Has the push for the tax bill in Chapter 305 gotten off to a good start?
With the attention of the whole country, it can be seen at this time that the Speaker of the House of Representatives on the big screen walked to the stage and announced the official start of voting on the W bill.
The next second, the vote data began to appear on the large screen hanging high in the House of Representatives.
At the beginning, the votes for and against were basically even, but as time went by, the gap between the two began to show up.
In just three minutes, the number of votes in favor of passing the bill exceeded 200.
And when it came to 217 votes, countless people across the country became even more nervous, because as long as the number of votes in favor reaches 218, it means that no matter what happens, this bill will definitely pass the House of Representatives.
However, there was no surprise next. The number of votes in favor not only exceeded 218 votes, but it did not stop until it reached 296 votes.
“Alas, it was passed after all.”
“Not only was it passed, but it was also passed with an overwhelming majority. It seems that there will be no surprises in the Senate. . ”
“100 billion, this is our 100 billion, after all, it will be cheaper for those W people.”
Although they had been mentally prepared for it for a long time, seeing this bill finally passed the House of Representatives, countless people across the country still inevitably sighed.
After all, this is 100 billion in funds, not a small amount of money.
As for the Los Angeles Internal Revenue Service, Nissen smiled, collected the bills on the table, and mocked Simon and Sparky: "Hey, it seems you still underestimated Congress's "
Bucky smiled bitterly and replied: "296 votes, this is indeed an overwhelming number of votes. Judging from our previous bills, the House of Representatives only needs to get such a high vote. The number of votes, let’s not say 100% in the Senate, at least 90% will pass it.”
“If you just introduce a bill, it will take away the hundreds of billions we have worked so hard to get. , it’s really easy to get money in this country.”
After all, they spent countless days and nights on tracking down the Sackler family, Satoshi Nakamoto, and those cryptocurrency companies to receive this hundred billion. This is like laying eggs themselves, but now they are being used by others. A bill was introduced and then taken away, so Simmons could not help but sigh with emotion at this moment.
But what no one noticed was that David's eyes suddenly lit up after hearing these words, as if he had thought of something.
Simmons’ words actually woke him up.
Yes, they worked hard to track down the Thacker family, Satoshi Nakamoto, and those cryptocurrency companies, and finally got such a large amount of money. Congress can easily take it away as long as they introduce a bill. .
Then the IRS can introduce another bill similar to the black tax bill.
For example, today's rich people like to set up family funds.
On the surface, this so-called fund is for charity, but in fact, the inheritance tax in the United States is very high, and the highest can reach 50%.
In other words, you are a rich second generation, and one day your father suddenly dies suddenly, and if you want to inherit the money, you must first pay half of the family property to the IRS.
Such a high-level tax is as painful for ordinary people, let alone the rich second generation.
It is different when a family fund is established. Rich people can put their assets into this fund in the form of donations. According to the tax laws of the United States, charitable funds basically do not need to pay taxes. Even if you have to pay taxes, you will pay very little.
Otherwise, do you think Bill Gates, Buffett, Zuckerberg and other wealthy people famous in Forbes are really so caring, and they always preach that they will donate their property and not leave too much to their children?
In fact, Bill Gates and his wife have long established the Bill and Melinda Gates Charity, and have successively donated their property to this foundation over the years.
Buffett has already established the Scottish Thompson Buffett Foundation, and even promotes that he will donate 100% of his property to it before his death.
As for other wealthy people, most of them have their own foundations.
According to David's idea, if he can introduce a fund tax bill so that the tax here is no longer exempt, the tax revenue will be absolutely astronomical.
But having said that, fund tax avoidance is actually nothing.
As we all know, there are many tax havens in the world, such as the Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, and the Caribbean.
In the United States, the registration places of a series of well-known companies such as Apple, Guge, WeiRuan, Oracle, etc. are basically in tax havens.
Take Apple, for example. The total tax they paid to the IRS last year was less than $6 billion.
You know, this is a company with a market value of more than 2 trillion.
However, it only paid less than 6 billion US dollars in taxes to the IRS a year. This can definitely be described as pitiful, right?
So why does Apple pay so little tax?
First of all, Apple conducts complex tax arrangements globally. By establishing subsidiaries in low-tax countries, it transfers profits to these regions, thereby reducing the amount of tax paid in high-tax countries (such as the United States). .
This strategy is mainly realized by setting up a subsidiary in Ireland, which is called "Apple's European headquarters". Although it has a relatively small number of employees, it has huge profits.
Apple moves most of its profits from global sales through this subsidiary, thereby reducing the taxes it pays in the United States.
Secondly, Apple has further reduced its tax burden by setting up a special purpose company in Ireland and transferring profits to tax havens such as the Cayman Islands.
This strategy takes advantage of the differences in tax systems between different countries to shift profits to areas with lower tax rates, thereby reducing the overall tax burden.
In addition to Apple, well-known companies such as Guge, WeiRuan, Oracle, etc. mentioned before basically adopt this tax avoidance strategy.
And if a bill can be introduced to restrict these off-site tax avoidance, then these companies will no longer be able to enjoy such tax avoidance, and the tax revenue that can be brought will definitely be an astronomical amount of money!
Of course, this idea is just a prototype for David.
You know, it took a lot of effort from the IRS to pass the black tax bill in Congress.
The main reason why this bill was passed is that its original intention was to crack down on criminals, and it did not explicitly infringe on the interests of those interest groups and powerful people. In the end, under the influence of all parties, It was passed with compromise.
Now the fund tax bill and the remote tax avoidance bill that David is thinking of are to clearly attack the core interests of major consortiums and interest groups. It is no less than directly cutting their flesh with a knife, so he wants to Passing can basically be described in four words, that is, it is as difficult as climbing to the sky!
However, although it is difficult, if any of these two bills can be pushed forward, the rewards will definitely not be comparable to the black tax bill. This may even make the United States now The fiscal deficit has been eased, thereby stimulating economic recovery. If this is the case, then the reputation he can gain will not be enough to support him to enter the General Administration, it is even possible to support him to aspire for the highest throne.
To put it simply, the risks are high, but the returns are also high.
But David is not yet ready to make up his mind whether he should do it or not. He still needs to observe the reactions of all parties after the W aid bill is passed and the deployment of the General Administration.
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On the third day after the W aid bill was passed by the House of Representatives, the Senate’s review of the bill was completed and a vote was held.
The result was not unexpected. The Senate successfully passed the bill with a large advantage of 61 votes to 39 votes.
After a bill is passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate, the last step is the president's signature, and then the bill will officially take effect.
The White House was originally the main promoter of this bill. Once they saw that this bill was successfully passed by both houses of Congress, they naturally signed it as quickly as possible and then announced it to the whole country.
At this point, the matter of supporting the W bill has come to an end.
July 29, three o'clock in the afternoon.
David was dealing with things in the office. The ringing of his cell phone made him stop. He picked it up and saw that it was Sean calling. He immediately picked up: "Mr. Sean."
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"Director David, the W aid bill has been passed. The people here at Angsa Group are very happy and plan to hold a celebration dinner. They want to invite you to attend."
The voice of Sean on the other side of the phone made Dai Wei was startled, and then asked: "Where will it be held?"
"Washington."
David fell silent. The General Administration was sure that he had reached a deal with the Angsa Group. You know, it's nothing more than turning a blind eye.
But if he is going to attend the celebration banquet held by Angsa Group, it will be different. This may be dissatisfied by some senior officials of the General Administration.
After all, you, David, are from the IRS. Now the Angsa Group is holding a celebration banquet, but you run over to help. Will you join their camp in the future?
If you join, will you ignore the interests of our IRS in the future and instead seek more benefits for Angsa Group?
“Director David, I think you should go and participate, because I have received word that many big figures from the Angsa Group will come this time, and with the passage of the W-Aid Act, the Freemasonry There has been some action over there, and at this time, it is very important to win the continued support of the Angsa Group."
To be honest, after some thinking, David actually wanted to participate in this. The celebration banquet is not as simple as going to celebrate the success of Angsa Group.
First of all, as Sean said, now with the passage of the W aid bill, the Freemasons are going to take action, and it will be really useful to win the support of the Angsa Group.
Secondly, if many big figures from the Angsa Group will come this time, then this will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get to know them.
When we arrive at the banquet, we just need to use a plug-in to scrutinize them and get some of the core secrets of the group. Then we might have a chance to take control of the group.
"What do you think, Director David?"
"Okay, Mr. Sean, let me think about this for a while and I will give you an answer later."
"Okay. .”
After hanging up the phone, David immediately dialed Donald's number and told the other party his idea of going to the party.
After listening to what he said, Donald replied: "If you go to this banquet, it may indeed cause dissatisfaction with people like Vertonghen and Lahan, but since you mentioned touching the Angsa Group The bottom line will be helpful to us in the future, and it is indeed worth a trip... Well, the tax clearance on the cryptocurrency field has been completed. You will go to the General Administration tomorrow to make a summary of the work, and talk to us again. The follow-up tax direction. "
If David goes to Washington to attend this celebration dinner, it will definitely cause dissatisfaction among senior executives such as Vertonghen and Lahan.
But if David went to Washington specifically to report on his work, and then attended this dinner by the way, the resistance would be much smaller.
David naturally understood what Donald said and immediately replied: "Okay, Deputy Director Donald, I will prepare the relevant documents and materials tomorrow and report to you and the Director in Washington. Work at once.”
"OK, see you tomorrow."
After finishing the call with Donald, David called Sean back immediately, and Sean was very happy when he heard that David promised to come, and even It means that tomorrow night he will be introduced to many big figures in the Angsa Group one by one.
In this way, the time came to the next morning.
David first came to the bureau to explain some matters after he went to Washington, and then he took Nissenbucky Simmons and the three of them to Los Angeles International Airport and boarded the flight to Washington. .
After more than five hours of flight, the plane arrived over Washington and slowly landed at Dulles International Airport.
Because they knew he was coming, the General Administration had arranged the greeting personnel and vehicles early. The group of them were successfully picked up in the car and returned to the General Administration.
Half an hour later, the vehicle the group was waiting for stopped at the entrance of the General Administration.
After getting off the car and stepping into the gate, whether it was David or Nissen Bucky Simmons, there was a sense of expectation and emotion in their hearts.
The last time they were here was several months ago.
At that time, they had just received the notice of being transferred to the Western Suburbs Bureau, but they did not have a clear idea of whether they could successfully complete the tax clearance work in Hollywood and when they would be able to enter the General Bureau.
And now when they come here again, they have not only achieved the success of Hollywood's tax clearance operations; they have also gathered the honors of a series of successful tax clearance operations in the Sackler family, Swiss banks, and the cryptocurrency field.
It can be said that they are only one step away from entering the General Administration, oh no, maybe only half a step away!
(End of this chapter)