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Chapter 54 The royalties are higher than expected

The royalties finally came out.

On November 5th, the author's backend can check last month's manuscript fees.

It was more than what Chen Li had estimated based on the minimum standards. The royalties given to him were a little over 170,000, which also included the reward for first place in the monthly ticket.

However, this is pre-tax income, and a portion of the manuscript tax will be deducted when the payment is actually made.

The standards for taxing royalties are different from those for personal income tax. Taxes are levied if they exceed 800 yuan. The tax rate for royalties above 4,000 yuan is about 11% of the royalties. This is the ratio for 4,000 yuan, and the same is true for 40,000 yuan and 400,000 yuan.

this ratio.

All taxes are directly deducted by the platform, and what is given to the author is the after-tax income.

It was not until more than ten years later that the tax reform was in line with the personal income tax standards. The tax was withheld according to the original standards first, and then the tax was calculated based on 70% of the personal income tax standards. Any excess would be refunded and any excess would be compensated.

After the tax reform, for great authors, the personal taxes they need to pay have increased, and they have to pay a lot of money every year.

For street writers, basically all the money withheld can be refunded.

However, based on the standards given by Chen Li's background, if you earn so much in a month, after more than ten years, not only will you not get a tax refund, but you will also need to pay part of the tax.

The current manuscript tax system is quite beneficial to him.

According to this standard, he needs to deduct more than 10,000 yuan in personal income tax and still have more than 150,000 yuan in hand.

When Chen Li saw this data in the background, his hands were shaking.

This was higher than he imagined.

At this time, Yan Xin was catching up on the night shift and was still sleeping in the rental house.

By the time he woke up and got up, it was already after five o'clock in the afternoon, and by this time, most of Chen Li's excitement had been exhausted.

Yan Xin called Chen Li and asked him what he wanted to eat for dinner, and would bring it to him after he finished his meal.

Chen Li replied: "Fried pork with celery."

Then he added: "Let me tell you something, last month's royalties have come out."

"How much?" Yan Xin suddenly became energetic.

"Including monthly ticket rewards, there are more than 170,000 in total. After deducting taxes, there are probably more than 150,000." Chen Li said.

"Wow!" Yan Xin exclaimed, "So many? We are going to be developed!"

"It's not bad," Chen Li said lightly, "it's about ten or twenty thousand more than I expected."

When he said this, he was actually quite excited, but he concealed it very well, and even sounded a little indifferent.

This surprised Yan Xin: "How did this guy become so calm? Does he already have the psychological quality that a great Internet writer should have?"

When he heard this number, he was so excited that he wanted to cheer loudly. Unexpectedly, Chen Li, who had always been very excited before, was now so calm, which was a bit abnormal.

But after thinking about it, it’s normal.

When the book "Fights Break the Sphere" was first serialized, it attracted a lot of attention in the form of a passionate and refreshing novel, but it was only on Qidian.com.

Later, I left the circle because of a scolding battle with another top celebrity on the website.

After that, he broke out of the circle with a sensational number of updated words and a far-leading sales record.

It has become a hot topic in the Internet literary world again and again. In the process, my mentality has become more mature, which is understandable.

Here he felt a little ashamed, and thought to himself: "I have lived a lifetime, but my energy-raising skills are not as good as this young man who is less than twenty years old. It seems that I was very poor in my previous life. For such a sum of money

I can’t calm down.”

I went downstairs to a small restaurant that I often go to and had a meal for five yuan, and I specially ordered a bottle of happy water.

I only had thirty or forty dollars left on hand, and I still had one week to pay my salary. Spending so much money this time seemed a bit luxurious.

But he doesn't care anymore.

If you can get more than 70,000 yuan soon, do you still need to care about the cost of a bottle of Coke?

During the meal, I also ordered a piece of fried pork with celery for Chen Li, and by the way, I also ordered a bottle of ice-cold happy water for him.

——This is a good day, worthy of luxury.

By the time he finished his meal, the boss had already fried the portion of fried pork with celery, and took two lunch boxes, one for rice and one for vegetables, plus a bottle of the coldest Coke, a total of eight

dollars.

Carrying this with him to the Internet cafe, Chen Li took over the computer to look at the data in the background and the comments in the book review section while he was eating.

Chen Li said to him while eating: "The publishing fee is due on the 15th. When the publishing fee is paid, I will buy a computer. Then I won't have to use the Internet cafe to code. What do you think?"

"It's pretty good!" Yan Xin said, "I need to buy a good computer and use a better keyboard."

"You don't need a keyboard..." Chen Li said hesitantly, "I'm used to using this keyboard that costs more than ten yuan. I'm afraid I won't be able to get used to it with a good keyboard."

In fact, he still wanted to try those legendary mechanical keyboards that felt good, but the price was too impressive, and one would cost him several months of salary.

Now I can make money, but my consumption habits have not changed so quickly.

Yan Xin said: "Even if you don't adapt, it's only temporary, and it won't take long for you to adapt. As the saying goes, if you want to do your job well, you must first sharpen your tools and set up the equipment. Isn't it more convenient to write it down?

Is it handy?"

Chen Li thought for a moment, gritted his teeth and said:

"Then buy it! Buy a good computer and a good keyboard!"

Making this decision, I felt a painful feeling.

But at the same time, there is a very refreshing feeling.

Then he said to Yan Xin:

"Now the royalties are so high. We each have half of it, which is more than 70,000 yuan. One month's royalties are enough for you to work as a security guard in Fengxiang City for seven years without food or drink. Do you want to consider resigning like me? This way we can have more money.

If you have more time to study the novel, you shouldn’t be so tired.”

"I'd better think about this first." Yan Xin said with a smile.

If you can get half of the royalties, it's okay not to work as a security guard.

However, working as a security guard does not prevent him from coming up with creative ideas for novels.

What he gave was creative ideas. Many of the plots were pulled directly from the cool articles he read in his previous life. They were not his own original creations. He only had to consider whether they could be incorporated into this novel, and the workload was not very large.

Just think about those things when you are at work, jot down whatever you think of, and you can earn extra money - even though that money is not much.

Now that I am hesitating, the main reason is that I don't feel very secure about sharing the royalties with Chen Li. I have to share the bonus for a few months before talking about resigning.

Anyway, this job is not tiring, and my life is pretty easy.

It’s hard to explain this reason to Chen Li in detail, so I can only find another reason:

"I worked as a security guard there, and had the opportunity to meet all kinds of people, observe different lives, and have a lot of time to think about the plots of those novels. I think this is still helpful for writing novels, so for the time being, I still want to

Just stay there and do it.”

Chen Li suddenly realized: "No wonder you can design so many characters. It turns out that you have been observing others!"

"Isn't it?" Yan Xin said with a smile, "We who write online novels can't do it behind closed doors, right?"

(End of chapter)