Northern Song Dynasty Justice

After leaving the meeting room, a biting cold wind rushed towards her face. Xu Zhiqian couldn't help raising her hand to shield her face. Suddenly, she felt a burst of warmth enveloping her. .”

Zhang Fei smiled and said, "So what."

Knowing his temperament, Xu Zhiqian didn't say any more, but changed the subject and said, "Actually, you have already thought about this, right?"

Zhang Fei asked: "What?"

Xu Zhiqian said: "It was just Cai Jing's suggestion."

Zhang Fei smiled and nodded, walked towards the backyard with her arms around her, and said: "In fact, our judiciary is relatively passive, and there are too many unreasonable things in the original system. But the judiciary has no right to interfere with the administration, which leads to many things that we are powerless to do.

For example, in the last case about the purchase tax, if the government defended it seriously, the Legal Aid Department may not win, because in many cases, the tax collection is biased towards the government. "

Xu Zhiqian nodded lightly and said: "No wonder you said before that the tax department is not available, so many issues cannot be discussed."

Zhang Fei smiled and said: "That's exactly the reason. Now that the tax department is here, as long as there is a change in the tax collection method, then our imperial court can address this change, intervene in it, and then establish a new principle."

Xu Zhiqian said: "The first offender is exempt from punishment, so you can intervene?"

Zhang Fei said with a chuckle: "This is just a warm-up, the best show will come later."

When he was in the capital, it was Xu Zhiqian who acted as Zhang Fei's shooter. Basically, the articles Zhang Fei published in the genuine bookstore were ghostwritten by Xu Zhiqian, but after coming to Hezhong Mansion, this changed. Notices and articles were almost all written by Cai Jing.

I also have to admit that among the Four Little King Kong, Cai Jing has the best literary talents. After all, the imperial court and the genuine bookstore are not the same concept.

And that Cai Jing has also studied the writing style of newspapers and periodicals. He can use a smooth writing style to write the kind of easy-to-understand articles that Zhang Fei wants.

Perhaps, this is talent!
Not only that, Cai Jing is also very good at trying to figure out what other people are thinking. Zhang Fei only needs to explain one sentence, and he is very clear about what Zhang Fei wants to express.

Soon, the second issue of the French Journal will be released.

The content of this issue is very clear, because the independent declaration of the tax department is different from the previous traditional tax collection, there may be some problems in it, and these problems include some unintentional tax evasion behaviors , based on these problems, the imperial court will exempt the first offender from the penalty, and only give a fine as punishment as appropriate.

This is actually not a big problem, it can be said that it is reasonable.

Although I have done self-declaration before, it was only a very rudimentary one. I just took the land deed to pay the tax, and the police station didn't take much care of it.

But this time it is for all types of taxes, but according to the "Song Xingtong", the punishment for tax evasion is very serious, so it is very reasonable to forgive it once.

But among the people, it caused a great sensation.

You must know that when everyone learns that the Taxation Secretary has come to Hezhong Mansion, the person who fears the Taxation Secretary the most is not the landlord, but the common people. Smarter people will not hate the rich at this time. They will think that this tax bureau is so cruel to the landlords, much more vicious than the previous tax collectors, then we are just fish on the chopping board and can only suffer. slaughter.

However, this issue of Fa Bao suddenly made the people think, yes, there is still the imperial court here who can make decisions for us.

Times have changed.

You must know that not long ago, the imperial court helped many people to seek justice from the government's rush to buy taxes. Of course, they didn't know that this was actually the tax department's voluntary resignation, not that the government really gave in.

But at least on the surface, the court's verdict is beyond doubt.

Although this is only a small change in punishment, it has a soothing effect.

However, this can only appease the people, but it cannot appease the big landlords and squires. They are not very afraid that they will be bullied by the tax department, but they are very worried that their money will be taken away by the tax department. The reason is that they are big tax evaders.

And they don't plan to pay taxes truthfully!

Liang Youyi, who had been struggling with the government a few days ago, came to Wei Mansion today on behalf of some big gentry and rich men to discuss countermeasures with Wei Yingfang, Cao Yi and the others.

In their hearts, they think that they should not pay taxes, but we are official officials, and the court should allocate money to us instead of making us pay taxes!
The key is that we also bear the responsibility for rural stability.

"According to the current information, the tax department will combine all taxes into one tax, but how to implement it is not clear yet."

Wei Yingfang shook his head and sighed.

In the past, when they fought against the imperial court, it was quite roundabout, they were just fighting in secret, and winning or losing won't affect them personally for the time being, but this time it's different, the fire is directly on their heads, and they are also very nervous now ah!

Liang Youyi said curiously: "Whether it is two taxes or one tax, these old men don't care, but as far as I know, we all have to pay taxes."

Wei Yingfang nodded and said, "It should be. The tax department has already told us that we will receive a tax bill."

"Why?"

Liang Youyi said: "Shouldn't the tax department only collect taxes? Could it be that they can formulate tax laws?"

The implication is that they can formulate tax laws, so what is the use of your government?

Wei Yingfang sighed: "About this point, we also protested to the tax department, but the problem lies in the combined tax."

Liang Youyi asked in surprise, "How do you say that?"

Cao Yi on the side hurriedly explained: "Mr. Liang should know that the arrival of the tax department also brought the tax exemption law."

Liang Youyi's expression changed, "Of course this old man knows, this old man strongly opposes this immunity law."

"It's useless to object, it's already been decided. And."

Cao Yi sighed, and said: "Because of the lawsuit against the Qingmiao Law last time, the imperial court has sent Han Sishi to Hezhong Mansion. On the one hand, Han Sishi supports the new law, but on the other hand, he is here to deal with the public prosecutor's law. If we If we oppose the immunity law now, then will Han Sishi still decide for us?"

Their current situation is very embarrassing. Their original plan was to let the new law and the judicial reform kill each other. The officials and the gentry each supported one faction, and then fought the fire from below.

This is a very common method in officialdom.

Based on this plan, these officials apparently want to support the new law, and they dare not complain about the immunity law now.

After all, they still have to rely on Han Jiang to fight against the public prosecutor's law!

Liang Youyi hurriedly said: "Compared with the new law, the Public Prosecution Law is even more abominable. We have to deal with the Public Prosecution Law first, so the new law is nothing to worry about."

He really hated Zhang Fei, and the biggest loss of face in his life was thanks to Zhang Fei. The two evils are the lesser, so he hurried to appease these officials, and we still put the overall situation first, you guys Don't oppose the immunity law, so as not to spoil the big event.

Cao Yidao: "If you don't object to the exemption law, then this combined tax will have a big problem."

Liang Youyi became more and more confused the more he listened, "What's going on?"

Cao Yidao: "Because according to the exemption tax in the exemption law, everyone needs to pay, including our officials, monks, Taoist priests, etc. If the tax department combines all the taxes into one tax, it will become a tax for everyone. have to pay taxes."

Liang Youyi thought for a while, "That's just tax exemption!"

Wei Yingfang said: "Old Mr. Liang, don't you understand that when all taxes are integrated, these regulations will also apply to all taxes."

Liang Youyi said: "Then you didn't object?"

"How to object?"

Wei Yingfang yelled: "Mr. Liang, don't forget that those lands used to be taxed, but those people used various means to avoid this tax, and the government didn't find out. But now, those means are not easy to use. .”

Liang Youyi hurriedly asked, "How do you say that?"

Wei Yingfang said: "For example, many big landlords entrust their land in the name of the temple and use the temple's tax exemption right to evade taxation. But now, the temple also has to pay tax, and according to the exemption tax, the more land there is, the more money you can pay. The more, the more land the temple owns, even if part of the tax is exempted, the tax paid is still very large.”

Liang Youyi blinked, realizing the seriousness of the problem.

In fact, their tax-free privileges are all limited. No matter how big the official is, how many mu of land is exempt from tax, and the rest of the land is also subject to tax, but temples and Taoist temples do not need to pay tax, but now they are combined into one tax. This way of avoiding, Naturally it fails.

"What now?"

Liang Youyi was already in a daze. This was so complicated that he was a little confused.

Wei Yingfang suddenly frowned: "The tax department has decided to combine all taxes into one tax, and then adopt the method of self-declaration, or let's take a gamble that the tax department will not be able to find out. Once the tax department fails to collect taxes, That would cause a lot of problems, and we could use that to impeach the tax secretary."

Cao Yi frowned and said, "Some people have tried to do this in the capital, but they were all punished with bankruptcy, and even their families were ruined. Who would dare to gamble like this."

Wei Yingfang said: "The imperial court has just issued a decree on this to exempt the first offender from the penalty, that is, to fine some money. I think it is worthwhile to spend this money."

Liang Youyi also said: "If it's just a fine, it doesn't matter. To be honest, I don't believe that the tax department has such a great ability to clear all tax investigations."

Cao Yi shook his head and said, "It's not that simple. My elder brother wrote to me early in the morning, saying that the rich and powerful in the capital are not focusing on tax evasion, but on illegal income, such as selling private salt. The tax department only cares about money, regardless of you. Where the money comes from, they have to pay taxes, and they can investigate the illegal income.

The imperial court only exempted the first criminal of tax evasion, but did not exempt the penalty for illegal activities. Unless everyone's income is clean, otherwise, the consequences of such a gamble may still be very serious. "

Liang Youyi said: "This doesn't work, that doesn't work either, so what should I do?"

Cao Yi mused: "Conceal or lie, this may not work. If we can't stop the tax department, we can only use the imperial court to evade taxes."

"Through the imperial court?"

Liang Youyi looked at Cao Yi in shock.

Cao Yi nodded and said: "According to my elder brother, the tax department has no jurisdiction. Whether it is tax evasion or not, we have to go to court, but the imperial court can only make a judgment according to the law. As long as we do not break the law, the tax department has nothing to do with us."

Wei Yingfang asked curiously, "How can it not break the law?"

"Return to zero."

Cao Yidao: "According to the regulations of the tax department, the more income, the higher the tax. As long as I distribute the land and everyone owns a small amount of land, then there is no need to pay too much tax."

Liang Youyi nodded and said, "This is a way."

There are countless servants under their command, and it is still very simple to call some people to fill the number.

Wei Yingfang said: "But it's just the agricultural tax, how about the commercial tax income?"

Cao Yi said with a smile: "We can also follow the gourd and give more money to our subordinates. Wouldn't our income be a little less? After the investigation is over, we will collect the money privately. No matter how powerful the tax department is, it will not It might be clear."

Wei Yingfang nodded thoughtfully.

In fact, they also had to find ways to evade taxes in the past, but they were in charge before, and they are not in charge now.

There are really policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom, especially when it comes to taxation. Tax evasion is simply a human nature, especially if it is narrowed down to a certain person, because the individual cannot personally feel the benefits of paying taxes, even if the person in front of your door The roads are wide and big, and you won't think of taxes, it's better to buy an ice cream.

Not to mention the rich, because they will only have to pay more taxes.

From ancient times to the present, in terms of taxation, the government and the people have always been in the game, and it has never stopped.

Neither the imperial court nor the tax department had any extravagant expectations. Just relying on their arrogance or rumors, these people would pay taxes honestly. This is destined to be a game that cannot be cultivated.

What Wei Yingfang and the others didn't expect was that the tax department had already infiltrated the Hezhong Mansion, and their tax avoidance methods were quickly learned by Dagou and the others.

Of course, Wei Yingfang and the others did not say that they wanted to conceal this tax avoidance law. They relied on the public security law to do so. You know it doesn’t matter. As far as the law is concerned, I am not breaking the law. In temples and Taoist temples, everyone knows that.

royal court.

"Chairman Zhang, come to me, what's the matter?"

Chen Ming asked.

Zhang Fei said: "I just heard the news that many big landowners are planning to divide their land into pieces in order to evade the tax department's new tax system."

Chen Ming nodded and said, "I've heard about this too."

Zhang Fei asked: "Then I don't know how the tax department plans to deal with it?"

Chen Ming said meticulously: "If they do this, it will only leave us evidence of tax inspection, because this method needs to rely on a large number of household registrations to allocate land, and we also know that they have many domestic slaves, but our tax department Those people can be lured to report their masters with huge bonuses and the power to protect witnesses."

Zhang Fei was stunned for a moment, then asked with a smile: "It seems that you already have experience in this field."

Chen Ming nodded and said: "The tax department of the capital city has already tried to buy those slaves and get the specific number of acres of land from those big landlords. With the assistance of our tax department, break away from the master-servant relationship with the head of the family."

Zhang Fei nodded with a smile, "This is just a killer move hidden until the end, but at this stage, we can give some responses in other ways."

Chen Ming looked at Zhang Fei suspiciously.

Zhang Fei said: "The tax department is going to check the tax, and witnesses are of course the key, but the certificate is also indispensable, and the tax certificate lies in the contract. At present, there are a lot of white deeds (contracts without deed tax) in Hezhong Mansion. These white deeds It is very difficult to pursue the taxation of the deed. But in terms of justice, our imperial court must recognize the legal effect of the white deed, because it is a contract after all, so I hope the tax department will initiate a lawsuit to the imperial court, saying that the white deed is not due to tax evasion. have the force of law.”

Chen Ming thought for a moment, "Then the imperial court will use this as an excuse to declare the white contract invalid?"

"If it was that simple, I wouldn't have specially asked the tax envoy to come over."

Zhang Fei smiled and said: "According to the law, the deed tax is four out of a hundred, but before the government collected a lot of handling fees, people went to the government to handle the deed tax, and they had to pay almost 12.00% of the deed tax, which was three times the regulation.

I have encountered this before in the capital, and the local landlords also use the government to collect taxes indiscriminately to justify their evasion of the deed tax.So I believe that as long as the Tax Department files a lawsuit, the rich man in Hezhong Mansion will do the same, and our imperial court can take this opportunity to solve this problem. "

Chen Ming stroked his thick goatee and said, "Then the imperial court will ask our tax department to collect deed tax according to law?"

Zhang Fei smiled and nodded, "Your tax department only needs to buy those key witnesses, not people's hearts, because the tax department is the job of offending people, so we need our imperial court to help you avoid public grievances. Therefore, our imperial court It is necessary to buy people's hearts so that the people think that our imperial court can prevent them from being exploited by the tax department.

Therefore, at that time, I will make the best use of the situation and ask the tax department not to charge any miscellaneous fees. At the same time, I also ask the tax department that within the next year, no matter whether it is a new land transaction or a repayment of deed tax, the white deed will be replaced by the red deed. [-]% deed tax.In this way, there is no reason for them not to pay the deed tax. As far as the finance is concerned, this is an extra wealth after all. "

Chen Mingdao: "But those big landlords just need to be broken up into parts. During this period, there will be a lot of land transactions. Only charge them a [-]% deed tax. Will it be too cheap for them?"

Zhang Fei said with a smile: "I guess those people have never thought about paying the deed tax at all. The [-]% will already make them very uncomfortable, and they may even reconsider the feasibility of this plan. If they want to do this, they will be charged here first." Part of the money, when the time comes to check, they will be fined another sum, so that they will lose their wives and lose their soldiers."

Chen Ming nodded and said, "I know what to do."

Before he came, Zhao Xu had told him that he only had to carry out the plan. In terms of planning, Zhang Fei was the main one. In fact, it was the same in the capital.

It is similar to the Privy Council and the Sanya, which separate the general administration and military orders. In this way, the tax department is always controlled by the emperor.

Whatever Zhang Fei said, Chen Ming would do, and there was no need to ask too many questions. After returning home, the tax department immediately hired Lu Bangxing to appeal to the imperial court, saying that Bai Qi evaded taxes and seriously hindered the tax department from collecting taxes, and asked the imperial court to refuse. Recognize all legal effects of the Bai Qi.

As soon as this news came out, whoever was most anxious was those bosses who opened Jiejie Kupu!
In the past, the government had political laws, and the people obeyed the private contract. The white contract was recognized by the people, but the emergence of the public security law is gradually breaking this principle, especially the emergence of civil lawsuits, which seriously interferes with this principle. If the imperial court refuses to recognize it If so, the people take the white deed as collateral, whether Jiekupu will accept it or not, and whether they can trade in the future after accepting it, the risk is too great.

Now that I come to the door to collect debts, if there is a conflict, the other party will go to the imperial court to sue.

This will directly affect a large number of land and housing transactions.

Moreover, there are a large number of white deeds among the people, which do not have legal effect. Does this mean that this land does not belong to me?

These are really three fires for new officials to take office.

Faced with the strength of the tax department, many people were not happy at all, so they immediately encouraged some people to sue the government for overcharging the deed tax. It's not that we don't want to pay, but that the government charges three or four times the deed tax.

In this way, the contradictions were concentrated in the imperial court.

Although the government is trying to marginalize the imperial court, let's not go to the imperial court to make trouble, because as long as we go to the imperial court, the imperial court will be the master, and the power of the imperial court will be asserted.

But with the emergence of the tax department, they need to rely on the imperial court, because in comparison, the imperial court still has to speak the law, and the tax department is a beast, and only recognizes money in its eyes.