Chapter 336: It’s Tax Season Again
Gu Hang and senior officials of the alliance designed a series of political system and economic development plans for Black Arrow Star.
But many of these things do not take effect immediately. Instead, they require long-term execution and patience.
For example, completely sweeping away the class of 'nobles' and 'landlords';
For example, population quality education;
For example, the Copy Alliance's system is completely implemented on Black Arrow Star...
Many of these long-term policies have not even been implemented in the past six months, let alone produced any results.
In this regard, the alliance has maintained sufficient strategic determination. There is no need to rush many things, just take your time.
In addition, there were some things that could be done immediately and had relatively little resistance, so they were pushed forward.
For example, agricultural mechanization, the liberation of the agricultural population, and the establishment of three industrial centers...
These have effectively solved many problems and brought a lot of benefits.
Especially the three industrial centers directly managed by the Union Government. In terms of construction specifications, they were all built according to the level of a population of tens of millions and an industrial diffusion chain that radiates to 50 million people. Although it was impossible to really accommodate 30 million industrial populations at once, within half a year, these three industrial centers also began to operate due to various equipment and technical guidance transported from the Angry Owl Star.
These three places do not have enough time to expand greatly within half a year, and the half-year construction and production period is not enough for them to contribute much wealth in this period's tax revenue.
But there is no doubt that their potential will gradually spread over a longer period of time.
At the same time, since these industrial centers were newly built, a large number of people were attracted through government instructions or economic conditions. There was no residual influence of local forces. Everything started from scratch and they could directly utilize the alliance's ready-made management experience. It was like jumping out of the cage of primitive feudal society and creating a new world.
Once these three industrial centers are well developed, the relevant experience can be replicated externally.
To put it bluntly, the Alliance is not afraid of the deep-rooted feudal remnants of "nobles" and "landlords" on Black Arrow Star. When productivity develops and people's lives are quickly freed from the land, those nobles and landlords will immediately feel the devastating blow of productivity development to their inherent rights.
What's more, the coalition government will deliberately promote this situation at multiple levels, including administration and legislation.
For example, if a large number of people were relocated to industrial centers, what would happen to the landlords who lacked sufficient manpower for farming?
They could only sell or lease the land to the union officials, establish government-owned collective farms, and then mechanized agricultural production began.
This will lead to a significant reduction in agricultural production costs, followed by a sharp drop in food prices. Many manor owners who continue to maintain the traditional feudal system find that food prices have fallen too much to bear and that it is very unprofitable to maintain more farmers in production, so they can only sell their land or lease it to the alliance.
This is normal economic logic. In order to make all this happen quickly, the alliance also passed legislation and law enforcement to establish the independence and liberation of farmers. Those who dared to restrict farmers and did not give hired farmers the standard treatment they were assigned would all be hit with an iron fist.
What guarantees that all this can be carried out in accordance with the will of the alliance is a sufficiently loyal and powerful military force.
Lambert leads the Alliance Independent Commission Against Corruption, and the execution is done by witchers; if the witchers can't do it, there is still the army.
In just half a year, a "general trend" has already taken shape on Black Arrow Star. Anyone who can see a little further knows that Black Arrow Star has not only changed the sky, but also the land and people's hearts.
Thanks to the efforts of the propaganda officials of the alliance, the farmers who were originally confused can now say a few words, such as "We are all members of the alliance", "Hard work can make you rich", and "The people of the empire live and are equal".
These are the changes that took place in just about half a year.
However, the coalition government still has an important task during this six months - imperial tax.
Imperial taxes are a tight ring that weighs on every imperial world and is never relaxed.
This year, it is particularly sad for the league.
There is no need to worry about the imperial tax on Angry Owl Star, as we have already made sufficient preparations.
Two years have passed, and the tax amount of Angry Owl Star is only 10 million tax coins. Although there is no star district government to help bear three quarters of the tax this time, the full tax amount must be paid, but with the current productivity of Angry Owl Star, these taxes are not a problem.
The population of the current Angry Owl Star has continued to grow over the past two years and has reached about 65 million people. Most of them are of course immigrants absorbed from Koroja 3. Most of them were settled in the Weixing City Industrial Center and the mechanized agricultural production industry in the Beiqing Valley area. A small number of them were added to other provinces.
According to the latest data, the annual industrial and agricultural output of Angry Owl has reached hundreds of millions of tax coins, and the fiscal surplus of the planetary government has also reached 30 million per year.
After these two years, there is a surplus of almost 40 million (not that much in the first year), so there is no problem paying 10 million in taxes.
Moreover, you don’t have to pay the full amount.
The Alliance has the Angry Bear Legion, a star army. The Alliance can deduct the cost of supporting the Angry Bear Legion from taxes.
This is not a small amount of money.
First of all, before this, Gu Hang had applied for the expansion of the Angry Bear Legion.
This is really not something Gu Hang did to offset taxes. The performance of the Alliance's army in Koroga 3 is obvious to all. It is the members of the Fats family and the commander of the Dragon Eagle 3rd Legion who hope that the Angry Bear Legion can expand its organization and better support the war in Koroga 3.
Instead, Gu Hang severely reduced the number of expansions they requested.
If we expand too much, we will have to send troops from the alliance’s homeland, and we won’t be able to sustain it.
He simply incorporated the six divisions and brigades that the Alliance's original Central Army Group had sent to Koroja into the Angry Bear Legion. Although five of them were the lowest garrison divisions, there were also elite units such as the 59th Armored Brigade.
The total value of these six divisions is more than one million tax coins.
At the same time, part of the Angry Bear Legion's troops had previously fought on the Black Arrow Star.
When the Alliance came to the Battle of Black Arrow Star, they were there to "suppress the rebellion" and requested support from the Astra Militarum, which was responded to by the Angry Bear Legion.
There is a legal process for all of this.
Including the battles on Black Arrow and Koroja 3, after two years of fighting, the Angry Bear Legion had a total of 180,000 people, with a loss of nearly 40,000, which was fully compensated by the Alliance.
In addition, there are the replacements of lost technical equipment such as tanks and armored vehicles, ammunition and logistics...
All these money added up to 4 million tax coins.
The expenditure on the Angry Bear Legion alone cost five million.
In fact, the alliance only needs to pay five million.
Compared with the fiscal surplus of 40 million, it's just a drizzle.
However, although everything on the Angry Owl Star is thriving, the Black Arrow Star is a big problem.
The amount of taxes that Black Arrow Star has to pay in two years is 80 million tax coins.
If you want to do a good job of collecting taxes on a planet, you can't wait until the tax is due to be paid before you start preparing. In fact, Black Arrow Star has been collecting taxes almost all the time in the past. The node every two years is just the time for the Empire's tax fleet to arrive and hand over the quota.
In the past two years, there has been a war on Black Arrow Star. A large amount of resources have been consumed, and the Alliance Government has only recently fully recovered the planet, and a unified and powerful government has not yet been established. How can taxes be collected?
The alliance only has half a year left.
Several countries that fought wars quickly or did not fight at all had stable tax amounts, which solved the problem of about 35 million. The army also took out more than 20 million tax coins from the many spoils of war, the thorough elimination of certain resisting nobles, and the plunder of the treasuries of defeated countries such as Panpos.
Then, it’s time to pay taxes.
During the process of ruling the alliance, Gu Hang emphasized a principle to senior government officials countless times, that is, paying human taxes is not advisable.
This will not only impact the credibility and stability of the government, but it is also very uneconomical. A person is worth five tax coins, but the value of a person's life, in Gu Hang's opinion, far exceeds this number.
If people from any world cannot earn back these five tax coins, then it means that the governor of this planet has done a terrible job.
However, we can be a little more relaxed about the situation on Black Arrow Star.
The reason for some people's tax is not that Gu Hang wants to collect people for oral sex, but that there are already a group of "die-hards" on the planet, as well as the problem of prisoners of war that was difficult to solve before.
Then just hand it in and be done with it, once and for all.
In the past, Black Arrow Star often resorted to asking others for compensation when it failed to pay enough taxes.
Adding all these things up, Black Arrow Star can handle about 60 million tax coins on its own.
There is still a difference of 20 million.
Then only Angry Owl Star can fill this hole.
From this perspective, the Alliance's conquest of Black Arrow Star has so far been a huge loss.
The army spends money on war, investment and construction, and Black Arrow Star needs to make up for the tax gap...
But Prime Minister Ossena has assured Gu Hang that after the next tax payment, which is two years later, Black Arrow Star will be self-sufficient.
This can be regarded as a guarantee she made as the head of the government to Gu Hang, the ruler of the alliance.
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Half a year passed quickly.
Neil Laois, the chief tax officer of the Dragon Eagle star field, once again came to the Pegasus star field on his star field tax tour.
According to the importance of taxation in the entire star region, generally speaking, Lao Yisi would only go to Korojia and Feiyi Star in person. The amount of tax to be paid by these two planets was about 4 billion tax coins. As long as he kept an eye on the situation of these two planets, the taxation work of the entire Tianma Star Region would be almost completed.
At most, we can take a look at the three worlds in the Facheras galaxy, and the rest are all scraps.
Governor Gu, who has gained great fame in the star zone in recent years, only collects 5 million in taxes a year.
Very little.
Lao Yisi has never had the energy to pay attention to this kind of world. The last time he came to the Pegasus Star Region and went to the Wrathful Owl Star for a tour, it was purely because of the request of the War Apostle.
But this time, there was no war apostle, but Lao Yisi still came on his own initiative.
Of course, the tax collector comes to collect taxes.
But it’s not just about collecting taxes.
In fact, the main reason she came here was to see Gu Hang.
For the Angry Owl Star, there are 10 million tax coins in two years; for the Black Arrow Star, there are 80 million tax coins in two years. The total is less than 100 million, which is a drop in the bucket for the tax fleet.
Moreover, she didn't think Gu Hang would not be able to pay taxes.
"You think too highly of me." Gu Hang was overwhelmed by the compliment. "Black Arrow Star has just joined the alliance, and there is a lot of work to be done. There are more than 400 million people there, and they have to pay 80 million in taxes this time. I am under a lot of pressure."
Lao Yisi smiled and said, "The pressure is only for this year, and didn't you pay it all in the end? I heard that you have only controlled the situation on Black Arrow Star for half a year? I have seen the results of your work. It is already quite good to have achieved this in half a year. By the next tax season, you will definitely have no pressure at all."
Gu Hang smiled cheerfully, looking very cheerful.
Although I want to hide my shortcomings, it doesn't make much sense to deny such an obvious fact.
There is no denying that Black Arrow Star has indeed developed quite well in the past six months since it fell into the hands of the Alliance.
Half a year ago, when the dust of the war on Black Arrow Star was just settling, two bigwigs from the Alliance government, Ossena and Lambert, came to Black Arrow Star.
Gu Hang himself also stayed on Black Arrow Star for a long time during this period.
The alliance came up with a series of political and economic reform plans and began to implement them.
Although it will take a longer time for the effect to show up, but at least, with a part of the accumulation from Black Arrow Star and some filling of holes from Angry Owl Star, there will be no problem in paying the tax.
Moreover, the Angry Owl Star is still developing at a high speed, and the Black Arrow Star is also undergoing an overall transformation for the better.
We have even gone through the most difficult tax payment process this year, and it will only get easier in the future.
This is also the reason why Lao Yisi sincerely praised Gu Hang after witnessing the changes in Black Arrow Star with his own eyes.
She has been a tax collector for many years, traveling to hundreds of worlds in the Dragon Eagle Star Region. In her eyes, most worlds are stagnant. It was like this the last time she came, and it will be the same the next time she comes.
Two years ago, when she came to the Angry Owl Star, she saw the tremendous changes on the Angry Owl Star; now, the changes on the Angry Owl Star are even greater. At the same time, Gu Hang also led the alliance into the interstellar space and brought these tremendous changes to the Black Arrow Star.
Laois was full of admiration for the young governor.
During the chat, she couldn't help but say, "I really hope you can be the governor of Koroja 3, then my job won't be so difficult."
Hearing this, Gu Hang's heart skipped a beat.
The real purpose is revealed?
(End of this chapter)
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