Li Botang knew very well: It was already past eight o'clock in the morning, and it was impossible for a division-level cadre like Shi Yueyun to turn off his cell phone at this time. If his cell phone was turned off, it would probably be a confirmation of his initial hunch. : Something has happened to him.
In order to further verify his judgment, Li Botang suppressed panic and fear and called the landline number of Shi Yueyun's office, but no one answered either.
Next, like crazy, Li Botang called Guo Yu, the chief of the third taxation section of the Municipal Local Taxation Bureau, Zhan Peng, the deputy chief, and Zhang Dongfang, the chief of the collection management section. However, their mobile phones were all the same as Shi Yueyun's. Otherwise, The phone is turned off or cannot be connected, and their office phone is never answered.
At this point, Li Botang finally sadly determined that several leaders in the local tax system who were related to his company had been eliminated in one go. Once these people confessed, all of his company's illegal tax-related activities would be exposed. , especially the use of false information to defraud tax exemptions in the past two years, must be the focus of Li Runji's investigation, and it is also the main basis for them to arrest themselves and Li Zhi.
It was only then that Li Botang felt tremendous panic and pressure, and cold sweat flowed down his face.
He knew very well: in the past two years, the company had defrauded a total of more than 90 million yuan in tax reductions and exemptions. In addition, it had also evaded more than 20 million yuan in personal income tax, business tax, and corporate income tax in other ways. The total tax evasion and fraud was The amount is nearly 120 million.
Li Botang has studied tax policies and the Tax Collection and Administration Law, and has also studied the penalties in criminal law for evading tax payment and tax fraud with false information. He knows that for the above two crimes, he will definitely be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment, because the second sentence of the Criminal Law Article 101 stipulates: “If a taxpayer uses deception or concealment to make a false tax return or fails to file a tax return, and evades the payment of a relatively large amount of tax that accounts for more than 10% of the tax payable, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention. and shall also be fined; if the amount is huge and accounts for more than 30% of the tax payable, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years, and shall also be fined."
According to the current amount of tax evaded and defrauded by Zhenxing Company, it can be said that the amount is "extremely huge." It can be sentenced according to the maximum penalty stipulated in the criminal law, which is seven years in prison, and the company will also face a huge fine. and fines. When the time comes, he and Li Zhi will definitely go to jail, and the company will definitely go bankrupt due to the huge fines and fines...
Li Botang shuddered at the thought of such consequences. He held the phone in his hand and was stunned for a while. Suddenly he stood up and said to Li Zhi: "Let's go to China Construction Bank and ICBC now. First, transfer the cash in the account, and then, You go buy a ticket to Canada, and we’ll hide out for a while first.”
Li Zhi agreed, followed him out of the chairman's office, went downstairs to the corridor on the first floor, and saw several unfamiliar policemen standing in the corridor, reaching out to block their way out.
One of the policemen took out his ID and handed it to Li Botang and said to him: "Li Botang, we are from the Tax Investigation Team of the County Public Security Bureau. Because Zhenxing Company is suspected of a major tax evasion case, in order to prevent you from transferring funds and fleeing, we have been ordered to investigate you and Li Botang." Li Zhi will conduct surveillance. Please go back to the office. People from the Local Taxation Bureau will sort out the information and evidence of your company's tax evasion in a moment and send it to the company. At that time, you and Li Zhi will be asked to go through the relevant procedures, so , you and Li Zhi can't leave this building now, and you can't make calls to the outside world. Now, please hand over your mobile phones."
Li Botang knew that the relevant procedures he was talking about were to seize the company's bank deposits and other assets, and to arrest himself and Li Zhi. Get over it.
After finally controlling his emotions, Li Botang looked at the certificate carefully and saw that the name on it was "Ouyang Song" and his position was "Deputy Captain of the Tax Investigation Brigade", so he raised his head and glanced at the other person, forcefully Pretending to be calm, the tax collector said: "Captain Ouyang, do you know my identity? I am a deputy to the Provincial People's Congress, and you are a law enforcer. You should have learned the relevant laws: If the judicial organs want to take compulsory measures such as restricting personal freedoms against deputies of the People's Congress at all levels, they must With the approval of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress at the same level, you are now restricting my personal freedom and not allowing me to leave my office building. Have you obtained the approval of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress?"
Ouyang Song smiled disdainfully and said: "Li Botang, don't scare me with your name as a Provincial People's Congress representative. The legal provisions you just mentioned are not bad at all, but there is another one in it: if the National People's Congress representative is For current crimes, the judicial organs can detain you first and then report to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in accordance with the law. Your tax evasion crime is an active crime that has just been discovered. We can detain you first and then report to the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress for approval. So, you can Don't show me your reputation as a National People's Congress representative, just stay in the office."
Li Botang originally wanted to go out and transfer the bank deposits first as a representative of the National People's Congress. Unexpectedly, Ouyang Song didn't buy it. He knew that they must have come prepared and it would be useless to say more, so he stopped saying anything. Li Zhi shouted: "Let's go up first and see what they can do to us."
Ouyang Song was worried that Li Botang and Li Zhi would use the office phone to make some conspiracy, so he waved to his subordinates and said, "Come up with me and go to Mr. Li's office to sit for a while."
In this way, Li Botang and Li Zhi were actually placed under house arrest.
Around 11:30 p.m., several vehicles from the Zhenxing Company suddenly arrived, including two police cars.
The cars stopped in the company's parking lot, and a few police officers got out of the cars, as well as several cadres in tax uniforms.
These people came to Li Botang's office together and showed their IDs to Li Botang. It turned out that these people in tax uniforms were members of the inspection team of the Provincial Local Taxation Bureau, and the people in public security uniforms were members of the tax investigation team of the county public security bureau. of.
After introducing his identity, the head of the Provincial Local Taxation Bureau’s inspection team first read out the “Tax Treatment Decision” and “Tax Administrative Penalty Decision” to Li Botang. In these two documents, the Provincial Local Taxation Bureau’s Inspection Bureau determined that Zhenxing Within three years, the company evaded corporate income tax, personal income tax, business tax and surcharges totaling more than 135 million yuan by creating false tax exemption materials and making false declarations. According to the relevant provisions of the Tax Collection and Administration Law , decided to recover the taxes and late fees evaded by the company, and impose a fine four times the amount of taxes evaded. The fine amount was more than 550 million yuan. The total taxes, late fees and fines, Zhenxing Company should pay more than 680 million yuan. Yuan.