The Man in Power After Being Married into Her Family

Personal anchors such as Hannah could apply directly for cash withdrawals from the platform for their income from live broadcasting, but the money was pre-tax, and the anchors needed to declare taxes themselves.

However, Hannah had never filed for a tax return because she was reluctant to lose a large amount of income.

Now that the tax department had come to her, she suddenly panicked and could only lie and say, "Officer, you've also seen the situation of my family. There are indeed two paralyzed patients and an elderly in my family who needs to be taken care of. I was really busy, so I forgot to do it at the moment..."

With that said, she had a flash of inspiration, and she quickly came up with an excuse for herself as she said, "You see, I haven't been selling goods on my live broadcast for long, and it has only been a month. In fact, I planned to go and file for a tax return after I was done getting busy over the next few days..."

The personnel from the tax department knew that she must be lying, but it was just as she had said, and it had only been more than a month since she started selling goods on her live broadcast. If she said that she had forgotten or was too busy to file her taxes at that time, the tax department would have no way to prove that she was deliberately evading taxes.

So, the tax officer gave her a way out and said, "We can understand your situation as there are indeed some objective factors, so we will not investigate whether there has been tax evasion. You only need to declare a tax return as soon as possible according to your actual income, and that's it."

Hannah subconsciously asked, "What is the tax rate for personal tax?"

The tax officer explained, "Your kind of selling goods on live broadcast belongs to remuneration for labor, and remuneration for labor belongs to the citizens' comprehensive income. After the final settlement and payment, the individual tax rate applies from 3% to 45%. Given that your amount has already reached the highest level, the individual tax rate of 45% will apply to you."

"What?!" Hannah cried out at once and said, "45%? This... This is too much..."

The tax officer said seriously, "Hannah Queen, it is the obligation of every citizen to pay personal income tax in accordance with the law. Our personal income tax is not considered high globally. The highest income tax rate is in Europe and Japan which are above 50% and the United States which is also 45%!"

Hannah really felt like dying, but she was able to get a clear picture of the situation at the critical moment. She thought to herself, 'It's necessary for me to pay taxes since my income has been exposed. Those celebrities and anchors who evade taxes basically would come to no good end and I'm sure I'll end up the same...'

'Besides, my luck is not so bad. After all, I made this sum of money not long ago, so I can use the excuse of forgetting to pay taxes or not having time to pay taxes to cover up for myself. Otherwise, when the time comes, it would be a bigger amount if I have to pay taxes and fines!'noveldrama

With this in mind, Hannah could only nod honestly and say, "I'm willing to pay my taxes! I'll pay my taxes as soon as I'm released!"

At this moment, Hannah only thought that she would still have at least several million cash in hand even if her income was cut off and she had to pay income taxes. Although it was much lesser compared to her previous fantasy of hundreds of millions or billions of dollars, it would be enough for her to live on her own with a few million dollars on hand.

When the tax officer saw that she had a good attitude, he simply left after urging her.

Hannah felt as if she had escaped a catastrophe, slumped on the interrogation chair, and heaved a sigh of relief.

Seeing this, the police officer said coldly, "Hannah Queen, let me tell you something from the bottom of my heart. You should thank Elaine Parker for exposing you. You won't be making a big mistake because she exposed you today!"

Hannah was naturally very dissatisfied when she heard this. She could not stop thinking to herself, 'That b*tch, Elaine, cut off my means of making money and still expects me to thank her?! I'd be letting myself down if I don't kill her when I have a chance to do so!"

When the police officer saw her gloomy expression, he said, "Do you think I'm joking with you? To tell you the truth, we have all already seen the video she took to expose you. You said that you were going to ask your husband to pretend to have pancreatic cancer, ask your son to pretend to have uremia, and ask your mother-in-law to pretend to cry until she turns blind. The reason why you're only being detained for ten days is because your husband and son are indeed paralyzed and we can't charge you for the crime of fraud. If you really did as you mentioned in the video, it would be a proper crime of fraud! The court might even sentence you to ten years in prison then!"