The daily life of American TV agents

Chapter 434 IRS Annual Meeting
IRS, the Internal Revenue Service of the United States, is known as "the most feared government department in the United States". It belongs to the United States Department of the Treasury and has an independent office of its own at the east end of Washington National Park.

Normally, the office here is full of civilian staff, and it looks like any other government agency, but today is an exception. If anyone walks into this agency at this moment, they will definitely be greeted by one of the most famous agencies. Zhang Zhang's vicious face was shocked.

Because all the fearsome tax officials from every state in the United States are gathered today, and it's time for the annual tax official meeting again.

Generally speaking, the annual meeting of all institutions or companies will be held at the end of the year, that is, around Christmas, to summarize the gains and losses of the year, and send out benefits for internal gatherings to build relationships.

But the IRS is an exception, because the most relaxing time of the year for them is not Christmas, but the end of April.

The deadline for tax declaration in the United States is April 4. Within a week after that, the actual tax revenue of each state can be calculated, and the rest only needs to wait for the taxation work of each state to proceed normally.

And the captains of the special operations teams from all over the place took advantage of the opportunity of reporting work, gathered here, and while bragging about each other, they also complained about their own troubles.

Among these people, although Ron is recognized as the best place to play, his tax record is not the best among this group of people, only ranked No.2, while No.1 is a Surrounded by other colleagues, who kept mocking Ron, a man named Zophie Shafferin.

"Oh my God, buddy, I thought that if you were assigned to a golden place like Los Angeles, this year's performance would be better, and there was probably a slight possibility of surpassing me, but I didn't expect that your performance was only better than the assigned Less than $1000 million to Tom Gao in Atlanta, man, I seriously doubt you'll be at the table next year."

"My God, I really don't understand what you people are doing every day. Obviously, there are big companies and rich people everywhere in big cities, but the taxes collected in the end are not as much as in small places like ours."

Tax officials are used to calling the tax amount in their jurisdiction performance, and then compare each other like the salesmen of a sales company, sitting at different tables according to the level of performance, and one table can seat four people.

Shavrin's words caused the surrounding tax officials to burst into laughter, and the air was full of joy, but Ron was not moved by his words, and spread his hands without the slightest intention of being offended:
"There is no way around this. We all know that the more large enterprises gather together, the harder it is to collect taxes. If you change the jurisdiction from Des Moines to New York, I estimate that your performance will not be as high as the top [-]. They can’t even get in, and the group of financial roosters in New York are notoriously penny-pinching, and they are not as easy to deal with as the farmers in Iowa.”

Des Moines, the capital of Iowa, is the second largest agricultural state in the United States, and the first is California, where Ron is located. However, unlike the large-scale farmers all over California, Iowa's agriculture is dominated by small and medium-sized farms Lord is Lord.

Compared with the large farmers who have been corporatized and have various tax avoidance methods, these small and medium-sized farmers are much cuter. As long as they show their identities to the IRS and threaten them a few words, there are not many who will not obediently pay taxes, so Sha Flynn's track record has always been at the top of the pack.

"Is there still such a situation?" Shafrin obviously stayed in the country for too long, and he has begun to be unfamiliar with the situation in big cities: "Is there anyone who dares to face the guns of our IRS and dare to resist taxes?

Have you forgotten what the teacher taught you back then?If the rifle can’t collect taxes, use the bazooka; if the bazooka can’t collect the tax, just drive the tank out. That’s how the teacher collected taxes from the Chicago gangsters, and it’s made a name for our IRS. Do not let the reputation of the IRS be ruined in your hands. "

Shavrin's tone was clearly tinged with complaints about his fellow workers in big cities, and it was.

A very interesting phenomenon, the performance of these special operations teams that specialize in collecting bad taxes is just inversely proportional to the GDP of all regions. The more economically developed the place, the lower the performance of the special operations teams. Only Ron is an exception .

He is the only one who is ranked No.2 in the performance list as the captain of the special operations team in Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States. Apart from him, none of the captains of the top ten cities in the United States is on the list.

But before Ron could open his mouth, someone immediately took the initiative to explain his confusion: "The situation is different now, and those financiers are much smarter than the gangsters in the past. More cunning means of tax avoidance, such as charitable foundations."

"Charitable funds? How do you avoid taxes with this thing?" Shafrin wondered like a layman.

Forgive his ignorance, but the people he usually deals with are honest farmers who can't play any new tricks except armed with dung forks and shotguns to resist taxes.

"For example, most rich people will set up a charitable fund of their own family, and then put all the stocks, real estate and other assets under their names into this fund!
In this way, they can legally and reasonably transfer their assets to anyone's name through the simplest and most direct method!What's more, they don't have to pay any taxes! "

"What? Can you avoid all taxes? Including inheritance tax? You mean, all taxes?" Shafrin opened his mouth wide in surprise.

"Of course, many rich people are using this method to avoid taxes in a reasonable and legal way recently, and the court has accepted many such cases, but according to federal law, this is completely legal!"

Ron glanced contemptuously at Shavrin, who had never seen the market before, and continued to explain:

"In the United States of America, especially in California, charitable funds can be exempted from all taxes as long as they donate a certain percentage of funds to charitable organizations every year! After the donation amount reaches the initial capital of the charitable fund, the owner of the charitable fund, It is reasonable and legal to take out all the money from the charitable fund, or transfer all the assets to anyone tax-free! The proportion of this donation is different in every state, and our California is the lowest, only 5%!"

Shafrin was greatly shocked, but still puzzled: "But, Ron, if you donate 5% every year, it will be 20% in 100 years! After 20 years, what money will they get?"

At this time, even Tom, the good-tempered New York manager, couldn't help but roll his eyes. He was in charge of the place with the most financiers, and of course he was the person who had seen the most capitalists' work:
"Safrin, I am amazed by your stupidity. Think about it, the law only stipulates that they must donate 5% every year, but the rest of the money can still be used for investment and profit. Those vampires on Wall Street are dedicated Do this. Besides, do you think that 5% of the money is really donated?"

"Is not it?"

"Of course not," Ron also joined in the science popularization: "There are too many things that can be manipulated here. The law only stipulates the amount they must donate, but it does not stipulate what kind of donation to make, let alone the donation. the price of something.

For example, if a place is hit by a hurricane, they need to donate a batch of tents, and then they will register a company and price the tents that originally cost 200 dollars to 2000 dollars, so that they can directly arbitrage 90%, and this is still theirs. The simplest of countless means.

In fact, 90% arbitrage is already the most conscientious of these charitable foundations. For most charitable funds I have seen, the arbitrage ratio is generally 99%. The most ridiculous thing is that the infamy is all about us The tax officials took the burden, but instead they gained the reputation of being kind and charitable, really FXXK! "

"Then can't we collect personal income tax on them? Just collect the tax from the source first?" Shafrin was hit hard by two friends one after another, and his voice couldn't help but weaken a lot.

"Personal income tax? What are you kidding?" Ron sneered: "Let's not pay attention to the capital gains tax that can't be collected from the company and stock income. As long as you invest money in a new project, you can get unlimited Loops, even the salaries, they’re making a ridiculous salary of a dollar a year for themselves.”

"One dollar, how do you ask me to charge them? A top rich man like Bill Gates may not pay as much tax as his secretary in a year!"

The situation in the United States is so magical. The richer people are, the less taxes they pay. That's why Ron often wonders when these people can be hung from street lamps.

"Wait! That's not right," Shafrin was dizzy, but felt something was wrong. He quickly shook his head and reorganized his thoughts: "But how did you raise taxes in California? If they It's really like what you said, then your performance should be at the bottom of the list like Tom in New York..."

"I know!" Shafrin was halfway through speaking, and suddenly realized: "California is the largest agricultural province in the United States, and you also collect the farmers' tax arrears to improve your performance, right?"

"Cut~ I'm not as stupid as you think. How much money can I collect from those muddy legs?" Ron snorted again. In fact, not only did he not use violent means to pursue taxes on those small farmers, he even paid them back. As far as the power allows, turn a blind eye to some farmers who really don't have money.

With Ron's opening, he once again focused everyone's attention on himself, especially those in charge of those jurisdictions that are also in big cities: "Then how did you do it?"

"Of course it's to play tricks, do you want to learn?" Ron seduced in a devilish tone.

Everyone nodded in unison, and Ron heard the sound of several people swallowing their saliva.

No way, Ron's secret is too tempting for them. The significance of the existence of the special operations team is to recover those taxes that are difficult to collect and owe. The special operations team can keep [-]% of the collected taxes. Just hand in [-]%.

As for the money left behind, it is said to be expenses, but how to spend it is not what you say?

If it is paid in the form of wages or bonuses and taxes have to be paid, then simply not to pay, but it is not too much to improve the food and treatment of one's subordinates, right?Or to equip a sports car for more convenient mobility, and then reimburse the gasoline together...

The tricks here are no less than the methods used by big capitalists to avoid taxes.

To put it bluntly, the establishment of the special operations team was specially set up by the tax bureau to compete with the big capital.

"Of course I do!"

"Tsk tsk, I have a lot of ways, but I figured out this way bit by bit. You don't know my suffering~" Ron changed the subject, instead of telling them his own way, he cried bitterly. Come on, eyes narrowed into a slit with a smile.

If Sheldon is here, he must run away quickly, because he knows that his brother is about to start cheating again.

"In the beginning, when I first took over the Los Angeles Special Operations Team, I was the only commander, let alone a human being, I didn't even have a gun, and I brought all the weapons with me. That was all my possessions. .”

"I went to Mr. President to ask for it. Guess what the President said?" Ron stood up and recounted the bitter past indignantly: "The President said: 'If you want money, you can find it yourself! Otherwise, Ron will see the President's How much is the White House worth? Sell it and use it for your expenses!'”

"Then what should we do?" Shafrin couldn't help asking, attracted by Ron's story.

"That's what I asked too!" Ron put on an angry face: "I said, President, I'm also a person from the IRS, right? I can't even be inferior to the Los Angeles Police Department. This is not to blame you Is it a sign?"

"But the president said: 'If I want money and people, what do I want you to do? Since you can be the captain, you have the ability to make money and people. Otherwise, you can go home and pick up your children. Don't embarrass me there.' "

"Then how did you do it?" When it came to the key point, everyone held their breath, for fear that someone would accidentally miss Ron's secret of success and let himself fall into the poor class of the IRS.

It doesn't matter if I'm poor, but if the brothers below are poor along with me, then I really don't have to be the captain.

"Then..." Ron dragged on a long tail, and continued until everyone's taste was hooked: "Then, I went to find my former friend, Dominique Toretto, Some of you may have heard that this is a very remarkable person, who used to mainly travel around the states to carry out speed robbery, as long as there is no truck cargo that he is eyeing, there is no one that he cannot snatch."

Shavrin was a little confused: "But what does this have to do with taxing big capital?"

Old God Ron narrowed his eyes: "Then do you want to guess whether the object of his robbery has paid taxes? Or has he not paid taxes?"

(End of this chapter)