The day after Lister came to the town, a new team arrived, a total of five people. The phone call said they were an inspection team from the New Zealand Taxation Office.
Wang Bo frowned after receiving the notice and asked: "Is there still an inspection team from the tax bureau?"
Charlie explained: "Yes, the tax bureau has the authority to inspect cities and towns across the country. The government's construction funds allocated to local areas are issued by the tax bureau, so they also have supervisory responsibilities and monitor the use of these funds."
"But our Sunset Town has only been established for a few months. Why are they here to inspect? Do you want to see what the boss has done with the money?"
"I'm just paying you a salary, how can that little money be used for anything?" Lao Wang said arrogantly. He had the backing of the treasure in the secret room and was very strong.
Charlie fell silent, his brows wrinkled even more tightly than Wang Bo's, and the wrinkles in the center of his forehead could kill a fly.
Seeing his expression, Lao Wang felt something was wrong and asked, "What's going on?"
Charlie said hesitantly: "I guess their motives may not be pure. Juan is right. They have no reason to review the use of funds at this time because the town has been established for too short a time."
"What's their purpose?"
Charlie shook his head and said nothing with a gloomy expression.
The road conditions in the town were difficult, and the tax bureau inspection team's car broke down halfway. Wang Bo had no choice but to ask Charlie to drive the Land Cruiser to pick them up.
Four middle-aged men arrived, wearing suits and leather shoes, carrying the same briefcase, with indifferent expressions on their faces. They looked more annoying than the debt collectors of the Maori Loan Sharing Company.
The man who led the quartet was named Boozer, a tax prosecutor who was responsible for examining the use of town grants.
In this regard, Wang Bo sat up straight. He only used the government allocations to pay salaries to his own team, but not to other aspects.
Boozer was a little confused after checking the use of funds. He asked: "Mr. Mayor, on the way here, we saw that your town is building roads and houses. Could you please tell me about the money..."
Wang Bo shrugged and said: "I invested it myself. You may not know that I am relatively rich."
Boozer was silent for a moment, and he and his three companions began to look through the fund usage records.
But Sunset Town had only been established less than five months ago, and there were only three staff members. Fund expenditures could be recorded clearly on a piece of paper, and it was useless for them to look through it.
After looking through these records, Boozer pushed the computer aside. He changed his expression and looked at Wang Bo sincerely: "Mr. Mayor, do you have any opinions on the injection of government funds?"
Lao Wang wanted to say that of course he had an opinion, and it was a big one, but he noticed that Charlie secretly winked at him beside him, signaling him not to say anything.
Feeling confused, Wang Bo didn't understand what Charlie meant by doing this. New Zealand is not a **** government like North Korea. Even if he yells at the government here, it will be okay, right
However, he still decided to follow Charlie's hint. The latter had been doing his best to help him and had not fallen out of control yet.
So, Wang Bo shook his head and said, "I don't have any opinion."
Boozer said: "Don't you think the government's allocation to your town is a bit low? I'm afraid it can't afford the construction of the town, right?"
That's right. Wang Bo wanted to slap the table in response to Boozer. What he said was so right. The government is so stingy. It only gives out more than two million yuan a year and it is distributed in four quarters. How can this be enough
But at this time, Charlie winked at him again, still hinting to him not to say more.
Therefore, Lao Wang had no choice but to suppress his inner thoughts and said in a submissive manner: "I can handle the construction of the town myself. Well, Sir left me some antiques. By selling the antiques, I can undertake the construction of the town."
Boozer became a little anxious and said, "Why should we pay for it ourselves when we have state funding? You can ask the state to increase funding, right?"
Now Wang Bo saw something was wrong. Is the New Zealand Parliament so good? He even took the initiative to ask for increased financial allocations to local governments? Why hasn't he heard of such a good thing
You know, since taking up the post of mayor, Lao Wang has been very diligent and has been working hard to study the development paths of other towns.
However, in these studies, he found that the New Zealand Parliament is very stingy and allocates very little and very difficult funding to local governments. Local governments can only work hard to develop primary, secondary and tertiary industries and rely on tax revenue to develop.
If things are abnormal, there must be a monster. Wang Bo became vigilant and asked: "What do you mean?"
Boozer smiled slightly and was about to speak when Charlie stood up and sneered: "The meaning is very simple. The parliament is a bit ambitious. They want to directly take back the Sun Never Sets Territory as national property."
After hearing this, the faces of the four people in the tax bureau suddenly changed, and Wang Bo's face turned even uglier and asked, "What do you mean?"
Boozer said sullenly to Charlie, "Sir, please get out of here."
Charlie smiled contemptuously and said: "You have the right to order me? Stupid! Greedy! Damn it!"
After speaking, he pulled Wang Bo aside and explained to him.
Now, except for Highway 8, all the land in Sunset Town belongs to him. If the investments in the town are all made in his private name, then in fact, for him, there is not much difference between Sunset Town and Sun Bu Luo.
Once the streets, houses, water and electricity systems of the town are all invested by him, then he has the final say over the town.
But if the infrastructure of the town is invested and constructed by the government, then Lao Wang's control over the town will be greatly reduced. It is true that the land ownership is still his, but the right to use it belongs to the government.
What's the difference
If he funded the construction, then the land is his, the house is his, and the water and electricity are also his. If the town residents want to change the mayor in the future, then he has the right to take back these use rights, and everyone will have only one end. Get out!
As for Sunset Town? The result would be to become a ghost town, deserted.
If the town was built with government funds, then if the residents want to change the mayor in the future, then Lao Wang will have no choice. At most, he can become a large farmer or rancher on this land, but I can no longer be the mayor here.
After the introduction was clear, Charlie looked ugly and said: "Damn it, I didn't expect the politicians in the parliament to be so greedy. They turned a territory into a national town and they weren't satisfied yet. They are really a bunch of sons of bitches!"
Wang Bo's face turned even more ugly. He held back his anger and said, "Charlie, why didn't you tell me this when you got the government funding?"
Charlie opened his mouth to explain, and finally smiled bitterly and said: "If I say that I underestimate the character of these damn politicians, would you believe it?"