After hearing this, Ah Hua also carefully put away the business certificate.
Twenty coins is not a small amount of money for him.
Ah Hua doesn’t want to spend twenty dollars in vain!
Seeing Ah Hua put away the business license, the staff on the side also told Ah Hua: "With this business license, you can carry out commercial activities in all the state capitals of the Ming Dynasty."
"But remember, if you don't pay business taxes on time, your business license will be revoked."
"Once the business license is revoked, it will be difficult to apply for it again!"
What? Revoked?
Ah Hua was shocked when he heard this. He quickly pulled a staff member from the Household Department aside and asked, "How should I pay this business tax?"
When the staff heard this, they also patiently explained to Ahua: "This tax payment is the same as the business tax you paid before."
"Just go to the Yamen where your household registration is located, and then give the business certificate to the Yamen, and the Yamen people will automatically help you get it."
"This business tax is tentatively scheduled to be paid on the first day of every month."
"In the first year now, due to the shortage of manpower in the yamen, your sales figures need to be filled in by yourself."
"But you must not use your crooked brains and fill in the transaction amount less!"
"If the government discovers that you deliberately underreported your transaction amount, the government has the right to revoke your business license."
"At that time, you will have to pay a large amount of money again before you have the opportunity to apply for the business license again!"
This was also Hu Changan's helpless move.
When commercial taxes first started to be collected, the Ministry of Household Affairs really did not have that many officials to collect taxes.
There are tens of thousands of merchants in Yingtian City. If they check taxes one by one, the people in the Household Department will die from exhaustion.
Therefore, Hu Changan had no choice but to settle for the next best thing.
In the first year, these small merchants will be allowed to report their sales on their own.
When the manpower is sufficient later, we will slowly begin to verify the sales reported by these small merchants.
Anyway, the sales of these small merchants are not much, so it is not a big problem for them to escape a little business tax.
Being able to collect some business tax is better than not being able to collect it at all.
When Ah Hua heard this, he was also shocked.
He doesn't want to have his license revoked and pay a large fine!
The next day is the first day of junior high school.
On this day, Ahua arrived at the county government office where his household registration was located on time, preparing to pay business tax.
At this time, many people had gathered at the gate of the county government office.
When I inquired about it, I found out that these people were here to pay business taxes.
Now that commercial tax has just been implemented, no one wants to be the one who doesn’t pay commercial tax.
Ah Hua stood in the crowd, lining up silently.
Soon, it was Ah Hua's turn to pay taxes.
When the staff saw Ah Hua, they also asked in a formal manner: "What is your approximate sales this month?"
When Ah Hua heard this, he replied honestly: "I sold about three taels of silver worth of goods this month."
Standing there, Ah Hua waited anxiously for the trial by the staff.
According to rumors, the commercial tax has increased a lot this time!
With the amount of money that Ah Hua earns, it is enough to survive just from hand to mouth.
If the business tax increases again, Ahua will no longer be able to afford the life of his family.
Fortunately, the staff quickly gave Ah Hua's reply: "Then just pay 100 cultural business tax this month."
When Ah Hua heard this, he was also greatly relieved.
100 copper coins, this is a number that Ahua can afford.
Even this is much less than the business tax that Ahua paid before!
Ahua happily handed over the copper coins and waited for the staff to register.
While waiting, Ahua thought for a while, and finally asked the staff out of curiosity: "Brother, I heard from the gossip that the business tax has increased. Is this true?"
“Why is it that my business tax payment is not only not more, but also less?”
When the staff member heard this, he also smiled and said jokingly: "Why, less is not good. Do you want to make more friends?"
"The tax increase is specifically targeted at those big businessmen."
"Small merchants with monthly sales of less than ten taels of silver will be levied a unified commercial tax of one-thirtieth."
"Merchant whose monthly sales are between ten taels and one hundred taels of silver will be levied a unified commercial tax of one-twentieth."
"And merchants with monthly sales of more than one hundred taels of silver will be levied a one-tenth commercial tax."
"For small businesses like you, the business tax you pay will not be much more."
"But for those big merchants, it's completely different."
"It is said that they might have only paid a dozen taels of silver a month, but now they have to pay hundreds of taels of silver a month!"
When Ah Hua heard this, he also breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, this policy makes no difference at all to small merchants like them.
However, this policy is very bad for those large merchants.
Wang's Cloth Shop is the largest cloth shop in Yingtian City.
The owner Wang Qing's heart was bleeding as he looked at the newly handed in accounts from the cashier below.
Originally, he only had to pay business tax of ten taels a month.
Good thing now, he has to pay three hundred taels of silver in business taxes to the court every month!
Although three hundred taels of silver was nothing to Wang Qing, Wang Qing was still very hurt.
With these three hundred taels of silver, he can go to a brothel to hire a top-notch girl.
Wang Qing thought for a while and ordered the accountant: "When you pay the business tax later, you can say that the sales volume of our cloth shop is one hundred taels of silver."
What? One hundred taels of silver?
When the accountant heard this, he was stunned.
It took a long time for the accountant to react and hesitantly said to Wang Qing: "Mr. Wang, this... I'm afraid this is inappropriate."
"How can a cloth shop as big as ours only sell one hundred taels of silver a month?"
"This...no one would believe this."
"What should I do if the government investigates me in the future?"
"It is said that if the business license is revoked, you will be fined a lot of money!"
However, when Wang Qing heard this, he didn't take it seriously: "What are you afraid of? I think in this government, it is one day and one day tomorrow."
"This business license was probably thought up by someone from the government."
"If you ask me, the business license policy will not last long at all."
"In this case, what if we lied a little about our income in the early stage? Anyway, the government doesn't want us short of this little money."
"What's more, Mr. Wang from the household department is my cousin."
"If I go and tell Mr. Wang, the officials from the Ministry of Revenue will definitely sell me a favor."
“It’s no big deal if you pay less tax.”
The accountant was a little uneasy when he heard this.
If such blatant tax evasion is discovered by the government, it will be over!
But no matter what, the accountant is just a small soldier after all, and he can't trouble the boss Wang Qing.