What are the reasons for smuggling in Shantou?

Shantou people take advantage of the loopholes in the SAR policy, officials and businessmen collude to forge and resell VAT invoices, and then find someone to open an account in other places (Chaoshan people are all over the world), make a list of 1 yuan clothes, and then collude with officials and businessmen to declare and remit money, so that 3 yuan can get a tax refund ... How clever! Finally, the night of 2000 came to Shantou, and the state's tolerance for Shantou's long-term "black economy" has come to an end. So the central government struck hard and immediately lost its mind and burned the imperial envoys.

At the Longhu Guest House in Shantou that year, the window of the room where the imperial envoy lived in Longhu Guest House was nailed with a wooden stick and then set on fire. Not only 1 person was burned to death, but two people were burned to death and two people were seriously injured. History says that [burning Nanyang Tower] caused Zhu to leave Shantou at that time. This matter is not only related to Shantou, but also to Puning.

According to article 153 of the Criminal Law on the crime of smuggling ordinary goods and articles:

Article 153 Crime of Smuggling Ordinary Goods and Articles Whoever smuggles goods and articles other than those specified in Articles 151, 152 and 347 of this Law shall be punished in accordance with the following provisions according to the seriousness of the case:

(1) Whoever smuggles goods and articles and evades the tax payable of more than 500,000 yuan shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years or life imprisonment, and shall also be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the tax payable, or his property shall be confiscated; If the circumstances are especially serious, it shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the fourth paragraph of Article 151 of this Law.

(2) Whoever smuggles goods and articles and evades the tax payable of not less than 150,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than 10 years, and shall also be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the tax payable; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years or life imprisonment, and shall also be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the tax payable or his property shall be confiscated.

(3) Whoever smuggles goods and articles and evades the tax payable of not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 150,000 yuan shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the tax payable.

If a unit commits the crime mentioned in the preceding paragraph, it shall be fined, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than ten years.

Those who smuggle many times without treatment shall be punished according to the accumulated tax payable on smuggled goods and articles.