Leveling Technology To Save Humanity-Chapter 44: A Seductive Amount

Village taxes!—What was the purpose of this? For things like Road construction, Drainage construction and everything concerning the welfare of their village.

Let’s face it. Even if people were willing to come here, the roads were just terrible.

Talk about a bumpy ride. One’s tires would deflate with all the bumpy spots, haggard stones and sharp corners here.

No joke, all buyers have complained vigorously about this matter. Bad roads slow transportation and make accidents more likely to happen. Just the other day, one the trucks took a bad tumble and everyone had to rush down to help.

Everyone has a full understanding of just how terrible their roads were. Thus, no one had any complaints.

Gort had said that in future, money will still continuously get taken off for Village tax, to build malls, shopping sites and so on.

Their pockets were no longer empty, so of course it was time to change things for the better.

Gort knew the importance of a circulating economy. If people have money in their pockets and don’t know how to spend it, the value of that money also depreciates for them.

Again, of every time they have to buy something, they have to go to the County or a faraway place, they would suddenly find it annoying to be constantly. His goal is to make wealth save humanity, while also building Geldhan village into the Fairyland of the world.

"Now, let’s talk numbers." Gort continued, and everyone subconsciously sat up.

"As I said, our revenue this time has reached 3.5 Billion. And after accounting for operational costs and other costs, I’m proud to say once more, that the shareholder distribution number for a single share is 1.2 Million."

Right now, everyone was too frozen to shout.

1.2 Million per share... So were the talks and speculations in the village true?

"Now then," Gort continued. "Let’s focus on the matter of Village Taxes and Personal Taxes that must be collected by Law!"

"As you all know, Personal Taxes are 21% Now, we agreed to allocate 0.2% of our earnings for Village taxes, making a total of 21.2% tax deductions from your initial share amount."

In other words, those with one share, will receive 21.2% less of 1.2 Million.

This means they’ll be receiving 945,600 Gwins in their account rather than 1.2 million. Although it wasn’t 1 million, it was still fairly close to hitting it.

As for their Village taxes, remember, only 0.2% is taken out. That meant that per 1.2 Million, only 2400 Gwins is assigned for Village taxes.

There were roughly 400 households in Geldhan village. Some households bought shares, others did not. Some households bought multiple shares, and others only bought one.

In total, they racked up 746,400 Gwins for Village taxes.

Wow! Many couldn’t believe it. Amazing!

Who knew that chicken change taken out would amount to so much money after being taken out from so many people’s shares?

It’s really unbelievable to think that a mere 2,400 collected had summed so much.

Great! Even Mayor Akin who was hearing this for the first time was blown away. How come he is suddenly so poor compared to ordinary villagers?

Well, the one thing that made him happy was the taxes collected on these shares. With that money, they will be able to better the County, and also assist Geldhan village in growing.

"Village taxes..." He murmured. What a great idea.

It’s true that it’s the government’s job to fix roads and do this or that. But Mayor Akin knew just how poor his County was. .there were too many poor Villages and local terrifies in Luton County.

Believe it or not, the taxes collected for Luton County don’t even exceed 6 million. So where does he get the money to fix every road in his territory if fixing the roads cost that much?

Gort just announced that they will be spending 500,000 to fix the roads here, all the way down the deadly slopes and through the vast terrains before connecting it to the main highway.

So if they were to take out the same amount or more to fix up every village around, do you know that all their budgets will diminish in a month or 2?

No way! It won’t work that way. He swore that he tried his best to allocate all funds as he could.

Sure enough, one needs true thriving in his County to boost its revenue and taxes.

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Next, Gort talked about his upcoming project. This was where things got excited.

A single share this time wasn’t 1000 Gwins as before, but 10,000 Gwins.

Several people clenched their fists, already planning to rush in and buy shares. However, some still held doubts, feeling they should be content with his being shareholders for the GF Agriculture sector alone.

Gort said the next project is with Communication. But how does one jump from Agriculture to Communications?

Several people had their doubts, but those who lost their first chance, didn’t care. They were willing to beg and even borrow for a chance to buy a single share.

They were the ones wearing the shoes. So only they knew where it hurt.

It was easy to say: I’ll sit this one out,when you will already be receiving millions from this Agriculture company monthly.

But what about them?

Listening to murmurs from the crowd about Gort’s incredulous ingenuity growing up, even Mayor Akin was willing to invest.

Why should villagers be millionaires while he was so broke?

Clenching his fists, he gritted his teeth hard: BUY.