Chapter 688: Tax-inclusive system

"My lord, this is the tax record of the wool merchant in Eel Lane."

Early in the morning, a tax officer under Vilas brought a thick record.

The Iron Throne has been advancing economic reforms, but the speed is relatively slow compared to other aspects.

Jon Clinton can be regarded as a former imperial prime minister with relatively good comprehensive capabilities. He can unite the front in wartime and govern the country in peacetime. During his time as the imperial prime minister, the Quartet's rebellion and aggression were quelled. In terms of economic reform, Jon Clinton has always advocated stability and try not to cause excessive turbulence.

Therefore, in Jon's era, economic reforms have always been tepid, and wars are fought in full swing, which can be regarded as a personal characteristic of him.

However, the period when Jon was in charge of the former parliament was not without economic achievements. For example, he strongly advocated the abolition of the tax package system that had lasted for hundreds of thousands of years in Westeros.

The taxpayer system is a person who receives tax entrusted by the royal family. The contractor pays the tax in advance, then obtains the royal taxation right, and then collects tax from the taxpayer.

And Jon Clinton believes that the tax package system is full of loopholes, chaos, crimes, violations of honor, and even nourished many social residues, forming an evil force in King's Landing.

This is because many taxpayers who have obtained the tax rights from the royal family will take some extreme measures to blackmail merchants, hit, smash, rob, burn, threaten people, provoke troubles, and disrupt normal business order.

Even in the end, the money extorted from the merchants was much higher than the normal taxes, and these poor merchants had to pay a protection fee to the golden robes at that time, otherwise they would still encounter the golden robes. Of trouble.

In the face of these layers of exploitation, the merchants operating normally and legally in King's Landing have basically squeezed out very little profits. Therefore, they are forced to raise prices and transfer the pressure to ordinary civilians.

This is also why during the Baratheon Dynasty and even the Old Targaryen Dynasty, once war or other changes happened, other things had not happened and prices soared first.

Because the royal family urgently needed money and immediately collected taxes from the tax packagers for the next few years, and the tax packagers levied more taxes on the merchants, the prices of King's Landing finally took the plane and soared into the sky.

The tax packagers, who were once very "special" legal merchants under the Chancellor of the Exchequer, collect money from both ends. On the one hand, they receive royal tax concessions as their rewards. On the other hand, they eat more oil and water from the merchants, which naturally earns money. The pours are full.

However, the merchants and ordinary people of King's Landing without any background and support for normal operations are scarred.

Since Jon Clinton first served as prime minister during the reign of the "Mad King" Iris II, he hated the evil forces of King's Landing.

How could he be a jealous person who can't tolerate sand in his eyes, how could he watch this group of people doing evil?

However, even though Jon Clinton was the former prime minister of the Mad King at that time, he did not have much opportunity to show his fists.

Because he didn't get the support of a bright master, but in the Visiris era, he returned to King's Landing and got this opportunity to show his fists.

Therefore, in terms of economic reform and national internal affairs, Jon took the lead in abolishing the tax-inclusive system, but the tax-inclusive system is ultimately a convenient way for the royal family to collect taxes.

The taxpayer system was abolished, and the tax officials of the empire became busy all of a sudden. From now on, there are no rascals to help them collect taxes. They can only rely on their mouths to make the greedy businessmen bit by bit. We hand over the taxes that should be paid.

Whenever he broke his leg because of work, the tax officials couldn't help but miss the old rascals.

However, it is a pity that they have all been sent to prison by Lord Jon Clinton, and some of them have even gone north to the Great Wall or have died.

The tax officer under Vilas handed him a tax record of a certain wool merchant in the city.

This was written by a tax official during the Baratheon dynasty, but now the tax official has been blowing cold wind on the Great Wall to guard the border.

Although Jon Clinton abolished the taxpayer system, coupled with the internal cleaning of the capital garrison, the commander of the Unsullied Legion, Black Bug trained for a year, now the commander of the "Black Fish" Blinden Tully has strict military discipline. For many reasons, the business operations in Junlin City are no longer as difficult as before.

But a businessman is a businessman. No profit is not a business. Every cent of profit will be desperately strived for. Therefore, although there is no taxpayer and golden robe exploited, taxation is even more difficult to collect. They will find all kinds of All kinds of reasons and the tax officials of King's Landing quibble.

And now this wool merchant in Eel Lane is a difficult opponent. Vilas has personally visited twice, but it has not been effective. The other party claimed that his taxes had been paid during the time of King Robert. Thirty years later ~www.NovelMTL.com~ so now there is no need to pay taxes.

"My lord, shall we go there today?"

"This old guy doesn't listen to what we say at all, it's completely messing around."

A tax officer under Vilas leaned at the table and asked angrily.

"What does it mean that his taxes have been paid thirty years later?"

"Can King Robert and His Majesty the Emperor be the same thing?"

"King Robert was licentious and squandered money, while His Majesty the Emperor was thrifty and straightforward."

"I suggest to notify Lord Blinden Tully directly and send someone to seal up his shop!"

Although the tax officials of the empire can't be like the gangsters who used to fight, smash, rob and burn, they still have an ultimate killer, which is to inform the capital guard team to send people to seal up the merchant’s shop. .

"No need for now."

And at this moment, Velas Tyrell, who was sitting behind his desk and flipping through the tax records, finally finished reading. He thought for a moment, then shook his head and said.

Then the brown-haired young man raised his finger to the several records on this book. These all happened during the reign of King Robert a few years ago, when the war of alien invasion was erupting.

"Old Linman didn't lie."

"He has indeed paid the taxes thirty years later."

At that time, the Iron Throne was heavily in debt. However, in order to gather soldiers to fight, he repeatedly borrowed money and squeezed the people's anointing. The people were miserable. This wool merchant from the north was also a victim of it.