Tax evasion will be investigated, and the tax audit in this era adopts a very simple method. At the end of each month, the city hall will spend a month organizing accounting to sort out all the tax returns from the previous month.
Verification, check whether there are any fluctuations in the tax amount in recent months, whether there are discrepancies in the name of the payment, etc. If there is a large fluctuation and there is a problem with the payment, a special city hall civil servant will visit to check the account, or check the gas meter.
etc., accounting for things like production costs.
Although it sounds complicated, in fact, only detective agencies and other tax-paying units that are not convenient for accurate business verification need to pay special attention. There are indeed some loopholes to evade tax, but Shade has no such idea, after all, he is
Doing serious business.
It took half an hour to complete the tax filing process at the tax department next to Blackstone Security Company. This time Shade filed taxes for the last two months and paid a heavy tax of 7 pounds 14 shillings.
This is a big expense. If Xia De can have this kind of income every month, his tax payment can barely reach three digits in a year, which is higher than the income level of most people in this city.
From this point of view, the job of detective is actually very promising.
"Where did you buy these maltose?"
The tax bureau in the North District is next door to the Blackstone Security Company. Shade has come to see Iluna before, so it is not his first visit. However, the cat on the first floor of the security company is still very enthusiastic about Shade, but in order to prevent
The cat at home was unhappy, so Shade didn't go to hug it this time.
Iluna met Shade in the lounge on the first floor of the security company. At that time, Shade was holding a magazine in his left arm and an iron box containing yellow gelatin maltose in his right hand. The sugar was only at the bottom of the box, but it was not filled with too much sugar.
Many. The box has no lid, and the corners are a little rusty. There are two short wooden sticks that are thicker than chopsticks inserted inside.
"Also, aren't you going to solve the commission? You look like you've been wandering around all morning."
As she said that, Iluna looked at Shade's appearance suspiciously.
"I got the magazine from the haunted house. As for these candies, if the one-time tax exceeds a certain amount, I will give you some gifts. Including but not limited to two copies of this morning's newspapers, a box of maltose, three raw eggs, and a
A wooden pen holder, a bookmark stamped by the city hall and a brass whistle. Oh, the last one is gone, otherwise I would have taken the whistle, that one would be good for teasing cats."
Shade replied.
These gifts are meant to encourage tax payment. If you pay more than five pounds on site, you can choose one at will. The value of the gifts is not equal. For example, after finishing the candy in Shade's hand, the iron square box can also be used as a pen holder. So he just
I randomly picked up a box of candies, and seeing that Iluna was interested, I handed it to her.
"Shadow, do you think I'm still a child?"
The seventeen-year-old girl said with a smile, took the candy and put it on the table nearby, looking very happy.
"What about magazines? Why would you be interested in a magazine about women's clothing? Is that also a tax return bonus?"
As he said this, he was about to take the magazine that Shade had tucked in. Shade subconsciously wanted to hand it to her, but he immediately thought of what was in it.
"No!"
He raised his voice slightly:
"Here are the books I borrowed from the Black Raven Library! Yes, they cannot be shown to others."
Iluna nodded, but was a little surprised why Shade had such a big reaction.
Afterwards, Shade briefly explained his itinerary this morning and told Iluna the two things that had been resolved.
Iluna had no emotion about the dead young ghost. This kind of thing was not uncommon. And the incident of peeping later gave Iluna a headache:
"We can't take care of ordinary people's affairs, but since the other party has asked us to entrust it, I think the captain will find a way to solve it. Really, it's really hard to make money."
"What methods will your captain use?"
"It's hard to say. It mainly depends on whether the other party is obedient."
So Shade stopped asking, because the rest of the matter had nothing to do with him.
Of the three commissions given by Iluna, only the last one remained, that is, the merchant selling spices in the north of the city.
The other party does not have a fixed shop, but hangs out in a square in the North District of Tobesk like the vendors on Saint Teresa Square.
The first two commissions were not big things, so Shade regarded the third one as an ordinary event and just treated it as a distraction today.
After bidding farewell to Iluna, I took a leisurely carriage to my destination. On the way, I also chatted with the coachman about recent prices. Summer is about to end, and the prices of cheap fruits such as apples remain stable. Children from ordinary families
You can also eat it occasionally.
Tobesk Hymn Square is one of the more prosperous squares in the northern part of the city. It is said that the name originated from the fact that a certain bishop of the Peace Church composed a hymn here in the early days of the city's founding, but for some reason he did not use his name.
name.
The north of Tobesk city is the lower town in the usual sense. Unlike St. Teresa Square, which is mainly occupied by residents, Anthem Square is the largest trading center in the north of the city. The square is connected in all directions. There are Three Cats Hotel, Hunter Bookstore, and "100" all around the square.
There is also a herbal shop, Mrs. Shulan's clothing store, etc., and there is even a blacksmith shop with a sign of "Superior People" to help people repair pots and sharpen kitchen knives and scissors. As for the square, various groceries, fruits and vegetables are sold.
Meat vendors, gangster loan sharks, and various performers appeared in endless streams.
People in the villages and towns around Tobesk, such as the village where Mr. Copus, who provided corpse materials for the ring magicians, lived, would center their activities around the Psalm Square in the north of the city after entering the city.
The upper class is an upper class society. The poor and rural villagers exist in the same space as them, but they are definitely not the same kind of life.
Although it is in the lower city, Anthem Square is more lively than the central part of the city. There are no noble women or fashionable gentlemen here, only people wearing patched clothes walking around.
Women wore headscarves and aprons, carrying shopping baskets and comparing the products they wanted to choose; children who had not washed their faces for a long time were playing barefoot on the street, and would dodge out of fear when meeting strangers;
The rude and strong man in black shoes held a bottle of wine and complained to his companions about the unsatisfactory life of his life; the beggar by the wall seemed to have nothing to do with the noise around him and the clanking sound of the blacksmith shop, huddled on the straw mat.
, will only leave when the owner of the house curses.
This is the first time for a foreigner to come here, and the overwhelming variety of scenery makes him a little overwhelmed. Although the streets and squares are dilapidated, they are full of vitality. Compared with the people living in Saint Teresa Square, those living in the
The people here seem to be in a different world than the former.
"It turns out there is a place like this in Tobesk."
The outsider's eyes widened, and he stood on the edge of the square and turned his head to look at everything around him. The smell of low-quality tobacco, fermented food, and rotten grass mixed in the air, and various sounds rushed into his ears, forming a complex background noise.
.
He had only seen this place before on the map left by Detective Sparrow. The map recorded dense information and even marked how to find the wandering warbler, loan sharks and the entrance to the underground casino nearby.
"If I want to see more things in this world, I should actually visit places like this more often."
The shock brought by the scene he saw at this time was no less shocking than when Shade first went out and saw the street scene in a foreign land.
The life ring in the soul is slowly rotating, and the brass-colored enlightenment elements are being enriched. This means that this scene has given foreigners who are still unfamiliar with this world more insights into civilization.
Compared with people in this world, outsiders have unique advantages in thinking and understanding of civilization. However, this advantage is not the application of literature and fairy tales like Dorothy and Princess Lesia, but more similar to Old John
In that way, the understanding of civilization as a whole.