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Wang Qiyi knew that the so-called non-tax income was "property of family wealth" - the witchcraft case, the cleanup of Guandi Temple personnel and the crackdown on tooth shops had implicated many large gentry households in Guangzhou, and the Planning Institute and Wudaokou made a fortune from this.
Because Guangzhou will gradually become the new capital of the Senate, not only the new city will be built on Henan Island, but the old city will also need to be renovated accordingly. Therefore, the Government Affairs Council appears to be relatively generous in construction funding. This "windfall" is very large. Most of it was allocated to the Guangzhou Municipal Government.
Liu Xiang is indeed very happy in this way, but everyone in Wudaokou knows that this kind of windfall is unsustainable. And a very bad consequence is that the sudden wealth after "killing local tyrants" will cause administrative leaders to lose the correct assessment of financial capabilities. From large-scale paving the way - it is likely to eventually cause the capital chain to break...
As a result, the pressure on finance and tax matters is even heavier - not only must we manage money well, but we must also obtain as much money as possible, so that Guangzhou's construction work can continue.
"When you are a local leader, it is understandable that you have the urge to invest in infrastructure construction." Wang Qiyi sat down on a rattan easy chair, where Ai Yixin brought tea and cigars.
Since Wang Qiyi didn't smoke, Ai Zhixin didn't light a cigar either. They both chose tea.
While waiting for the cook to deliver dinner, Ai Zhixin asked Zhang Xiaoqi when he would come to Guangzhou.
"It's almost time. It'll be here in about fifteen days. The last bit of training course, I'll set off after the course."
"Then it's inconvenient for you to live here alone. I'll arrange a maid for you..."
"Hey, no, no, no..."
"I see you are anxious," Ai Zhixin chuckled, "The maid I am talking about is just a maid, and there is no other meaning. You live alone, you can eat in the cafeteria, clean the room, and do the laundry yourself. ?”
Wang Qiyi thought that this was indeed a realistic demand, and his blind refusal would be unreasonable, so he immediately expressed his gratitude.
Dinner is served and the two of them eat together and talk while eating. It is considered a "working meal".
Wang Qiyi asked about the current work of the Finance and Taxation Bureau, especially regarding taxation, because he felt that since he was engaged in taxation, it was best not to get involved in finance. Although currently due to lack of manpower, the same system is used for revenue and expenditure - this is very inappropriate from a procedural perspective.
In the long run, finance and taxation will inevitably be separated. Ai Zhixin also has a background in taxation. He would not be unaware of the relationship between the State Administration of Taxation and the Ministry of Finance in the past, which seemed to be on equal footing but was actually half a level lower. The "level transfer" of leaders from the State Administration of Taxation to the Ministry of Finance was actually a "level transfer". Gao Sheng". This person is very enterprising, and Cheng Dong will not always stay in the position of financial director, similar to the finance minister. Australia and Song Dynasty's plate is getting bigger and bigger. Now the leaders of various ministries, even if they are the worst, will not be able to get into the "deputy national level" of the Standing Committee in the future, then this ministerial level leader will be vacant. Even if the Australian-Song Empire State Administration of Taxation and the Ministry of Finance are really on par in the future, Ai Zhixin will most likely choose the Ministry of Finance. Without him, it can be seen from Ai Zhixin's renaming of the Taxation Bureau to the "Finance and Taxation Bureau". There is a huge difference. As the director of the Finance and Taxation Bureau, even though he is doing tax work, he can naturally handle financial work as well. It still belongs to the financial system, and it is quite natural for him to take the position of finance minister in the future. In this case, if the tax system becomes independent one day, and I and my wife are not very old, I will probably have the position of the State Administration of Taxation. After all, there are only a few among the elders who do taxes.
It is conceivable that the tax work in Guangzhou and subsequently Guangdong must be terrible.
Wang Qiyi is not afraid of work, but this means that in the next few years, he will run around here and there, stay up late and work overtime, and spend less and less time with his wife and children... This makes Wang Qiyi, who is naturally extremely family-oriented, a headache.
Ai Zhixin briefly introduced the current situation of the Finance and Taxation Bureau. At present, the finance and taxation work is basically relying on the old system. Firstly, there is a shortage of people. Secondly, we have to wait for the final plan approval of Wudaokou. However, after getting rid of Yaxing and establishing some professional wholesale markets, at least they have begun to collect circulation taxes on these daily bulk commodities such as grain, charcoal, and vegetables.
"Have you brought the tax stamp this time?" Ai Zhixin suddenly remembered and asked.
"It's printed." Wang Qiyi didn't know why he was so concerned about this matter. "According to your suggestion, the printing factory made a new engraving this time, and the paper was also upgraded. The proofs are in the briefcase, and they will probably be available tomorrow. Delivered to your desk.”
Stamp tax has actually been implemented now, but the old stamps used in Lingao in the early days are still used. Ai Zhixin felt that the old stamps were too rough and lacked "authority", so he specially ordered new tax stamps.
"What do Wudaokou think of the plan I sent you?" Ai Zhiqi finally got to the point.
The Ministry of Finance and Finance held a full-day closed-door discussion on Ai Zhiqi's plan. However, most people in Wudaokou don't know much about taxation. They know more about macro concepts such as finance and taxation, taxation and economy, but they actually lack understanding of how to collect taxes.
In the end, Wang Qiyi and Zhang Xiaoqi revised the manuscript according to the original plan sent by Ai Zhiqi. They referred to the "Collection and Administration Law" and implementation details of the old time and space, combined with the actual situation of Australia and Song Dynasty, especially the quality of personnel and the level of printing technology, and initially determined a dual inspection and collection system with management assistance. This is equivalent to overturning half of Ai Zhixin's designs. Originally, Wang Qiyi thought that he would have to argue with Ai Zhiqi after the new plan came out. However, after listening to Wang Qiyi's grassroots tax analysis, he readily agreed. He is a person who does things! Wang Qiyi thought to himself and breathed a sigh of relief. If both parties were at fault in this kind of top-level design matter, then there would be no need to do the following work.
The next step is to discuss the details of the plan.
The new plan initially determines that the taxation function of the newly established Finance and Taxation Bureau will be the basic function of collection and administration of this tax department. A series of complex issues such as tax types, tax rates, preferential treatment, tax scope, tax subjects, etc. are left to other people in Wudaokou. The tax department only provides reference opinions, and the Government Affairs Council finally makes a decision and implements them in the form of interim measures.
Ai Zhixin was somewhat reluctant to this modification. According to his vision, not to mention tax policy and even fiscal policy, he plans to implement it in the Finance and Taxation Bureau. But Wang Qiyi said that his wife had made a rough assessment: there are only so many naturalized cadres that can barely be used. Although they have carbon paper and special receipts, they don’t have computers. Of course you can get one to use, but this thing can’t The significance of popularization is not great - the quality of personnel is low and the stalls are too large, which will only lead to high inspection costs and make fraud widespread. As for the professional issue of policy formulation, not to mention naturalized citizens, even she and Wang Qiyi had never done it. Originally, even in the old time and space, this was not something that the tax bureau had to worry about.
Enrich the most professional personnel into the inspection team as the handle of the tax bureau, and select female naturalized cadres who are careful, responsible, strong in learning ability and good at communication to be responsible for front-end collection and publicity work. On this basis, the position of "tax administrator" was reactivated to be responsible for reminders and tax publicity, and the new tax administrator was filled by new people. Their job is very simple, that is, they deliver tax bills to inform taxpayers to pay their taxes on time, or they come to remind taxpayers to pay taxes when they are overdue and do some publicity work.
Tax administrators are not allowed to collect taxes directly. All taxes must be paid by taxpayers or their agents at the tax hall. Taking into account the level of cash management in the 17th century, it is tentatively decided that the tax of the day will be settled by the tax hall accountant after work, and will be collected and paid within 48 hours.
Although the "central bank" as the Central Reserve Bank has been established, the branch of this "central bank" in Guangzhou is actually Delong's Guangzhou branch with a separate sign. The so-called two brands and one team, but the account books have been separated.
Delong Guangzhou Branch, which carries the brand of the central bank, continues to play the role of "treasury" and needs to open a separate account for tax transfers and an independent treasury account. Delong should issue a tax payment within 24 hours after the reconciliation is correct on the day the tax is collected. The payment receipt slip will be retrieved by the tax accountant (non-hall accountant) of the Finance and Taxation Bureau for accounting and filing. Tax receipts use manual tax payment certificates instead of payment slips to facilitate filling in taxes by household. The tax receipts adopt the model of 2 copies of tax payment certificates + 4 copies of summary payment slips. (Save the old time and space commercial bank and that useless link). As for the tax assessment and auditing rights, all the collection will be calculated and determined by a special assessment and auditing team. This set of procedures can be said to be full of loopholes in the eyes of anyone with a little tax knowledge. But this is already the limit of what they can achieve with the current conditions.
"Lack of people and technology, no matter how hard it is, it's just like this." Wang Qiyi said helplessly. Without high-quality talents and advanced technology, we can’t even collect money... This is really a vicious cycle.
"Let's do more inspections then, at least set up a platform first." Looking at the final draft, which was neither a donkey nor a horse, Ai Zhixin seemed to have lost half of his energy.
"By the way, I have to give a report to Cheng Dong. The practice of two brands with one team cannot continue like this. Now Delong is both a commercial bank and a national treasury. Although it now has separate ledger accounts for the central bank, The actual operation is still the same group of people. If they are mixed together like this, problems will occur sooner or later." Wang Qiyi has a lot of dealings with the People's Bank of China and the Bureau of Finance because he is in a grassroots unit, and he knows a lot about the internal management of these two departments.
"This is indeed a problem - but I'm afraid he is powerless in this matter. There is also the problem of our special financial account, which has not been solved yet. What is this system going to do?"
At present, the financial expenditure in Guangzhou is still in the "full appropriation" mode. Both Liu Xiang and Ai Zhiqi feel that things are not going smoothly.
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