Chapter 2159 The most hated institution in the Tang Dynasty: the Ministry of Taxation
This is also the compromise achieved by all parties during the decades of development of the empire. The military is unwilling to see the cabinet control the armed forces, while the civilian side has always been pursuing and trying to control a certain amount of armed forces.
After decades of mutual fighting and compromise, the tax inspection team and the special patrol police evolved into the unarmed force that is now based on cities or regions.
They are independent of each other, have no subordinate relationship, and have a series of characteristics such as small scale, capable personnel, and high level of equipment.
Whether it is the tax action team or the special patrol police, if you ask them to fight a criminal gang with heavy weapons, it will be easy to catch them.
But if you let them go to the battlefield, it won't work. This is not a problem of weapons, but a problem of training and tactical concepts. People have not been exposed to regular army fighting methods for decades.
In the early days of the Republic of China, the tax inspection team could barely fight a war, but now the tax inspection team's action team can only deal with criminals.
But it is also because of this that the military can tolerate their existence instead of being determined to completely eliminate these two civilian-controlled armed forces!
After the reform of the tax inspection team, although the situation of the original armed forces has been greatly changed and has developed towards the field of urban special forces, many people in the outside world are still worried about them.
This worry does not even come from the military, whether it is the army, navy, or Guards. In fact, they no longer care much about the current tax inspection team action team.
Although it seems that the total size of the tax action team is still more than 40,000 people, these more than 40,000 people are distributed all over the world, and they are independent of each other on a state capital basis.
And it is also developing towards regional special forces. They seem to have elite personnel and well-equipped equipment, but in fact they are still equipped with light weapons.
Although there are machine guns and artillery, the number of machine guns is very small, and the artillery is limited to small-caliber artillery.
Daily training also tends to focus on special operations, and the targets are various types of criminals, not enemy troops.
Such special forces actually pose no threat to the military.
If necessary, both the army and the navy have enough strength to quickly eliminate these so-called special forces, without even dispatching front-line field troops. Even the garrison troops stationed in the local area can easily defeat them.
Because even the local garrison troops are equipped with a large number of heavy weapons and have sufficient artillery of all types.
No matter how powerful the special operations are, they can't stop the army from directly bombarding them with heavy artillery!
The military doesn't care much about the current tax action team. Who does it really care about?
He's from the patrol department!
Because the patrol department also has its own special patrol unit, its model is exactly the same as that of the tax action team, which also focuses on combating various armed crimes.
At the same time, because many local tax action teams, in addition to handling their own tax cases, also often assist in handling other criminal cases, this directly reduces the living space of local special patrol police.
After all, in a city, it is enough to have such a small-scale armed force, but two would be redundant.
Therefore, many people in the patrol police hope to include the tax action team into the patrol police system.
Some people in other agencies also have prejudices against the Tax Action Team and even the tax investigators!
Why?
Because they collect taxes!
The most hated department in the Tang Dynasty today is the Tax Department, no one else!
The most feared department is also the tax department, no one else!
Among the many agencies under the Ministry of Taxation, the General Administration of Taxation and Inspection is the most annoying!
The bureau originally belonged to the Grain Collection Department under the Ministry of Taxation. However, later in the reform of the Ministry of Taxation, the Grain Collection Department, the most powerful agency, was split, making the entire tax department system more complete.
During this process, the General Administration of Taxation and Inspection was upgraded to a higher level and began to be directly under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Taxation. The level of the director of the General Administration was also upgraded from the previous fifth rank to the third rank.
The current main responsibilities and powers of the Tax Inspection Bureau have also changed. In the past, the main responsibilities were actually to supervise local tax bureaus. But now, they have evolved to be mainly responsible for various tax crimes, and work with local tax bureaus to jointly lead local governments.
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To put it bluntly, what we do is specifically to combat tax evasion.
Of course, armed organizations such as the Tax Action Team are no longer under their jurisdiction.
And people who collect taxes are annoying!
After all, no one wants others to take money out of their own pockets!
Over the years, even though there have been many changes within the Ministry of Taxation, a notorious organization like the Grain Collection Department was completely split many years ago, the General Tax Inspection Bureau has also changed, and the tax inspection team has also changed.
But people’s hatred and fear of the tax system remains!
In the Tang Empire, for various criminals, they might be able to get away with murder and arson, but large-scale tax evasion and tax evasion would basically lead to death.
Many of the details reflect the vast authority of the tax investigators. For example, when investigating economic crimes, ordinary police officers who want to investigate the bank accounts of criminal suspects need the help of the local inspectorate.
Approval is required, but the tax investigator does not need it.
Because the local tax bureau itself has the authority to access the information of various financial institutions such as banks and securities companies, they can issue such approval documents themselves.
How should I put it, in Datang, there are only tax cases that tax investigators don’t want to investigate, and there are no tax cases that they can’t find out!
As long as you are targeted by the tax investigators, you will have to shed your skin even if you don't die.
In recent decades, many suspects of criminal or other economic crimes were actually arrested not for criminal or other ordinary crimes, but for tax evasion.
Why?
Because after these criminals obtain illegal income, they basically have no courage to pay taxes normally.
And here comes the problem, the tax investigators don’t care where your money comes from, but since you make money, you have to pay taxes.
So now, few criminals in Datang dare to use bank accounts for transactions, or even keep too many bank deposits or other registered assets.
Basically, you get a lot of cash or bearer bonds.
In this way, it is actually difficult to spend a lot of money. In the Tang Dynasty, banks are now also developed. Most ordinary people also have checking accounts. Slightly larger expenditures are made by checks. In case of cash, they are only limited to
Small expenses in daily life.
This can be seen from the salary payment of Datang people. Today, when Datang people pay wages, they usually use checks from public accounts to pay wages. This is convenient and easy to reconcile, and more importantly, it will not attract tax investigators.
investigation.
Companies or individuals that use large amounts of cash will attract the attention of tax investigators within a few days.