< 45. Between tax evasion and tax avoidance (2) >
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The first thing you should do when you receive a tax audit notice and prepare to respond to their attacks is to gather and review past records.
The best of the best.
It is better to figure out if there is something to be nitpicked about before the enemy and to devise a response strategy. This is a process that even those who are confident that they will not find a single speck of dust cannot avoid. Even if you are clean and innocent, if you cannot disprove the suspicions raised by the other party, you will be hit with a tax and additional fine.
But in Minjun’s case right now…
‘No, I’m a prisoner. Even if I wanted to evade taxes, my methods are limited.’
After thinking for a moment.
‘Oh, by any chance?!’
Special gift tax and survival tax are automatically deducted from the prisoner’s account, so there is no room for illegal activities or tax evasion in this process.
Therefore, a tax audit targeting prisoners raises one type of suspicion.
‘Account in another person’s name!’
Rolling over talents to accounts that are not in the prisoner’s name and using them for the prisoner’s benefit.
Based on my conversation with Jenkinson today, here’s what I’m assuming:
What if we mutually agree to deposit a certain amount between 3 million talents (pre-tax amount) and 300,000 talents (after-tax amount) into another account?
It’s good for Dragon because he can reduce his expenses, and it’s good for Minjun because he can receive a deposit of more than 300,000 talents. Of course, this crime is committed under the premise that he gives up on transferring the amount to the prisoner’s account.
‘But I’ve never done anything like that. And I have no plans to do so in the future.’
If he invested the embezzled talent to make money and eventually made 50 million talents, and then transferred the money to Min-jun’s prison account, it would be a happy ending.
The problem is that those who take such adventures are eventually caught and meet a miserable end.
In the first place, it is illegal for a prisoner to run a bank account under someone else’s name, and it is also illegal to not pay gift tax regardless of the form in which the money was transferred. I had no intention of taking risks without being completely sure that I would be able to escape the surveillance net.
‘Just in case, I guess I should at least look into it. Damn, there’s no time limit on the subjects of the investigation? Then I have to look at records from 800 years ago. You viper bastards.’
The thought of searching through 800 years of records spanning seven dimensions gave me a headache.
also.
‘The timing is so subtle?’
In this situation, where Dell and Jenkins each came forward to cooperate to earn their own talents, a tax audit notice was sent flying in.
Can we simply dismiss this as a coincidence?
‘But, does this kind of behavior also fall under tax laws?’
The most certain way would have been to ask Dell, who had first suggested this method, but there was no way for him to contact him first. Any form of spiritual communication network that Minjun could access was under the surveillance of the committee.
Ultimately, we have no choice but to wait for Dell to contact us through the network they manage.
‘That’s not even funny.’
A divorced man who can’t help but wait desperately for his ex-wife to contact him. It was absurd. It was a situation I couldn’t even imagine until a few days ago.
I was sitting on the sofa for a while trying to gather my thoughts.
Diririring!
The phone rang.
‘no way?!’
Even though we know that it is unlikely, human psychology is such that we harbor secret expectations.
But the name that appeared on the external LCD dashed his expectations.
– Blair Campbell (Princess Jenkinson’s secretary)
He grumbled.
‘They don’t even ask me to contact them… These guys take turns being boss and subordinate and annoy people.’
He had just finished arguing with his boss when his secretary called him. Minjun asked bluntly.
“What is it?”
– Yes, Agent. This is Blair Campbell. Thank you for your time.
Unlike the old days when he would stand up straight and act all cocky, his attitude has strangely become more polite. His voice is still businesslike, but you can feel the difference in his tone.
‘It couldn’t be otherwise. If the princess had jumped out of the terminal and all the cargo had been stolen, even the most favored secretary would have had a hard time keeping her job. How can the secretary hold out when the boss’s position is gone?’
After a while.
Minjun frowned slightly as he listened to the following words.
“You want to talk to me?”
– Yes.
The elf brought up an unexpected matter.
The Shutan princess, who was arrested by the immigration office, had been exercising her right to remain silent for over a week before finally opening her mouth to say that she was threatening to make a statement in front of Agent Ye Min-jun.
He asked in a voice mixed with annoyance and doubt.
“Didn’t Jenkins come forward himself? … Oh! That’s right. But still, a princess is a princess.”
The situation was different for Oman Sik. He was arrested on suspicion of colluding with the Human Rights Solidarity, and Jenkinson personally interrogated him, extracting all the information he could from him, and he was destined to never see the light of day again, while the same could not be done to Princess Vermi.
Because of her status as an alien princess.
– Even now, the United Kingdom is strongly demanding her extradition. The government and immigration office are completely ignoring it.
Thanks to this, the price of gold has skyrocketed as the poultry trade has been creaking, and only the alchemists are cheering and rowing hard when the water comes in.
– In this situation, it is difficult to use a ‘rather rough method’.
“So I treated you gently, but you kept your mouth shut, and now you’re coming to me?”
This fact must have been reported to Jenkins as well.
‘You knew this so well, but you didn’t say anything about it when you were talking to me earlier? You even had your secretary call you separately.’
– And··· Actually, I feel like the situation is a bit urgent right now.
“why?”
– The committee requested the transfer of jurisdiction over the case and the extradition of the suspect.
“?!”
If we look at each of the numerous treaties concluded by the committee and each government, they are unfair contracts on a par with the Eulsa Treaty.
From Earth’s perspective, it has no choice but to be harsh.
‘It might take a few days because of the procedures, but I’ll get through it eventually.’
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– I guess her crimes are considered serious enough that a committee is stepping in. The intention is to thoroughly investigate who is behind it.
The immigration office has provisionally concluded that there is no direct connection between the recent rare hair loss incident and the Human Rights Solidarity.
It seemed that those human supremacists had no other intention than to terrorize and kill Princess Vermi. The princess, who was their target, was trying to steal the treasure by colluding with a third party.
– Given past practices, it is highly likely that the committee will not share the results of the investigation with us after taking the princess away.
Then, the people of Earth will just suck their thumbs.
– If you don’t get the information, you may be exposed to similar incidents in the future. That’s something you should avoid.
My head is already complicated, and I’ve gotten entangled in another annoying task.
“······Okay, I understand. I’ll come and see you tomorrow.”
– thank you.
Then, instead of hanging up the phone right away, he hesitates.
“?”
The elf asked one thing with difficulty.
– I’m sorry, agent, but…
“What now?”
My mind was busy right now because of the tax audit, so my voice naturally became dull.
– That person I met at the terminal last time.
He was talking nonsense even though he knew exactly who he was talking about.
“Who is it?”
– A woman with a unique body transformation ability that allows her to create freely elastic protrusions on her back…
The elf, who had described the ‘woman with tentacles on her back’ as politely as possible, continued to ask.
– He left me a letter and a gift, saying he was sorry for surprising me…
The elf’s voice was filled with worry and sorrow.
– I’m asking you shamelessly. If you can contact me, could you please tell me so that I can get this back? I don’t know what it is, and I’m worried that it might be too much for me.
“What is it?”
In short, the letter that was left behind said, “I’m sorry for making you foam at the mouth and faint. I’m leaving you a gift as a token of my apology. I will save you just once when you’re in danger.” The gift was said to be a gelatinous substance the size of a thumbnail.
The elf, who had no idea what it was, touched it, and thousands of pages of documents written in unreadable characters covered the area in a curtain of light.
The documents followed her wherever she went after that, and Blair, confused, waved her hands around until she touched something. Then, all the documents disappeared immediately, and the slime turned into light and wrapped around her fingers.
– This is now in the form of a regular ring and is still on my finger, and no matter what I do, I can’t get it off. I even asked the chairman to help me, but he failed.
Minjun, having heard this far, guessed what the object was and what the document of light the elf had seen was.
‘That elf somehow agreed to the ‘Terms of Use’. By the way, that ring that wraps around your finger? How many generations has it evolved through… Anyway, I can’t take that off now even if I die.’
Instead of revealing this knowledge, he spoke vaguely.
“Um… If I can get in touch with you, I’ll try to relay your story.”
Minjun’s eyes changed slightly after he hung up the phone.
‘You’re just throwing stuff around like that to feel sorry for startling me?’
Even for Endellion, it wasn’t a wealth that could be easily shown. At this point, I couldn’t help but wonder about Del’s status.
‘Isn’t it enough to run a small planet as a fief? He wasn’t born with a silver spoon in his mouth, but rather with a platinum spoon. What on earth did that kid do to commit a crime worth 500,000 talents?’
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=Thank you for coming, Sister! What menu would you like today?!=
Cash paused for a moment, holding the Ego frying pan in her hand.
Minjun had originally forbidden her from using this metamorphosis, but when he found out that not only Lakefield, but also Dongcheol and Jeongpal had used it at least once, Cathy protested strongly.
My hands were itching and I couldn’t stand it because everyone unanimously testified that they had tasted the heavenly taste.
I somehow felt like this frying pan would be able to provide emergency treatment to her cooking that was lacking something.
So, after protesting and persuading, I was finally able to rent it today.
“Yeah. I bought a lot of different ingredients…”
After the incident where he cremated two and a half raw chickens in Minjun’s kitchen the other day, he had not allowed Cathy to come near the kitchen. Thanks to that, she was going to try a new dish in her own kitchen today.
“Are you trying to make food that Minjun would like?”
I heard that a close friend of mine had passed away. Maybe that’s why he’s been looking so gloomy and sighing heavily lately, so I was really worried.
=Does he have a favorite menu?=
“It seems like you eat pretty much everything… If you look at the ingredients, you tend to like relief crops.”
=What food do you dislike?=
“Oh, I just found out that you don’t like sandwiches. And you’ve never even touched bracken fern in the first place.”
=I see. Then this time, what is your favorite food? And what food do you dislike?=
“I’m not picky either… but I’d like you to avoid certain types of fish. Especially blue-backed fish.”
=Really? Hoo… Ah! I see.=
The frying pan says as if it noticed something.
=Well, it would be difficult unless you have a strong stomach. My sister has special abilities even among humans···.=
“?!”
When she heard that, Cassie’s expression hardened slightly.
If you listened to it casually, you could understand it as meaning that he disliked the smell of fish, but there was a strange resonance to the telepathy. Cathy’s voice was filled with doubt as she pointed out the omitted words.
“You, you don’t know? How? Did Minjun say that? That can’t be true…. You’re saying that this mind-reading skill surpasses the level of language interpretation?”
Then the frying pan said as if it was no big deal.
=Oh, it’s not a deep-level mind reading! It’s just one of my minor extra features. If you grab my handle, you can tell pretty much anything! What kind of powers my master has. As long as you don’t consciously hide them like your previous master did.=
“Minjun, do you know this too?”
=No. I’m so shy that I’m not good at self-promotion.=
It was a statement that others would unanimously dismiss as nonsense if they heard it.
Cassie looked down suspiciously at the frying pan, which she claimed was a miraculous cooking tool, a contactless interpretation tool, and a power-determiner.
‘What kind of pervert in the world would put such a feature in a frying pan? … Well, I guess he would have made a frying pan like this in the first place because he was a pervert.’
If you think about it, it’s strange that it’s a product made of dark iron. It’s a metal that was originally used to make things like swords, but they made a frying pan out of that precious metal.
“Well, how could I possibly guess what aliens like?”
“I’ll return the frying pan and tell Minjun what I found out today,” said Cathy.
“Anyway, let’s make a dish that meets these criteria so that we can all eat it together.”
=Yes! I understand. Please prepare the ingredients as I tell you. The first step in stir-frying is to preheat the pan. So, could you heat it up a bit? I would like the fire to be as high as possible.=
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