Chapter 1861 New Deal
This new policy has really come out!
Everyone is almost cervical spondylitis!
In fact, it was already promulgated more than a month ago. Han Yi initially predicted that time, but because of Li Zhi's health, it has been delayed until now. Although it was only one month, this month seemed extremely precious for the imperial court that only lasted more than a year.
But no matter what, this new policy has been promulgated!
Many people breathe a sigh of relief, whether it is good or bad, you have to send it out, otherwise everyone will be full of uncertainty about the future and will not let go of anything they do.
The core content of the new policy is stamp duty, and almost all the content is centered around this core.
What everyone is most concerned about is naturally the tax on agriculture and sericulture. At present, the tax on agriculture and sericulture is still the foundation of the country. This tax involves almost every people and every class, but this is similar to the content of the publicity, and it is still the tax amount of the equal land system. It is only calculated based on the number of acres. Based on the tax amount before the equal land system and the number of land acres, it increases or decreases at a certain proportion. However, there is a small difference here, and the increase ratio is constant. For example, if one acre of land pays a dou of grain, then one hundred acres of land will be one hundred dou of land. However, below the benchmark, the tax is decreasing. If you own forty acres of land and twenty acres of land, it is not a double relationship, but a few times apart.
This is actually to protect small farmers while no longer increasing the burden on landlords. If calculated based on incremental calculations, those landlords will really go crazy.
After the new policy was promulgated, the land deeds must be printed. If the land deeds are not printed, they are a piece of waste paper. The land naturally belongs to the state, and the law clearly stipulates this.
It is equivalent to wiped the vague area. The land allocated by the country in the past was then fallen into the hands of the landlords by the farmers. No one knows who the land should be considered. After the stamp duty is promulgated, it will either be owned by private or state-owned, and there is no third possibility.
In order to make stamp duty more convincing, the bill also stipulates that whenever a natural disaster occurs and the people do not have a harvest, they will be automatically exempted from tax. This is one of the very important explanations of stamp duty. There is no longer an official government and the court decides whether to pay taxes. If there is no harvest, there is no need to pay taxes. This is a provocative.
This agricultural and sericulture tax is the foundation of the country. Among the stamp tax, it belongs to a special tax.
Most of the stamp duty is still set at one thousandth, and less than one thousand, they are paid at a penny.
However, there are also some contracts that require very high stamp duty, and the highest stamp duty is slave transactions and land transactions.
It is actually the highest stamp duty involved in population transactions, which is higher than the stamp duty of land. However, there is a slave bill before, which basically changes the slave bill to stamp duty. However, this stamp duty is mandatory and must not be printed, just like land. Not printing is illegal. For other transactions, you can not print, as long as you trust the other party.
Moreover, whether it is buying and selling land or buying and selling population, the buyer shall bear the stamp duty, and most of the stamp duty is borne by both parties.
Another thing that no one expected was that the workshop tax was not completely abolished, but the tax was paid according to the land price. As for how many goods you produce, no matter you, although the tax was paid every year, the tax was really not high and very low. This was done to encourage local prefectures and counties to pay attention to business, because workshops are taxed according to land deeds. So merchants from Chang'an went to Yangzhou to build workshops. Of course, the tax belongs to Yangzhou. In other words, the more workshops are built, the more workshop taxes are collected, the better the officials' political achievements are, and the more local governments make more profits, because stamp duty is mostly subsidized by the government.
If taxes are imposed on the wealth produced, it will inevitably lead to rising prices. The wool always comes from the sheep, and the Tang Dynasty has not yet reached this level.
But how to ensure that stamp duty is implemented is to establish a tax bureau. Everyone has heard of this, but no one knows the specific details.
The only power of the Taxation Bureau is to investigate tax evasion, but they only have the right to investigate and do not have any law enforcement power. This judicial power is still in the hands of the Censorate, the Ministry of Justice, the Dali Temple, and the Civil Security Bureau.
This also requires limiting the tax bureau's power to be too great and to restrict each other, because the law must not be concentrated in one person's hands and must be checked and balanced, so that the law will be more just. To be absolutely fair, it is bullshit and impossible to do it.
But there is no saying how the tax bureau investigates and how it investigates, whether it is annual or six months.
But at the same time, a very strict tax bill was promulgated, at least five times the fine, up to a maximum of one hundred times the fine. The more you evade taxes, the higher the multiple of the fine. This is the solution that Di Renjie thought of. In fact, it is still to protect the rights and interests of the people. Whoever steals the tax is not ashamed or embarrassed, if they want to evade taxes, they will have to at least dozens of monies or hundreds of monies, and then the fine will be broken. If the people, even if they evade taxes, there will definitely be not much, and the fine is relatively lighter.
If officials are involved, at least they will be dismissed.
The tax bureau is not under the jurisdiction of local prefectures and counties, and only obeys the central government. Local officials have no connection with them. In terms of power, both parties are on the same level.
In addition to fines, credit ratings are also issued, which are directly printed on household registration. From the beginning of the new policy, household registration will become very important. If you do not have a household registration, then your life is not protected except for the law. No labor bills or education have anything to do with you. Not to mention the imperial examination, you do not even have the right to possess the land. Because you do not have a household registration, you cannot pay taxes. If you do not pay taxes, the court can only protect your life for humanity.
There are five levels, the lowest level, and there is no qualification to make a contract. The court does not protect the contract made by such a person. Whoever wants to sign a contract with them will bear all the consequences themselves. Even if you want to pay stamp duty, the court will not allow it. These people are not qualified to participate in any matters related to the court.
It will take three years to restore one level.
Of course, this verbal lying is not within the scope of credit, and it must violate the sacred gentleman contract, and the credit rating will be affected.
The rule of law here is very important.
This leads to the household registration problem, and the household registration must be changed. The court stipulated that within three years, all the people in the Central Plains would have to change their household registration. This actually gave those who had hidden their household registration in the past to evade taxes and had a chance to reform themselves. They would not settle the previous accounts for you, and everyone would do it again.
The meaning of this series of bills is very obvious. You can evade taxes, as long as you don’t get caught, you’re waiting for a huge fine if you catch them.
It is also stipulated that the tax rate will be renegotiated once every five years, which is also convenient for the court's macro-control. In fact, many bills in the new policy have not yet been determined, so everyone can still discuss it. Because the court advocates credit, then first of all, the court itself cannot go back on its word casually, but how could the court limit itself to death? If it is renegotiated once every five years, the initiative will always be in the hands of the court. No matter what, the court will only endure for five years. After five years, there will be gratitude and revenge.
This is still as expected by everyone, but when everyone hears these punishments, it is a bit scary and too ruthless, but it is still within acceptable range. The most explosive news in the new policy is that the emperor takes the lead in paying taxes.
No matter which dynasty, Li Zhi must have been the first emperor to pay taxes.
In other words, if the emperor pays taxes, who can be exempted from taxes?
In other words, all the lands have to pay taxes. After the new policy is promulgated, there will be no tax-free households, and even the fief system of the royal family has changed accordingly.
During the Zhou Dynasty, those princes had fiefs, which meant that they each had an army. In the Tang Dynasty, the prince had only economic control over fief. The upper limit of the princes of the Tang Dynasty was one thousand households, which means that the taxes for these thousand households belonged to the princes, and they were paid to them as wages. However, the prince sent people to collect taxes themselves. Of course, there would be oppression among them. Some people had more than one thousand households. But now, it can basically be said that the fief system was abolished, which was paid to the princes entirely as wages, and the state collected taxes, and then they were paid to those princes. The prince did not have the power to collect taxes, but they would give them as much as they should.
I don’t know that all the land occupied by this prince will be taxed.
It also includes military households.
However, in other aspects, the court gave military households various benefits, and determined the amount of benefits based on the number of military households going on a war and military merits. However, it was not a money. The court had no money, mainly education, loans, and medicine, and there were certain benefits, but not much. Military households did not have to pay interest on small loans from financial banks and Yuanchangs.
Moreover, soldiers who have made military achievements will benefit the New Year, which is equivalent to calculating the accounts, and military households will benefit from it.
At this point, Li Ji and the others have been promoting it.
In addition to the emperor, there is also a group of people who are also required to pay taxes for the first time, which are Buddhist and Taoist sects.
This is the first time Buddhism has been required to pay taxes since it entered the Central Plains.
In addition, the new policy also includes the Labor Act, which means that after the new policy is promulgated, the Labor Act will be implemented nationwide. This is also closely related to stamp duty. A monthly salary of 300 cents is the most basic. It is illegal to lower than this. However, workers also have to pay taxes, with a minimum of 4 cents of taxes. The higher the salary, the more tax they pay. This is determined according to the employment contract signed by both parties, but the nature of stamp duty is borne by both parties. Only the land and slaves are borne by the buyer. In other words, the employer has to help workers pay half of the tax. This is actually not much, but it is much lower than the rent-in-one regime.
Because merchants do not need to pay personal income tax, it is difficult to investigate. Han Yi put the tax paid by merchants in other aspects, but merchants are still happier than landlords.
In addition, in Chang'an, Luoyang, Yangzhou, Muzhou, Laizhou, Qingzhou, and other cities with rapid commercial development, most of the stamp duty must be paid to the court. Even the stamping method is different from other prefectures and counties. For example, in those poor prefectures and counties, the government can stamp the seal and no other procedures are required. The money earned by merchants in the contract is treated as subsidies for the government and does not need to be paid to the court.
In those cities with developed commercial cities, there must be a lot of stamp duty, and of course they cannot be given all of them to the government, which has some supervision and restrictions.
First of all, these places use special seals, pigments, and decals given by the central government. Decals must be used for large-scale contracts. This decal is specially produced by the central government and is made by the secret recipe in the palace. However, it is not the government responsible for the sale, but the gold and Yuanxing are responsible for the sale. In other words, there is no need to go to the government, just go to the gold and Yuanxing to buy it directly. The gold and Yuanxing cannot make money from it, because the money you pay must match the amount of the decals used. This part of the tax is directly paid through the gold and Yuanxing and Yuanxing. Economically developed cities must have gold and Yuanxing.
To help the court do these things, both the Jinzhan and Yuanzhan do not charge any money, including the government bonds issued earlier, which is exchanged for the court's policy support for the Jinzhan and Yuanzhan. This is actually a transaction. Jinzhan and Yuanzhan do not need to pay stamp duty, but the court admits that all contracts they signed with the people are protected by the law. If the Jinzhan breaches the contract, you can go to the government to sue the Jinzhan and there is no need for stamps.
If we look at the final explanation of stamp duty, the people go to the gold bank, the Yuan bank to store and borrow, which are all contractual relationships and have to pay stamp duty. But the problem is that if the people deposit and withdraw money once, they have to pay stamp duty once. The Yuan bank can't stand this gold bank, and the people can't stand it either.
Finally, there are two additional policies. These two have little to do with stamp duty, but they are very important and closely related to everyone's life. The court clearly stated that it would take out 10% of the taxes to popularize education. This is just the expenditure of the treasury. There are also many policies related to popularizing education. For example, when the scale of the workshop reaches a certain level, it must have a college. If the college is not built, it must be closed.
The same is true for cities. Economically developed cities must also have a certain number of colleges. The more developed cities, the more stamp duty income it will have, which needs to be used for the people.
As for the second additional policy, it is proposed by Li Hong to reduce the joint position of soldiers, as appropriate, and to pardon family members who were previously implicated because of soldiers' escape from service.
Although this suggestion was proposed by the prince, Li Zhi knew about it and was very pleased. He also sent someone to tell Han Yi and the others that he must state that this was proposed by the prince and had nothing to do with you.
Chapter completed!