Chapter 3442

Jiang Zhihua said, "I feel that there is still room for an increase in the city's fiscal revenue."

Su Xinghui said, "In which aspects is there still room for an increase?"

Jiang Zhihua said, "To tell you the truth, Mayor Su, the phenomenon of tax evasion is currently quite serious. The phenomena of not issuing invoices, issuing invoices for other purposes, and forging invoices all objectively exist and are quite rampant, which has caused us to lose a large amount of tax revenue. If we can strengthen management in this area, I believe Baozhou City's fiscal revenue will still have a relatively large increase."

Su Xinghui began to ponder; how could he not understand the phenomenon Jiang Zhihua mentioned? In this period, because management methods were still relatively backward, the phenomenon of tax loss was indeed quite rampant. Now that Su Xinghui was serving as the Executive Vice Mayor, he felt that this problem had indeed reached the time to be solved.

Su Xinghui said, "Then what good methods do you have?"

Jiang Zhihua said, "First, I think we can strengthen management regarding taxation, mainly by strengthening the financial management of enterprises and administrative institutions. All kinds of expense expenditures must obtain legal invoices; otherwise, they will be treated as violations, and the heads of enterprises and units will be punished, and the punishment must be implemented."

Su Xinghui nodded; he was very much in favor of this point, as it could be considered a way to draw the firewood from under the cauldron regarding the phenomenon of tax evasion.

In the past, the phenomenon of not requesting invoices after buying things existed for a long time in Chinese society. This was mainly because people lacked this awareness, and coupled with lax management, tax authorities rarely checked accounts, especially in administrative institutions, where very few people would check their accounts to see if there were IOUs. Therefore, for a period of time, IOUs were flying everywhere among the vouchers of administrative institutions.

If the audit department were allowed to strengthen audits of administrative institutions and put an end to the existence of IOUs or non-compliant invoices, the phenomenon of tax evasion would naturally decrease significantly.

Because the expense expenditures of enterprises and administrative institutions are a very important part of the entire society's consumption and account for a high proportion, once this link is controlled, the increase in tax revenue will be just around the corner.

Su Xinghui said, "Hmm, this suggestion is not bad."

Encouraged, Jiang Zhihua said more confidently, "Regarding the phenomena of issuing invoices for other purposes and forging invoices, I think we can abolish those manual carbon copy invoices and strengthen invoice anti-counterfeiting technology, so that this phenomenon has no soil to survive."

Issuing invoices for other purposes refers to those manual invoices that require carbon paper to copy. Some sellers can take advantage of this to issue invoices with small amounts but large tails. For example, if someone buys a batch of goods worth 50,000, the seller tears off the invoice copy, pads it with carbon paper in the front and back, and issues an amount of 50,000, while the stub and bookkeeping copies are padded with other carbon paper to issue an amount of 500.

This practice allows the seller to turn a sales volume that was originally 50,000 into 500, and naturally, they pay much less tax. However, it is very difficult to check accounts clearly with this practice because this kind of invoice padding is indistinguishable from ordinary invoices in appearance.

As for the phenomenon of forging invoices, it is even easier to understand. In China at that time, in places like train stations, bus stations, hotels, and guesthouses, there would always be people shouting for others to buy invoices.

Why is this? This is naturally because there are many people on business trips in these places. These people on business trips naturally need to use invoices to reimburse their travel expenses after returning. If these people on business trips bought such fake invoices, they could stay in a guesthouse for 10 yuan a night but use the fake invoice to reimburse 50 yuan for accommodation, wouldn't they earn 40 yuan a night?

And if someone helps a unit buy things and doesn't want an invoice, the purchase price can be lower. They can then use a fake invoice to issue a high price, and they can earn a considerable price difference when they go back to reimburse it. Not to mention harming the public to benefit themselves, the state also loses tax revenue.

At that time, the proliferation of fake invoices was simply terrifying. Those fake invoices were printed beautifully and were hard to distinguish from the outside; even professional tax personnel might not be able to tell.

Of course, this was also because the internet was not developed at that time and there was no invoice inquiry system. Later, when it became possible to directly check the authenticity of invoices online, the phenomenon of fake invoices decreased a lot.

Hearing Jiang Zhihua's words, Su Xinghui couldn't help but marvel. In his impression, China did indeed abolish manual invoices later and adopted machine-printed invoices and quota invoices entirely, which was to put an end to the phenomenon of invoice padding, but that was already a few years later.

He didn't expect Jiang Zhihua to have such an idea now, which proves that his thinking is still very agile and he is indeed proficient in his business. If he weren't proficient in both financial and tax knowledge, it would be difficult to think of using this method to guard against invoice padding.

Su Xinghui then said, "Comrade Zhihua, after hearing your words, I actually have an idea."

Jiang Zhihua said, "Mayor Su, please instruct me on whatever ideas you have."

Su Xinghui said, "I think we can find a software company to develop a billing software, use this software to issue invoices, use a printer to print them, and the billing computer must be networked with the tax department. The information of the billing software must be uploaded to the tax department's system. In this way, wouldn't this problem be solved?"

After hearing this, Jiang Zhihua's eyes lit up. He was very proficient in his business, and his age was not too old, so he still knew something about computers. He pondered for a long time and felt that this method was indeed feasible. He said sincerely, "Mayor Su, you are truly amazing to be able to think of such a method."

In fact, in Su Xinghui's previous life, this was already a relatively popular practice. At that time, most enterprises or companies had already adopted machine-printed invoices, and manual invoices had long been abolished.

However, this practice still has relatively high requirements for the network, requiring a relatively fast network speed, relatively high requirements for this kind of billing software, and even higher requirements for the tax department's system, which needs to be more stable and secure so that it can operate smoothly and successfully.

Therefore, in Su Xinghui's previous life, it was not until several years later that such a system became popular. The popularization of billing software made a huge contribution to economic development and the increase of fiscal revenue.

Su Xinghui said, "Do you think this method is feasible? Are there any other drawbacks?"

Jiang Zhihua said, "I think the only drawback is that not every enterprise and company is necessarily willing to buy a computer specifically for billing, especially those very small companies or shops, which will increase their costs."

Jiang Zhihua's concerns are very reasonable. In this era, the penetration rate of computers is not that high because the price of computers in this era is generally relatively high, and coupled with a set of billing software, a printer, and broadband, this will increase a not-so-small expense for enterprises and companies.

Large enterprises are fine, but where would those small companies and small shops be willing to buy such a set of billing systems? That Jiang Zhihua can say this shows that he is very aware of the actual situation at the grassroots level, which is also a very commendable thing.

Su Xinghui nodded and said, "Your idea is very correct, but there is also a solution to this. For those who are unwilling to use machine-printed invoices, they can go to the tax department to collect quota invoices and use quota invoices."

This method solved the problem Jiang Zhihua was worried about very well. He nodded and said, "Then there is no problem."

Su Xinghui said, "Actually, there is still a problem, and that is that the current information construction has not kept up. Our Baozhou is still considered good, but the information construction in other cities in the province is far behind. This billing system needs to be networked across the province at least, so the efficiency of this system cannot be very high for now, which still requires us to further strengthen our infrastructure."

Jiang Zhihua nodded deeply in agreement. Currently, Baozhou City's information construction is considered quite good because Baozhou City's finance has money, but in other cities in the province, their information construction is far worse than Baozhou City's.

Overall, Su Xinghui was quite satisfied with the conversation with Jiang Zhihua today. Jiang Zhihua is a cadre who is relatively young, capable, and has ideas. With him in charge of Baozhou City's purse, Su Xinghui felt quite at ease.