Shen Yiyuan couldn't hide his sadness on his face.
Chang Baiye's silent expression was filled with sadness.
The door was closed, and there were people guarding the room outside. There were no eyes or ears from the Security Bureau here.
Chang Baiye raised his hand, grabbed the wine bottle, filled it with wine and handed it to Shen Yiyuan: "Uncle Shen, I respect you."
Although Chang Baiye is the leader of the Shanxi Merchants Chamber of Commerce, Shen Yiyuan is older after all, and Hui merchants are not inferior to Shanxi merchants in business. Due to etiquette and seniority, this glass of wine still needs to be toasted.
Shen Yiyuan took it with both hands, looked at the wine in the glass, and sighed: "Shaodaozi wine, look at this clear one, I'm afraid it's very strong."
Chang Baiye raised his glass: "Compared to the intensity of the imperial court's methods, this wine is nothing."
Shen Yiyuan nodded solemnly, and the two drank together.
The wine is too hot and the throat is too hot.
Shen Yiyuan said sternly: "You and I are meeting here today at the invitation of many businessmen and out of necessity. There is no one else here, so we can just talk openly."
Chang Baiye sat upright and said, "It should be so."
Shen Yiyuan filled his glass of wine but did not pick it up: "You and I have some connections in the court, but do you know the details about the new inheritance tax?"
Chang Baiye shook his head: "I don't know the details."
Chang Baiye didn't know much about what inheritance tax was, but it was obvious that it was a tax.
Taxes cannot be evaded or omitted, otherwise it will be tax evasion and tax evasion.
The court cracked down on tax evasion and tax evasion very hard, especially against businessmen. Once discovered, the businessman would have to pay ten times the amount of tax evasion or tax evasion, and in serious cases, all property would be confiscated.
With such a strong effort, many businessmen would rather be harvested by floating tax rates than evade or evade taxes.
Taxes such as two taxes and commercial taxes are mandatory by the court
Expropriation usually leaves no room for maneuver.
The same goes for inheritance tax. No matter what it is, once the court issues it in an official document, it will be a definite tax item, and it will be collected without any mercy at that time.
Shen Yiyuan drank another glass of wine and said in a deep voice: "Xiude has some connections in the Imperial College and has discussed it with officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs. Inheritance tax means that when our property is handed over to our children and grandchildren, we need to collect a certain tax based on the value of the property. .As for the amount to be collected, the Ministry of Revenue is still discussing, but according to my speculation, it is likely to be 100% tax or 250% tax."
Chang Baiye looked very ugly and gritted his teeth and asked: "It is not natural for us to hand over our hard-earned wealth to our children and grandchildren. What is the difference between the court doing this and robbery?"
Your own money, your own shop, your own house, if you give it to your son or distribute it to your grandson when you are old, what taxes do you need to pay, and why do you need to pay it?
The money was just moved, the shop was not a large transaction, it was just a name change, and the house was a gift. How could the court collect taxes like a robber?
Thirty taxes may not seem like much, but when calculated, it is enough to hurt someone to death.
The family property is three million guan, and the tax is 30 guan. This is one hundred thousand guan. One hundred thousand guan of wealth, how many wealthy families don't have this financial resources! If the family property is 10 million yuan, the inheritance tax alone will be more than 330,000 yuan. Could it be that I can't afford to die and lose a big piece of flesh when I die?
Shen Yiyuan was bitter: "The imperial court did this to reduce the emergence of wealthy merchants. This means that merchants can have money in the future, but they cannot have too much money."
Chang Baiye's heart trembled, and the corner of his mouth moved: "Reducing the number of wealthy businessmen? If this is really the case, thirty taxes per one is probably
It's not enough. With the strength of Emperor Jianwen, the court is likely to cut it off with one stroke and set up a tax of five and one, or even a heavy tax of two and one! "
For wealthy households with millions of dollars in wealth, losing a few hundred thousand dollars is a real pain, but it is far from achieving the goal of "reducing the number of wealthy businessmen." It can only be said that it is a blood drain, and it does not hurt the muscles. Move the bones.
Shen Yiyuan took a deep look at Chang Baiye, pondered for a moment, and nodded heavily: "You are right, the court is likely to take heavy action. Now that Emperor Jianwen's prestige is at its peak, he will take this opportunity to implement a series of thorny issues. Comprehensive He dares to do something like changing his native land and returning it to his native land, which offends all the chieftains, and he must also dare to make the inheritance tax a heavy tax!"
Chang Baiye picked up the wine glass
, with helplessness in the corner of his mouth: "So, we are just fat pigs. The court wants to use the knife, but we can only scream and then be slaughtered, right?"
Shen Yiyuan lowered his head, not knowing how to answer.
At present, the court's detailed rules on inheritance tax have not appeared, and it is still unclear how it will work. However, it can be confirmed that the court felt that the existence of wealthy businessmen may be detrimental to the stability of the court, so it set up an inheritance tax to suppress it.
Since it is suppression, it is just a matter of bleeding, cutting of flesh, and breaking of bones.
The imperial court held a butcher's knife, and the merchants could only howl.
Object?
Today's businessmen are not powerful enough. Even if they contribute a huge amount of business taxes, not many people in the court are willing to speak out for businessmen. Even if there are people from the Imperial College of Business entering the court, their main focus is how to manage and control Commercial tax, how to use the hand of tax to stabilize the economy of Ming Dynasty.
A businessman has no room for resistance, just like a pig
It was impossible to block the butcher's shining knife.
Chang Baiye sighed deeply: "The imperial court did this without any support, and we cannot believe it. If our family property is reduced by 30% or 50% with one blow, then what is the point of all these years of hard work? Who will dare to do it in the future?" Big deal?"
Shen Yiyuan shook his head: "The court is not without any basis."
Chang Baiye looked at Shen Yiyuan in surprise: "Since ancient times, there has been no such tax item as inheritance tax. Where is the basis for it?"
Shen Yiyuan rubbed his brows and said seriously: "It's true. In the Song Dynasty, when the property was divided among other relatives according to the will of the household, it was necessary to jointly change the household and the court would collect taxes."
"In the first year of Emperor Huizong's Chonghe reign, there was a provision: Anyone who had a will and married a daughter would have to give money to seal the certificate. This was also the basis for paying taxes on the division of property in the will. However, this provision was not implemented for long before it was abandoned. . Later, during the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty, Wang Zhiwang, the general in charge of Sichuan Finance, proposed that all dowries, wills and private burial places should be deeded and taxed."
"Wang Zhiwang believed that this move would avoid future lawsuits among his relatives and brothers, and would also increase finances, which would be beneficial to both public and private interests, so he wrote to the court. At that time, the Ministry of Household Affairs of the court made it clear that in the future, the person's will would be married to the superior Qi Ma until the day of death. The joint household was changed to open a household. The land, house and daughter were used as dowry, and the valuation was submitted to the government for investment and tax payment."
Chang Baiye had a headache. When he was young, he did a lot of business. He traveled around with caravans at an early age. He didn't study much. He didn't expect that the Song Dynasty actually had similar tax items.
"The household you are talking about is for the situation where there are no close relatives at all..."
Chang Baiye wanted to refute.
Shen Yiyuan waved his hand: "This
These are not important, what is important is that the court did find a basis. They can use this article to tell the world that the predecessors could levy inheritance tax on testamentary inheritance, and the Ming Dynasty could also levy inheritance tax. "
Chang Baiye scratched his head: "In the Song Dynasty, it was just an inheritance tax, but in the Ming Dynasty, it was an inheritance tax. This is very different, right?"
Shen Yiyuan did not deny it.
The estate tax for testamentary inheritance is different from the inheritance tax. The former only pays taxes on the property involved in the will. A house is given to the eldest son and three acres of land to the second son. When these things are changed into a "household" name, the court collects taxes.
As for how much money to give to the eldest son and how much silk to give to the second son, as long as it is not written in the will and does not need to be "transferred," naturally it will not be included in the payment. But the latter is different. This is all taxable, and then a piece of it is cut off.
Chang Baiye thought for a long time, but still had no countermeasures, so he asked: "Uncle Shen, are we really just sitting here and waiting for death? Is there no way out?"
Shen Yiyuan laughed and said, "How come there is nothing we can do? It's just that this method may be a little too late for you."
"What method?"
Chang Baiye was puzzled.
Shen Yiyuan smiled and said: "Of course, you have more children and more families. Before the court issues inheritance tax, divide all the family property. Don't open the accounts in your own name. It's just you..."
Chang Baiye was a little dumbfounded.
This thing requires my son to be more talented, but I can
They have been doing business over the years, and they only have one son with Hou Qianqian, but Shen Yiyuan has three sons. I heard that there is something going on in his mother-in-law's belly again, and I don't know how she got pregnant at such an old age.
Shen Yiyuan is relaxed
Said: "We don't know the content of inheritance tax, but we can be sure that the court cannot be one-size-fits-all. It can only set the standard for paying inheritance tax according to the size of the family property, just like the floating tax rate. Divide the family property as soon as possible and make it bigger. To make it small, break it into parts, and then the knife that breaks the bone may just draw some blood."
Chang Baiye saw that Shen Yiyuan had already looked away and had prepared countermeasures, but these countermeasures were only to avoid risks, not to solve them...
Besides, this method is not of much use to me. The child will either squeeze the mud and come out by squeezing it casually. Even if he goes home to exercise now, it will take at least a year. The baby will not be able to set up a household if it is too young. How many more years will it take? Year……
To put it bluntly, the problem at home is still unresolved.
You can't give your family property to outsiders. Once you set up a household, it will be protected by the court's laws, and you won't be able to get it back if you want.
Shen Yiyuan saw Chang Baiye's difficulty and said softly: "There are two more countermeasures."
"Please give me some advice, Uncle Shen."
Chang Baiye stood up and saluted respectfully.
Shen Yiyuan smiled and said: "The first strategy is to spend more and save less. If you have not always thought about promoting education in Shanxi, you can donate some money to schools and social institutions in prefectures and counties in Shanxi and other places. If you want to study, you can even buy a few more places in the Imperial College. With too much money, the court is worried."
Chang Baiye didn't object, but he didn't say anything either.
Education is something that the Chang family attaches great importance to, and it is also something that Shanxi merchants are concerned about. They have invested a lot of money in education over the years, but the problem is that it only takes more than 20 years to raise a son. Raising a son who is really useful is not a problem. It’s probably thirty or forty years since someone became eloquent…
some
After the talents entered the Imperial College, they were assimilated by the knowledge there, forgetting their place of origin, and only emphasized that they were citizens of the Ming Dynasty. What are the interests of Shanxi merchants, what are the interests of Shanxi and the whole territory?
"anything else?"
Chang Baiye asked.
Shen Yiyuan said seriously: "This is easier, live longer..."
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