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Okay, after closely monitoring our city treasury level for over 2 weeks, I think it's safe to say we're not receiving all the taxes we should be. Our treasury consistently gains almost exactly 40k credits every 24 hours. I believe the sole source of this is the property tax. The property tax is set at 35%, and we have about 130 structures of different shape and size.

* Our shuttle tax is set at 100 credits. Despite a ridiculous amount of new traffic the past couple weeks due to our proximity to the Emperor's Retreat, and the rush of people to check out the new loot there, we have not seen an increase in income. Watching the treasury constantly as people buy tickets does not show any obvious increase. Does this tax immediately get deposited in the treasury the moment it is bought?

* Our sales tax is set at 5%. You can see this tax being applied to items when you view the vendors. However, even after buying several high priced items, we do not see an obvious increase in the treasury. The heightened traffic has also resulted in much higher volume of sales, which should reflect more income. It has not. I've read some threads saying that the merchant actually gets this 5% increase, not the town. Any other info on this?

* And finally, and most damaging, the income tax. We have this set to 2000 credits. Each citizen gets a weekly email saying they paid their 2000cr tax. With over 100 citizens, we should see a pretty significant increase in the treasury after this tax is collected. We have not. This tax collection is also now out of sync with the city update cycle by a few days. I'm wondering if that has something to do with it... Can anybody confirm that they DO in fact receive the income tax money every week? Do you receive it at the same time as the city update?

The CSRs thus far have been no help, saying that their logs do not track the level of the treasury money. I was hoping if one of them took a couple days to watch the treasury level themselves, they'd realize something is wrong.

This is most frustrating because if we were receiving all the money from taxes that we should be, our town would be quite self-sufficient and would actually be earning money each week. As it is, we are losing money each week, despite having 100+ citizens, an incredible amount of traffic, and sales going so well it's a chore for our merchants to keep their vendors stocked on a daily basis.

Thanks for any information of experience with taxes any of you can share.

-Jaspor

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