Chen Ce thought that Qiongshan's industry and commerce was the most developed in Hainan in this time and space, and it developed completely naturally. It was not the same as Lingao's business, which was developed with the support of Australians.
"I have only served as county magistrate for a few days, and the tail of localism has been exposed." Chen Ce said secretly. It seems that this tax issue will be famine in the future. At present, there is no specific tax sharing system in Lingao.
How to allocate taxes seems to be another troublesome matter.
Although Chen Ce is at the head office of Delong Bank and is busy planning to establish branches in various places and establish primary tax agencies every day, conflicts in the financial system gradually surfaced with the end of the spring awakening and the security war.
As county-level governments have been established in various places, local finance and taxation have become an unavoidable topic.
Although Lingao County has Xiong Buyou, the oldest county office director, Lingao County has not established any separate administrative agency. All construction and investment are directly invested by the executive committee and have nothing to do with local finance and taxation.
As for the Sanya region, it is not considered a local government, it is only a dispatched agency - because the local area originally had no population, industry, commerce or agriculture. Sanya was a colony established entirely by the Senate. The vast majority of it
Output: Minerals, agricultural and forestry products, and fishery products are all shipped to Lingao, and the materials needed locally, from clothes, food, tools, and even fuel are shipped from Lingao. All investments come from Lingao's allocation.
, its operation also relies on materials and cash allocated by Lingao. The Sanya region is completely dependent on Lingao's mother body, and is a complete vassal economically.
But now in the states and counties they control, although the economic status of each county is different, each county is a complete economy. There is a city, several villages, and a population of varying sizes. There are fields, and
There are a few industries and commerce of various sizes. The past model of Lingao serving as the Senate can no longer continue. Each county has a senator as the county magistrate and has established an administrative team.
With the administrative team, local financial issues are involved. The fiscal policy of the Ming Dynasty during the Zhu 88 era was basically that the central government took everything away, and the local governments left almost nothing. From the perspective of centralization, it was indeed very effective, but it was a problem for local administration.
It's a disaster. Because the county does not have enough financial resources, the county magistrate can hardly do anything. It is difficult to even maintain basic administration. Naturally, it is impossible to get rid of the official without using some crooked brains and raising some extra-system liquidity.
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The disadvantages of this system are all obvious to the elders. But how to improve it involves a big article, which not only involves the tax system, the fiscal system but also involves the important issue of the distribution of power between the central and local governments. The Executive Committee has recently been
Enlarged meetings were held on this issue. Discussions often lasted until midnight before the meeting ended.
Before a precise plan is formulated, the method of allocating administrative funds in full is temporarily used. When each county director takes office, the Director of Finance will issue a one-time circulation voucher. The current circulation voucher is still based on
Grain is used as a reserve fund. According to the allocated figure, the Planning Institute allocates an equal amount of grain as a reserve fund. Of course, the grain itself does not need to be transported long distances. After the security war, the Planning Institute has mastered a considerable amount of food in each county.
Grain is mainly grain from the official warehouses of each county and grain confiscated during public security wars and land clearings. Except for part of this grain that was transported to Lingao, the rest is still stored in the granaries of each county. As long as it is recorded in the accounts
Just give it a while.
The funds distributed to each county do not go directly to the hands of the county office director, but are deposited into the special financial account of the local Delong branch. They are specifically spent by the county office director. Because local administrative expenses are intricate, so
The Finance Director's Department has specially compiled a list of recurring project expenditures. This way you can roughly know the amount of funds that need to be allocated every month. This expenditure belongs to special funds and cannot be spent by the county office director in other names. This way, there will be no situation where the leader is temporarily incapacitated.
I spent too much money and was in the embarrassment of not being able to pay my salary at the end of the month.
It is not easy to prepare a recurring expenditure table. No one knows how much administrative expenses a county in the 17th century required every month. And Lingao's financial expenditures do not have any reference value - they have always been compiled. Especially
It is about the financial expenses of supporting personnel, how to arrange the agencies in each county, how many personnel to set up, what the level and salary of the personnel are... So far, it has not been completely decided. Therefore, the management can only be relatively rough. Cheng Dong
It is required that the quota temporarily prepared should be tight rather than loose, so as to avoid a large gap that will be difficult to collect in the future.
Expenses other than recurring expenses will be spent by the director of the county office within the monthly total for the time being, and he can only make savings and not overspend.
As for the revenue of each county: including taxes, fines, confiscations, etc., all are turned over to the Planning Institute and the Finance Director’s Department.
This kind of fiscal policy of unified revenue and expenditure is of course very inappropriate. In particular, it completely obliterates the fiscal autonomy of each county. In essence, it is not much different from the local fiscal system of the Ming Dynasty - it is even more strict. However,
For now, that's all it can do. The Executive Committee's requirement for local governments is "stability". While maintaining local public order, it first collects resources from various places to supply the operation of the Senate. As for economic construction, it is not the county.
The chief job of the office director.
This system has been officially implemented since the end of last year, and it has been more than a year now. Every county on Hainan Island has generally established a financial system in accordance with this system. It is functioning normally.
But for Chen Ce, he has already felt some backlash during his financial official travel around Hainan Island - the county office directors of various counties, especially those counties with relatively high agricultural levels and relatively good economic conditions in the past: Qiongshan,
The county office directors of Chengmai, Wenchang, and Ding'an counties are quite dissatisfied with the fiscal system of unified revenue and expenditure, and strongly hope to carry out reforms.
Chen Ce understood their thoughts to some extent. He became Bailihou when he became the director of the county office. Most people are ambitious to a certain extent. Even if they rule a small and poor county with only tens of thousands of people, they still want to make a name for themselves.
Come on. The ever-popular business simulation games illustrate the mentality of most people. What's more, all counties in Hainan Island are rich in resources, and there are too many projects that can be developed and constructed. Chen Ce has been to Changhua Fort -
This small fortress was garrisoned by only a dozen people. Although it was surrounded by barren beach sand and had few resources to speak of, it achieved great success by simply raising goats on the beach sand before the Spring Awakening Campaign - 1630
In the autumn of that year, Changhua Fort provided Lingao with 300 sheep.
For investment and construction, it is not enough to rely solely on direct investment from the Planning Institute - there are too many projects that the Planning Institute wants to invest in, and the limited manpower and material resources of the Lingao regime cannot take care of them just by engaging in "central enterprises", let alone
It is said that it is about developing local industries. Moreover, the tight manpower shortage also makes the Planning Institute not very interested in local industries.
Chen Ce knew that Liu Xiang was dissatisfied when the Executive Committee took advantage of the typhoon last month to pull away a large number of laborers from Qiongshan - on Hainan Island, no matter what you do, you need talented people. Although in the end he still worked hard to complete the task,
However, conflicts between the central and local governments have emerged.
I hope that after Shandong's population arrives, the conflicts will ease. Chen Ce thought that as long as there is a population, it should not be difficult to develop local industries based on the abilities of the elders. Of course, the financial system must also be reformed.
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Chen Ce said with a smile: "When the refugees from Shandong come, it will be easier for you to raise fish - didn't Lingao prosper because of the large number of people from Guangdong?"
"We have to wait until the end of the year for the refugees from Shandong, right?" Liu Xiang didn't know what he was thinking, but he just said enthusiastically, "I have some ideas now. It doesn't require much investment, just someone to do the work." As he said, he said
I and Tang Menglong told him about the idea of using the coal from the Jiazi Coal Mine to develop some small industries.
Chen Ce laughed and did not answer directly. He turned the topic back to summer tax collection.
Qiongshan County caused an uproar as soon as the announcement of summer taxes was posted. Because this year is the first year that taxes will be levied after the Australians took charge, everyone, whether they are poor or rich, white men or scholars, are very concerned about it.
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Judging from the discussions in teahouses and wild talk under the trees in Qiongshan, most people believe that Australians will most likely "follow the old rules" and continue to collect taxes according to the Ming Dynasty's method. For hundreds of years, the imperial grain and national taxes
That's how it was collected. Furthermore, when the Australians collected grain taxes in Lingao last year, they still collected them according to the system of the Ming Dynasty. They just improved the collection method and cleared the land. It was much fairer than in the past. Everyone feels that since it is in Qiongshan
The land was also cleared, so naturally it was done according to Lingao's method. For the powerless ordinary people, it was a good thing to be able to pay taxes according to regulations and not be inexplicably burdened.
However, as soon as the announcement of the levy of summer tax came out, everyone was taken aback. The mere fact that one person spreads the tax was enough to shock the world. As for the strange progressive system, it caused an uproar.
Suddenly, there were whispers and discussions everywhere in the streets, in front of and behind houses, in halls and courtyards. Ordinary people, even though most of them were illiterate, begged someone to read the notice, and listened to the propaganda team's explanation on the spot.
Everyone had smiles on their faces, and some had expressions of disbelief.
"In this case, we don't have to pay taxes?" A few farmers gathered in front of the notice and discussed, "My family only has six acres of land. No matter what the 'standard' is, we are still ranked first.
Class."
"So I can't be counted."
"You can take a breath now. We were hit by a storm and were busy replanting sweet potatoes. We have to pay taxes and money is tight..."