Chapter 616

Lavigne, who was paralyzed with fatigue and dripping with sweat, gently pulled her down and placed her next to Spears, who was lying asleep next to her.

Abel stood up and checked the time. It was exactly 8:30 in the morning.

That's what's good about Avril Lavigne, despite her petite size. But her resilience is almost the best among all his women.

Even the angel babies of Yinsha Company are not as good as her in this aspect.

After enduring most of the night last night, she was able to be semi-forced to get up by Abel once in the morning, but none of Abel's other women could do it.

After getting off Simmons, he looked back and glanced at the two white bodies lying in a mess above. Abel shook his head with satisfaction, turned around and walked into the bathroom next to him.

By the time he came out wearing a bathrobe, it was already half an hour later. The two people on Simmons slept as soundly as ever.

Avril, who had worked hard again in the morning, even snored slightly.

Exiting the bedroom door, as expected, the Hearst sisters were already waiting for them.

"Good morning, Lydia and Amanda." He greeted them with a smile.

Returning to New York last night, the two Hearst sisters who had been working with him during this period also took time out of his vacation to visit the Hearst family.

In fact, if the two of them were willing, Abel could give them a few days off.

The team of secretaries and assistants who follow Abel always numbers more than 20 people.

To be honest, it doesn't matter if the two of them are missing, it can still run very well.

After all, they are still young, and they mainly play the role of "icing on the cake" in this team.

Two elegant flowers occasionally used to satisfy the boss's physical needs.

But, it can be said directly that none of the women around Abel is without ambition.

From little Laura and Keira to Megan Fox, Daddario and other Hollywood celebrities, none of them have fuel-efficient lamps.

With such fierce competition around him, Amanda and Lydia didn't dare to stay too far away from him for too long.

If during their absence, some other bisexual eaters would sneak in and occupy their current ecological niche, it would be more of a loss than a gain.

No, I just went back for one night. They arrived so early on the second day and continued their work as Abel's secretaries.

"Good morning, BOSS." X2, the two responded in unison.

"Let's have breakfast first." Abel said with a smile while walking towards the restaurant on the east side of the mansion.

Since he purchased the Woolworth Building and renamed it Smith Building.

The part of the building that was originally used as a huge observation deck on the top floor of the Woolworth Building became one of Abel's main residences in Manhattan.

With a total of 4 floors and an area of ​​more than 2,000 square meters, the interior includes more than 125 new windows approved by the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission, more than 7.3-meter-high ceilings, a private elevator, and unparalleled 360-degree views of New York City.

When he was renovating the entire Smith Tower, Abel hired Alchemy Properties, a well-known New York architectural firm, to transform the top of the Smith Tower into a special residence.

The exterior facade cannot be modified except for the windows, and the interior is directly decorated with exquisite decorations designed by Thierry W Despont, who is famous for restoring the Statue of Liberty.

Alchemy Properties restored original architectural details to reflect the building's glory days while updating the home with modern amenities and amenities.

With a lot of money, the interior here has now become a place where classicism and modernity blend.

Even a picky California princess like Kayla is full of praise and satisfaction here. She enjoys her stay here and it has become her hometown in New York.

Avril and Britney were given directly to Kayla by Abel, so they can live here.

Others are not so lucky.

Of course, there is little Laura. However, she has been away from King Keira. If Keila does not go to her place, she will not take the initiative to come to Keira's place.

Sitting at the dining table, there are beautiful maids who have been prepared beside them. Under the guidance of the housekeeper, they serve Abel, including but not limited to presenting food, pre-preparation for food consumption, and other things that ordinary people can't even think of. dining service.

Abel invited Lidya and both of them, and they both said they had already eaten.

"Then let me report on my schedule today. Well, Lidya, tell me." Abel put the French blue lobster that the maids had peeled and soaked in juice into his mouth, while tasting the 500-dollar lobster. The best lobster, he said with a smile.

Lidya is wearing a small orange suit today, looking bright and colorful.

The neckline of the small suit is naturally open, revealing the red and white fleece jacket. The bulging fleece jacket proves that her career line is very successful.

The lower body is a pair of lake blue tight trousers, which highlights her slender legs. It is a fashionable and beautiful professional woman's dress. With her exquisite and beautiful appearance, she is not inferior to her cousin Amanda next to her.

"Yes." Lydia, who knew what Abel liked most about herself at work, began to report directly in a serious manner:

"...The schedule shows that you need to appear at the Smith Capital office at 10 a.m. Today is the day of Smith Capital's 21st fundraising announcement..."

"At 10:35, Smith Media's management meeting will be held to determine next year's rotating CEO."

"At 10:59, Mr. Bloomberg and Mr. Soros invited you to have coffee at Charlie Brown's Pizza. You accepted three days ago."

"At 12:00, you will attend the New York City Council's press conference. Because the New York City Council has decided to award you the honorary award of "New York's Chief Citizen"..."

"At 13:11, the New York State Senator and former Grand Commander Zizi and his wife invited you to play golf at Winged Foot Golf Club in New York, and you agreed yesterday."

"14:55, you..."

"..."

Lydia spoke briskly and spoke very clearly. It took less than 10 minutes to report to Abel his general schedule for today.

Status, wealth, power, influence, these things are as high as Abel's, and they don't even need those who are as high as him.

It can be said that as long as they want to, they have endless work to do and endless people to meet every day.

These people almost always make their itinerary a day or even a few days in advance to avoid conflicts as much as possible.

Even businessmen at the level of Yin Kana and her father are the same, because they are indeed very, very busy.

Of course, humans are advanced animals that can be affected by endocrine hormones, not robots.

Therefore, many times, the itinerary will be changed. When you feel tired, unhappy, sick, or there are any emergencies, the itinerary will be changed.

At this time, it is necessary for the secretaries and assistants who plan the daily schedules of the bosses to try their best to avoid conflicts.

Like now, when he heard that he was going to attend a charity dinner that evening, Abel questioned: "Whose charity dinner?"

Lidya didn't even look at the itinerary in her hand and explained directly: "It's the annual fashion charity dinner held by "Fashion Home"."

She wanted to continue explaining in detail, but Abel suddenly said: "Oh, I remember it. Did Anna Wintour create that show?"

"Yes, it is the fashion charity dinner launched this year by Vogue magazine, where Ms. Anna Wintour is the editor-in-chief."

Abel remembered that he had indeed agreed to the request of Anna Wintour and her immediate boss, Dylan, the CEO of Smith Newspaper Group, and agreed to attend the "American Arts and Charity Ball" held in October.

The dinner was hosted by "Style" magazine, and Anna Wintour, the devil in the fashion industry, personally operated it.

"Style" is an entertainment and fashion magazine published by Smith Newspaper Group, a subsidiary of Smith Media Group, after Anna Wintour switched jobs from "VOGUE" magazine and the Newhouse family to Abel.

In the past two years, under the operation of Anna Wintour, the former editor-in-chief of the American version of "VOGUE", coupled with the support of Smith Media's huge internal resources, and Abel's increasingly terrifying influence.

The new "Vogue", like its brother magazine "The Observer", has entered the industry very quickly and launched a challenge to the hegemonic "VOGUE".

The "American Art and Charity Ball" held for the first time this year is the "New York Metropolitan Museum of Art Charity Ball" that Anna Wintour photographed in "VOGUE", the American version, which is also the famous New York Met Gala. COSPLAY's annual event.

It cannot be said to be cosplay, because although the Metropolitan Museum of Art Charity Ball in New York first appeared in 1971.

But it really shined, and its influence grew day by day, becoming the "Oscar Party" in the fashion industry, and it started in the hands of Anna Wintour.

Before that, the Met Gala was held alternately by the American editions of VOGUE and BAZAAR, and was just a niche fashion art exhibition and charity ball.

It can be said that without Anna Wintour, there would be no current status of the New York Met Gala in the industry.

Now, Anna Wintour, who brought her current fame to the Metropolitan Museum of Art Charity Ball in New York, and "VOGUE" have turned against each other.

Now she was going to personally bring down this party that she had promoted.

So she created Vogue's own annual event, called the American Arts and Charity Ball.

The Met Gala is held in early May every year, and the "American Arts and Charity Ball" is also scheduled to start in May, with the intention of directly competing with "VOGUE".

But at that time, none of the Abelians were in New York, and later he went on a business trip to Asia.

Of course, Anna Wintour did not dare to force the big boss, so she accommodated Abel in various ways, and finally set the time for mid-October.

Because she knew very well that the Met Dinner Party was already gaining momentum.

Even if she wanted to defeat it, she would have to use a stronger force.

Abel, who helped her get rid of the control of the Newhouse family and let her gain freedom, became the biggest strength she wanted to rely on.

In fact, when Anna Wintour was still the editor-in-chief of the American version of "VOGUE", the Met Gala sent Abel multiple invitations.

Even after Anna Wintour ran away, "VOGUE" kept inviting Abel.

Now everyone understands how great the success and advancement would be if Abel showed up at such a dinner.

After figuring out the cause and effect, Abel nodded casually and said, "Let's go, um, prepare the check for 5 million US dollars."

Looking at Lydia, she nodded in agreement, and then immediately took note of it. Abel, who had already eaten two French blue lobsters, started to eat grilled veal steak, and asked casually: "By the way, I remember my meal this year." Is the tax avoidance amount almost there?"

In fact, the closer we get to the end of the year, the more charity dinners will be held in the United States. Many charity dinners even provide the wealthy with the opportunity to make unexpected donations to increase their tax-deductible limit.

I have said it a long time ago that wealthy people in the United States and even many parts of the world make donations and set up their own charitable funds. Most of them are for tax avoidance, and a small part have other purposes. This is an exaggeration.

This is true even for Abel, because this method of tax avoidance is really beneficial. Even if it is donated to other foundations, it is very cost-effective.

According to relevant U.S. laws and tax regulations, assuming a taxpayer puts $10,000 into a donor advisory fund this year and donates it to charity at any time within four years, his income this year will be tax-free on $100,000.

And the object of donation can be a charitable fund in your own name.

In other words, Abel has donated a total of US$23.15 billion in the United States this year, and he can obtain a tax-free limit of US$231.5 billion in income.

In fact, more than 95% of his $23.15 billion donation went to his own Smith Charitable Foundation...

Although the Smith Charitable Foundation is indeed doing good things, if one day he doesn't want to do good things anymore.

But it is not as exaggerated as spending more than 20 billion US dollars to do good deeds. A total of more than 30 billion US dollars was spent. There are also many things with great purpose such as human relations and political donations.

In addition to providing most of the remaining funds to several medical research laboratories under Abel's name, the remaining funds were entrusted to Smith Capital for investment in the form of a charitable fund trust...

You only need to spend a small proportion of the money on charity every year, which is reasonable and legal according to the law.

Rich Americans who run their own charitable foundations basically avoid taxes through this model.

Of course, this refers to personal income, mainly the personal income tax of the rich.

Like Abel, as long as he does not earn more than 231.5 billion US dollars in nominal terms this year, then he will not have to pay a penny in taxes...

Not to mention whether Abel can make so much money, even if he makes more than this amount, it can actually be done.

Simple accounting and profit transfer are enough. As long as it is not too excessive, the IRS has no way to investigate him, because this is allowed by law.

Why are accounting and actuarial companies like PricewaterhouseCoopers so profitable?

Because that's what they do.

So he really has no place to reason.

Smith Charitable Foundation, so to speak, after this operation of handing over the left hand to the right hand.

As long as he wanted to, the country would not be able to take away a cent from Abel's hands.

So of course the rich in the United States are getting richer.

However, because of his good relationship with the IRS, Abel will not do too much.

And for the reason of continuing to build up his personality, the IRS (U.S. Internal Revenue Service) can still get about US$500 million in taxes from him this year.

Don't underestimate this amount of tax. This is already the largest single tax the IRS can receive from an individual.

Compared to Abel, who is indeed very generous in this regard, other American wealthy people are much more excessive.

Not to mention Morgan and Rockefeller, the IRS has no way of receiving even a dime from them personally.

Even for a businessman of Yin Kana's father's level, it would be difficult for the IRS to receive much money.

Thousands or even hundreds of dollars a year are common.

On the personal income tax front, the IRS only gets money from the middle class because the truly poor are exempt from tax on this.

Those selling washing powder, leaves and the like are not included in the calculation. They belong to a gray area. Even if they are legal, they will still be gray, so they must be highly taxed.

It's similar to gambling taxes and stuff like Las Vegas.

However, the difficulty of taxing the rich has never been unique to the United States.

In fact, the whole world is similar, even...actually the same.

Just outrageous.