Chapter 336: It’s Tax Season Again

Gu Hang and the senior officials of the alliance designed a series of political system plans and economic development plans for Black Arrow Star.

But many of these things are not immediately effective, but require long-term implementation and patience.

For example, completely eliminate the ‘nobles’ and ‘landlords’ classes;

For example, population quality education;

For example, the system of copying the alliance will be completely implemented on Black Arrow Star...

Many of these long-term policies have not been implemented at all in the past six months, let alone seen results.

In this regard, the alliance has also maintained sufficient strategic determination. There is no need to rush with many things, just take your time.

In addition, some things that could be done immediately and with relatively little resistance were implemented.

For example, agricultural mechanization liberated the agricultural population and established three industrial centers...

These have effectively solved many problems and brought many benefits.

Especially the three industrial centers directly managed by the alliance government. In terms of construction specifications, they are all built according to the level of an industrial diffusion chain with a population of tens of millions and a population of 50 million. Although it was impossible to accommodate an industrial population of 30 million people at once, within half a year, these three industrial centers began to operate thanks to various equipment and technical guidance transported from Nuo Xiaoxing.

These three places have not had time to expand significantly within half a year, and the half-year construction and production period is not enough for them to contribute much wealth in this period of tax revenue.

But there is no doubt that as time goes by, their potential will gradually spread.

At the same time, because these industrial centers are newly built, a large number of people are attracted through government orders or economic conditions, and there is no residual influence from local forces. Everything can be started from scratch, and the existing management experience of the alliance can be directly used. It can be regarded as breaking out of the prison of primitive feudal society and opening up a new world.

And when these three industrial centers are completed, the relevant experience can continue to be copied externally.

To put it bluntly, the Alliance is not too afraid of the feudal remnants of the 'nobles' and 'landlords' that are deeply rooted on Black Arrow. When the productivity develops and people's lives are quickly freed from the land, those aristocratic landowners will immediately feel the devastating blow to their inherent rights caused by the development of productivity.

What's more, the coalition government will deliberately promote this situation at the administrative, legislative and other levels.

For example, a large number of people have been moved to industrial centers. What about landowners who lack enough manpower to plant crops?

The only option was to sell or lease land to the alliance 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 significant reduction in food prices. Many manor owners who continued to maintain the traditional feudal system found that the drop in food prices was unbearable, and it was very costly to maintain more farmers for production, so they had no choice but to 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 established the independence and liberation of farmers through legislation and law enforcement. Anyone who dared to impose physical restrictions on farmers and did not give farm laborers the standard treatment for their assigned ranks would all be punished with an iron fist.

What ensures that all this can proceed in accordance with the will of the alliance is a military force that is loyal enough and powerful enough.

The Alliance Independent Commission Against Corruption, led by Lambert, has witchers to carry out its operations; even witchers can't handle it, as well as the army.

In just half a year, a ‘major trend’ has formed on the Black Arrow Star. Anyone who can see a little farther knows that not only has the sky of Black Arrow Star changed, but now the earth has also changed, and people's hearts have also changed.

Thanks to the efforts of the Alliance's Propaganda Department officials, the originally ignorant farmers can now say a few sentences, such as 'We are all members of the Alliance', 'Hard-working hands can make you rich', and 'All citizens of the Empire are created equal' Something like that.

These are all changes that have occurred in only about half a year.

However, the coalition government still has a major task in this half-year period-imperial tax.

Imperial tax is a tight curse that presses on every imperial world and never relaxes.

This year is particularly difficult for the league.

There is no need to worry about the imperial tax on Raging Owl Star. We have already prepared enough for it.

Two years have passed, and the tax amount of Raging 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, and taxes must be paid in full, but with the current productivity of the Raging Owl Star, these taxes are not a problem.

Today, the population of Raging Owl has continued to grow in the past two years and has reached around 65 million people. Most of these, of course, came from immigrants absorbed from Koruga 3. Most of them were placed in the Weixingcheng Industrial Center and the mechanized agricultural production industry in the Beiqinggu area. A small amount was added to other provinces.

According to the latest data, the annual industrial and agricultural output of Nu Xiao Star has reached a scale of hundreds of millions of tax dollars. The planetary government's financial balance has also reached 30 million per year.

After these two years, I have a balance of almost 40 million (not that much in the first year), so it is no problem to pay 10 million in taxes.

Moreover, you don’t have to pay it all.

There is an Astra Militarum called the Raging Bear Legion in the Alliance. All expenses incurred by the Alliance in providing the Raging Bear Legion are tax deductible.

This is no small sum of money.

First of all, before this, Gu Hang had applied for the expansion of the Raging Bear Legion.

This is really not something Gu Hang did to deduct taxes. The performance of the alliance's army on Koruga 3 is obvious to all. He is a member of the Faches family and the commander of the 3rd Dragon Eagle Legion. I hope that the Raging Bear Legion can Expand the establishment and better support the war on Koroga 3.

Instead, Gu Hang severely reduced the number of expansions they requested.

If it expands too much, we have to send troops from the alliance homeland, which is unbearable.

He just organized the six divisions and brigades that the alliance's original Central Army Group sent to Koroja into the Raging Bear Legion. Although five of them are the lowest garrison divisions, there are also elite units such as the 59th Armored Brigade.

The total value of these six divisions and brigades is more than one million tax coins.

At the same time, there are still some troops of the Raging Bear Legion, which were fighting on the Black Arrow Star before.

When the Alliance came to carry out the Black Arrow campaign, they came to 'counter-rebellion' and applied for support from the Astra Militarum, which received a response from the Raging Bear Legion.

There are legal procedures for all this.

Counting the Black Arrow War and the war on Koroja 3, after two years of fighting, the Raging Bear Legion totaled 180,000 people and lost nearly 40,000, which was fully replaced by the Alliance.

In addition, coupled with the replenishment of technical equipment such as tanks and armored vehicles, ammunition and logistics after the loss...

Counting all this money, the total is four million tax coins.

The expenditure on the Raging Bear Legion alone was worth five million.

In fact, the alliance only needs to pay five million.

Compared with the fiscal surplus of 40 million, it is drizzle.

However, although everything on the Raging Owl Star is prosperous, the Black Arrow Star is a big trouble.

The amount of tax 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 definitely can't start preparing until the tax is due, because it will be too late. In fact, in the past, the Black Arrow Star was engaged in tax collection work almost all the time. The node every two years was just the time to hand over the quota when the empire's tax fleet arrived.

In the past two years, there has been a war on the Black Arrow Star. A large amount of resources have been consumed, and the alliance government has only recently fully recovered the planet, and it has not yet been able to establish a unified and powerful government. How to collect taxes?

There is only half a year left for the alliance.

Several countries that fought the war quickly, or did not fight at all, did have stable tax amounts, which partially solved the problem of about 35 million; the many trophies produced by the army during the war, and the losses of some resistance The thorough purge of the great nobles and the plundering of the treasury of a defeated country like Pampos could yield more than 20 million tax coins.

Then, it’s time to pay the personal tax.

In the process of ruling the alliance, Gu Hang emphasized one principle to senior government officials countless times, that is, paying personal taxes is not advisable.

This will not only impact the government's credibility and stability, but is also very uneconomical. A person is worth five tax coins, but the value of a person's life far exceeds this number in Gu Hang's opinion.

If people from any world can't earn back these five tax coins, then the governor of this planet is doing a terrible job.

However, the situation of Black Arrow Star can be looked at with a little more relaxation.

Some people are taxed not because Gu Hang wants to collect people and pay them, but because there are a group of 'die-hard elements' on the planet itself, as well as the problem of prisoners of war that was difficult to solve before.

Then just hand it over and get it done once and for all.

In the past, Black Arrow Star often resorted to asking others to make up the tax when it did not pay enough taxes.

Adding up all these zeros and zeros, Black Arrow Star can handle about 60 million tax coins on its own.

There is still a difference of 20 million.

Then only Raging Star can fill this hole.

From this perspective, the Alliance's conquest of the Black Arrow Star has been a loss of blood so far.

The army spends money on fighting, investment and construction, and it also has to make up for the tax hole in the Black Arrow Star...

But Prime Minister Oceana has promised Gu Hang that Black Arrow Star will be self-sufficient next time it pays taxes, which will be two years later.

This can be regarded as the guarantee she made to Gu Hang, the ruler of the alliance, as the head of the government.

…

Half a year has passed by in a hurry.

The Chief Tax Officer of the Dragon Eagle Star Territory, Neil Lois, came to the Pegasus Star Territory again on his tax tour of the Star Territory.

According to the taxation importance of the entire star region, generally speaking, Lois would only visit Koroga and Winged Star in person. The amount of tax each of these two planets has to pay is about four billion tax coins. As long as we keep an eye on the conditions of these two planets, the taxation work for the entire Pegasus sector will be almost completed.

At most, we can take a look at the three worlds in the Falches Galaxy. The rest are all leftovers.

Governor Gu, who has become so famous in the sector in recent years, only has a tax amount of 5 million per year.

Too little.

Lois has never had the energy to pay personal attention to this kind of world. The last time I came to the Tianma Star District and took a walk around the Raging Owl Star, it was simply because of the War Apostle's request.

But this time, there were no war apostles, but Lois still took the initiative.

The tax collector comes, of course, to collect taxes.

But it’s not just about collecting taxes.

In fact, she came here mainly to meet Gu Hang.

The Raging Owl Star has 10 million tax coins in two years; the Black Arrow Star has 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 be unable to pay taxes.

"Then you think too highly of me." When Gu Hang heard the compliment, he refused to accept it again and again, "Black Arrow Star has just joined the alliance, and there is nothing left to be done. There are more than 400 million people there, and we have to pay eight in this round. Tens of millions of dollars in taxes, I’m also under a lot of pressure.”

Lois smiled and said: "The pressure is only for this year, and isn't it all handed in in the end? I heard that it only took half a year for you to control the situation on the Black Arrow Star? I have seen the results of your work. It took half a year. It’s pretty good to have it like this. When it comes to the next tax season, you will definitely have no pressure at all.”

Gu Hang smiled happily and looked very cheerful.

Even though he is hiding his intentions, it doesn't make much sense if he continues to deny such an obvious fact.

Black Arrow Star has indeed developed quite well in the six months since it fell into the hands of the alliance. There is no denying this.

Half a year ago, when the war on Black Arrow was settling down, two big bosses from the alliance, Oceana and Lambert, came to Black Arrow.

Gu Hang himself also stayed in 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 the effect will take longer to show, at least with the accumulation of part of the Black Arrow Star and the addition of some more holes from the Angry Owl Star, there will definitely be no problem in paying the tax.

Moreover, the Raging Owl Star is still developing rapidly, and the Black Arrow Star is also changing for the better.

Even the most difficult tax payment work this year has been overcome, and it will only get easier in the future.

This is why Lois sincerely praised Gu Hang after witnessing the changes in the Black Arrow Star.

Over the years, she has worked as a tax officer and traveled continuously in hundreds of worlds in the Dragon Eagle Star Territory. In her eyes, most of the world is a pool of stagnant water. It was like this the last time she came back, and it will be like this the next time she comes back.

Two years ago, when she came to the Raging Star, she saw the huge changes in the Raging Star; now, the changes on the Raging Star are even greater. At the same time, Gu Hang also led the alliance into the interstellar, bringing This huge change was brought to Black Arrow Star.

Lois was full of admiration for the young governor.

During the chat, she couldn't help but said: "I really hope you can be the governor of Koruga 3, then my job will not be so difficult."

Hearing this, Gu Hang's heart skipped a beat.

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