Chapter 757: Eating from the bowl and looking at the pot
According to the calculation, in the past ten years, the central government of the empire not only failed to collect taxes from the alliance, but also had to pay 3.3 trillion to the alliance?
That's absolutely impossible.
Regardless of whether the empire is willing to give it or not, they simply cannot come up with the money.
On the contrary, the Ministry of Taxation, and even the various imperial departments that need funding from the Ministry of Taxation, are all looking forward to the high taxes paid by the alliance to fill their gaps.
The total tax revenue of the central empire in a year is approximately 15 trillion to 20 trillion - this is the net income after deducting the 40% total tax amount received from various places and a large amount of tax costs.
This is a huge sum, but the empire is too big, and there are too many places to spend money. No matter how much income there is, it is not enough. There are holes to fill everywhere, and wars to fight everywhere.
They can't give money to the alliance, and they can't even refuse the alliance's money.
However, the war expenditure that should be paid to the alliance is clearly laid out here. How can we just deny it?
This matter was also the key point in the repeated negotiations between the alliance officials and the Imperial Center on Holy Terra before the signing of the "Alliance Plan".
At the beginning, there was a difference between the price calculated by the Alliance and the price calculated by the Imperial Military Affairs Department.
The alliance calculated that it would cost about 29 trillion, which was the result of a large emphasis on the alliance's military merits and achievements, and the full combat allowance. The Military Affairs Department did not agree with this part.
The first version calculated by the Ministry of Military Affairs was only 21 trillion.
The two sides argued a lot, and Gallardo even went to Gu Hang in person, and told Gu Hang with a wry smile not to go too far, saying that 29 trillion was absolutely impossible.
No matter how much he stood on the side of the alliance, this number was too exaggerated, so exaggerated that it was simply unacceptable.
As long as he dares to nod, he will immediately be in charge of the position of Prime Minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs.
But even so, Gallardo was urgently called over by Qi Bodu and scolded, saying that 21 trillion was not enough and it was still a price that the empire could not afford.
Gallardo, covered in dust, had no choice but to come back and discuss with Gu Hang.
Gu Hang spoke to Gallardo and blocked Gallardo back:
"Let's not discuss this issue directly. You should also understand that I can neither give up the benefits gained by the alliance nor do I want you to be caught in the middle. I don't want this matter to affect our relationship. Since the Prime Minister insists on you talking, then discuss it with the officials of the alliance."
Gallardo also believed this, and from then on, he would not look for Gu Hang. Even if he did, he would not talk about this issue, but would talk about other things.
With the military officials racking their brains to come up with the arithmetic and Prime Minister Saigoto personally paying attention, the amount finally agreed upon was 16 trillion.
To be honest, the empire doesn't want to pay this money.
But you can't not pay.
Political conventions are here. It is easy to shirk the alliance, but what about other universes and star regions? In the future, when the empire recruits other local armies to cross the universe to participate in the war, those local armies will have to think twice.
If we fight too well or make too many sacrifices, will the central government of the empire default on its debts?
In comparison, the loss of reputation is very great, and will even directly affect the orthodoxy and legitimacy of the central government of the empire.
In the end, the result of the discussion was that the alliance would pay the first installment of imperial taxes, which was the tax for the first two years, as usual.
In the second period, that is, the third and fourth years, only one trillion yuan of taxes need to be paid out of a total of 1.7 trillion yuan.
From now on, the alliance will only need to pay 1 trillion tax coins in materials every two years as imperial taxes. The remaining part will be deducted from the war expenses paid by the imperial center.
The Alliance will not restore normal imperial tax rates until the 16 trillion war expenditures are fully offset.
Adding it all up, it can be deducted for almost 15 years!
This means that for about 15 years, the alliance will only have to pay 500 billion tax coins every year.
The help this would bring to the alliance would definitely not be as great as directly giving the 16 trillion to the alliance and then having the alliance pay normal taxes.
After all, if the alliance had 16 trillion in cash, there would be a lot it could do. Some could be used to pay taxes, and the rest could be invested. That would significantly increase the alliance's development speed.
But it’s good enough to achieve such a result.
After all, later on, Qi Bodu even personally took action, repeatedly calling Gu Hang over to put pressure on him personally, and even threatened to turn against him.
Gu Hang had no choice but to agree.
In general, the alliance's tax pressure will be greatly reduced within fifteen years before the $16 trillion war spending is fully offset.
Ossena, the Prime Minister of the union, grew several more hairs after hearing the news.
It was a huge relief.
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After inspecting Lingze Star and confirming that the first phase of the alliance's tax work was progressing smoothly, and that Lingze Star's key project, the construction of the tax port, was progressing as expected and would be completed on time and with quality, Gu Hang did not stay in Lingze Star for long, but continued his journey.
His ultimate goal is to return to the Dragon Eagle Star Region, where he started his career.
The capital of the alliance is still the Angry Owl Star, and the Dragon Eagle Star Region is still the most core area of the alliance.
In fact, someone had suggested before that we should move the ruling center of the alliance to the north.
After all, the alliance's ruling area has now expanded to the entire Spider Web Universe. Gu Hang's highest status is also the high-ranking chairmanship brought by the chairman of the Spider Web Universe.
It is indeed not appropriate to place the alliance's central government in the Dragon Eagle Star Region. Among the fourteen star regions actually controlled by the alliance, the Dragon Eagle Star Region is located in the southernmost part. It is quite far from the Spider Web Universe, especially the northern part of the Universe, which is not conducive to governance.
However, Gu Hang still rejected the idea.
Firstly, the Dragon Eagle Star Region was the alliance's base camp for decades, and most of the construction resources that Gu Hang had invested, whether it was funds or grace points, were concentrated here. The productivity of one place in the Dragon Eagle Star Region was almost equal to that of the other thirteen combined.
Of course, this will change in the years to come as the vitality of the Spider Web Universe gradually recovers.
Moving is not so appropriate.
Besides, who says that the Dragon Eagle Universe is not suitable to be the core?
Gu Hang's eyes are always looking outward.
He hadn't finished eating the spider web in the bowl yet, but he was already looking at what was in the pot.
The fragrant food in that pot is from the Eastern Universe.
(End of this chapter)
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