To say that in this incident, the person who knew the most was Wang Anshi.
Wang Anshi felt that he understood the official family, and especially admired the official's attainments in wealth. Even Xue Xiang and Wang Anshi felt that he was picking up on the official's wisdom.
The dynasty's whip tax law was completed within the framework of the official family. Even his arrogant son was amazed by the official framework of the dynasty's whip tax law. Therefore, Wang Anshi felt that the current loopholes in the dynasty's commercial taxation were caused by the official family.
It should be clear.
This time, Wang Anshi just handed a knife to the officials. Just like the previous times, he took the blame and the officials cut the flesh. Therefore, he never worried about whether the land occupation tax increase law was passed.
The prestige of the official family has been determined with one word.
When he saw the statement from Chen Qi of Langzhou, he became even more certain that the land occupation tax increase law would be implemented smoothly.
No, the official announced that he was right...
Wang Anshi thought that the officials were summoning him alone, but he did not expect that Fu Bi would be present. Wang Anshi was not a person who cared about others, so it didn't matter to him whether Fu Bi was present. Although he was worried that Fu Bi would interfere, he also knew that Fu Bi would not be present.
Not good at thinking.
"Mr. Wangge, I'm afraid the land occupation tax increase law cannot be enacted like this..."
"Official..."
"Peace, what I said is that it cannot be passed like this. It does not mean that the land occupation tax increase law will not be implemented. First, the court meeting only has less than two days, and there is no time to pass it at the court meeting. It needs to be negotiated at the next political meeting.
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"Second point, regarding the increase and decrease in commercial taxes between the two countries, I know that there is indeed an increase in taxes on emerging industries that covers up the decrease in commercial taxes. It is precisely for this reason that the land occupation tax increase law cannot be passed in this way."
Tax reform is not that simple. Even if Fu Bi does not come to explain the situation, Zhao Xi will not arbitrarily implement Wang Anshi's land tax increase law. Indeed, Zhao Xi is borrowing Wang Anshi's knife, while the Chen family is sharpening
Daoshi, with these two factors, Zhao Xi can carry out tax reform in advance.
However, Zhao Xi had to express something about Wang Anshi. The real history is that because of the death of his son Wang Yu, Wang Anshi was disheartened and returned to his hometown as an official.
Zhao Xi still values Wang Anshi's political talents, so he needs to say hello to Comrade Lao Wang when he adjusts the land occupation tax increase law.
In fact, Zhao Xi doesn't understand the tax system, not at all.
Zhao Xi believes that when formulating tax rates, we should consider cost factors, the overall economic development, the needs of the court, fairness to a certain extent, promotion and inhibition, and many other factors.
Zhao Xi asked himself whether he had such ability, and he also knew that there was no one in the country who had such ability.
For example, in Gongfang City, Zhao Xi knows that the profits of various industries are quite high, and he also knows that there is so-called added value.
However, tax rates cannot be set based on profits.
For example, the current industrial development of Guochao is in the high-profit stage, and tax rates cannot be set based on profits. That is because the industrial development of Guochao has not yet reached the so-called stage of great material abundance. As it develops, the market will collapse.
Forcing production prices will force down profits.
Zhao Xi does not believe that arbitrarily adjusting tax rates is what a court should do. At least within a certain period of time, the tax system should be constant, so as to promote industrial development.
The reason why Wang Anshi was told that he could not promulgate the land-occupancy tax increase law was because of this. Like all his new laws, it was simple and did not have strict calculations. It was a bit like treating a headache with a headache and a foot with a pain.
"For an official family, even if the tax is doubled, it is only forty per thousand cents. The residence tax for the imperial family is only twenty per thousand cents."
"The completion of the track has greatly reduced the tax. The original tax revenue for every thousand cash transactions was at least fifty cash. Now it is less than thirty cash per thousand cash."
"Merchant sells directly from the place of production to the place of sale, basically saving all taxes. Although the track freight is increased, there is still freight in barter."
"Besides, as a result of rail transportation, the loss cost of merchants' goods has been reduced, and the safety has been greatly improved..."
"Today's merchant barter can be said to be sucking the blood of the imperial court's tax revenue. The reduced tax revenue of the imperial court nourishes the huge profits of merchants and workshops."
"The veteran believes that raising tax rates in the name of land occupation will not affect the country's overall strategy for industrial development, but will only reduce the profits of merchants and workshops to a certain extent. Such a reduction is almost as big as the current huge profits.
none."
Fu Bi had to admit that Wang Anshi was much more proficient in bartering than he was.
When Fu Bi considered whether to implement a policy, he mostly considered it from the perspective of politics, the balance between the court, ministers, and noble families. He could not be as thorough as Wang Anshi, and it was impossible to argue.
Fortunately, I didn't need to argue with Wang Jiefu. He convinced the officials to start with the stability of the court, while Wang Anshi convinced the officials to start with tax revenue.
Such a situation tests the wisdom of officials.
Fu Bi tried it, but he found it incomprehensible.
On the one hand, almost all the courtiers are involved in the interests. It is difficult to give up good wealth. Blindly increasing taxes will be opposed by the entire court, which is not conducive to the continuation of the current good situation of the country, and is not conducive to the current situation where the monarch and his ministers work together to develop.
On the one hand, as Wang Jiefu said, the tax revenue lost by the imperial court was used to support workshops and merchants selling goods in various places. This was not a normal state of a dynasty.
In such a situation, there is no sample to refer to. In all dynasties, no dynasty has such a booming industry as it does today.
This is probably what is mentioned in the official theory, which is to look at problems from a developmental perspective. Things are always developing and changing...~
This change even made Fu Bi feel strenuous.
Different standpoints will lead to different results when considering issues.
Courtiers, courts, officials, merchants, and people all have their own positions. How to find a balance in such a complicated situation is what governance is.
In fact, the royal family is also a party with vested interests. What's more, it also involves situations such as Gongfang City where the government and the military benefit.
As for the issue that Wang Jiefu said about the rise and fall of state tax revenue, Fu Bi believed that most courtiers could figure it out. This is also the reason why Wang Jiefu did not receive too much refutation when he proposed the land tax increase law this time.
It's just that they are the ones who benefit, and even if they understand, they will pretend to be confused.
Now, this layer of paper has been broken by Wang Jiefu, and the courtiers can no longer pretend to be confused and want to pretend to be embarrassed. As a result, Chen Qi made such a fuss and couldn't even pretend to be embarrassed.
At this time, I'm afraid it's time for the courtiers to join forces...~
It was precisely because of this concern that Fu Bi approached the officials to make a decision as soon as possible. In a very short period of time, the court would have an accurate letter to avoid chaos.
After all, this is a time when the country's courtiers and ministers of industry gather together, so there must be no slacking off.