As for wealth balance and the like, why don't you pay attention to the inheritance tax on the rich and powerful? Fools all know that they use various funds and various methods to avoid inheritance tax, and it's legal.
And they themselves have been working hard in the city for decades, processing various documents every day, and their waists are almost exhausted. They finally bought a small single-family building in the suburbs of the city. With a carriage, there are
Without a maid, the children can go to decent schools and even go to university.
After a lifetime of hard work, he finally made the whole family decent people in the eyes of outsiders.
However, when he is about to die, the tax official comes to tell you: after you die, the wealth you have earned from all your efforts in this life, although not much, is only a few thousand or tens of thousands. But these
Only half of the assets can be left to your family members, and the remaining half belongs to our tax department.
For example, half of this single-family building will belong to our tax department from now on.
Believe it or not, a dying man suddenly stood up and stabbed him with a kitchen knife!
Therefore, the inheritance tax thing was only mentioned once by the tax department, and then completely abandoned. This thing is so offensive to people, and it is estimated to be really high. Not to mention the outside world, the tax department itself will be in chaos.
But inheritance tax cannot be imposed, other taxes can be imposed, such as personal income tax.
Now the Ministry of Taxation wants to use personal income tax to redistribute wealth to a certain extent, alleviate the growing gap between rich and poor, and maintain the stability of Datang's rule.
Taxation is extremely important to the contemporary Datang Empire. It is one of the most important means for the Tang Dynasty to maintain its rule. Its role even exceeds that of the million-strong army maintained by the Tang Dynasty!
Therefore, with taxation, it was possible to maintain the operation of the huge local government offices of the Tang Dynasty, maintain the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and maintain a huge army.
At the same time, only with taxation can a certain degree of wealth adjustment be carried out.
To put it simply, it means to make the rich pay more taxes, reduce the tax burden of the poor, and even directly provide certain welfare policies through indirect policies, such as the fertilizer subsidies for farmers launched by Datang some time ago, and improve the treatment of workers, etc.
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But this definitely cannot be understood as balancing the rich and the poor, or simply robbing the rich and giving to the poor. Although many people like to call it this, it is still not the case.
Because we humans, no matter whether it is ancient or modern, China or abroad, will always be a meritocracy without exception, and it will never change.
Unless we humans evolve from individual thinking to collective thinking that day, everyone is just a small node under collective thinking. Everything we encounter is decided by collective thinking. To use a simple description, all human beings become one
people.
Or in a simpler way, kill all the rest of the human race and leave only one person.
In this case, there will be changes!
But if that’s the case, then it’s not us humans anymore.
We are greedy and we are selfish!
We are brave and we are afraid!
We yearn for all kinds of good or evil!
However, it is exactly like this that everyone is an independent individual with different thinking, and the group they ultimately form is what we humans are!
And such human beings are destined to fight among themselves, because each of us has various desires, regardless of whether they are good or bad.
No matter what you do or what you want, it is all a manifestation of desire!
For example, if you want to be the richest man in the world, this is a desire!
but!
If you don’t want to be the richest man in the world, this is still a desire!
Human life is driven by such desires, and human groups are also composed of individuals full of desires.
In such a social group, this will inevitably lead to a situation where a few people will succeed, the majority will fail, and the minority will be more successful.
Therefore, no matter how human society changes, there will always be a few people standing on the top of the pyramid looking down at all living beings!
Datang is no exception!
In the Tang Dynasty, it was always a small group of elites who controlled power, money and other resources. Therefore, they established the country, formulated the laws, and created the tax system.
In fact, if this small group of elites do not want to, no one can collect their taxes, and they have the final say whether to collect taxes or not.
It's just that such a tough guy who is unwilling to pay even a dime will basically kill himself in the end.
Those who survive are smart people who know how to appropriately give up part of their interests and throw out a few bones to ease conflicts.
This is to maintain the stability of the rule!
Regulating social wealth to maintain rule is a major role of taxation.
In addition, taxation also has a major role in regulating the social economy, various things, etc., such as tariff adjustments, tax exemptions for some industries, and tax increases for some industries. These specific contents are not important.
The important thing is that the purpose of regulating social economy is still to stabilize the rule.
Because it doesn’t matter how much the tax experts exaggerate the concept of taxation, change it, and extend all kinds of messy concepts.
But everything remains true to its original purpose, and taxation has only one function: to maintain rule!
Those crackling forms are just different manifestations of it.
The taxation work is done well, the rule is stable, the country is rich and the people are strong.
If the tax work is not done well, it will naturally be more miserable. The Ming Dynasty is a living example!
Therefore, the Tang Dynasty has always attached great importance to taxation. In the past, the main purpose of taxation was to maintain administrative operations and military expenditures, and secondly to carry out various infrastructure construction.
But in recent years, the main role of taxation has slowly changed to regulating social wealth and regulating economic operations.
For example, tax exemptions for some industries, tax increases, etc., are all specific means to regulate the economy.
In terms of adjusting wealth, this is reflected more.
For example, Datang's current tax entity is industrial and commercial tax, and the tax payers are mainly enterprises and other operating institutions.
As for personal taxes, the main one is agricultural tax, but what about agricultural tax?
The Tang Dynasty exempted certain places from agricultural taxes every three days.
In the spring and February of the thirty-eighth year of Xuanping, droughts occurred in many northern states one after another. Before the spring had passed, the Holy Emperor had already issued an imperial edict to exempt the affected areas from all agricultural taxes, involving many agricultural taxes in different provinces.
In the state capital, the total tax exemption reached more than three million yuan.
And this kind of thing can be seen many times every year, and the scale is generally quite large.
In the thirty-seventh year of Xuanping, the empire exempted about more than 10 million Tang Yuan from agricultural taxes in various places through the tax exemption decreed by the Holy Emperor!
However, the empire still needs so much fiscal revenue, so how to replenish the shortage of more than 10 million, naturally it must be replenished from industry and commerce.
This can be regarded as a specific application example of Datang’s use of taxation to regulate wealth distribution.
There are many similar applications in Datang.
Now, the Ministry of Taxation has set its sights on personal income tax, trying to further balance social wealth and ease the gap between rich and poor, so as to alleviate conflicts among various classes within the country and stabilize the rule of the Tang Dynasty.
In this process, a small number of elite groups are still the party that benefits the most, but it is undeniable that the people at the bottom of the empire will also become the party that benefits.
The only people who are miserable are those middle class people who think they are decent, but actually live a miserable life.