Diary [March 20, 2008]

by:韩寒

Today, a reporter asked me the question of tax exemption on the writer, from Er Yue He said this is made. Er Yue He is the meaning of a writer too poor, belonging to vulnerable groups, should be tax-free. Later that if the writer was a tax-free, not to levy personal income tax writer, the writer can stimulate creativity, can lower the price, so that more people buy the book from.

I do not understand what this is worth discussing. Er Yue He wrote history, engage in history is indeed easy to commit a historic error. First, the writer of personal income tax is around 11 percent, are in various industries have been relatively few, I do not think the original writers of this Huobuxiaqu the 11 percent he will be able to live a return.

Secondly, I do not think the writer is vulnerable groups, an industry certainly has mixed the good and the bad mix. In today's society every corner of the world, most writers are part-time job. Xiangkao you eat this all his life in China is a bit difficult. Even I are part-time jobs. Of course, the comparison is unfortunate that the car more money they earned less, the situation even worse the main level. But the industry still As for the writer so miserable, miserable than this is also the lot.

Furthermore, I do not think that book prices can be reduced. China's first book prices are reasonable, inflation is very serious in the circumstances, over the past few years the prices of magazine and book prices hardly rose substantially. In accordance with my understanding that the book prices in half to make the bookstore, the publishing, distribution side, the author and print production costs of four again split the remaining 50 percent. Paper price hikes in everything, to reduce the price of China's publishing industry it is very difficult to bear. We have always blame the price of your book, said publisher and, in fact, earned the biggest bookstore is the first. China's publishing industry has been very poor, you can see that China's rich, no one is doing the publishing. In this world are not normal. Even if the tax exemption to the author, book prices have not dropped a penny. Like so many of the depreciation of the dollar, U.S. cars are like a penny or not.

The key is that I think about the rate of 11 percent of the people not to Bisi, nor to affect the quality of daily life and the extent of the quality of life. This is a reasonable rate. If the author really tax-free, it would have led to the poor reputation of the industry from the negative and destructive discrimination outweigh Yinxiaoshida be a shame. Originally writer is the backbone of stress, of course, now we basically have not, but Haodai 10%of the tax on the other to fight it. The key question is more, the state received this tax, this money should be used to protect the interests of the author, anti-piracy, rather than Narita study closure Shashui.

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