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TorenYscar

Tue May 04, 2004 8:38 am

#14

In our city on wanderhome, taxes are:

Income 2000

property 15%

Garage 30%

Shuttle 100

Sales 0

Even with this we are still short by 150k a week, we are a metro city with very little descorations. Soon a sales tax will come. As a mayor im tired of paying 200k week for a city that pays nothing back, NO money from trainer, NO money from clone, NO money from missions, Its a sad profession and needs to be changed, nothing but a SP waste.

Seawolvz25

Tue May 04, 2004 10:54 am

#15

OMG, I am not calling anyone a credit duper *sheesh* although I know a few mayors on my server who are and that remark wasn't aimed at anyone, it was jsut that a remark...........

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hajihill

Tue May 04, 2004 11:40 am

#16

This thread is excellent....

Tons of good ideas on alternatives to taxation.

Juiro, I especially like your idea I might just have to implement it myself... Good one!

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Zentragon

Tue May 04, 2004 1:37 pm

#17

Property: 0%

Sales: 0%

Income Tax: 0cr

Garage: 0%

Shuttle: 100cr (because of bug)

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Z0idberg

Tue May 04, 2004 9:01 pm

#18

William_Evans wrote:

seriously im tired of you mayed bitching about the SP waste. the Skillpoint usage is to make sure you are committed to your position and not just a fly-by-night mayor. Either commit or start looking for a replacement.

quit yo bishen

sorry to be so harsh

Mayor profession isnt for everyone......

ours:

income tax 1700

property 5%

garage 10%

sales tax 0

our shuttle is the closest to Ft Tusken so the city gets about 500,000 per week between ticket sales and the above stats, ....its awesome!

PS doing city audit right now we maybe slightly in the red but I have a slution to that!

Terminal rental

3k a week to have the terminal of your choice on your front porch

Message Edited by William_Evans on 05-04-2004 09:02 AM

Just because it costs skill points doesn't mean it has to be USELESS, my neighbor to the north.

And I like that idea of yours about the terminals. Let me know how it works out, I will steal it away from you!

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Fneegan

Wed May 05, 2004 12:17 am

#19

Could you please expain that ? What do you mean by Terminal Renting ?

Tks

hajihill

Wed May 05, 2004 12:25 am

#20

I believe that what William_Evans means is the following....

He charges citizens 3,000 credits a week, and, in exchange, he as the mayor places a mission terminal of their choice on their front porch (i.e. just out side their house).

Also not a bad idea at all....

Very cool thread Seawolvz25!!

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Songe

Wed May 05, 2004 12:30 am

#21

2% sale tax, 5% garage, no other taxes. The sale taxes alone pay for the maintenance really.

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Surius

Wed May 05, 2004 12:33 am

#22

First off if you will never make back the lost revenue from removing sales taxes by increasing property taxes. That is unless sales are low and your city is full od guild halls and large houses. That said here is our cities set up:

2K income tax

0% property

0% sales

15% garage

Ifigured 2K a week was nothing even for the new player. We even try and have a city hunt every week to offset that amount. Even 5 newbies grouped together can make more than 2K each off one set of missions together.

I had set property tax to 5% for a day and had to remove it the next day. Our resource merchant said he was getting all kinds of tells and e-mails asking why he raised his prices. I had to laugh, I mean on a 10K stack of resources, they charged 30Kc. This ment with sales tax it was just 31.5Kc. These people were blowing up over 1.5Kc!!! But he lost almost 10x what we brought in that day from sales tax. So we reached an agreement. Instead of the city having a 5% sales tax, he agreed to pay the city 5% of his sales. This way his prices stayed the same and his customers were happy. From the tax we were looking at 200K roughly a week from his resource vendor alone. with this new deal we seem to be getting 400Kc+ a week!

We also have those who want a specialization cover the entire cost of it. So our crafters have worked out a way for them alone to pay the 125K a week that covers the research center specialization. Sure any crafter could use it, but it was them that made me put it in effect. I am also charging players for the placement of trainers. If they want a new trainer placed it will cost them the 1500c for that weeks use of that trainer. This covers the extra cost of changing out trainers.

With the crafters covering the specialization, the income tax, the garage tax and the 5% of sales donation from resource sales, we make enough money to keep us going.

Surius Orisee (GOR)
TK/Smuggler/Politician
Trade Winds, Naboo Tarquinas
Shipwright Vendor(in the works) -3586, 3490
Loot Vendors: -3587, 3571

William_Evans

Wed May 05, 2004 9:00 am

#23

Ok so check this out

I decided to try the donation concept and I think it is going to be awesome!

I announced that we were going to a donation system and was eliminating taxes

the only thing that we kept was our lucrative shuttle fee default tax of 100cr

Those that donate 100k or more get a plaque in city hall

Immediatly we had 3 donations

one really big one of 553,800

one at 140k

and one more a 180k

I dont list the dollar amount on the plaques because i dont want lower amount donators to feel one-uped.

people only know that the dollar amount is 100k+

Also announced the faction terminal idea and have rented out 3 faction terminals so far.

Will post again here to let you all know how it goes

Message Edited by William_Evans on 05-05-2004 09:01 AM

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Surius

Wed May 05, 2004 10:18 am

#24

Wow, I like the plaque Idea. I might have to borrow that one.

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Trade Winds, Naboo Tarquinas
Shipwright Vendor(in the works) -3586, 3490
Loot Vendors: -3587, 3571

Bim_Azul

Wed May 05, 2004 1:28 pm

#25

Citizen Tax: 2000 cr (70 residents)

Garage: 25%

Property 10%

Shuttle: 100 cr

I think we're breaking even now, at about 440K a week. Sales tax doersn't help us because we aren't crafter heavy. I had to pick up two large gardens to help balance the budget though. They don't look as nice sitting on my office coffee table.

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Hvzeda

Thu May 06, 2004 1:29 pm

#26

Income tax: 0%

Sales tax: 0%

Property tax: 0%

Garage tax: 5%

Shuttlefee: 100cr

Donations/resident hunts

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