How gray is "grey income"? "Gray income" is not a new topic, but gray income is a topic that needs attention from time to time. "Gray income" refers to various incomes between legal income and illegal income. From

In a sense, "grey income", like "hidden income", has a certain "reasonable existence space" within a certain period of time. However, it must also be noted that "gray income" often exposes some social problems and systems.

Sexual diseases. Invisible along with these incomes are issues such as inequality of wealth and unhealthy social atmosphere that have attracted great attention from society. Today, as the Gini coefficient, which reflects the gap between the rich and the poor, is increasing day by day, the central government has made repeated orders to resolutely correct the damage.

In today's world where corruption is affecting people's interests and crackdowns are taking place, it is of great practical significance to pay attention to the phenomenon of "grey income" among Chinese people. How many types of "grey income" are there among public servants in Africa?

Those who receive gifts during official activities; those who take advantage of the conditions of working in temporary organizations or part-time jobs to receive various remunerations; those who have cleverly created names in the unit to spontaneously receive various benefits and subsidies; and those who frequently accept other units and individuals in non-official activities

There are so many kinds of invitations to eat, drink, dance, fish, and wash, some of which are unique, while others have obvious characteristics of the department, industry, or position.

In addition to the general characteristics of concealment, diversity, and universality, the phenomenon of "grey income" also has the following three major tendencies: First, the main source of "gray income" is public funds, and the main channel is public funds.

All kinds of direct or disguised "converting public affairs into private interests"; the second is to seek "collectivization" of methods, and units use clever names to issue bonuses and subsidies indiscriminately. Generally, after collective discussion by the leadership team, everyone has a share; the third is to "legitimize" the atmosphere.

. Some civil servants use various reasons and excuses to accept "gray income" with peace of mind. In particular, some public servants use their power to seek "gray income" to accumulate ill-gotten gains, which has become a prominent problem currently plaguing the construction of party conduct and clean government.

The harm is serious. The amount of gray income is huge, and it is impossible to get true statistics on this part of the income. For example, the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Land and Resources said that the country loses nearly 10 billion yuan in state-owned land income every year. Obviously, this part of the income has become

Gray income. For example, according to a study by an Austrian economist, the GDP of the world's formal economy is US$39 trillion, and the GDP of the informal underground economy is US$9 trillion. The ratio between the formal economy and the informal economy in developed countries is 4 to 1.

The economic ratio is 6.5 to 1, and that of developing countries is 3 to 1. Chinese scholar Hu Angang believes that the total loss of tax revenue, state-owned economic investment and fiscal expenditure, black economy income, and monopoly industry rents is ..1 trillion yuan.

About 15% of the statistical GDP. From this we can be sure that the amount of gray income and black income in our country is considerable. As evidence, a survey by "Looking News Weekly" shows that in some counties in underdeveloped areas of our country.

In this city, individual leaders' annual gray income alone can reach 100,000 yuan, not counting black income, while in developed areas it can reach 200,000 yuan.

Gray income has widened the individual salary gap in our country.

In a sense, gray income is the “patent” of powerful and corrupt officials.

There was a corrupt official named Zheng Yuansheng in Guangfeng, Jiangxi Province. In order to make money, he had to notify his subordinates whether he was building a house in his hometown, his children's birthdays, marriages, or going to college. Who wouldn't understand this?

Who dares not to "condolence"?

On his daughter's birthday, birthday gifts totaling 100,000 yuan were sent to her in one day.

Judging from the situation of corrupt officials who have been investigated and dealt with in recent years, the amount of their property from gray income is far greater than the amount of corruption and bribery from which they have been identified.

Ouyang Song, the former mayor of Yueyang City, Hunan Province, has a family property worth more than 3.89 million yuan, and his "grey income" is 3.34 million yuan, accounting for 85.6% of the total property.

Not long ago, the "China Urban-Rural Income Gap Survey" completed by the Institute of Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences after several years of follow-up surveys was released, and it immediately became the focus of public opinion at home and abroad.

Because this report shows that China’s urban-rural income gap is “the highest in the world.”

Li Shi, a researcher at the Institute of Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the main creator of the survey report, explained this "world's highest": If only monetary income is counted, excluding physical goods, China may not be the highest, and Zimbabwe is higher than China.

The reason why this survey concluded that China is “the highest in the world” is because non-monetary factors were taken into account in the survey.

Gray income takes advantage of legal "loopholes". The emergence of the phenomenon of "gray income" is not accidental. It is not only related to our cultural traditions, but also to the actual institutional mechanisms.

Especially in some industries and fields, the income gap is huge.

Since overall wage income is low, some departments will use their power to generate income.

These illegal "grey incomes" take many forms, one of which is the corruption and bribery of a few officials.

The current "Criminal Law" for "property of unknown origin" that is gray income has a maximum sentence of 5 years.

Although the "Criminal Law" defines the content of unidentified property, it does not delineate specific sentencing standards, leaving "loopholes" in many laws and systems.

Some corrupt officials have taken advantage of legal loopholes to reduce the cost of crime, and some have even escaped legal sanctions and disciplinary action.