Chapter 756: The empire still wants to give me money
Lingzexing has never been so busy.
This is a planet located in the west of the Spider Web Domain - Tangu Star Domain, and is the capital of the Lingze Star Region.
Before the war, this planet had a developed star port system, which was a transportation hub connecting the central territory of the empire and the spider web space.
During the war, this place also became a key target of contention, but fortunately, the Empire pushed back the Iron Armor after a war. From then on, this place has been controlled by the Empire, even during the stage when the Iron Armor was pushing back. The planet's ground and starport parts were also stationed by the Imperial Army, and the iron-armored fleet skipped the planet.
Later, when the Western Front Army was reorganized, Lingze Star was used as an important logistics hub. Countless transport ships transported all kinds of war materials here, unloaded them, and then were transported by small transport fleets. , distributed and transported to various battlefields on the front line.
At this stage, the Lingze Star Port system, which was originally damaged due to the war, was not only urgently repaired, but also further expanded and constructed.
The location is good, and the planet itself has good hardware conditions as a transportation hub. After the Alliance took over, it was chosen as the place where the Alliance and the Empire centrally pay imperial taxes.
Originally, as a transportation hub and a logistics center during the war, Lingze Star had many ships coming and going, and the waterways were extremely prosperous.
But all the prosperity in the past cannot be compared with the prosperity after it became an imperial tax delivery place!
Although the "Alliance Plan" was signed less than a year ago, the delivery of the imperial tax has already begun.
The tax cycle agreed between the Alliance and the Empire is every two years. However, today's alliance has grown to such a large scale, controlling nearly 10,000 worlds, that it is no longer possible to wait for the tax collector to come and do things like it used to when the scale was small.
The "Alliance Plan" stipulates that the alliance will collect the taxes of the fourteen star regions in one go. It is impossible to wait until the tax period is approaching to start this work, otherwise the tax work will definitely not be completed.
In fact, long before the "Alliance Plan" was signed, the alliance had a special imperial tax working group that settled in Lingze Star and started working.
This working group is a high-level working group set up under the Union Ministry of Finance and reports to the Union Prime Minister and Finance Minister at the same time. It has great power.
The responsibility is also great.
It is solely responsible for the collection of imperial taxes in the Alliance.
A large number of transport ships, including the Chamber of Commerce fleet in the alliance, have been allocated to the working group.
They can directly call the alliance's official transport ships; those ships from the chamber of commerce need to pay some money and operate in the form of the chamber of commerce fleet accepting transportation orders.
At this moment, the head of the working group, Director Guo Chenyu, was accompanying Gu Hang, who was on his way back to Lingze Star, to inspect the tax situation.
At this time, it had been seven months since Gu Hang left Holy Terra.
Taxation work is of course very important, so much so that Gu Hang had to turn around and take a look at it on his way back to the Dragon Eagle Star Territory.
"...Our tax work is proceeding relatively smoothly. The cumulative amount of materials shipped from all over the star field has reached 432.7 billion tax coins, and ships will continue to come to transport materials and stockpile them on Lingze Star. ”
"A batch of ships from the center of the empire are expected to arrive in three months, and they will transport 160 billion tax coins here; after that, a batch of ships will arrive about every month, and it is estimated that it will take eight Within a few months, all the remaining 640 billion tax coins have been transported. At this point, the alliance’s first tax work is completed.”
According to the "Alliance Plan", the tax amount of the alliance in the first year is 300 billion, and the tax amount in the following year is 500 billion. The first installment of taxes totals 800 billion.
Then, it will grow to 800 billion in the third year, 1 trillion in the fourth year...and so on, non-linear growth, the annual increase amount is the result of the quarrel between alliance officials and officials from the Imperial Taxation Department, but in short In the tenth year, it will grow to 2.1 trillion and maintain this number.
Gu Hang nodded slightly and quickly flipped through the documents. His psychic energy enveloped Lingze Star's huge star port system, and he quickly checked and verified whether the contents of the documents were consistent with the actual situation.
There must still be some inconsistencies.
But Gu Hang is not a person who is full of criticism.
It is normal for some errors and omissions to occur in such a large-scale material operation and statistics.
A little mention and a few beatings are necessary; but it is not necessary to be severely punished for this.
No one can make mistakes.
Generally speaking, there is no problem.
Later, Gu Hang asked about the status of the second phase of the imperial tax and the large-scale infrastructure construction made by Lingze Star for the imperial tax.
Guo Chenyu answered them one by one, and he was obviously very confident about it.
The first phase of tax coins only costs 300 billion, but Lingze Planet currently has more than 400 billion in supplies. The extra money is obviously for preparation for the next tax payment.
In fact, the ship from the central empire will not stop after transporting the first phase of 800 billion tax coins. The empire's ships will be shipped once a month, or even in shorter intervals in the future. One or two hundred billion, during the third and fourth years, the second phase of materials totaling 1.7 trillion tax coins will be transported to the center of the empire.
And so on.
The same will be true when it stabilizes to 2.1 trillion in the future.
To transport such a huge amount of materials at one time, even the central empire would be hard-pressed to mobilize so many ships at once.
This can only be done in batches, and a batch of ships will be sent out every month or even every week.
Of course, there is a cost. The empire still needs to bear the transportation cost from Lingze Star to the center of the empire.
However, this cost is completely controllable.
Just like a normal space domain, you have to fight with the local government, including the star domain and the space domain, to argue how much you keep and how much I take away. Although there is a quota for this matter, if you are not careful, your 40% is 100 billion, and my 30% is 150 billion. The local government has sufficient motivation to use a series of means such as false reporting, concealment of reporting, reasonable calculation of losses, etc., to quarrel with the Imperial Taxation Department.
It all requires negotiation, compromise, threats, and even the use of force when necessary.
It's all cost.
Not to mention, there are many details. Who will bear the tax and transportation costs between the wrangling stars; who will bear the escort work in the wrangling; who will be responsible for food rot, expiry date, improper storage, etc. of the wrangling materials during transportation...
With the Alliance, you don’t have to think about this at all.
Quota, fixed point.
The tax collector came to count the amount, and after the count was completed, the fleet came to transport the supplies, simple and clear.
However, there are also problems. The infrastructure of Lingze Star will not be a big problem to cope with the tax amount in the past two years.
However, in the future, in the third and fourth phases, the amount of taxes to be paid by the alliance will rise to more than one trillion. To that extent, Lingze Star's infrastructure will be somewhat unbearable.
In Guo Chenyu's plan, Lingze Star is building a new star port called "Tax Port". At the same time, on the surface, a huge tax storage space city is also under construction. The space storage city, the ground storage city, and the tax port have freight space elevators that directly transport goods quickly, and there are also lower-cost fixed spacecraft orbits that can transport goods on a larger scale.
Once completed, the cargo throughput of Lingze Star will be three times that of the current one, and it can fully shoulder the tax cargo throughput of the alliance in the future.
There is even wealth that can be provided to the Imperial Chamber of Commerce's trading fleet, where they can conduct bulk commodity trade with the Alliance.
It is worth mentioning that the total cost of this ‘tax port system’ is very high. It is divided into four construction periods, with a total of eight years to complete, and a part of it can be delivered for use after each construction period is completed. The total cost will reach 70 billion tax coins, which is equivalent to the cost of a battleship.
However, this money is not provided by the alliance.
Alliance officials mentioned this matter when discussing many implementation details of the "Alliance Plan" with officials from the Taxation Department in Holy Terra.
After intense discussions, alliance officials secured a benefit: the funds for the construction of the Lingze Star Tax Port would be provided by the Imperial Taxation Department.
The tax department will definitely not allocate funds, and they are not willing to spend money to directly collect and hire construction teams to work on Lingze Star.
It doesn't matter, the alliance can do it, just pay it; if it doesn't want to pay, then it can be deducted from the tax.
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The Department of Revenue agreed.
After all, this is also necessary investment and construction for the smooth progress of taxation work.
What's more, even though they are paying for it, it is included in the deduction, so the pressure is much less.
Speaking of tax deductions, the alliance’s tax deduction expenses are not limited to the construction of tax ports.
70 billion is not a small amount of money, but it is not critical.
The most critical thing is the alliance's war expenditure in the Iron Armor War and the Insect Swarm War.
Does the Imperial Central Committee have to reimburse me?
This was a promise made when the Western Front Army was formed, and it was also the political tradition of the empire.
In the empire, local rulers have the responsibility to maintain peace and security. The planetary governor should ensure the stability of his own world. Putting aside the relatively fictitious level of the star region, the star region and space region governments also have the responsibility to ensure the security of the areas under their jurisdiction.
This is also the fundamental reason why the empire wants to leave part of the imperial tax to the star domain government and the space domain government.
If we don’t have money, how can we get people to build or fight?
However, this part of the responsibility is mainly limited to guarding the homeland.
Just like the safety of the planet, the planetary governor can solve it. If the planetary governor cannot solve the problem, then the governor has failed in his duties. He will be slapped down when he should be slapped down, and he will be shot when he should be shot. Then the star region will ask the star region government to intervene and mobilize troops from other planets to support. As a result, the star region government came to an end. Naturally, these troops from other planets who come to support cannot fight in vain. The star region government has to pay for it.
The internal problems of the Star Territory Government can be solved by the 30% imperial tax received by the Star Territory Government. If it cannot be solved, go to the Chairman of the Star Territory for help, and the 'Leader of the Princes' will personally come to the rescue, or call in troops from other Star Territories to solve it. This part of the money has to be paid by the Zhouyu government, and the Zhouyu government also retains 30% of the imperial tax.
By analogy, when there is a sky-breaking problem that cannot be solved by the space government, or the empire advocates launching an imperial-level war in a certain direction, then Holy Terra will mobilize the core troops of the solar space region, or summon Other space domain troops participate in the war. And this money will naturally come from the central government.
The Iron Armor War is undoubtedly a war that spans the space domain and requires a large number of troops to be mobilized from other places to participate in the war. The Spider Web Space Domain itself has no ability to solve the problem internally.
The Alliance responded to the Empire's call, an act of loyalty that no one could fault. The Iron Armor War is completely outside the scope of the alliance's obligations, and the empire's central government should be responsible for paying for it.
Of course, due to the emergency situation, even if the empire center had money, it would be difficult to allocate supplies to various places where troops were to be sent in a short period of time.
What's more, the central empire often doesn't have that much money.
This also means that supporting troops often need to prepare their own dry food.
The Northern Front Army and the Southern Front Army in the Iron Armor War were both in this situation.
On the one hand, other local troops participating in the war have some political demands. On the other hand, the central government will reimburse the money spent on the war.
If you don't want to give money afterward, and you really can't afford it, then give tax coins to offset the tax amount.
This is common practice.
The Alliance spent a lot on war.
The cost of building an army does not need to be paid by the central government of the empire, but the many artillery shells consumed, sacrificed soldiers, destroyed army equipment, naval ships, fuel consumption... these all need to be counted, right?
Equipment wear and tear, rewards after victory in the war, allowances during the war... also have to be calculated, right?
What's more, when the war broke out, when the Southern Front Army was still fighting in the Menghe Star Region, Holy Terra made a clear promise to urge the alliance to go north as soon as possible when it was the cannon fodder that attracted Iron Armor's attention. .
Clear regulations, political conventions, pre-war promises...these things combined made it impossible for Holy Terra to default on its debts.
This money should be spent by the Ministry of Military Affairs.
But the Ministry of Military Affairs obviously does not have that kind of money.
It is conservatively estimated that the Iron Armor War cost the empire more than 100 billion tax dollars in resources. Among them, the two constructions of the Western Front Legion were basically funded directly by Holy Terra, which alone amounted to 50 trillion.
The empire did not pay for the northern and southern lines, but after calculation, it would cost 50 trillion.
If it falls to the alliance, according to the algorithm, there will be a total expenditure of 16 trillion.
This is the number after being cut again and again by the Ministry of Military Affairs. The victory rewards were cut a lot, and unlike the Northern Front where a lot of people died, a lot of ships were blown up, and a lot of land troops were lost, the Southern Front Alliance army had to pay a lot of pensions and compensation.
But even with the data calculated in this way, the central government of the empire still finds it difficult to accept it.
Sixteen trillion, what is the concept?
The total tax amount of the alliance has increased from 300 billion to 2.1 trillion. After ten years, the total tax amount is only 12.7 trillion!
Does this mean that after signing the "Alliance Plan" and giving you High Lord Gu Hang, my Holy Terra will still give you 3.3 trillion?
(End of chapter)