[Discuss] New Tax System

[Jamie Cheyfetz]

On 3/18/07, LilWolf <bmdiscuss at lilwolf.biz> wrote:
> Jamie Cheyfetz wrote:
> > Something that would very much help the Lords in enforcing unequal
> > taxes is to only show the local Lords what they collect in taxes and
> > how it is distributed.  All the realm should see is what is sent from
> > the region.  At that point, the local Lords have plausible deniability
> > in what they are sending to the realm.
> >
> > It also makes sense.  Who would know about how much taxes are
> > collected besides the region Lord?
> >
>
> It's very easy to calculate how much a regions income should be. The
> variation in tax rate isn't going to be more than a few percent between
> all the regions in the realm so if you know the tax % of one region the
> others aren't hard to guess. You'll know someone is taxing too much when
> the region has problems with stats.

Income, sure.  But there are expenditures that take away from that
before what is sent to the realm is sent to the realm.

>
> I don't really see it being worth the time it would take to implement.

It seems to follow the general idea that the council members' powers
are becoming more ephemeral.  They only get the power that the
people/Lords give them.