Before reading this book, the concept of taxation nothing, just think it is part of the national financial revenue. Grain tax, working people must be post. Or even think, before school when they are not paid taxes, when dealing with a number of government departments, did not dare confidently, always feel that they did not pay taxes, but always trouble others work.
Now that I think is really silly naive.
About tax
In fact, our lives all the time to pay taxes, because a lot of the general tax, not only have corporate income tax, personal income tax, as well as value-added tax, stamp tax, consumption tax, vehicle tax, fuel tax and so on.
All goods life has value-added tax, VAT is to shift the cost of transport of goods or regulation of the economy. Only in our country, the VAT is hidden inside in commodity prices, so we did not know about such a tax. For example, we buy alcohol and tobacco, these are some of the consumer products, they not only include VAT, there are additional consumption tax, and therefore the price of alcohol and tobacco was so high.
In some countries, the price of supermarket goods above includes the cost of goods how much, how much VAT. In our country the general VAT is 17%, such as some food is 13%. Thus, 100 dollars of stuff inside, we paid 17 dollars tax money are ultimately borne by the consumer.
Other taxes will be much in our country does not provide legal or tax charges quite a bit, which is the collateral at all levels of government revenue.
Taxpayers' rights
In the United States these national parliament, the tax must be developed through the consent of the taxpayer. Therefore it says, even if the tax obligation is right. Why is it right? Because you pay taxes, buy some public services to the government. As long as you pay, you have the right to claim the government to provide some protection and services. But in China, due to opaque financial system, state law, some involving confidential financial withheld, many governments regard the gray overhead on the confidential section shall not be made public. Financial opaque, will inevitably lead to government corruption.
Simply put, the taxpayers the right to develop the existing taxes, have the right to know the flow of tax, namely the right to know.
At present, China has been disclosed in some areas of financial inventory, but most areas remain dark room finances, the people will not know.
Government and Taxation
Since the tax system we implemented in 1994, resulting in separation of the central government budgets at all levels, financial authority and powers uneven, resulting in the government are getting richer and the poor more and more places, even some government debt to 300%.
Such a government itself is no guarantee, but also how to benefit the masses.
However, some local governments to raise revenue, jack up prices, leading to soaring house prices.
These are related to people's self-interest thing, the road is still groping tax and legal system of our country, I hope the future will be better and better, at least for now the state is some confusion.
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