#411 - Chapter 411 Wartime Taxation Ordinance

January 10, 2056.

Huatong Construction reached cooperation agreements with the Meilin Resettlement in Mozhou City, the Baisha Resettlement in Jingmen City, the Changfeng Resettlement in Luzhou City, and the Qipanshan Resettlement in Fengtian City, undertaking the construction of underground survival bases for them.

At the same time, after Ling Luo brought the Queen Bee back, the underground base in Gold City, Gansu Province, had also secretly begun construction.

Currently, the work of raising rats has spread to most resettlement areas across the country.

This is currently the most stable job for ordinary people.

To match this, many large resettlement areas have successively obtained capture airships by taking out loans from the Huatong Chamber of Commerce.

Now the supply of rat feed on the market is basically saturated, so Dongfang Chen has stopped selling airships.

Against this backdrop, it is almost difficult to catch mutated animals or insects in areas north of the Yangtze River. Everyone was forced to extend their sights to the vast areas south of the Yangtze River.

This is a restricted area for humans and a paradise for animals and plants.

In the past year, they seemed to have had some restrictions lifted, and they were accelerating their mutation and evolution.

Their size is getting bigger and bigger, and their aggressiveness is getting stronger and stronger.

This made the staff responsible for hunting them very happy.

Compared to salvaging mutated fish in the water, terrestrial animals are easier to catch and more efficient.

So for a time, airships shuttled back and forth on the south bank of the Yangtze River, which was quite lively.

With enough feed, they dared to expand the scale of rat breeding, which is a virtuous cycle.

The resettlement areas have made a lot of money from this, and they are all elated and proud.

January 20, 2056, Dongfang Chen began the third phase of the Chamber of Commerce branch construction.

This time, there is no limit to the number of places, but resettlement areas are not supported to apply on their own initiative, but are invited.

That is to say, the Chamber of Commerce will take the initiative to contact the resettlement area for cooperation according to the plan.

This means that the construction of the Chamber of Commerce branch will enter the popularization stage.

Not long after the Chamber of Commerce issued this announcement, the Parliament promulgated the "Tax Regulations under the National Emergency". The main contents of the regulations are:

1. This regulation will serve as a supplementary regulation to the "Wartime Armaments Regulations";

2. All government units, private enterprises and organizations, and every citizen of China have the obligation to contribute their strength when the country enters a state of emergency, and jointly safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and maintain national security and stability.

3. Under the national emergency, individual income tax and corporate income tax will be levied according to the tax rates specified in the appendix.

Now most people in China are raising rats, and the individual income tax rate is 10%. Each resettlement area will be regarded as a part of the government unit, and the corporate income tax rate is 50%. For private organizations like the Huatong Chamber of Commerce, the corporate income tax rate is 25%.

After this regulation was issued, the heads of the resettlement areas were somewhat dissatisfied, but they did not show it. The individual income tax rate is relatively low, and the people have no objection, which is considered to be a contribution to the country.

The Chamber of Commerce believes that the 25% tax rate is not much different from peacetime, and has no objection.

However, the Parliament will not take this money for nothing, and then another announcement was issued.

This is a regional autonomy announcement, the main contents are as follows:

1. Each region will establish an autonomous region with prefecture-level cities as the unit.

2. The management of the autonomous region will be based on autonomous management, supplemented by parliamentary support.

3. It is recommended that each autonomous region take the "2055 Human Survival White Paper" as a blueprint to build underground bases.

4. Huatong Construction, a subsidiary of the Huatong Chamber of Commerce, is awarded the National First-Class Engineering Construction Qualification, and is allowed to undertake military construction projects.

This announcement has played a great role in appeasing the resettlement areas and the Chamber of Commerce, and is also conducive to promoting the implementation of the tax regulations.

The Parliament's great change in attitude towards the Huatong Chamber of Commerce is also related to the establishment of the North Asia Wulan Neutral Zone.

Since the mysterious man came to the fore from behind the scenes, the Parliament has reduced its vigilance against the Huatong Chamber of Commerce.

Of course, if the tax regulations are to be implemented smoothly, there is still a very big problem.

That is the tax system.

Obviously, no one but the Huatong Chamber of Commerce has this ability.

January 26, 2056.

Chen Guanxuan, Director of the Ministry of Finance, came to the headquarters of the Huatong Chamber of Commerce with people.

"Councilor Chen, there is no problem in building a tax system for you. But you know, this thing is very expensive, and it is also a lot of work for us," Niu Xingwang said after learning of Chen Guanxuan's intention.

"Of course I know, we will pay the corresponding fees," Chen Guanxuan knew what he meant.

"Then there is no problem," Niu Xingwang agreed readily.

After the tax problem was solved, a closed-loop flow chain was formed between the country, local governments, enterprises, and individuals, and the entire economy of China was successfully operating.