Chapter 143 Lao Zhu was shocked!After the reform, taxes increased three or four times! !
After these words were said, the common people who paid taxes applauded.
"Yes, this is a good thing, a good thing. We people in the south of the Yangtze River are suffering a little bit, but at least the food problem can be solved. I heard that many people in the northwest often have one meal and no next meal."
"There is such a good policy to transfer food there!"
“It’s really a huge help to them and we support it.
We all support it. "
Some of the big landowners present also became interested when they heard that the imperial court would collect grain and put it into storage, and at the same time, they would get married on the spot.
There is indeed a lot of food in the house that cannot be eaten all, and if the food is sold to the granary according to the court's approach, even if there is a famine, the court will take out this food to stabilize the price of food on the market.
In this way, there is no need to store so much food at home.
If you stock up too much, not only will the food taste bad, but it will also have to be taken out and re-dried every year to prevent mold, which wastes a lot of manpower and material resources.
And if you can sell it to the court, get cash, and then use it to do business, wouldn't it be much better than wasting that food in your own warehouse?
When they thought of this, these people became more active.
To put it bluntly, the market economy actually does not need to be enforced, it only needs to be guided.
They will be circulated according to market demand.
After the tax inspection departments in various places publicized the policies, what they didn't expect was this.
A large amount of grain began to be transferred to the grain depot.
And this money to buy food is the treasure money just paid, that is, the taxes.
When doing this, the officials of the Tax Inspection Department will basically send a memorial to the court reporting on the tax collection situation in various places within ten days.
Chen Han and the others sat in the cabinet and dealt with the summer tax collection situation reported from all over the world once every ten days.
The situation is generally the same as in previous years.
The provinces around the capital pay a lot of money, and places with poor grain harvests such as Liaoning, east, west, northwest, and southwest are also converted into physical objects based on the number of acres to hand over to those places. In the process of paying taxes this time, it is even more intuitive. Shows their crop yields.
It is recorded by the Tax Audit Department and then passed on continuously.
This time, Zanding Rumu and Zhu Yuanzhang cleverly turned Jinyiwei into the Tax Inspection Department. After a two-pronged approach, the reform achieved quite good results.
It not only records the taxation situation of various places, but also learns about the industrial situation, economic status and the living conditions of the people in various places.
As Chen Han and others expected, the living conditions in the northwest, southwest, Lingnan, Liaodong and most of the northern provinces are much worse than those around the capital and in the southeast and Jiangnan areas.
With these data, there will be a basis for formulating economic policies in the future.
Chen Han really didn't expect that emperors like Zhu Yuanzhang were sometimes really talented and strategizing, cleverly transforming an extra-legal enforcement agency like Jin Yiwei into a legitimate one.
Jin Yiwei also fully demonstrated their achievements this time.
Their loyalty, extreme efficiency and ability to execute are unquestionable.
This set of mechanisms was so useful that Chen Han couldn't help but sigh.
One month later, most of the summer tax collection has been completed. Basically, when the summer tax is completed, the autumn grain collection will also be carried out.
Autumn grain also means a very heavy burden, and this time after the implementation of the apportionment of grain into acres, the collection of autumn grain is like summer tax, which is directly converted into treasure money and levied.
But it is different from what is practiced in the Jiangnan area.
In places such as the northwest, only a few regional state capitals can support the collection of treasure banknotes.
Therefore, autumn grain supplies in a large number of areas were actually exempted this time.
Because through the collection of summer taxes, the court found that it could meet the tax requirements for the entire year and even had a surplus.
It can be seen that in Jiangnan itself, as long as the officials and gentry work together to pay taxes, there will be no shortage of taxes.
Because a large number of wealthy people have occupied a lot of land through land annexation in the past 20 years.
After more than 20 years of numerous imperial examinations, those who passed the exams were all from the south.
The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang himself created the South List and the North List was because after hundreds of years of foreign rule, the cultural development in the north was much worse than in the south.
In other words, those scholars in the north, who were under the rule of foreigners, already had some disdain for Confucianism.
On the contrary, those in the south regard themselves as orthodox, so they focus more on strengthening Confucianism.
Since the Jin Dynasty began to develop the south, the resources in the south are much better than those in the north, and the economy has developed faster.
The economic shift southward has become a major trend.
Therefore, those scholars in the south had better conditions for studying.
It is precisely because of this that more people in the south can enjoy tax exemptions.
But this time, after more than 20 years of exemptions for these individual gentry, a large amount of land was included in the scope of tax payment.
So in the tax collection process for more than a month.
Even a lot of taxes are used directly to purchase food and store it in warehouses everywhere.
Used to implement the grain liquidation policy proposed by Chen Han.
Half of the grain will be transported to northwest, southwest, Liaodong and other places.
However, based on incomplete statistics, taxes have already reached more than three times the previous level.
The previous tax was converted into silver taels, which was only a mere 400 million taels, but now it has reached more than 1000 million taels.
And this is still the collection of summer taxes. If autumn grains are added, it is estimated that it can grow to another two to three million taels.
In other words, the tax collected through apportionment of land into acres has reached about 500 million taels in the first year.
Looking at the entire Ming Dynasty at its peak, if all taxes were converted into silver taels, they would only be between 800 million and 200 million taels.
But now it has reached as much as fifteen million taels.
When Zhu Yuanzhang saw the statistics, although he knew that this was not complete, after more than a month, it was basically completed. Even if it was more, it would only be one or two million taels more.
But even 500 million taels was unprecedented for Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao and his son.
When the father and son saw such data, they were stunned and speechless.
This is no longer a way to express the emotions of the two of them with surprise.
It was shocking.
After Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the data compiled by the cabinet and the Ministry of Household Affairs, he couldn't even believe that Ming Dynasty was so rich.
He had no idea that all this money was actually hidden in the hands of rich people.
Zhao Mian, the Minister of Household Affairs, said to Zhu Yuanzhang with great excitement: "Your Majesty, the Ming Dynasty is about to usher in a prosperous age!"
At the same time, there was another data that surprised him extremely.
The treasure banknotes withdrawn this time actually reached a total of 9000 million yuan.
This is only the first year of tax collection with treasure 's really just like what Chen Han said, the treasure banknotes that come back are enough for him to use without printing the treasure banknotes.
During this period, in addition to more than 2000 million treasure notes used to purchase grain and stored in large warehouses, the balance of treasure notes now reaches more than 7000 million.
After these treasure notes were withdrawn in large quantities, the market quickly responded.
That is, although the treasure notes have not appreciated much, they are still slightly more valuable than before.
The previous treasure banknotes had dropped to the value of only two hundred coins, but since the 9000 million banknotes were withdrawn, and 2000 million of them were even used to purchase food, the people were surprised to find out.
I don’t know when it started, but the consistent banknotes can be exchanged for 250 Wen.
Although this number doesn't sound good, it miraculously increased by fifty cents.
Therefore, the imperial court is actually not at a loss.
After the local government officials no longer had those servants and corvees to help the court work for free.
Zhu Yuanzhang was also very generous this time. With a wave of his hand, he asked the Ministry of Household Affairs to conduct careful calculations. After more than two months, he finally came up with a rough figure.
That is, the annual office expenses of various local governments are about 500 million yuan.
The commercial taxes that local governments receive each year actually reach about 700 million yuan.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang listened to Chen Han's suggestion, combined with the actual situation of the Ming Dynasty, and asked the Ministry of Household Affairs to issue another order, that is, the collected commercial taxes would be adjusted every five years.
For local commercial taxes, in wealthy areas, the court gets [-]% and the locals get [-]%; in medium areas, the court gets [-]% and the locals get [-]%; in poor areas, the court gets [-]% and the locals get [-]%.
If even the basic office expenses cannot be met, the court can only provide support in return.
Commercial taxes are levied under the overall supervision of local tax inspection departments.
During this period, after Jinyiwei was fully transformed into the Tax Inspection Department, not only did the officials not feel as if there was no pressure, but they were under tremendous pressure.
Due to Jinyiwei's more than 20 years of rigorous training, they have already formed a complete set of organizational structures, and even more
This was only the first year after the imperial court opened up business. It was also the first year to use treasure money to collect taxes, and it was also the first year to use the tax system reform of sharing every ding per mu. The situation was achieved, but it left Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao and his son Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao. Personally very pleased.
If things continue like this, next year when all the tax system reforms are more and more complete, I believe that the Ming Dynasty's taxation will usher in a major explosive period.
Based on the system of the US Internal Revenue Service, Chen Han customized some commercial tax supervision standards that fit the national conditions of the Ming Dynasty.
The organizational framework of the Daming Tax Inspection Department is:
The center of the imperial court is: Zhengsanpindu Commander: Responsible for coordinating and supervising all activities, including tax collection, auditing, etc.;
Commanding Tongzhi from the third level: Responsible for managing daily operations, including personnel appointments and removals, finance, legal affairs, etc.;
The Audit Bureau is responsible for auditing taxpayers' returns to ensure tax accuracy and compliance.
The Zhengsipin Law Enforcement Agency is responsible for investigating and executing arrests to maintain the seriousness and fairness of tax laws.
The Zhengsipin Technical Department all directs: This department is responsible for auditing and screening tax declarations.
The Liaison Office of Zhengsipindu commanded the Qianshi: this department was responsible for communicating and coordinating with the imperial court and local government agencies.
At the local level, the position of a superior official is the same as that of the central government. The "du command" is reduced to "commander". The rank of commander is the fifth rank, Tongzhi is the fifth rank, and the chief officer of the subordinate organization is reduced to the sixth rank.
The reason why the Tax Inspection Department was able to quickly transform from Jinyiwei was because Jinyiwei had a similar structure before and did similar things.
Especially the number of math talents, that is, the number of math talents, was beyond Chen Han's expectations.
It was not until the Ming Dynasty that Chen Han finally learned that although ancient China did not develop mathematics independently, there had always been a large number of basic mathematics talents.
The Tax Inspection Department especially needs such talents, so whether they are recruited from the private sector or transferred from official agencies, thousands of such professional talents have been developed.
It can be seen how meticulous Jin Yiwei's previous work was.
The current personnel development of the Tax Inspection Department has expanded from 5000 people in Jinyiwei to the current 1 people.
Among them, the Law Enforcement Agency, which is specifically responsible for arresting tax evaders, has the largest number of people, with a total of 7000 people.
With so many people devolved to more than a dozen provinces, it may not seem like much, but this is only the number of personnel in the first year of the establishment of the Tax Audit Department.
Later, according to Chen Han's wishes, it must be expanded at least ten times.
After all, taxation work is too important for a country, and the intensity of supervision must also be improved.
When he arrived here, Chen Hancai finally discovered that the Ming Dynasty's "Da Gao" was really effective. These inventions of Lao Zhu were really refreshing.
The "Da Gao" published the new tax law, including the specific collection standards and implementation procedures for dipping into an acre.
Including the role of the Tax Audit Department, and even the reporting methods are published.
In particular, it was highlighted that the Tax Inspection Department was transformed from Jin Yiwei.
This had a huge shock effect.
After the common people saw this, they did not dare to conceal or omit their family property; after the businessmen saw it, they started to fight. Originally, tax evasion was their nature, but when they saw that the Tax Inspection Department was the agent of Jin Yiwei, they came to arrest them. Human, immediately gave up this idea.
They felt that instead of saving a few bastards and getting a beating and interrogation from Jin Yiwei, it was better to pay the money.
As for the officials, their memories are even more fresh. Which official is not afraid of the Jin Yiwei?
As long as an official is invited to drink tea by Jin Yiwei, it means that the whole family will be executed.
They were also informed that their property status must be truthfully registered with the Tax Audit Department.
Speaking of which, this is also very useful for anti-corruption.
Of course, it is also a good thing for the government and businessmen that the Tax Inspection Department is so strict.
After all, everyone will be more transparent when doing business, and businessmen will not dare to think about tax evasion when doing business. They will pay taxes honestly according to the system that has been increased to [-]-[-] tax.
Commercial taxes are reserved for office expenses of the yamen, which also prompts the government to pay more attention to commercial taxes and formulate many policies that can stimulate the economy within their own jurisdictions.
They know that as business becomes more prosperous, business taxes will increase.
Hongwu's business tax in 24 years increased from less than 200 million taels to an estimated 700 million taels, an increase of two to three times.
For the entire imperial court, this can directly cover the official office expenses for a year.
Ordinary people do not need to work as free labor force for the government, and the government can be self-sufficient.
After receiving so much commercial tax, there was so much food. This time the court had a large amount of cash. What should it do?
Shipbuilding, military training, and 1000 million yuan were used to subsidize the salaries of officials.
The issue of increasing the salaries of court officials has been proposed for more than half a year but has not been implemented.
Now, finally, after the summer tax was collected, the imperial court had a large sum of money, so the 1000 million yuan was used to give to officials all over the world.
Although the amount of money distributed to everyone will not be much, for every official, this is a progress - the court has increased their salary.
How many officials had previously complained about Zhu Yuanzhang, a stingy emperor.
But now the emperor has finally fulfilled his promise. This is a happy news that makes many officials more confident...
(End of this chapter)