was founded, that is, during the Huangzhushan era, Liu Bagou, Wang Wenhua, and Qian Mengjiu were appointed as bachelors.
However, Wang Wenhua's bachelor's degree was later deprived of his title. Then Qian Mengjiu became an official, and his bachelor's title naturally became former bachelor's degree.
Therefore, for a long period of time, Liu Bagou was the only current bachelor in the Tang Empire!
But now, Qian Zuili has become the fourth bachelor since the founding of the Tang Empire, and the current second bachelor. This can be said to be a great honor, which means that he has become a highly respected minister, and
Liu Bagou is also hopeless.
The title of Grand Bachelor in the Tang Empire, the six Grand Bachelors are all in no particular order, all of them are of the first grade!
Among the civil servants, the second position that can obtain the title of first-grade official is only Sangong. However, although the Tang Empire has titles such as Sangong, Sangu, Crown Prince, Third Master, and Third Young Master, these titles are rarely awarded.
And more importantly, the Three Dukes and Three Sovereigns have never been awarded. Only the first-grade crown prince, the third division, and the second-grade prince and the third young master are occasionally awarded, and usually they are only awarded to civil servants who want to become officials. Basically, the titles are given today.
, a situation where I will take office tomorrow.
Therefore, at this stage, obtaining the title of bachelor is the only way for the civil servants of the Tang Empire to become first-class ministers!
Qian Zuili relied on his more than 20 years of work in the Tax Department, especially when he later chaired the Tax Department for more than ten years, to effectively complete various tax work, especially during the Unification War, which beneficially protected military expenditures.
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Qian Zuoli, who has made such great achievements and worked so hard, although he became a bit domineering in the following years, he was still as obedient as a puppy in front of Li Xuan, and he also took many scapegoats for Li Xuan.
Since Li Xuan was kind to the meritorious generals of the military, he naturally would not abuse the civil servants.
Therefore, when he planned to replace the old and new members of the tax department, he did not forget Qian Zuili's contribution and hard work, and allowed him to continue to stay on duty in the imperial study room, and also gave him the title of bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion.
This is enough to reward him for his merit and hard work.
Qian Zuili is also a smart man. He knows the purpose of Li Xuan's measures. The reason why he has been able to stay in the Imperial Study Room for more than ten years is not only his ability, but also his ability to observe words and emotions.
This is simple to say, that is, he will support whatever the Holy Emperor asks him to do, and he will do whatever the Holy Emperor asks him to do.
Emperor Sheng asked him to give up his position as Minister of Taxation. He didn't say anything nonsense and immediately submitted a letter to resign!
And his actions also brought rewards to himself!
He will continue to serve as the imperial study room, and he will also have the title of bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion!
Especially the title of Bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion, which is the highest-ranking civil official title in the Tang Empire!
I would like to ask, apart from the three great civil servants who founded the country, Liu Bagou, Qian Mengjiu and Wang Wenhua, who else has obtained it?
No, he Qian Zili is the fourth one!
Under such great honor, he didn't care about the position of Minister of Taxation at all. In a centralized monarchy dynasty like the Tang Empire, the power of a minister does not depend on the position he holds, but on the Holy Emperor's treatment of you.
view!
The Holy Emperor values you. Even if you don't have any position, you can still enter the imperial study and become the core high-level military and political officer of the Tang Empire.
The Holy Emperor doesn't value you, so what if you are just a minister? The Tang Empire now has more than a dozen ministers, but how many ministers are known to ordinary people outside? .m.