Judge of the Song Dynasty Chapter 609: If there is no lawsuit, there will be a lawsuit

Getting out of the meeting room, a biting cold wind rushed towards him, Xu Zhiqian couldn't help but raised his hand to shield his face, suddenly felt a warm embrace around him, couldn't help but look at Zhang Fei coquettishly, twitched a little, "This is in the official office."

Zhang Fei smiled and said, "So what."

Xu Zhiqian knew his temperament, so she 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 nodded with a smile, walked towards the backyard with his arms around her, and said: "Actually, our judiciary is relatively passive, and in the original system, there are too many unreasonable things." places, 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 case of the purchase tax last time, if the government defended it seriously, the Legal Aid Department may not win, because in many cases, it is biased towards the government to collect taxes. "

Xu Zhiqian nodded lightly and said: "No wonder you said before that the tax department is not available, and 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 fun will come later."

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When I 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 happened. After the change, the notices and articles published by the imperial court were almost all written by Cai Jing.

I also have to admit that among the Four King Kongs, 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 magazines. 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 say one sentence, and he knows exactly 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 tax department's self-declaration is different from the previous traditional tax collection, there may be some problems, and these problems include some unintentional For tax evasion, based on these problems, the imperial court will exempt the first offender from the penalty, and will only impose a fine as punishment as appropriate.

This is actually not a big problem, and 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 taxes, and the police station didn't take 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 Department has come to Hezhong Mansion, the people who are most afraid of the Taxation Department are not the landlords, but the common people. Ruthless, but any smarter people will not hate the rich at this time. They will think that this tax collector is so cruel to the landlords, much more vicious than the previous tax collectors, then we are just fish on the chopping board. Can only be slaughtered.

However, this issue of the Law News 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 voluntarily giving up, not that the government really gave in.

But at least on the surface, the imperial court's judgment 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 fighting inextricably 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. We are official officials, and the court should allocate money to us instead of asking us to pay taxes!

The key point is that we also bear the responsibility for rural stability.

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

Wei Yingfang shook his head and sighed.

In the past, when they fought against the imperial court, they were quite roundabout, and they were just fighting in secret, and winning or losing would not affect them personally for the time being, but this time it was different. The fire was directly on their heads. Also very anxious!

Liang Youyi curiously said: "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 hastily 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, this has 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 Prosecution , if we oppose the immunity law now, will Han Sishi still decide for us?"

They are in a very embarrassing situation now. Their original plan was to let the new law and the judicial reform fight each other. The officials and the gentry each supported one faction, and then they fought against each other.

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 have to rely on Han Jiang to fight against the public prosecutor!

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 hates Zhang Fei. The biggest loss of face in his life was thanks to Zhang Fei. The two evils are the lesser, so he hurriedly appease these officials, and we can still take care of the overall situation. Important, you must not 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 listened more and more, "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 taxes into one tax, it will become Everyone pays taxes."

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

Wei Yingfang Yun said: "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. It's just that those people used various means to evade the tax, and the government didn't find out. But now, those means are not. It works."

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 tax exemption right of the temple to avoid taxation, but now, the temple also has to pay tax, and according to the exemption tax, the more land there is , the more you pay, the more land the temple owns, even if part of the tax is exempted, the tax you pay is still very high.”

Liang Youyi blinked, realizing the seriousness of the problem.

In fact, their tax-free privileges are all limited. How many acres of land are exempt from tax according to the size of the official, 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. The evasion method will naturally fail.

"What now?"

Liang Youyi was already in a daze, it 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 If the tax comes, it will cause many problems, and we can use this as an excuse to impeach the tax department.”

Cao Yi frowned and said: "Some people in the capital have already tried to do this, 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 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 brother wrote 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." , No matter where your money comes from, you have to pay taxes, and they can also investigate those illegal income.

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

Liang Youyi said: "This is not good, and that is not good, so what should I do?"

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

"Pass 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 right to judge, whether it is tax evasion or not, we still have to go to court, and the imperial court can only make a judgment according to the law. method."

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 so many servants under their command, it is still very simple to call some people to make up the number.

Wei Yingfang said: "But this is only the agricultural tax, how about the commercial tax income?"

Cao Yi said with a smile: "You can also follow the gourd and give more money to your subordinates, so our income will be a little less. After the investigation is over, we will collect the money privately. No matter how powerful the tax department is , and it is impossible to find out clearly."

Wei Yingfang nodded thoughtfully.

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

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There are really policies and countermeasures, especially when it comes to taxation. Tax evasion is simply a human nature, especially if it is narrowed down to a certain person, because individuals cannot personally feel the benefits of paying taxes, even if you The road in front of the door is 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 a game, and it has never stopped.

Neither the imperial court nor the taxation department had any extravagant expectations. Just relying on their arrogance or rumors, these people will 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 Dagou and the others soon learned of their tax avoidance methods.

Of course, Wei Yingfang and the others did not say that they want to hide this tax avoidance law. They do this by relying on the public security law. It is also well known that the fields are sent to temples and Taoist temples.

Imperial Court.

"President Zhang, come to me, what is 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 avoid the new tax system of the tax department."

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 with evidence of tax inspection, because this method needs to rely on a large number of household registrations to distribute the land, and we also know that they have many domestic slaves, but Our tax department can lure those people to report their masters through huge bonuses and the power to protect witnesses."

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

Chen Ming nodded and said: "The tax department in the capital city has already tried to buy those house slaves and get the specific number of acres of those big landlords. This trick is very useful. Not only will the whistleblowers get huge rewards, At the same time, with the assistance of our tax department, we can break away from the master-servant relationship with the head of the family."

Zhang Fei nodded with a smile and said: "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, the witness is the key, but the certificate is also indispensable, and the tax certificate lies in the contract, and currently there are a lot of white deeds (contracts without deed tax) in Hezhong Mansion. , these white deeds are difficult to pursue taxation. But as far as the judiciary is concerned, 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 Tax evasion has no legal effect.”

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

Zhang Fei laughed and said: "According to the law, the deed tax is four out of a hundred, but the government collected a lot of handling fees from it before, and the people went to the government to apply for the deed tax, and they had to pay about 12% of the deed tax. Three times the required amount.

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's job is to offend people, so we need our imperial court to help you avoid public grievances. Therefore, we The imperial court needs to buy people's hearts and let the people think that our imperial court can prevent them from being exploited by the tax department.

So when the time comes, I will make the best use of the situation and ask the tax department not to collect any miscellaneous fees. At the same time, I also ask the tax department to replace the white deed with the red deed within the next year, whether it is a new land transaction or a repayment of deed tax. They only charge a 2% 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 large number of land transactions. Only charging them a 2% deed tax will not 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 two percent will make them very uncomfortable, and they may even reconsider the feasibility of this plan. If they want to do this, here Collect part of their money first, and then fine them a sum when the time comes to check, 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 cared about the implementation, and that Zhang Fei was the main planner, and it was actually the same in the capital.

Similar to the Privy Council and the Three Yamen, the general government and military orders are separated. In this way, the tax department is always controlled by the emperor.

What Zhang Fei said, Chen Ming did, and there was no need to ask too many questions. After returning, the tax department immediately hired Lu Bangxing and appealed to the imperial court, saying that Bai Qi evaded taxes and seriously hindered the tax department from collecting taxes. The imperial court refused to recognize all the legal effects of 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. If the court refuses to admit it, then they take the white deed as collateral, whether Jiekupu will accept it or not, and whether they can trade in the future after accepting it, this is too risky.

Now 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.

Besides, 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?

This is really three fires for new officials to take office.

Facing 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.

As a result, 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 appearance 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.