Other related aspects of poll tax

The United States will exempt 98% of the population from taxes. China's tax revenue is accused of poll tax.

Zhongqing Online-China Youth Daily

At the end of 20 10, the national development and reform commission announced that the inflation tolerance of 20 1 1 was raised from 3% to 4%. However, the Bank of China has not raised the interest rate on bank deposits, which is obviously unfair to the public. Allowing the public's deposits in banks to depreciate and shrink is obviously damaging the public interest. During the period of 20 10 and 1 1, the CPI has risen to 5. 1%, while the benchmark interest rate of the bank is only 2.5%. Therefore, China's economy continues to operate in the era of negative interest rates.

While citizens' wealth has shrunk and savings have depreciated, the state is making profits by issuing a large number of paper money. As a hedge, the state has the obligation to give profits to the injured public in order to safeguard social fairness and justice. If you don't want to use interest rate leverage, you should reduce taxes, and the most important fiscal policy that benefits the whole people is to raise the personal income tax threshold, but the public has not heard the news about raising the personal income tax threshold for a long time.

On September 9th, 20 10, China's major media reported a piece of news from the other side of the ocean: On September 8th, US President Barack Obama announced that he would propose a permanent tax reduction plan for the middle class in the United States this week, and at the same time, he would not extend the tax reduction measures for the wealthy class. According to Obama's plan, 80% of the 20 1 1 year tax will be borne by families whose annual income exceeds 1 million dollars. The tax policy of the United States is that millionaires who account for about 2% of the total population of the United States and earn more than 1 10,000 dollars a year pay taxes, and 98% of low-and middle-income people, including the middle class, are exempt from taxes to narrow the gap between the rich and the poor in the United States.

I wonder what our tax experts will say about such news. Personal income tax has become the poll tax of the working class in China. The taxpayers in China are low-and middle-income people, who account for the vast majority of the population. The reason why our tax reduction plan calling for raising the threshold of personal income tax is not accepted is to "cultivate the awareness of paying taxes for all people". Others say that this idea was introduced from the west.

On September 8, Obama said in his speech that the process of American economic recovery was painful and slow, and 8 million Americans lost their jobs because of the financial crisis. The United States should permanently cut taxes for the middle class whose annual income is less than $250,000. Obama defines the middle class as an annual income of less than $250,000 and a monthly income of less than $20,000. The threshold of personal income tax in China is: monthly income of 2000 yuan. The latest figure of China's annual per capita income is $3,266, and its monthly income is only $272. The difference between them is close to 100 times! But tax experts in China actually said that this idea was introduced from the West.

Why is it so difficult to raise the threshold of personal income tax? It is doubtful whether the approval right to raise the threshold of personal income tax is in the hands of high-income earners. If we really want to increase people's income, in order to hedge the harm caused by the rapid and sharp rise in prices to people's interests, raising the threshold of personal income tax is the most effective, affordable and feasible way.

The beginning and end of poll tax in Canada

The Bohr Family Alliance in Ontario, Canada initiated "Bohr Historical Remembrance 1983-20 12", with the cover of "Rehabilitation is not complete, family members still need to work hard", so that Chinese descendants will not forget the shame of their ancestors and continue to struggle for complete rehabilitation. Some descendants of Chinese "poll tax" recalled the history of family migration and denounced the pain of separation of flesh and blood in the past decades of Chinese exclusion.

From infancy to adulthood, Li Linxia was always left in her hometown in Chinese mainland by her father. It was not until she got married at the age of 23 that she felt her father's love. Li Linxia Ying is the second generation of poll tax. Her father 17 years old went to Canada to make a living and paid 500 yuan's "poll tax" when he landed; Later, she returned to her hometown to reunite with her wife and children and returned to work in Canada when she was only three months old. 500 yuan in those days was equivalent to two years' labor.

She said that she grew up in a single-parent family, never felt her father's love, and basically had no memory of her father. It was not until Canada abolished the Chinese exclusion law that her father could apply for her to reunite with her mother in Canada at 1958, which was the first time she met her father.

The decades-long pain of the separation of the flesh and blood of the "poll tax" family members has not subsided. She said that it is not easy for single-parent families to live in rural areas and have experienced the Japanese war of aggression against China; But in contrast, her husband and many other "poll tax" family members have a more difficult life.

Thanks to the efforts of the Chinese, her 90-year-old mother came to Ottawa by train and witnessed Canadian Prime Minister Harper apologizing to the Chinese community in Congress. Harper also admitted that the children of the victims of the poll tax were also victims, but he was unwilling to completely rehabilitate them.

Li Linxiaying's mother is 104 years old this year, and she received compensation from the federal government as a survivor of the poll tax. Her grandfather's generation crossed the ocean to make a living in Canada, and it is impossible to know whether they paid the poll tax. However, at least they have to fight for the rehabilitation of the descendants of poll tax, but many Chinese, including her family, have not been rehabilitated. She said that "poll tax" is Canada's discrimination against Chinese.

Canadian poll tax apologizes for compensation of 500 thousand

According to Canada's "World Journal" report, after years of efforts, the Canadian federal government finally apologized and compensated for the poll tax, but now it has paid 500,000 yuan to the state treasury, mainly for the government to educate its own people about the discrimination suffered by early Chinese immigrants when paying the poll tax.

According to the Globe and Mail on the 27th, Immigration Minister Connie recently summarized the community history recognition project, of which 5 million yuan was originally planned for the chinese canadians project, and 500,000 yuan was not used up, which has been returned to the federal government as a tax, and this fund will not be used for this project in the future.