Chapter 2289 Secretary He, You Are Lucky
After an undercover investigation into pension issues in a small town.
Chen Mo led the team to a developed commercial area in Greece.
After an undercover investigation, Chen Mo's team discovered that Greece had a more serious problem than pensions - tax evasion.
When Chen Mo asked about their tax issues, this group of foreigners from Greece proudly boasted to Chen Mo how much less tax they had paid.
They are even competing with each other to see who evades more taxes!
"I only paid 100 euros in taxes this year, hehe!"
"See this commercial street? Out of 10 businesses, only one pays taxes, and the taxes they pay are only 1% of the normal amount."
"In our country, tax evasion is considered a common and acceptable practice, so we Greeks do not think tax evasion is shameful, and there is no serious punishment for it."
"Why should I hand over the money I earned with my own ability to the Greek government?"
“Even the Greek tax bureau is not active in collecting taxes, so why should we be active in paying taxes?”
"..."
Chen Mo and his team ended their undercover investigation in astonishment.
The tax problem in this Greek country is so magical!
All Greeks think that tax evasion is justified!
And the Greek tax bureau is particularly lazy in collecting taxes!
Greece's tax control system is very lax, allowing tax evaders to take advantage of opportunities. The legal penalties for tax evasion are relatively light, which in turn reduces the cost and risk of tax evasion.
In addition, underground economic tax evasion accounts for the majority of the total tax evasion in Greece, and these economic activities are often difficult to be monitored by the tax system.
The tax evasion rate among self-employed people is very high in Greece, and this group of people is more likely to circumvent tax supervision.
Social and cultural factors, legal and institutional factors, economic factors, tax system problems and frequent cases of tax evasion are intertwined and together lead to the widespread existence of tax evasion in Greece.
"After returning to the hotel, upload the filmed footage to our Moxun Group's cloud first! Back it up twice!
These are all the materials I will use to attack Greece, so don’t throw them away!"
Chen Mo warned.
Everyone nodded in agreement.
After a day of undercover investigation, Chen Mo and his team returned to the hotel to continue their video post-production work.
At the same time, Chen Mo also informed Han Li that while shorting Lehman Brothers and the two housing agencies, he should be ready with money and manpower to short the country of Greece!
That night.
Chen Mo received some short videos sent by his wife.
In fact, it’s not that Chen Mo has no physical needs, but that Chen Mo’s sense of morality and responsibility is too strong, and he is unwilling to find other women to solve the problem.
Even though Gong Ziyuan repeatedly assured that she would not trouble Chen Mo for this issue, and even said considerately: "You don't have to look for someone outside, He Chaoling, Xiong Yifei, Song Ziyan, or even Diana or Zhuge Wan'er, these people know each other well, you can just find one to follow you, and I will feel at ease."
It would be a lie to say that I'm not tempted.
Chen Mo also fantasized about having a red flag flying at home and colorful flags fluttering outside.
But in the end, I chose to refuse.
"Wife, even if you can get over your own hurdle, I can't get over the hurdle in my heart.
I am a man and I don't want to pretend to be so great and glorious. I definitely like beautiful women. If we were not married, I can guarantee that I would be spending a lot of money now.
Now that I'm married, I still want to be a responsible man."
Although Gong Ziyuan called Chen Mo a fool, she was still very touched in her heart.
As someone who came from a wealthy family, she knew how many of the richest men in the world didn’t have a few women outside.
Later, Gong Ziyuan simply cosplayed herself every day, took some videos or started videos and sent them to Chen Mo, so as to help Chen Mo relieve the stress a little.
Chen Mo also thought it was a good idea.
After all, she is his legal wife, so of course he has no guilt or psychological burden at all.
In addition, Gong Ziyuan's makeup and cosplay skills are top-notch, so Chen Mo even looks forward to Gong Ziyuan's new videos every day.
Silent all night.
The next morning, Chen Mo and his team continued their undercover filming in Greece.
This interview is not a big deal, new problems have arisen.
The Greek state stipulates that people who work less than 20 hours a week are considered unemployed.
The unemployed can receive unemployment benefits.
The work relief in other countries is just relief funds that can meet basic living needs.
But Greece is different.
Unemployment benefits in Greece are a certain percentage of a person's pre-employment salary, usually 60% of pre-employment salary. If there is at least one child, the amount will increase to 67%.
The unemployed can also apply for hardship assistance for rent, phone bills, electricity bills or loan repayments.
While receiving unemployment benefits, they can also receive the difference in minimum living allowance.
That is to say, if you earn 1 yuan a month at work, as long as you are defined as unemployed, you can receive a minimum of 6000 yuan a month. With other subsidies, it may even reach or yuan.
Under this deformed mechanism, more and more Greek people deliberately leave work early in order to receive two sources of income: salary and unemployment benefits.
When the interview got to this point, He Chaoling couldn't help but complain:
"The Greek people are all talented!"
"It feels like everyone is a lazy bum. They are all lazy and slacking. They even compete with each other on how lazy they are!"
Chen Mo said calmly: "It is human nature to seek benefits and avoid harm. If we in Daxia do the same, I believe most people will do the same.
This is a dereliction of duty by the Greek government.”
He Chaoling: "It's rotten to the core. Haven't the Greek authorities ever thought about changing it?"
Chen Mo: “Greece’s only and most effective fiscal policy is the national debt, and the social welfare system is the most important fiscal expenditure.
In order to consolidate voter support, each Greek government has been improving welfare levels.
I believe that among so many senior Greek leaders, there must be some who want to change.
But if you want to change the status quo, you have to be God, and if you want to be God, you have to improve welfare to please the voters.
So there is no answer to this question.”
He Chaoling suddenly realized: "So that's it."
Chen Mo: "As welfare increases, we can only borrow more debt to maintain it. Greek people are used to tax evasion, which reduces fiscal revenue. When revenue is less than expenditure, a fiscal deficit is formed.
Greece's deficit and debt have only grown larger with the economic prosperity in recent years.
Two crisis chains are gradually forming. ”
"And these two links are the biggest reasons why I have the courage to short Greece."
"Secretary He, you are very lucky. You will soon see the only case in human history where a developed country went bankrupt due to short selling led by an individual!!!"
