Chapter 96: Chapter 90: Rise to the Top 10, Shocking the Nation
 

Following that, the vice president Gana Qiao couldn’t hide his dissatisfaction as he said, “Director David, what do you mean by this?”

David looked at him and replied, “I don’t know if you’ve heard about the black tax bill that passed in Congress on the 3rd of last month?”

The four of them were puzzled and looked at each other, each wearing a hint of confusion on their faces, clearly not quite clear on the matter.

“It doesn’t matter if you haven’t heard about it, let me explain it to you!”

“This bill is quite simple, as of the 3rd of last month when Congress passed it and it officially took effect, it stipulates that from now on, for any illegal activity such as smuggling, robbery, fraud, and the like, you must pay taxes to our Tax Administration Bureau, understand?”

Now, even if they were slow, they understood.

Any illegal activity required paying a full amount of taxes to the Tax Administration Bureau?

The purpose of the Tax Bureau coming to them seemed quite clear then; they were targeting the illegal income from their game cheats!

But targeting is one thing.

Thinking that they would just comply with a few words and hand over the taxes obediently was impossible.

After all, even though they earned illegal income, it wasn’t blown in by the wind!

It was created day and night by them and their programmers through coding!

So after some contemplation, Gana Qiao put on an innocent face and replied, “Director David, as you said, we only have to pay taxes to your Tax Administration Bureau for illegal earnings, but our company develops games, that’s legal income…”

“Stop pretending. Is your company developing games, or developing game cheats? Don’t you know the difference?”

With David’s pointed remark, the four men were instantly dumbstruck.

Behind them, Nisen and Bucky finally understood!

It turned out that this company, which appeared to be in the internet business, was actually dealing in the development of game cheats behind the scenes!

After a long silence, Gana Qiao, trying to keep his composure, countered, “Director David, please don’t slander us, developing game cheats is illegal!”

David turned his head to Nisen and said, “Call the people from the forensic department at the police station, let them arrange for some personnel to come over!”

“Understood!”

Nisen took out his phone right away.

Meanwhile, the four men on Gana Qiao’s side were getting anxious.

With David and his people right there, they couldn’t destroy the evidence even if they wanted to.

So once the forensic department of the police comes to investigate, a detailed check would reveal the discrepancies.

Then, their company would not only be sealed off, but the few of them might even face prison time.

Thinking of this, Saklee couldn’t sit still and hurriedly interjected, “Wait, Director David, there’s no need to alert the police for such a trivial matter!”

David motioned for Nisen to stop what he was doing, then crossed his legs and asked, “So, what do you propose we do?”

“It’s just about paying taxes, we can negotiate that…”

“…”

In the subsequent conversation, although Saklee and the others agreed to pay the tax amount, they were still not very honest.

They began covertly colluding to underreport the income generated from the game cheat profits as much as possible.

What they didn’t expect was that David had some sort of tax cheat detector on him, which precisely identified the taxes they should pay down to the last penny.

The four were shocked that the Tax Bureau had investigated them so thoroughly, and they helplessly inquired about the tax rate.

But upon hearing the exorbitant tax rate, they immediately became resistant and insisted that David lower it somehow.

But this was the tax rate set by the Tax Bureau, not a vegetable market where they could haggle, how could they negotiate?

Eventually, under David’s firm stance,

although Saklee and his colleagues were very reluctant, they had no choice but to grit their teeth and agree.

After leaving the Xis Building, the three got into the car, and Nisen asked, “Chief, are we going back to the station now?”

“Yeah.”

David hummed in affirmation, then said, “Later, when they bring the people and money to our station, after you handle it, each of you will take $50,000 US Dollars!”

Upon hearing this, Nisen and Bucky were instantly overjoyed.

They had already heard that all the executives and employees of Changwan Internet Company were required to pay over a million US Dollars in taxes.

So of course, they had their own thoughts about it.

Luckily, they didn’t even have to ask, as David had voluntarily offered them $50,000 US Dollars each, and all just for making a trip out, which was simply too good a deal!

…

As David and the others returned to the station,

at the same time, in the Lake District Police Station, in the office of Chief Smith, came a visitor.

“Baldwin, my boy, what brings you here?”

Seeing Baldwin arrive, Smith also stopped his work and greeted him warmly, “Chief Smith, there’s a situation I need you to handle!”

Seeing how serious Baldwin looked, Smith also became stern and asked, “What happened?”

“Last night…”

Baldwin described roughly what had happened, how the Tax Bureau people took his goods away.

After hearing all this, Smith was also shocked.

Dieter was dealing with the Mexico Gang, but then fully armed inspectors from the Tax Bureau showed up, not only took the goods but also seized $1.58 million in cash?

Although he was aware of the black tax bill, the brazen actions of the Tax Bureau still unsettled him deeply.

“Wait a minute… Who led the Tax Bureau’s operation last night?”

Smith suddenly thought of something and looked at Baldwin intently for an answer.

“The Chief Tax Officer named David, very young, with a very domineering style of action, even specifically requested that Dieter meet him personally!”