"So our tax is not high." Ai Zhixin said, "This is equivalent to the market access tax. If you set up a stall on the street, the street charges a stall fee of five yuan. It only allows you to set up a stall here, without considering your actual situation. How much can you earn? Thinking about it on the other hand, even if there is no tax, the old madam still exploits the prostitutes? Regardless of the fact that the yamen does not tax the brothels, the money spent by the brothels on all aspects of entertainment far exceeds the taxes we collect. We are in In the city, I can’t say that all the expenditures on brothels are gone, at least half of them are gone.”
The government industry has always colluded with government officials and local evil forces, using it as a protective umbrella, but this protection must come at a high price. The several chief petty officials arrested in Guangzhou each had more than 100,000 taels of property confiscated from their homes, of which contributions from the "flower industry" accounted for a considerable proportion. As for the local wealthy gentry, although they are not involved in the so-called "dirty money" on the surface, in fact, there are many wealthy slaves below who use their status as masters to support the brothels, and there are many who obtain benefits and honor their masters.
"At the same time, low-end production capacity can also be eliminated." Lin Baiguang said.
"That's what it means." Imposing a unified tax rate without different levels will inevitably eliminate the weak ones in the industry. The low-end of the prostitution industry is also a low-cost route. To continue to keep the price of prostitution cheap, the madam has no other choice but to exploit the prostitutes crazily. The new law abolished personal dependence and adopted a free employment system, which forced the madam to pay wages: virtually increasing labor costs. Low-end brothels had no choice but to withdraw from the market under the dual pressure of heavy taxes and rising labor costs. However, Ai Zhixin was unwilling to talk more about this issue. It was quite impolite to talk about the upgrading of the sex industry in front of a woman, even if it was a purely professional discussion.
"From the perspective of social development, it is definitely not a good thing to have many prostitutes. Although the so-called sexual intercourse problem has been solved for a while, prostitutes rarely give birth to children, and they generally do not take good care of them after giving birth. And the so-called 'sexuality' Venting, at best, only alleviates social conflicts, but does not solve people's most basic needs for reproduction and reproduction. It can even be said to be an anesthetic." Liu Xiang quickly made another big point.
Mu Min continued to introduce that the second step is to abolish the personal dependence relationship in this industry, whether it is buying, selling or so-called "adoption", and converting it to a free employment relationship. If a prostitute is willing to find another way out, she will be allowed to do so, and no one will be left in trouble. At the same time, the Guangzhou Municipal Government provides necessary employment assistance and marriage introductions to women who are willing to become good teachers.
"...At the same time, we will launch a campaign of 'complaining' and 'overturning old cases' among prostitutes. We will arrest a group of bustards, leaders and turtles who are very angry among the people and have murder cases, and put a group of them on public trial. In this way, our If we take measures, there will be no resistance.”
Originally, the abolition of personal dependence would inevitably arouse resistance from the old bustard's family, but through "complaint campaigns" and "clearing old cases" to arrest and kill a large number of people, not only can the resistance be destroyed, but also a fortune can be made.
Needless to say, those who work in this industry cannot escape the words "forcing girls into prostitution". Even if you are punished according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, it is enough to drink a pot. The crimes for this group of people are all ready-made, and they can punish anyone they want to.
"Considering that most of the women engaged in the sex industry in this time and space are forced to do nothing, except for a few indolent people who are willing to continue to engage in this industry, most women should still have the hope of becoming a good person. Among them, the homeless ones, we will Send them to Hainan in batches."
The large number of prostitutes who become prostitutes can not only replenish the female labor force in the industry and commerce of the Senate, but also alleviate the current imbalance between men and women in the Senate-ruled areas of Qiongzhou and other places, and solve the marriage problems of a considerable number of immigrants. It can be said that it accomplishes multiple things with one stone.
After these rectifications, the customs industry in Guangzhou was rebuilt according to the existing model of the Senate. Ai Zhixin listened carefully and carefully considered the taxation methods and specific tax rates for the weathering industry in Guangzhou. Of course, the implementability under the low-level management state of this time and space must also be considered. When he heard Mu Min talking about the resettlement issue of Lehu in Guangzhou, he spoke:
"I suggest taking over the government-run brothel."
Mu Min was surprised: "You mean..."
"I'm saying that Ziminglou can take over these 'confiscated properties' and set up a Ziminglou entertainment company." Ai Zhixin has actually had this idea for a long time. How to take the high-end route of the smoke-free industry? Ziminglou is a very good company. A good example, "This can revitalize the properties, equipment and personnel that we received during the purge of customs industries, so that they can continue to function."
Although the properties and equipment received can be used for other purposes, it is not so easy to utilize the large number of employees. In particular, almost all the staff in official brothels are from Lehu. They have not been engaged in production for generations, although they are willing to remove untouchables. However, their desire to change careers is not necessarily very strong. Unless they engage in forced labor like a labor camp, it will be difficult and costly for them to change careers.
Liu Xiang's expression was not very lively. Ai Zhixin knew that his little Jiujiu, Ziminglou was a "state-owned enterprise" and the profits were directly handed over to the Senate. No matter how large the scale is or how high the profits are, it has little to do with the financial revenue of the Guangzhou Municipal Government. So after him there is:
"Although it is a state-owned enterprise, the prostitutes who pay the head tax can be owned by the local government. The specific tax sharing can be discussed later."
Liu Xiang's face looked better now.
Ai Zhixin then continued: "Because the custom industry is classified as a heavily taxed industry, we will definitely take it into consideration when formulating specific tax rates."
"Didn't you say that the poll tax on prostitutes is temporary?" Mu Min asked.
"I'm not being strict. The poll tax is temporary. After the new system of the custom industry is established, we will start to implement personal income tax for prostitutes - setting specific tax rates based on their income. Of course, there is no starting point for prostitutes to be exempted from the tax. After all, it is a 'containment within the military', which puts a bit of a burden on both those who do this and those who want to do this."
Ai Zhixin smiled and said: "As for the taxation of the custom industry, that's all I have considered for the time being. However, I have one more request, do you have more detailed information on Guangzhou's economic situation? I have read it Look, there are too many uncertainties. Many data rely on speculation, which is not possible - Guangzhou’s economic aggregate is unclear, and finance and taxation work is difficult to handle."
"Actually, we have been doing census work, but we lack data processing capabilities and have accumulated a lot of data, making it impossible to compile statistics in time." Liu Xiang said, "If we conduct an economic census again, we will be drowned in data collected."
Liu Xiang's work in the past few months has mainly been conducting household surveys. There are three purposes: registration under the new household registration system, real estate and industrial and commercial registration/basic census of social conditions. It roughly includes parts of the economic census, but is not very detailed. This is not because Liu Xiang wants to be simple, but he really doesn't have the ability.
Even with a very simple survey, the data collected is already very complex. This involves the issue of data maintenance.
Liu Xiang himself is engaged in data processing, and he knows that it will be a disaster if he only relies on manual aggregation and calculation of large amounts of data. Work involving big data processing such as Operation Engine and the Hainan Island Population and Economic Census all rely on the powerful processing capabilities of the Senate's computing center server. If it were done manually, it would take several years to complete, and the error rate would be extremely high. When the United States conducted a census in the 19th century, it often took seven or eight years to process and summarize the data.
If Guangzhou now wants to conduct these censuses, without the support of a computer system, it will only rely on manual compilation - Guangzhou also does not have such capabilities, and it will still have to be sent to Lingao for processing - it will take at least a year or two to see the results. . Even though Liu Xiang has already made a report requesting the establishment of a data center in Guangzhou, there is still a question as to when it will be implemented.
Ai Zhixin left before the meeting was over. As one of Wudaokou's leaders, his job was not only the director of finance and taxation of Guangdong and Guangzhou, but Wudaokou itself also had a lot of things for him to complete. The most important thing is to read the port library's circulation report. and give corresponding instructions. Especially at this critical moment when the front line is fighting and financial reforms are being carried out in the rear, he has to keep a close eye.
However, before Mr. Ai left, he sent a memo to Liu Xiang, asking him to "take a look at it when he has time after the meeting." Liu Xiang quickly opened it after the meeting. The content of the memo was "reasonable" for Minister Hong's intervention. The imposition of "burden" raises "anxieties" and "prudent concerns."
Of course Liu Xiang understands the meaning of this diplomatic rhetoric. But Minister Hong is from the army and is not under his control. At present, the military situation is urgent, troops are mobilized frequently, and the logistics department has a lot of autonomy. Unless you write to the Senate and start the campaign on the line, no one will care. As a result, his headache worsened even more.
Liu Xiang has been having headaches for more than 100 days since he came to Guangfu. I have a huge headache inside and outside, up and down.
Before anyone came to Guangfu, Xun Suji's rural survey report had been "spread all over the world", because the cases of deficiencies exposed in the report were mainly concentrated under the rule of Qiongfu, and some were criticized by Liu Xiang as "losing their status" The sportsmen started to complain again, which made Liu Xiang feel quite dejected when he boarded the boat and left.
When he arrived in Guangzhou, Liu Xiang found that in addition to several current leaders such as Minister Wen on his head, various mountaintops had already extended their tentacles before him. Some have circled their territory early and prepared to "deploy force all over the world". The one who stretched the longest was the military. In order to provide good logistics support for the army, Minister Hong simply ended up doing it himself. To say that this is a reasonable burden, the incubation period has always been managed by the Delong system, which means it is Wudaokou's territory. (To be continued.)
