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Definitely. There needs to be a perk to being a citizen. I was a non-citizen in my city for like 2 weeks after I was given zoning rights. When I became a citizen and paid my first income tax, I almost wanted to immediately put down another house and switch residency. Luckily for my mayor, my sense of duty was greater than my fiscal sense. That being said... it should make more fiscal sense to be a citizen than to not be a citizen. Part of the problem is that there are no city services that are available only to citizens, unlike the US where you only get Medicare or Social Security if you're in the system (and if you're in the system, you have to pay taxes... or at least, be subject to taxation).

Thanks for the comments keep em coming.

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sounds like a good idea to me.

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Regards

Tzu Nami
Mayor of North Galactica, Corellia Infinity

This will lead to griefing of people who placed their structures long before a city was built there. Therefore it is a bad idea.

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BisonJelly wrote:
This will lead to griefing of people who placed their structures long before a city was built there. Therefore it is a bad idea.

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Those structures became fully taxable the moment the city was formed. This actually presents an opportunity for them to pay less tax, if the mayor implements an incentive to declare and maintain residence by giving them a tax break for doing so.

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Trean wrote:
Lol, taxation without representation. I assume that you all have study United States history. Yeah this same idea is what lead to the revolutionary war.

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actually, its taxation WITH representation. a city holds a comunity that decides what rate is fair to support the services given. if the Majority of citizenry doesnt agree with the taxes, they can vote the Mayor out. or they can flee the city boundries thus depriving the Govt said fees. it differs greatly with the Tax that lead to the famous Tea party in that it was a seat of Govt far removed from those being taxed deciding to impose the tax. it was also a tax that held no benefitfor the comunity being taxed. in a Player City the taxes pay for shuttleports, cloning facilities, mission terms, and other bonuses like Research center. Being a non-citizen in an SWG city you are a drain on the available area to count towards city status AND are using the services and benefits without contributing to the comunity. kinda like that relative so many of us have that will drop by for a short 'visit' and end up sleeping on our couch for 3 months, hogging the remote to the TV, and eating all the Cheesy-poofs

I guess my question would be what about citizens who have multiple houses. Would the tax differnece be between declared and undeclared houses? Or would it look at the structure's owner and compare that to a current citizen list? The second option seems to be the best way.

Ideally option two, in my mind. I think residential privileges should extend to all of that resident's structures within the city limits.