Chapter 703, "Alliance Plan"
Building relationships with war groups, tribunals, local forces, etc. is a kind of diplomatic activity that is prepared for a rainy day.
But among all diplomatic activities, the most important one, or in other words, the force that needs diplomacy the most, is none other than Holy Terra.
All other diplomatic activities are also efforts to obtain a better political environment in Holy Terra.
Under such circumstances, the activities of the center of the empire and Holy Terra itself cannot be ignored.
Gu Hang began to prepare a detailed development plan.
This planning document is not only a display of the alliance's existing resources and development potential, but also a commitment to the future.
It includes the economic and tax status of the alliance and the five major star regions, as well as the future prospects for these aspects.
A series of contents such as military security and political security were mentioned.
With the assistance of the Governor's Office, this eloquent and detailed plan report is already being produced.
In the final analysis, the most important content is taxation.
The alliance promises that in ten years, the five major star regions will be able to pay 1.3 trillion tax coins per year.
This is calculated based on a population of 10 trillion. Normally, level 1 development is 1 trillion per year, but there are some highly developed planets, and the alliance promised in the report to develop some worlds that are not so severely affected by war disasters to a higher level. The higher the level, the more taxes can be paid.
Although this is ten years later. However, the alliance will not fail to pay taxes for ten years.
On the contrary, the tax amount is still very high. According to calculations, starting next year, the Alliance will resume paying imperial taxes every two years. The tax amount in the first year is about 370 billion.
This includes all taxes in the two star regions of Dragon Eagle and Meng He, as well as the newly occupied worlds of the three star regions of Proud Claw, Alfonzo, and Nepeta, which are relatively less affected by the war, that is, there is no need to proceed. Recolonizing a world can instantly restore tax amounts to the empire.
As for those worlds that have suffered serious disasters, they cannot collect taxes in the first place, and the empire usually gives them a period of time to develop.
For these worlds where taxes cannot be paid, the Alliance has also given detailed explanations for each one, including a timetable for future tax payments.
The Alliance believes that this proposal has a strong appeal to the Empire Central Committee.
The most important thing in the empire is taxation.
The army that the empire needs to support, the wars that it needs to support, and various institutions all rely on the support of imperial taxes. Without imperial taxes, there would be no empire.
Generally speaking, according to political conventions within the empire, 30% of a planet's tax situation belongs to the star domain government, 20% belongs to the space domain government, and only 50% can actually be used by the empire's central government.
This is still a theoretical situation.
The empire has such a large territory, and most of the taxes are paid in the form of physical taxes. The losses of transportation, fuel and time for the fleet, the cost of building a tax fleet, the risk of being robbed during transportation... these can all be counted. into tax costs.
The tax cost of the Star Territory Government is relatively low, after all, it is close; the tax cost of the Eternal Territory Government is relatively high, and it is normal to reach 30% to 40% of the tax collected; it is normal for the cost to rise to 50% or 60% in the central part of the Empire. of.
The empire has tried its best to solve this problem. For example, building central warehouses in various places to collect, store, and call nearby; for example, using tax coins to directly call on the power of each planet, star field, and space domain to work for the central government, and issue tax coins to offset taxes. This also reduces the inevitable losses caused by the intermediate operation of physical objects.
However, in the final analysis, these methods can only be said to be mitigation methods for high losses, but cannot cure them.
But what the alliance promised in the development book was to find a planet in the Nepeta star field, which is the star field closest to the central territory, as a special transfer station and handover point, and transfer the agreed tax amount there. A clear settlement.
what does that mean?
The central government of the empire directly saved the money allocated to the star region government and the space region government!
This amount alone has increased the theoretical revenue of the central government by 50%!
In addition, with one handover, there is no need to pay or urge one by one, which saves a huge amount of tax costs. At that time, the central government of the empire will only need to look at the alliance to ask for money every two years, and pay it in a unified place. The empire's tax fleet will go to the Nepeta Star Territory and get everything done directly.
Tax costs can be reduced from nearly 60% to no more than 20%!
This is another huge addition!
It will be clearer if you just do the numbers.
The total tax amount of the five major star regions was about 1.7 trillion tax coins before the war. In the past, the amount of taxes the empire could collect from the central government each year was about 850 billion tax coins. The portion that could actually be transferred to the central government for allocation and use would drop to 340 billion.
These are still theoretical values. In fact, due to the existence of the Alfonzo sect, the tax-free super organization of the Mechanicum, and the existence of the Iron Armor, a local power that often collects taxes and backhands the empire to ask for money, the central empire even has 340 billion including transportation losses. , are far from being received.
According to statistics from the Central Taxation Department, it would be good to get 100 billion per year.
In the future, assuming that the alliance obediently returns to the Dragon Eagle Star Territory and abandons all other places, and the empire rebuilds the administrative structure of space domain-star domain-star region in these places, the theoretical tax revenue that the empire can receive, It will be directly reduced from 340 billion to 200 billion, and the tax amount received may only be 80 billion
This is the impact of war.
From the outbreak of the Battle of Iron Armor to the end of the Second Battle of Leyaduches, the war that lasted for 15 years destroyed the Spider Web Domain. The three star regions of Nepeta, Alfonzo, and Proud Claw are relatively less affected, but their population still plummets.
The 1.7 trillion theoretical tax dollars are definitely gone. It would be nice to have 1 trillion.
As the population base decreases, the amount of imperial tax will naturally decrease.
Moreover, although the Iron Armor was eliminated, the Alfonzo sect was also dismembered and ceased to exist, and no one stopped to collect taxes.
However, the Aramita Cult came into being, and they recently reached an agreement with Mars to continue to exist. That means that Alamita will inherit part of Alfonzo's inheritance and it will be tax-free. Although not as much as in the past, the output value of one forging world is almost worth a hundred ordinary worlds. Not to mention, they will also expand their influence in the future, and their taxes will inevitably be affected in the end.
Moreover, with so many worlds smashed to pieces, can the empire really collect so much money according to the tithe standard?
Impossible.
If you don't care about those crappy worlds, they will definitely not be able to deal with them.
There are only two subsequent results:
First, if you don’t pay taxes, you will be sentenced to treason, but if you pay taxes, you will starve to death, so I won’t pay them. It's all going to die anyway, so that's fucking contrary.
Can the empire punish all the hundreds or thousands of disaster-stricken worlds? Have to spend money to send an army? After the punishment is over, leave an even worse piece of land, or can't you pay the money?
Second, tax exemption. It’s not even just tax exemptions, but also funding, assistance, and reconstruction. That’s the job of the Ministry of the Interior, and the Ministry of Interior must be inclined to do so.
If it is tax-free, there will be no money to collect. To aid reconstruction, we have to invest an unknown amount of money. Anyway, it is an astronomical figure.
No matter which one you choose, the empire will definitely not be able to collect a dime anyway, and it will even have to continue to transfuse blood to these places.
It can still collect 200 billion a year, but I'm afraid it will have to pay another 200 billion in turn - whether it is counter-insurgency expenses or construction support expenses.
Now, according to the alliance's plan, the entire province is covered. In the first year, the alliance can give 370 billion, and the imperial center can get about 300 billion minus tax costs, which is great.
Compared to those days, less than 100 billion were collected every year; compared to when these worlds were returned to the empire's jurisdiction, it was even less than a dime and had to be repaid.
It tastes better this way.
Not to mention the alliance’s plan for a pie of 1.3 trillion per year in ten years!
You can get more than one trillion if you just get it.
Generally speaking, this income is comparable to the tax revenue provided by two or three complete universes to the central empire!
And what does the empire have to pay?
It is a mess that has been broken in theory and will become a burden in the future and handed over to the alliance.
No matter how you think about it, it is a very cost-effective business!
Money, real money, is the main attraction of the "Five Star Regions and Alliance's Common Development and Tax Plan for the Next Ten Years" that the alliance is drafting.
Of course, this proposal did not involve another thing: the huge military expenditures incurred by the Alliance as they continued to fight the Iron Armor War to the north.
The loss of ships, the loss of soldiers, the loss of weapons and equipment, the consumption of fuel, the consumption of ammunition...
But one code equals one code, and this money has nothing to do with the future of the alliance or the future of the five major star regions.
The central government of your empire asked me to fight, so I was supposed to give you this money.
This matter has nothing to do with the "Alliance Plan", there is no need to write it into the document.
In addition to money, Gu Hang also plans to give enough face.
At the political level, Gu Hang expressed his willingness to accept some political guidance from the empire. He plans to establish a position within the Alliance similar to the Attorney General of the Empire, which will be elected by the Alliance and the Empire through joint discussion, which will not only represent the interests of the Empire, but also maintain the independence of the Alliance. In this way, Holy Terra can feel the alliance's respect and integration into the imperial political system.
The Alliance Attorney General will not only oversee political aspects, but will also oversee the development of military forces.
In order to dispel Holy Terra's concerns about the alliance's military power, the alliance also proposed the idea of limiting military power. Gu Hang will establish a military supervision mechanism within the alliance, which will be directly led by the Imperial Attorney General in the alliance. Other Space Marine chapters and some trusted officials of the Empire can also be involved as observers.
This mechanism will supervise the alliance's military scale, weapons and equipment updates, etc. From the number of troops, to the size of the navy, to the number and management of Space Marine Chapters within the five major star regions of the alliance... all aspects will be agreed upon. Ensure that the Alliance's military capabilities are not overstretched and that all military operations remain defensive in nature.
In fact, Gu Hang also knew that these measures could not completely eliminate Holy Terra's concerns. In fact, the core contradiction still exists - he is too independent, and the 'military development restrictions' and 'tax plans', to put it bluntly, when Gu Hang does not want to comply, the empire does not have the ability to restrict him.
Except war.
But to be honest, Gu Hang doesn't want to break this agreement in the short term.
As long as the empire complies.
He hopes that through this proactive approach, the empire will see the positive role that the alliance's sincerity and development have on the overall interests of the empire. This is a difficult game, and every step is full of risks, but Gu Hang has no choice. He must work hard for the future of the alliance.
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September, year 10245 of the Terran calendar.
The clean-up work in various places in the spider web domain has come to an end.
Not all problems have been solved, far from it.
However, the biggest, most difficult, and concentrated problems were all solved while the coalition forces of the three armies on the Western, Northern, and Southern Fronts were still there.
At the same time, the fleet that was sent out to leave the Rayaduches system through conventional space navigation also received good news.
They discovered the Zerg support fleet sent from the Tentacles that was disabled due to the death of the Zerg Queen, and eliminated them. The price paid was about the same as expected and relatively cheap.
They are already on their way back and are expected to arrive in Rayadouches in December this year.
At that time, it was also the day when the coalition forces were disbanded.
The Imperial Central Committee has given an explanation.
Holy Terra had already obtained the battle report from the coalition headquarters at the beginning of the year. After receiving the authorization from the Supreme Council, the Ministry of Military Affairs, with extremely rapid administrative efficiency for the empire, summarized the results of these battle reports within half a year and approved them.
Holy Terra originally wanted to hold a victory parade, but in the end, the idea collapsed after weeks of discussion.
What a waste of money.
Too much money was spent fighting an iron-armored war.
Each army, whether it is the Second Western Front Army directly formed by the Empire Central Committee, or the old Western Front Army or the Northern Front Army, actually requires money from the Empire Central Committee to fight the war.
Whether it was support mobilized from various local governments or resources sent directly from the central empire, the total bill would be an astronomical figure.
The Ministry of Military Affairs, the Ministry of Interior, and the Ministry of Taxation are all worried about this.
Spend more money to make the army travel half a year and a year to Holy Terra, and then spend a lot of money to hold a victory parade, and besides the military parade, reward the meritorious officials... Although compared with the cost of the war In fact, it is a drop in the bucket, but in this difficult time, it is worth saving a little.
I still have to say that there are too many places where the empire has to spend money.
In the past few years, the biggest news in the empire has been the Iron Armor Rebellion and the Battle of the Princess. That's right.
But going forward a few years, the turmoil in the Solaria universe caused by the death of the Sun Lord has not yet been completely resolved. All forces, whether loyalists, rebels, or careerists, have Going back and forth. Chaos sects and alien forces are also mixed in, making it a huge black hole. The entire southern border of the empire was not very stable.
A large-scale rebellion occurred in the western frontier of the empire, and a powerful orc army appeared in unrest in the northern frontier...
The entire empire has been in a troubled and turbulent year.
But then again, when was the Empire not in a period of turmoil?
Sustainability pills are sometimes no joke.
Against this background, the "Alliance Plan" that Gu Hang, the think tanks in the Governor's Office, and the high-level offices of the Alliance government worked together was finally completed and sent to Holy Terra.
One stone stirs up a thousand waves.
(End of chapter)