[More Than 300 Million in Taxes, Honored Guest of the Prefectural Yamen]

At ten o'clock in the morning, several cars stopped in front of Lin Ze's house.

Soon, a group of more than ten people got out of the cars.

Lin Ze opened the door and welcomed the group in, seating them in the spacious living room.

"Hello, Mr. Lin, I am Zhuang Yao, the staff member from the Tax Bureau in charge of liaising with you. These are the senior accountants responsible for calculating your taxes."

A staff member wearing a formal business suit, with a high ponytail and light makeup on her pretty face, who had contacted Lin Ze by phone before, smiled and introduced herself after Lin Ze had checked their work credentials.

She also introduced the others around her to Lin Ze.

"Hello, I am Lin Ze."

"Drink tea, everyone, drink tea."

Lin Ze greeted everyone, then curiously asked, "How much tax do I owe?"

He had only roughly calculated it before, estimating that he would have to pay several hundred million in taxes.

To earn that money, I spent seven years preparing in this world, and then risked my life to run around in the Other World for several months before I had this income.

Uncle Zhou was just trying to drum up business.

At this time, Uncle Zhou, seeing that Zhuang Yao had digested the tax figures he had mentioned, smiled and introduced.

As a Yamen Secretary, figuring out the superior's thoughts is a compulsory course.

Zhuang Yao and Geng Sheng sat in the back row, heading towards the Prefectural Yamen.

This time, Prefect Zhou called Zhuang Yao over, definitely to win him over, hoping that he could stay in the local area and develop with peace of mind.

If what Zhuang Yao said was true, then the tax scale of this enterprise was many times larger than he had estimated. The tax amount paid by Zhuang Yao's company every year could directly reach the level of tens of billions, which was completely different from before.

Moreover, the tax payment projects were concentrated in this recent period, which showed that Zhuang Yao's business was in a stage of rapid expansion.

However, from the attitude of this Yamen Secretary, Zhuang Yao felt more confident about the upcoming meeting.

Geng Sheng frowned.

"In summary, Mr. Lin, you need to pay a total of 269.92896 million in taxes. If there are any tax deduction or tax refund items, you can carry out a comprehensive declaration at the end of the year."

Calling Zhuang Yao "Little Lin" was to close the relationship between the two parties, expressing a kind of closeness from an elder to a junior.

But half of that money has to be paid for the goods on the surface.

In the future, when I grow bigger and stronger, it's still more comfortable to be a tax collector. It's much better than running around making money myself.

This is exactly the fish I'm fishing for.

"I will contact partners to increase fishing boats and expand the scale of fishing in the future."

"Right now is the time when the company's business is growing rapidly, and I am withdrawing cash from the company account."

Very quickly, Little Lin brought the tea.

"From what you understand, there's a shortage of basic supplies over there. If we can get some of the supplies we need from within the country, I imagine there will be a lot of profit every year."

It's still comfortable to collect taxes, just a flick of the fingers and a large sum of money enters the account.

"Finally, there's your personal income from self-media creation and other activities this year. This part has been paid on your behalf by the company your self-media account belongs to, so there's no need to pay extra tax."

The two chatted along the way, without saying anything meaningless.

Looking at Lin Ze, who had a smile on his face and a slightly expectant look in his eyes, Zhuang Yao understood.

If Zhuang Yao wasn't just bragging, then it would be worth Lin Ze placing a heavy bet on Zhuang Yao.

After a flurry of activity from various tax personnel, they successfully transferred nearly 270 million from Zhuang Yao's bank account. Zhuang Yao's domestic account currently has 230 million funds remaining.

With the framework that Zhuang Yao has built up now, it's worth running with all your strength. After reaching the top, Lin Ze doesn't recommend Zhuang Yao to venture into chaotic areas.

Actively shaking hands represents a humble and low profile.

Zhuang Yao smiled and spoke her most sincere purpose.

Tiannan City, as the frontier economic metropolis and capital of Qixia Country, the chief official here is Prefect Zhou, a seventh-rank official. The Yamen Secretary of the Prefect Zhou serves as a staff and secretary, generally with a rank of fourth-rank.

Zhuang Yao conservatively talked about her plans for next year. She focused on introducing the development model of Delicious Forest, drawing a big pie for Prefect Zhou. There's nothing good to say about purchasing and selling agricultural and fish products, it mainly depends on personal connections and a little bit of luck.

"These taxes can be considered necessary expenses for early-stage development, and besides, these taxes aren't paid for nothing, they can also be considered as building a background to protect myself."

He clearly knew how much his Geng Sheng valued the young man before him.

Zhiyuan Company had only settled in Tiannan City for two months, and Geng Sheng had already created more than 200 million in tax revenue.

Then, Lin Ze opened his mouth and began to talk business: "Little Zhuang, what are your plans for your trading company next?"

Two tax items of over 100 million were the taxes I needed to pay for shipping goods back from abroad through shell companies.

And Lin Ze directly recognized Zhuang Yao, and asked his aide to make good tea, which fully expressed the Prefect Zhou's importance to Zhuang Yao.

Not calling him 'Sir,' but addressing him by his position, represents seriousness and solemnity.

"If you're free, we can leave now. It's fine to take the Yamen's car, and I'll send you back later."

"No, no, this time Prefect Zhou wants to meet Mr. Lin, and invited you to have lunch together in the Prefectural Yamen's cafeteria."

"Agricultural and fish products are exempt from corporate income tax, but in addition to this, you also have to pay urban construction tax and education surcharges, which combined are about 12% of the value-added tax, roughly 15.7248 million."

Zhuang Yao and Lin Ze exchanged a few pleasantries, drank tea, and had a simple lunch in the Prefectural Yamen's cafeteria.

After that, Zhuang Yao authorized Yamen Secretary to transfer the money.

After a period of experience, there is an opportunity to be released to other cities to serve as the chief official of a place, leaping to the seventh or eighth rank.

Such an excellent enterprise taking root in our Tiannan City is also a rare achievement for Prefect Zhou, affecting his subsequent promotion and assessment.

But to what extent to win him over, how much preferential treatment to give, depends on Zhuang Yao's performance.

Zhuang Yao listened carefully to Prefect Zhou's explanation.

And is Geng Sheng such an unreliable person?

After seeing off the people from the Tax Bureau, Zhuang Yao welcomed the seventh wave of visitors.

Lin Ze didn't know much about Geng Sheng. From a young age, he was excellent and self-disciplined, relying on doing self-media to accumulate his first pot of gold. Then, he accurately grasped business opportunities and took off in one fell swoop, growing a newly established company to its current scale.

From this resume, Geng Sheng was already inclined to give Zhuang Yao more investment.

"No need to be so formal, just call me Zhao Jing."

Zhuang Yao shook her head, refusing Geng Sheng's request to further audit her personal taxes.

Only when Zhuang Yao showed enough development potential and tax potential could she receive more and better preferential treatment.

But hearing the number of over 200 million at this moment, she still felt that the taxes were so expensive.

Zhuang Yao warmly greeted him.

"The Golden Continent is very chaotic. In order to protect domestic merchant ships, the navy basically has to go there every few days to escort them, otherwise they will be robbed by pirates."

Calling a dozen people to come was mainly to show the importance attached to Zhuang Yao, a major taxpayer. To put it simply, it was to show off.

The only regret was that the company provided a little fewer job opportunities, only a mere hundred or so.

"So you're Secretary Zhao, please come in, please come in."

In the white car, the driver drove in a low-key and quiet manner.

The latter, local purchase and sale, was the trade volume generated by Zhuang Yao initially disguising herself as purchasing scattered Matsutake from the private sector, as well as selling Little Yellow Croaker in Jiang Zhou, and the Zhiyuan Trading Company's employees purchasing and selling local specialties.

Each year, tens of thousands of tons of Little Yellow Croaker. Zhuang Yao plans to buy some fishing boats to go fishing at sea, so that her source of supplies will be more reasonable in the future.

That's why Prefect Zhou was so enthusiastic and proactive in wooing Geng Sheng, lest he feel unhappy staying here and move the company elsewhere. By then, it would be too late to regret.

In addition to the taxes to be paid to the Qixia Country official, Zhuang Yao also needs to pay a total of 49.92 million in Matsutake taxes for several shell companies according to the 8% value-added tax.

For Lin Ze, benefiting Prefect Zhou is benefiting him, so he is very polite to Zhuang Yao now.

"According to statistics, your company mainly deals in imported Large Yellow Croaker and Matsutake. The total import quota is 104 tons of Matsutake, and the total value of the goods is 624 million. Then you need to pay 12% import tariff and 9% value-added tax on the total value of the goods, totaling 131.04 million."

Geng Sheng, who was already in his seventies, pulled Zhuang Yao to sit on the sofa and opened his mouth with a kind smile.

"This is my work permit."

After all, a son of a wealthy family does not sit in a dangerous place.

"First, let's deal with the taxes generated by your company in the process of import and export trade."

It seems that this Uncle Zhou came prepared, and it is estimated that he had already calculated how much tax Geng Sheng should pay.

Although after all the Large Yellow Croaker and Matsutake she currently has are sold at an average price of 7,000 yuan per catty, she will get approximately 2.26 billion yuan.

"Okay, please wait a moment, I'll prepare a little."

"Mr. Lin, hello, I am Lin, the Yamen Secretary of Tiannan Prefect Zhou Gengsheng."

"It is estimated that next year, the two import and export trade products can achieve a sales scale of at least 7 billion. I have also opened a catering group Delicious Forest specializing in Large Yellow Croaker specialty dishes, planning to create a popular product... Then the annual sales are conservatively estimated to reach hundreds of billions."

Zhuang Yao didn't waste any time, putting down the teacup she was symbolically holding and directly took out the prepared materials, starting to answer Lin Ze's questions: "Mr. Lin, your taxes are mainly divided into two parts: personal taxes and corporate taxes."

It seems that the other party values me more than expected and is more detached than I thought.

I thought I might have to wait a while before paying taxes, but I didn't expect them to be so proactive.

"You know, Da Lin usually practices shooting, and his physical fitness and marksmanship are good, but Zhao Jing still recommends him to go there."

Such an interaction made the atmosphere between the two, who were completely unfamiliar before, much more harmonious at this moment.

"The Little Yellow Croaker import quota is 122 tons, the total value of the goods is 732 million, the import tariff is 5%, the value-added tax is 9%, totaling 102.48 million, and then there is an additional tax of 12.2976 million."

This level of tax scale is among the top private enterprises in the entire Qixia Country, enough to rank in the top seventy.

The thin, but meticulously dressed, and somewhat serious thirty-something young man, Lin Ze, introduced himself to Zhuang Yao with a smile at this time.

"By the way, Geng Sheng, next I plan to go to the Golden Continent to investigate the market and expand my business."

It was nothing more than him complimenting you as a young talent, and you saying that following Prefect Zhou has unlimited prospects, a mutual commercial flattery.

After deducting taxes and other operating costs, there is roughly 400 million in cashable funds left, but the problem now is that Zhuang Yao's materials have not yet been realized, and I don't have too much profit to cash out.

Zhuang Yao quickly took two steps forward, actively shaking Lin Ze's hand with both hands, and then greeted, "Prefect Zhou, hello, thank you for your tea."

"The company's domestic sales of Little Yellow Croaker and Matsutake generated approximately 83.2 million in sales. This part is taxed at a 9% value-added tax rate of 7.488 million, with an additional tax of 897,600."

According to estimates, next year Zhuang Yao's trading company's capital flow will exceed the 10 billion level, and the taxes generated will exceed the 1 billion level. This is already a model-level enterprise in the entire Tiannan City.

The specific numbers have not been calculated, and I have to ask these professionals in front of me.

Originally, I had this idea before, but now I'm a little distressed by the tax, and I can also reduce my flaws.

Zhuang Yao told Ji Shuqing where I was going, changed my clothes, and went out.

Although Zhuang Yao also needs money for daily life, as the actual controller of the company, I can convert many expenses such as travel, daily consumption, and security into the company's operating costs in the name of business trips and entertaining guests to carry out reasonable tax avoidance.

Hearing what Zhuang Yao said, Lin Ze's eyes lit up.

Sure enough, when Da Lin led Zhuang Yao into the Prefectural Yamen, I saw Prefect Geng Sheng, who was sitting behind his desk correcting documents, raised his head and said with a smile, "Zhuang Yao is here, Xiao Zhao, go get my treasured Yunwu tea and make a cup of tea for Da Lin."

To pay the 4% fish tax to the shell company for the Little Yellow Croaker tax of 29.28 million, that adds up to more than 80 million in taxes.

"Zhao Jing, it's like this, I have now contacted stable supply channels for Matsutake and Little Yellow Croaker. Matsutake is a seasonal product that comes in waves every year. We catch seafood all over the world, and Yellow Croaker can be supplied stably in all four seasons."

"In addition, if your company's operating profits want to be withdrawn from the company account to a personal account, you need to pay an additional 20% personal income tax before it can become the amount you can freely dispose of and consume."

At this time, Zhuang Yao seemed to suddenly remember something and said inadvertently.

Zhuang Yao muttered in his heart.

"So this requires Zhao Jing's help, to help me introduce some reliable bodyguards, which can also provide some employment opportunities for our well-disciplined retired soldiers."

As he spoke, Prefect Lin Ze, wearing a simple official uniform, put down his pen, stood up, and took the initiative to shake hands with Geng Sheng.

Da Lin smiled and explained his intentions, his posture was very low and extremely polite.

However, that was completely insignificant compared to such a large tax scale.

From now on, I'll try to update at 12 noon.