In the summer of the thirty-eighth year of Xuanping, the Ministry of Taxation issued a number of detailed personal income tax rules in a low-key manner, including many labor and non-labor incomes within the scope of personal income tax.
But we just targeted the financial industry first!
For the first time, it is clarified that interest, dividends, bonuses and other investment income are subject to personal income tax.
What's even more amazing is that these personal income taxes are paid directly by securities companies or direct companies. When you buy or sell stocks in a securities company, the tax is already paid directly.
There is no room for you to evade taxes at all!
Otherwise, it is almost impossible to collect these personal income taxes directly from personal accounts.
The Datang Taxation Department relies heavily on enterprises and the banking system to collect taxes. It rarely says that individuals automatically declare taxes or conduct tax checks on personal income.
It’s not that you can’t do this, but the tax cost is too high.
After all, there are no computers these days, and all data processing has to rely on manual labor. Most of the time, the tax department, even small vendors and small workshops, turn a blind eye to the tax collection. It's not that they don't want to collect it, but that it requires a lot of manpower.
The material cost is too high to be worth it.
Datang's tax system has been undergoing continuous and in-depth reform, and the same is true for this time's personal income tax reform.
However, this small reform actually has little impact on the entire social system, and most individuals cannot even feel it.
After all, the personal income tax is only for the high-income class of society for the time being, and even the middle-income class is not included in the scope of collection.
The scope of this collection is smaller and there are fewer people, so naturally it won't have much impact.
Just when the Tang Dynasty was enacting labor protection laws and individual income tax reforms, the Hong Kong Naval Base rarely welcomed a 10,000-ton luxury passenger ship.
This luxury liner is owned by the Pacific Line and is the New Atlantic, which has been chartered by the Palace Administration.
After the New Atlantic embarked from Europe, it carried Elizabeth and a group of people, passed all the way through South Africa, and then arrived in Ceylon. Finally, it crossed the Indian Ocean and entered the Strait of Malacca. After resupplying at the Port of Malacca, the New Atlantic officially entered the South China Sea and then crossed
Head all the way north from the South China Sea to the Hong Kong Naval Base.
Although the New Atlantic is a civilian ship, because the people it carries are quite special, the ports it berths along the way are actually military ports, and it is not said to berth in civilian docks in ordinary ports.
It’s still the same now after returning to my home country!
When the New Atlantic, guided by several steam tugs, slowly entered Hong Kong Bay and then anchored at the pier.
Elizabeth, who was standing on the first-class deck, was stunned as she looked at the countless huge warships in the harbor!
It's not that she has never seen warships from the Tang Dynasty. In fact, she has seen many warships from the Tang Dynasty in European waters, and they were also cruisers of several thousand tons.
When she arrived at the Port of South Africa, Ceylon and even Malacca, she even saw numerous Tang warships.
She has seen too many frigates of more than one thousand tons, and she has also seen too many cruisers of two to three thousand tons.
Even when she was in Malacca Port, she saw an armored cruiser of more than 7,000 tons.
However, compared with the warships of the Tang Dynasty that I have seen before, and the warships that I see now in the Hong Kong Naval Base, they are completely different!
"Oh my God!"
"what is that?"
"How can there be such a huge battleship!"
Even though Elizabeth was mentally prepared, she still couldn't believe her eyes when she saw the battleship Ceylon.
It's not like she has never seen a 10,000-ton ship. The New Atlantic she is currently riding on is a standard 10,000-ton luxury liner.
Along the way, she also saw two other large ships of 10,000 tons. One was a huge cargo ship with over 10,000 tons, and the other was said to be an oil tanker specializing in transporting oil.
These 10,000-ton ships are already large enough, but even civilian ships and warships of the same tonnage give people a completely different visual impact.
What's more, the tonnage of the battleship Ceylon is even larger than these 10,000-ton civilian ships.
As the largest tonnage and most advanced battleship in the Tang Dynasty, the battleship Ceylon started construction at the Hong Kong Dingsheng Shipyard in the 35th year of Xuanping. This year, the hull construction was just completed. After the preliminary launch, it is being outfitted.
Several small sea trials, debugging, etc. are still needed.
It is expected that thorough construction will be completed and delivered to the Navy next year.
This battleship has a standard displacement of 13,000 tons and is expected to have a full load displacement of over 14,000 tons. Almost every aspect of this battleship exudes a ferocious aura.
There are two twin-mounted guns at the front and rear, a total of four 300mm main guns with a power of 35 times, which is enough to attract anyone's attention.
Coupled with more than a dozen 150mm breech-loading guns and a larger number of small and medium-caliber rapid-fire guns, the Ceylon turned itself into a complete war monster.
Such a battleship, with full firepower, is enough to destroy a port city on its own!
Well, this is still talking about the city of the Tang Dynasty itself.
As for the small port towns of the Europeans, they don't need a giant like the battleship Ceylon.
When Elizabeth saw the battleship Ceylon anchored at the dock in the distance and still being outfitted, she could hardly believe her eyes.
What surprised her was not only the Ceylon, but also the numerous warships that almost covered the entire harbor!
Hong Kong Naval Base, as one of the most important naval bases of the Tang Empire Navy and the most important warship overhaul and maintenance base, has a large number of warships parked all year round.
At this moment, there are at least two battleships, three armored cruisers, more than ten cruisers, and more than thirty frigates parked in the naval base.
And these are only ocean-going capital ships, there are more offshore patrol ships and various auxiliary warships.
There are at least more than a hundred warships of various types in the entire naval base.
Although quite a few of them are under maintenance or waiting for maintenance, and they are all moored at the dock, such a scene would make anyone tremble when they see it.
No wonder some people say that only by visiting the mainland of the Tang Dynasty can you truly know how powerful the Tang Dynasty is.
This kind of power is definitely not something you can see in places like Ceuta in Europe or even the ports of South Africa.
Elizabeth was astonished, not to mention her entourage, almost every member of the knights she brought with her could not believe that what they saw was real.
And the reactions of these people were also seen by the people of Tang Dynasty.
Many people thought that they were just shown a naval base, so they were surprised like this.
When you arrive in Shanghai, you will be scared to death when you see the endless stream of ships on the Huangpu River day and night, the prosperous riverside area that stretches for tens of kilometers, and the countless high-rise buildings!
The New Atlantic did not stay at the Hong Kong Naval Base for too long, but after making simple replenishments, it set off north to Shanghai.
Along the way, even on the sea, most of the Spaniards on the boat could feel that the Tang Dynasty's navigation industry had developed, because there were so many ships traveling along the coastal routes.
And this feeling became even more true when they arrived at the estuary of the Yangtze River and even entered the Huangpu River.
Because when they looked around, almost the entire river was filled with boats.