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Rhine wrote on the Flurry Forum....

Ok, here's the issue. Every so often, my 4 power harvs(3 wind,1 solar) go offline with a unsually large amount of maintenance. These are located within the city limits. When this happens, all my attempts at paying off the maintenance seems to befutile. The harv will not accept my payments. Unless I get a guildmate to pay off the "debt" I could lose the harv.

I put in a ticket to customer service about it and the response basically was that this situation is supposed to happen as it means I owe taxes on the harvs. At this point any of my payments are sposed to go towards the "tax debt" and then all other payments consequently go towards repair maintenance.

Problem is, I dont believe this is really happening, because on several occasions I paid large amounts of creds to the harvs in order to restore operations and nothing happened.(unless guildmates paid it for me). Some questions on this issue....

1. How, exactly does the city taxation on structureswork in terms of taxation cycles?(I looked at documentation, but it's not in there)

2. Are the harvs being taxed 1 by 1? or as a total number of power harvs and would I have to pay each harv off 1 by 1 or will 1 large payment suffice?

3. Why do we not recieve emails that we owe back taxes on harvestors?.

4. Are we taxed on a daily basis or weekly and is the charge payable weekly or daily as well?

5. The inability to pay off my "debt"-Is this a bug?

Any input on this situation would greatly help...thx, Rhime

If the city's mayor has a property tax set, that tax rate is paid as a percentage of the structure's daily maintenance. This includes all privately owned structures within a city's limit (housing, factories, harvesters, etc). As far as I know, there is no way to know what exactly you are being charged except to go into the city's city hall and check the terminal to see what the property tax is set to. I am unfamiliar with the concept of owing back taxes or having a tax debt.

I understand how to set, and what is suppose to be taxed but in this case it's the information we don't see. Does the harvestor get taxed at the end of the week? Does it get taxed when it's placed? Does it get taxed only when paying the maintenance fee?

My thoughts are that they get taxed ever hour when the maintanence is deducted from the harvestor ot any other private structure.

This exact same thing happened to one of my citizens, and we chalked it up to being a fluky bug. Now I am wondering if this is not a bug in the tax system. We do have a tax on all structures. Any other citizens experiencing this?

/bump Perhaps aDEV could clear up this issue as it is most confusing and frustrating...