Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

All the nobles froze for a moment, this... seems reasonable, and what His Highness said is very reasonable.Maritime transport is different from the general army that fights wars. It takes a long time to train qualified sailors, and it is impossible for ordinary soldiers to serve all the time according to the corvee system.

The point is, if what His Highness said is true, then it means that they can be protected by the Datang Fleet anywhere in the ocean!This time is the key!Things that can be transported to Persia and other places for trade are all valuable items. If these things are snatched by pirates, for some small families, the whole may collapse.

Most importantly, once robbed by pirates, it is possible to rob not only cargo, but most importantly, ships!

The boats have been robbed, which is equivalent to robbing their rice bowls and their full set of furniture for cooking, not just their meals. This is something that shakes the fundamentals.

"Besides, you may not know that your tax business is actually cultivating your own future." Li Ke said again with a smile.

"What do you mean, Your Highness?" Feng Yu asked curiously. Feng Yu is Feng An's younger brother. Because Feng An is now in charge of building the port of Luzon Island, Feng Yu came to this meeting on behalf of him. His task It's very simple, just make a suitable support.

"Because of considering the physical strength and environment of naval operations, the recruitment age of the Datang Navy starts from 16 years old, and then the retirement age is set at 40 years old, that is, they will retire at the age of 40."

"But everyone should be very clear, whether it is in the farmland, a 40-year-old man is still in the stage of strong labor, so these outstanding sailors in the navy after retirement, are they good for you businessmen? What about the sailors? They are excellent sailors who have been trained by the Datang Navy for at least 20 to [-] years! Needless to say how rich their experience is?"

"As long as you give them a higher salary, there are more than a dozen sailors on a ship, and then you will lead other sailors recruited from the people. Do I need to say more about the rest?" Li Ke said lightly.

All the businessmen's eyes lit up now!

In Datang, although 40 years old can be called an old man, but it is not really old at 40 years old. 40 years old in Datang is also a strong labor force. You must know that even if you are close to 60 years old, you must join the army !

Therefore, although he retired at the age of 40, in fact such talents are the most precious wealth, and people who can do business are nothing, just like what Li Ke said, you let such people manage as sailors, a ship A dozen or so people are enough, and the rest are recruited from civilians, which are properly experienced old sailors.

"Look, the commercial tax you pay is actually cultivating talents for yourself, so is it reasonable to pay commercial tax? Very reasonable." Li Ke saw that their eyes had changed, and spread his hands.

"Your Highness, I don't know how to collect this business tax?" A person asked immediately.

"I have already formulated a complete set of business tax collection system. Don't worry, it won't be too much." Li Ke said with a smile. There are complete books on taxation in his warehouse, and whether it is modern taxation, or There were tax systems in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Overall, Li Ke currently formulates two types, one is business tax and the other is corporate income tax.Business tax is based on turnover, about 2%.The corporate income tax is tentatively set at 10%.

Income tax also has corresponding deductible parts. For example, the expenses spent on research and development are allowed to be deducted, and the part that improves employee benefits and monthly salary of employees is also allowed to be deducted. Within 15% of the profit, deductions are allowed.

In addition to small and micro enterprises, after the commercial prosperity of the late Tang Dynasty, peddlers and pawns will not collect commercial taxes, that is, small businesses and hawkers will not collect commercial taxes, but they will charge certain health management fees and stall management fees, but The amount is very small.

Maybe many people will hate this thing in later generations, thinking that it is arbitrarily charged, but it is not.Without these small expenses, the future sanitation, management and other expenses alone will directly collapse the finances.

Don't expect that everyone in these small stalls and hawkers is a person of high morality. It is human beings who cause these arbitrary charges.There is no perfect system in the world, but some things exist reasonably.

After leaving aside the temporary peddlers and pawns, there are some small shops and fixed stalls, such as the small noodle restaurants in Chang'an City, and other small businessmen, referring to the small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households in later generations, adopting a fixed tax amount, and paying a certain amount of tax per month. To formulate standards, such as a few articles, dozens of articles and so on.

The general system is basically like this. There are not many such business taxes. Of course, for this era, the problem of starting from scratch should be solved first, but in fact even if this is the case, it will greatly increase Datang’s fiscal revenue. .

Of course, the increase in business taxes will inevitably increase the number of tax-related personnel. This is something that cannot be avoided, but Li Ke has already figured it out. Anyway, you can do whatever you want, but you can’t evade taxes!

Tax evasion must be strictly investigated!Crack down!The big deal is to set up a special army for the tax bureau at that time, which is also exclusive to the royal family and other aspects.

Anyway, in this era, there is no personal income tax for the time being, and it cannot be collected from ordinary people, so let them go to check the tax at that time.

Another reason for restricting business tax collection is the lack of currency. Take the Song Dynasty as an example. There is still not enough currency in the Song Dynasty, and because there is insufficient cash to pay taxes, they can only pay goods to offset taxes, which makes corruption more likely to breed.

For example, when local officials collect taxes, silk worth 100 yuan will be levied as silk worth 10 yuan. When the time comes, they will be collected by themselves and replaced directly, all of which will belong to themselves.

So sufficient and sufficient cash is the key, and the printing of banknotes is the key.

The denominations of banknotes have been determined by Li Ke, which are 1 guan, 2 guan, 5 guan, 10 guan, 20 guan, 50 guan, 100 guan, and 1000 guan.

Among them, the number of used coins must be the largest. Li Ke is not worried about whether the currency paper in his hand is enough, it must be enough.

According to his and Li Shimin's calculations, the copper coins of the entire Tang Dynasty are calculated assuming 1 million guan, even if they are all printed into 1 guan, that is, 1 million pieces, a one-yuan banknote is about 1g, and 1 million pieces are only 100 tons of paper That's all.