Chapter 164： : How important is the right to speak

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Hardy asked Andy to help him calculate his assets. Andy smiled, "Boss, you don't have to calculate at all. I have your tax return from last year here. Your assets are clear at a glance."

Hardy looked through the thick receipts.

hd security company, with a profit of 1.68 million, a cost of 3.25 million, a loss, and a tax return of US$21,000.

"Tax on losses?" Hardy pointed to the list.

"Federal corporate income tax, California corporate income tax, local taxes, there are a dozen items in total, which are the least within the legal scope." Andy said.

Ok.

Andy is an expert in this area, and Hardy trusts his tax avoidance ability.

HD film company, with revenue of 3.12 million US dollars and spending of 5.82 million US dollars, is still in a state of loss, tax declaration xxx.

hd broker company, hd music company, Andy Financial Accounting Firm shares, Walsh Mining, Rocky Mountain Mineral Water, MEBO TV Factory shares, auction companies, Estee Lauder shares, hd airlines.

All of the above are losing money, and many of them are carrying large loans.

I don't know it, but I was shocked when I saw it. I looked like I had a big family, but I was actually heavily in debt.

But there is also good news.

The Barbie doll toy factory is very profitable. Now it can make $100,000 for Hardy every month, and the most profitable is "Playboy" magazine, which can make about 400,000 dollars a month.

However, these profits are not divided, and all are placed in the company’s accounts. If Hardy divides the money, he has to pay a personal income tax. The personal income tax in the United States is very high. If Hardy takes out all the profits, he pays the tax. The tax rate can reach the most high-end 39.6%.

If it is 4 million, then 1.6 million will be paid.

The US Revenue Agency is **** black.

Hardy took a look at his legal income this year, which was $12,652.56, which is more than 10,000, which happened to be stuck in the lowest level of personal income tax.

Pretty.

This is called professionalism.

"My income and expenses are all legal. The U.S. Revenue Service can't find my trouble, right?" Hardy asked.

He knew that Alcapone had a net worth of hundreds of millions of dollars, murdered people and sold alcohol, but finally fell on the IRS. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison for failing to file taxes for hundreds of thousands of dollars in the casino.

In the United States, drug trafficking is a non-violent crime and is not a serious crime. Theft is not worth mentioning, but tax evasion is a very serious crime.

"Only death and tax payment in this world are eternal."

Hardy didn't want the people of the Internal Revenue Service to trouble him, so the taxes that should be paid must be paid. However, this world will always have two sides. There are financial accountants when there is a tax bureau, and financial accountants are specially used to deal with the tax bureau.

Andy smiled.

"Boss, don't worry, Andy Financial Accounting Firm now has 15 professional financial personnel, 16 accountants, and 3 financial lawyers. Among them, two accountants are professional accountants who have retired from irs. They will ensure that they will not be bad. One cent."

"That's good." Hardy smiled.

As for the gang, it has nothing to do with Hardy. There is no evidence to involve Hardy from the Los Angeles company. As long as the legitimate business is legal, Hardy is the most innocent person in the world.

From the current balance sheet of Hardy, in fact, he is personally in debt, and the debt is several million.

"I want to buy abc broadcasting company. How much money do you expect to get?" Hardy asked again.

“It’s not difficult for a boss to pool money, not to mention other assets, but the current valuation of Playboy magazine is more than US$50 million. If Playboy magazine is used as collateral, many banks are willing to lend you more than US$20 million.” Andy said.

"If you count all the assets, you can get a loan of 40 million yuan. We have a cooperative relationship with Wells Fargo Bank. It is very convenient to find them for loans."

Hearing what Andy said, Hardy had a bottom in his heart, and now he is waiting for the news of Henry's investigation.

Henry returned two days later.

Hardy specifically called Andy to listen together, after all, the next acquisition task must be Andy's job.

Henry gave Hardy a thick document.

Introduction:

"This Edward Noble is the owner of a confectionery company. He is 50 years old this year. The confectionery company is headquartered in Springfield, Illinois. Noble has been operating a confectionery company for more than 20 years. It mainly produces fruit candy, toffee, and coffee. Sugar, with a net worth of two or three million, Noble really made his fortune because of the outbreak of World War II."

"After the outbreak of World War II, the military's procurement of materials surged and new suppliers needed to be added. Noble was selected by the military to become one of the sugar suppliers. From then on, the outbreak began, and his confectionery company sales reached 6 million that year."

"In the next few years, Noble has been a supplier. He made a lot of money and has money in his hands. Noble didn’t know how to invest. When he heard the news that BlueNet was about to sell, he thought it was an opportunity, so he took it out. All the money, I borrowed a sum of money, and finally bought Lan Wang for 8 million yuan. At that time, many people praised him for his boldness."

"However, after he bought the blue network, he found out that he was cheated by the National Broadcasting Corporation. The other party took away almost all the staff, leaving him with a bunch of equipment and a networking agreement."

"He doesn't work as a broadcasting company. He didn't know how to run a TV station, so he hired someone to manage it. The current manager is Liman and he used to run a local TV station."

"Rieman gave a lot of suggestions to Edward Noble at the beginning, and arranged for the production of new programs at each time slot. You also know that to support a TV station’s program requires a large production team, cbs and nbc, two broadcasting companies. There are only four to five hundred employees."

"Moreover, making a program requires a lot of investment. It requires a studio, filming TV series, recording various programs, buying the copyrights of other companies, and so on. The report from Liman to Edward Noble requires an investment of about 5 million."

"After all, he has no background and needs to build from scratch."

"The income of TV stations mainly comes from advertising. When there are no good programs and no audiences are attracted, no one will spend money on advertising on your TV station. Instead, they have to beat several other TV stations and have a certain audience share in the market. , It requires continuous investment."

"Edward Noble felt that the TV station was a quagmire. He felt that if he followed the path that Liman pointed out, he might even be involved in his own candy company. He immediately chose to give up and let Liman hire more than 20 people. As long as the television station exists, the daily program is to read the newspaper to the radio station, then find two people to chat, comment on current affairs, lace news and other programs, in short, how to save money."

"In this way, there will be no ratings if there are no programs, no ads if no ratings, no money without ads, and Edward Noble has to spend a sum of money for staff salaries and equipment maintenance every year."

"Doesn't anyone want to buy abc?" Hardy asked.

"Of course some people want to buy. According to my inquiries, many companies want to buy abc, but Edward Noble's offer is not low. Some people just give up, and some have been negotiating with Edward Noble."

"Two of them are more persistent and have not given up. One is called Pegasus Rubber Tire Company. This company is also one of the military tire suppliers during the war and made a lot of money. The other is the famous Hollywood Paramount. Pictures."

Hardy said in his heart that Paramount was involved, and it seemed that these people were also very discerning.

"One year ago, the Pegasus Rubber Tire Company proposed to acquire, Edward Noble offered 20 million yuan, and he directly ran away the Pegasus Rubber Tire Company. The asking price for Paramount Pictures was 18 million yuan half a year ago, and Paramount didn’t have it either. agree."

20 million, 18 million.

Depend on,

Really ruthless.

Hardy had previously guessed that the candy owner would increase the price, but he didn't expect him to increase that much.

"Later the two companies talked to Edward Noble again, and now Edward Noble's asking price is 15 million."

"Oh, why did the price drop again?" Hardy was a little surprised.

"After World War II, the military layoffs in large numbers, naturally, there is no need for so many suppliers. The candy company could make millions a year, but now without the military supply, it instantly drops to a profit of only a few hundred thousand per year. "

"Edward Noble's candy company has already started to lay off employees. The goods cannot be sold. They dare not produce so much and can only reduce production."

"When I was making money, it didn't matter if I kept a blue net, but now his annual income has dropped 10 times, abc has become a big burden for him, so he is a little eager to get rid of this burden."

Now Hardy fully understands.

15 million, the price is not low, is it really like you said you want to sell iron?

Hardy read the information in his hands carefully, and then gave it to Andy, "Andy, the acquisition is up to you."

"Boss, are you sure you want to buy it. Isn't it easy to run a broadcasting company?" Andy persuaded.

Broadcasting companies have invested heavily, but have been slow to achieve results.

Unlike movies, he can charge tickets and broadcast programs for free, and can only be supported by advertising revenue.

If you want others to advertise on your radio station, you must have high ratings, high ratings must have good programs, good programs will require large investments, and large investments will cost a lot of money.

Before no one advertises, you have to develop. This early investment is estimated that most people really can't support it.

Hardy naturally understood the truth.

But what he fancy is not abc's ability to make money.

Money He can make money in other ways. He believes that it is not difficult to make money with his own ability and knowledge of the future.

But if you own a TV station covering the entire United States, you will have a certain degree of public opinion and your status will rise rapidly.

The right to speak in public opinion is an extremely sharp knife.

Seeing that a certain company is upset, send someone to investigate him, find out his problems, and expose him. Maybe a single exposure can sink that company.

Seeing that a certain member or official is upset, he will be sent to investigate him. If he is embezzled and took bribes to mess up the relationship between men and women, he will be exposed, and he will be stinked once, and he will directly apologize and resign.

If you look at the president upset and scold him every day, isn't the United States stressing freedom of speech? As long as we don't break the law, we can say that such a media company would have a headache for the president.

"Andy, you go talk to the boss of the candy company, try to keep the price down, but my decision is that I have to buy it!"

Hardy said firmly.