Daqin started with offering immortal medicine

Many exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes in the past were abolished, and only income tax was levied on merchants, while value-added tax was added to commodities, also known as commodity tax.

In addition to the reform of income tax and commodity tax, the new Daqin taxation also abolished oral taxation.

The so-called oral tax is the tax on the population as the taxable object, and it can also be called a poll tax.

The taxes in the Qin Dynasty mainly include land rent, oral tax, and miscellaneous tax.

Before the Qin Dynasty, land rent was levied according to the number of acres of land. After the establishment of the Qin Dynasty, "the taxpayer gave up the land, and the number of land was not enough, and the number was necessary." The number of acres of land is levied, even if there is not so much land, tax should be levied according to this amount.

The land rent rate is a "tithe tax", which is divided into two categories: millet and millet.

Farmers at that time usually had a family of five occupying 10 mu of land, and the income from 120 mu was less than [-] shi, and the tithe should be paid [-] shi.Oral Fu is paid by mouth, and the oral Fu of the Qin Dynasty is [-] yuan.

If each person pays 120 qian per person per year, a family of five needs to pay 600 qian. At that time, the food price was about "600 qian shi", and 20 qian was equivalent to [-] shigu, which was twice the land rent.

Miscellaneous taxes are temporary collections of various items, and these taxes together account for two-thirds of the farmers' harvest.Therefore, for the peasants of the Qin Dynasty, taxes and duties were extremely heavy, so there was a saying that "the first emperor then annexed the world, made great achievements internally, fought against the barbarians outside, received most of the taxes, sent Lu Zuo's garrison, and men's strength Farming is not enough for food and wages, and women's spinning is not enough for clothes".

A farmer or a businessman worked hard all year round, and two-thirds of it was handed over to the court. This is obviously not advisable for the traveler Li Yang.

If the tax is too heavy, the society will lack initiative, let alone innovation.

If Daqin wants to develop and make progress, it must make people in the whole society full of energy and passion for the future. Only in this way can Daqin be creative.

And the only way is to cut taxes and benefit the people.

Therefore, the abolition of the oral tax, which is twice as heavy as the land tax, is definitely a major burden-reducing reform for the common people.

In Li Yang's words, it means that the tax on the mouth tax has been reduced, so that the people have money in their pockets to buy goods, and the tax deducted from the tax on the mouth is actually earned back from the value-added tax on the business.

At the same time, if the people have purchasing power, then the commercial economy will also have momentum.

All in all, reducing taxes is a prerequisite for Daqin to build a commercial economy and society.

As soon as Daqin's tax law reform was announced, the whole country was excited!

Whether it is a farmer or a businessman, everyone cheers and tells each other.Some were so happy that they even wept with joy.

Especially for businessmen, Daqin's tax law reform made them ecstatic and moved to tears.

Why do you say that? First, Daqin’s new tax law not only eliminates oral taxes, but also shifts commercial taxes to commodities.In the past, when merchants employed labor, they had to pay labor tax on their behalf, and the labor tax was twice that of the land rent tax. Taxes would be unbearable for them.

But now, with the abolition of oral taxation, it is tantamount to expanding the business infinitely, without worrying about using too much labor and being unable to bear the oral taxation.

In addition, there were commodity taxes on salt and iron in the past, but these commodity taxes were collected directly on their merchants, but now this kind of commodity tax is directly levied on commodities and is borne by consumers. This is also a great joy .

Of course, the most moving businessman is the income tax.

Because today's income tax is collected on a monthly basis.

What does that mean?

That is, in the past, the family assets of merchants had to be recorded and registered. How many assets they had were all recorded in the court books. It was naked like the family assets of the imperial court. For merchants, the family assets were only temporarily controlled by them. Generally, as long as the court says a word, it will be donated directly.

But now, the family property of a merchant no longer needs to be registered by the imperial court. He only needs to register his monthly income with the imperial court and pay income tax according to the income level.

That is to say, the imperial court will not care about how much money your family has.

Whether you have one hundred thousand gold or millions of gold, the imperial court will not know, nor will they want to know, they only care about your monthly floating income.

For businessmen, this is not only a lack of exorbitant donations, but also the significance of the privacy of private property, or in other words, the significance of absolute ownership of personal property.

This meaning is the most important for businessmen.

It is precisely because of this that on the day when the Daqin Tax Law was promulgated, representatives of rich merchants in Xianyang, headed by the Ba family, rushed to Li Yang's mansion to thank Li Yang for his reform of the tax law.

This allowed them to see that the status of businessmen was slowly improving.

"Uncle Wu, let us meet Lord Zhen, please!"

"Yeah, let's go in and thank Lord Zhen!"

Outside the gate of Li Yang's mansion, Xianyang businessmen headed by Ba Shi are asking Uncle Wu one after another.

At the beginning, Li Yang told them that the status of the merchant would definitely be improved. Before, everyone didn't quite believe it, but today they really believed it.

Lord Zhen has indeed been working hard for his status as a businessman.

For this, all businessmen are grateful.

It's not enough to express my gratitude if I don't go in and say thank you.

However, Li Yang really didn't dare to see him.

The reform of the tax law is the tax reform of the court, and it is not something that can be reformed by saying the tax reform. If you meet these businessmen, it is tantamount to taking the credit for the tax reform by yourself.

This is absolutely unwise.

Although Fusu might not care about this matter, but as Li Yang, who has watched countless historical dramas, if a courtier takes too much credit for himself and reduces the court's kindness to the people to the merits of the courtier alone, that's a big deal. This kind of courtier will definitely not live long. Too many idiots have died of this in history.

Although Li Yang is usually frivolous and arrogant, he even dares to pretend to be aggressive in front of the court and even the emperor, but he will not be stupid enough to take the favor of the court as his own.

Therefore, Li Yang directly asked Uncle Wu to resign.

"My son said that the tax reform is a matter of the court. The credit lies with the court, His Majesty, and the eldest son. Please come back, otherwise my son will be unhappy." Uncle Wu said to the group of businessmen.

"No, we won't go back if Lord Zhen doesn't see you."

"Yes, we won't go back, just wait here."

However, these businessmen seem to be carrying it on their shoulders, and they don't listen to persuasion at all.

Someone also said: "We are here to thank Lord Zhen, how could Lord Zhen be angry, we don't believe it."

Li Yang was also very helpless.

Your mother is crazy, you will kill me if you do this, don't you believe that I will be angry?

Seeing that these guys are so ignorant, Li Yang had no choice but to come to the gate of the courtyard, pointing at Ba Shi and yelling angrily: "Ba Shi, you are so stupid, what are you doing here with them!"

Everyone was stunned, but Li Yang was really angry.

"The businessmen in Xianyang said they would come to thank you for this tax reform." Seeing Li Yang's displeasure, Ba Shi said cautiously.

Li Yang said: "You really want to thank me?"

The crowd nodded.

Li Yang said: "Okay, then everyone will follow me into the palace, and go directly to thank the eldest son!"