[Epoch Times December 23, 2021](Reported by Epoch Times reporters Ning Haizhong and Yi Ru) Wei Ya, known as the “Sister of the Live Broadcast”, was recently severely attacked by the Chinese Communist Party and issued an exorbitant fine for tax evasion. . The authorities also started a purge campaign across the country. Observers questioned that the authorities have bad motives and are related to the CCP regime crisis.
Exercise again
The tax bureaus under the State Administration of Taxation of the Communist Party of China, including Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Liaoning, Hainan, Henan, and Shenzhen, issued notices with similar content on their official websites on December 22. The circular requires celebrity artists and webcasters to “proactively report and correct tax-related issues” to the taxation department before December 31 this year, otherwise “seriously deal with them.”
The Xinhua News Agency of the Communist Party of China claimed that thousands of people have “actively checked themselves” and paid back taxes.
Earlier, on the afternoon of December 20, the Zhejiang Provincial Taxation Bureau notified that the network anchor Huang Wei (screen name: Wei Ya) was accused of evading taxes from 2019 to 2020, and collected sky-high fines (tax collection, late fees and fees). Fines) totaling 1.341 billion yuan (210 million US dollars).
In 2018, film star Fan Bingbing was fined 884 million yuan; in April of this year, film star Zheng Shuang was fined 299 million yuan; in November, Internet celebrity anchors Xueli and Lin Shanshan were fined 65,553,100 yuan and 27,672,500 yuan respectively. Wei Ya’s fine was higher than the sum of the aforementioned fines.
Li Hengqing, an American Chinese economist, was surprised that Wei Ya received a high-priced ticket of 1.341 billion yuan. He told The Epoch Times on December 21 that there may be other insider information. He said that Wei Ya’s process of becoming famous in the past has actually helped the authorities in the so-called poverty alleviation. It is to take the products from remote villages through live broadcast and transport them to the cities in large quantities, so as to solve the problem of difficult sales of agricultural products.
He analyzed: “Did Wei Ya say something she always wanted to say on some occasions? Just like Jack Ma, not only was she the richest man, but she also became a big V, a very influential person, so he said something. If the CCP government cannot step down, it will be suppressed. Is this the case for Wei Ya?”
Li Hengqing said that Wei Ya is indeed the largest delivery expert on China’s online platform and has the largest sales revenue. The authorities dealt with her heavily, perhaps because these people came from the grassroots and have no background.
Public information shows that Wei Ya, known as the “live broadcast sister”, was a member of the hip-hop group THP. In 2016, she became Taobao live broadcast anchor and quickly became popular. Together with Li Jiaqi, she is also known as the two major Taobao anchors. She was also selected for 2021. Hundreds of Great People of the Times”.
According to the Taobao page, Wei Ya’s Taobao store has 91.85 million followers, and her Taobao live account has over 90 million fans.
In recent years, the Chinese Communist Party has made heavy moves in the economic field. It has continued to purge video games, education and training, financial technology, food delivery, online car-hailing, cryptocurrency, and the debt crisis-ridden real estate industry on the grounds of antitrust and data security.
The film and television and Internet celebrity industries have also become departments under strong supervision by the authorities. In September of this year, the State Administration of Taxation of the Communist Party of China issued a notice stating that it regularly conducts “double random, one open” tax inspections on celebrity artists and network anchors.
On December 15, the Cyberspace Administration of the Communist Party of China issued a document to urge the platform to deal with illegal “head accounts” in accordance with the law, requiring the closure or suspension of updated accounts, including tax evasion and other illegal activities.
Since next year will be the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, this series of repressive actions by the authorities has triggered many political associations.
In addition, The Epoch Times has continued to report that China’s mainland is now experiencing a severe economic downturn, and the regulatory turmoil of the authorities has caused a large number of people to lose their jobs, and even officials say that at least 200 million people are “flexibly employed.” In such an economic environment, the true intentions of the CCP to target certain high-income groups of people are cause for concern.
“One arrow, multiple eagles”
Lai Jianping, a former lawyer in Beijing and a master of law from China University of Political Science and Law, told The Epoch Times that the CCP’s recent large-scale campaign-style purge of celebrities and Internet anchors has done many things with one stone and can achieve multiple goals.
“First, it can achieve national advancement and national retreat, reduce the proportion of private capital in the entire country’s economic life, and strengthen the ability to control the entire country’s economy.
“Second, fighting against the rich can create public opinion for its so-called common prosperity, thereby inciting the hatred of the bottom people, implementing populist ideology, and gaining more support for its regime from the hateful people at the bottom.
“The third is a more important purpose, which is to plunder private wealth to relieve its financial pressure. It directly serves its financial dilemma by plundering and plundering.”
Lai Jianping believes that through large-scale “harvesting”, the authorities “in the end they must firmly grasp more control rights, compress the living space and freedom of the people, and further control the entire society and consolidate the political power.”
Hu Ping, honorary editor-in-chief of “Beijing Spring” and political commentator, also believes that the current considerations of the Chinese Communist Party are, first, cutting leeks economically, so that the government can get more money. Another purpose is to use this movement to strengthen the power of the government and compress civil society.
After Wei Ya was fined, the Chinese Communist Party’s official media “China News Network” published a commentary, directly holding up the banner of Xi Jinping’s “common prosperity” policy, emphasizing that “star artists and network anchors belong to high-income groups”, which is also the focus of tax inspections by the tax department. Objects, and these tax collection actions are to “regulate income distribution and promote common prosperity.”
Prior to this, at the meeting of the Central Finance and Economics Commission on August 17 this year, Xi Jinping spoke for the first time to “share prosperity”. The core content of the conference was the “three distributions” of private wealth through taxation and other tools.
On August 29, Mao’s left-hand writer Li Guangman published an article in the self-media, claiming that the CCP “is going through a profound change.” The article also named Zhao Wei and Zheng Shuang, as well as fans and celebrities who are “malignant tumors”, saying that ants, Didi, etc. are big comprador capital groups that have moved toward the “opposite of socialism” and “reform” is about cleaning them up. , Remediation, etc.
This article was subsequently collectively forwarded by major party media websites. The rare official action has triggered public opinion at home and abroad to believe that China’s “Second Cultural Revolution” is coming. During this period, a large number of private enterprise bosses responded to the authorities’ slogan of “common prosperity”, not only proactively voicing loyalty, but also constantly making “actual actions” and donating huge sums of money.
New gameplay of “Hit local tyrants”
Lai Jianping compares the CCP’s current purge of the rich with its “local tyrants” before the establishment of the government. He believes that the CCP has remained essentially unchanged since the founding of the party, except that it has different forms of expression in different historical periods.
“We know that before the CCP took power, there was the so-called looting of local tyrants to divide the land, which was a naked and open grab. Then after it took power, there was also a so-called movement to transform the capitalists, promising many conditions for capitalists, such as public-private partnerships, joint ventures, and so on. Actually. The above is deceit. In the end, those capitalists have lost their wealth. Now (the practice) is actually a kind of blackmail. It is the executive department that is constantly blackmailing away the private wealth in the name of the law.”
“Look at Ali, in the name of anti-monopoly, and fined nearly 20 billion. The fight against Didi Taxi is in the name of cybersecurity. Then the entire education and training industry is in the name of reducing the burden on students. The recent Lenovo incident may be It must be in the name of state-owned enterprise restructuring. For celebrities and bloggers from the media, it is in the name of tax inspections.”
Lai Jianping pointed out that this is a kind of structure: “It usually knows that you are doing this thing and does not pay attention to it. When you get bigger one day and make more money, suddenly it uses all kinds of tricks to make you huge. Land tax and fines. To a certain extent, this is a kind of framing. That is, when the pig is fattened, it will come to slaughter.”
He said: “Although the current purge of the rich is different from the past, it is essentially the same. It is still a new type of gameplay in the new historical period.”
When answering questions from reporters about the Wei Ya incident, the Inspection Bureau of the Hangzhou Municipal Taxation Bureau of Zhejiang Province claimed that it was the tax big data analysis and evaluation that she was suspected of major tax evasion, and that the tax authorities had “reminded and urged for many times but the rectification was still incomplete”. The official also emphasized that the platform economy is a new form of economic development.
Political commentator Hu Ping also pointed out that if Wei Ya had problems with tax evasion in the past, the authorities had laws and policies in this regard. “Then why didn’t you implement it seriously before? It’s just that you didn’t implement it for a long time in the past, which resulted in the sporting harvest of live broadcasts. Is this legitimate, reasonable and legal?”
Lai Jianping, who has been working as a lawyer for many years, revealed that the CCP specifically deals with such bad “income-generating” rules: “On the one hand, it has established a lot of laws, too many, but they don’t enforce them. They use your weakness in human nature to make you break the law and let you You go to tax evasion, wait until one day you can’t keep it, if this matter becomes serious, it can blackmail you.”
“If the method of the rule of law is clear and plain, from the beginning to the end, the rules are very clear, and the law enforcement is transparent, then it can’t be blackmailed.” Lai Jianping said, “It must be vague to rule by autocracy, so that it makes people People live in a state of precariousness and walking on thin ice. Then it can take advantage of it, and thus powerfully control the entire society.”
Lai Jianping said that because the CCP wants to continue to do so, no matter how rich or famous you are, in China, you are lambs waiting to be slaughtered and leeks waiting to be harvested. It is difficult to escape.
The content of the third historical resolution issued by the Sixth Plenary Session of the Communist Party of China, as usual, praised Mao Zedong’s “smashing of local tyrants and dividing fields” before the establishment of the Communist Party of China, and the so-called “socialist transformation” of capitalist industry and commerce after the establishment of the government.
According to public historical data, during the CCP’s industrial and commercial reforms, capitalists, property owners, and vendors had to hand in their assets. Many people committed suicide because of humiliation. The then Mayor of Shanghai Chen Yi asked every day “How many paratroopers are there today?” It means how many capitalists committed suicide by jumping off the building that day. In a few years, the CCP completely abolished private ownership in China.
At the CCP’s Poverty Alleviation Commendation Conference held in February 2021, the current party leader Xi Jinping specifically mentioned “dividing local tyrants to divide fields,” saying that this was widely supported that year.
Secrets of Zhongnanhai
Lai Jianping predicts that in order to achieve the goal of strengthening political, economic and social control, the CCP will continue to carry out purge campaigns in the future. “Find someone to rectify an industry from the beginning, engage a group of people, grab a batch of money, and it will take turns, endlessly. When this batch of leeks are harvested, they will harvest that batch.”
Lai Jianping believes that this involves deep secrets and is related to the sense of crisis in Zhongnanhai, because the domestic and international environments are now very unfavorable to the CCP. In order to maintain the one-party dictatorship, it must strengthen its control.
Lai Jianping said: “If it does not go on, society will be in order. This is a terrible state for the Communist Party. For it, it has to make people panic. Everyone is precarious before it can be implemented on the entire society. Such a kind of state terrorism control. If everyone is right and confident, and are not afraid of your government putting on small shoes, and you are not afraid of blackmailing, then this kind of centralized rule may be difficult to survive.”
Recently, the CCP authorities have continuously emphasized the protection of political security.
On November 18 this year, the CCP convened a Politburo meeting. When reviewing the CCP’s National Security Strategy (2021-2025), it emphasized the concept of “overall security” and required the assurance of “political security, economic security, social security, and technological security.” “Security, new domain security” is its core content.
“Economy belongs to the Communist Party, sports belongs to the Communist Party, literature and art belong to the Communist Party, politics belong to the Communist Party, the army belongs to the Communist Party, and national security belongs to the Communist Party. Everything belongs to the Communist Party,” Gao Feng, a current affairs commentator, told The Epoch Times earlier this morning. The Communist Party monopolizes everything in China, but where the Communist Party loses control, it directly threatens its survival and faces disintegration.
“Sanguang Policy”
Wei Ya’s last live broadcast was on December 19th. The makeup live broadcast on the evening of December 20 and the live broadcast on Taobao “New Year’s Day” on December 21 were cancelled. At the same time, Wei Ya’s Taobao live broadcast, Weibo, Douyin, and Xiaohongshu accounts were all blocked.
On December 21, the Chinese Communist Party Network Social Organization Federation announced the withdrawal of Wei Ya’s “Internet Honesty Propaganda Ambassador”.
Economist Li Hengqing criticized that this approach of the CCP is actually a routine with urban management, which is to engage in the “three-light policy.”
He said that these live broadcasters originally existed legally, “If you block her account now, she will lose the channel to make a living. This approach is no different from the direct beating and looting by the city management. Wrong, then you should block all the nets.”
Li Hengqing asked, “Is it good for China’s economy to hang all these profitable service industries?”
Taiwan’s financial expert Huang Shicong told The Epoch Times that the CCP’s suppression is so rude, just like Fan Bingbing and Zhao Wei before, “When they want to suppress you, they have to block the entire network. You can’t have any chance of getting ahead, even your past. History will disappear.”
Regarding Wei Ya who was praised by the official media before, Huang Shicong said that this is the CCP’s method, “You are the person I need, and I can praise you to the sky. In the past, Jack Ma was also the so-called leading brother of the Internet industry. At that time, he Everything is fragrant, but now Jack Ma is a water dog who has been knocked down, including many upstarts in science and technology in the past.”
Mainland freelance writer Jinqiu told The Epoch Times: “People’s personal account is actually an intangible asset of a person. It’s like private property. It should be protected. You can’t ban the account at will. I think that’s the point. It is completely wrong. This is a gross violation of personal property and personal spiritual property.”
In addition, when it comes to paying taxes, Li Hengqing said that there is a most basic principle in Western civilized countries, which is not to represent and not to pay taxes. “That is, if you do not represent my interests, and you are not establishing such a tax system through the legislature, of course I will not pay taxes, and I have done nothing wrong. If this is the case, then I think this matter is even more bizarre. , That’s an open grab. Then why do you want an open grab? The government has no money.”
Li Hengqing said that the statistics for the first half of 2021 will be released. Of the 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in China, only Shanghai has more fiscal revenue than fiscal expenditure, and all other places have negative numbers. “What should I do in this situation? (The CCP) is to look for it from the common people. In the past, the ancient saying was called exorbitant taxes and taxes. The harsh government was fierce than the tiger, and finally forced the common people to be unable to do it. Like this time, they also used tools. If it’s taken away, how can I make money to pay you a fine?”
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