(This article is based on Mr. Sima Nan's video program, and the content has been deleted)
Today I would like to share with you a concept - property tax.
We Chinese are relatively new to it, why?
China doesn't charge property tax, and the fact that China doesn't charge property tax seems strange to foreigners all over the world, because we're the only place in the world where we don't charge property tax.
Now there is a strange thing, the United States, Japan, Germany, France, South Korea, everyone collects all kinds of property taxes, but their bosses are not nervous.
Economist Huang Qifan once said something he didn't understand. We in China are now confiscating property taxes, and some bosses are very nervous because they are afraid to collect them. How nervous he was, nervous as if he was going to die.
Some people inexplicably said that the reason why he went abroad was because China wanted to collect his taxes, property tax, inheritance tax, etc. I fled to the United States because I was afraid of collecting taxes. This is an evil door, and this matter is not easy to understand, isn't the United States collecting more ruthlessly? If you run to the United States, you can escape? If people collect your property tax, the United States will collect it even more ruthlessly.
If you are the boss and you have the ability to go to the United States, you should know more about the situation of property taxes collected in various countries around the world. How can you say that because you are afraid of property taxes, you want to run it away and go to the United States. Do you dare not pay this property tax in the United States? Do you know what the consequences are?
Mr. Huang Qifan said, I don't understand, there are many people in front of you who have already set an example, when you go to the United States, you can't pay a single amount of money, and the whole world, especially the capitalist countries, collect property taxes, but only China does not collect them, and only China is the most tolerant.
If China confiscates it now, will it be confiscated in the future? This kind of trend is not yet there. At present, scholars are discussing whether or not to collect property tax, and what are the types? Inheritance tax and gift tax....... but now scholars are only discussing it, and some people who want to make money are worried about collecting these taxes and have run away in advance.
Mr. Huang Qifan said that this matter is very incomprehensible, before it is introduced, you ran away, ran to the United States, ran to other countries, is the money to be paid different?
Some people say that this is not friendly to entrepreneurs and that they should be taxed, and even say that it is an "ultra-left" ideology. What does this have to do with the left and the right? I have a friend who talks about the "extreme left" and "extreme right" every day, but he never talks about it.
The problem of collecting property taxes is to act according to economic laws, which does not mean that socialism is practiced, and the leftists will collect it, but the capitalist Elysium people will not collect it. It is precisely in China that it is not collected, but it is collected everywhere else.
Now there is such a logic, according to everyone's understanding of an example. For example, if you live in a house of more than 30 square meters in Germany, you will have to pay taxes on this house. How much tax do you pay? It's basically the same as paying money every five years.
If this house is 10 million marks, it is equivalent to paying 10 million in 5 years. With so many taxes, if you go to see the rich Germans, whether they are financial bosses or chairmen of multinational companies, there are very few houses of more than 300 square meters for a family of three, and you can hardly see them.
Why? Taxes are too much.
The property tax is not a new thing, it is an ancient tax, even dating back to slave societies. In feudal society, it was the main source of financial revenue, and if you have a house, you have to pay taxes on land, and you have to pay taxes on materials.
It is precisely because after entering the capitalist society that the status of the main body of taxes has gradually given way to turnover tax, income tax, etc., and we now only have income tax, and several other taxes, including property tax, have declined.
This question needs to be carefully studied, why we are in decline, and people are still collecting it seriously; what needs to be discussed more is that we don't collect it at all, and why do those who run it say that it is because of the tax collection that they go abroad; what is even more difficult to understand is that you run to other places, and it happens that people are strictly collecting it, isn't this an evil door?
Some people may not understand, why do I have to pay taxes on my assets, I don't rent them out, I don't have them idle, and I don't have a house in the operating state?
It is precisely because you pay taxes that you can stimulate and encourage the active development of production and operation, rather than sitting on interest and rent. Now we must invigorate the economy, and only by invigorating the economy can we stimulate production, otherwise a large number of houses will be yours. You say that I don't make money from him, and these assets are not involved in the social production process.
Some say that this thing highlights the forced nobility and the king to pay taxes during the French Revolution. The Glorious Revolution in England and the French Revolution were not quite the same, France was a little more radical. But if the matter of taxation goes back so far, it is necessary to put the word "left" on the heads of those who discuss property taxation today. I think your associations are too strong and too rich.
Mr. Huang Qifan is an economist I admire, who has been a mayor and talks about things in a straightforward manner. He couldn't figure it out, and I couldn't. I would like to take the liberty of asking you to tell us why there is no property tax in China, and some people say that in order to avoid China's property tax, they go to countries with higher taxes.
Bibliography: Huang Qifan
Responsible editor|Hu Yan Wang Debo
Part of the picture |