Taxes

[N-Aldwitch]

When full-scale taxing is introduced across all towns in all continents, we'll see some serious progress. Governments and leaders will have the ability to pay for more desperately-needed things such as jails, safehouses, an armoury with weapons, a Town Guard, etcetera.. Eventually criminal activity will be pushed off continents and criminals will reside in the waters and the small islands and unexplored lands. That should prove to be interesting.

[nacistas]

and what about usage of taxes?
does any of you have something like budget? you collect taxes and then use it on some purpose. for example government taxes every vehicle produced and uses the collected "money" for improoving roads

[KVZ]

IF you want others to pay you voluntary tax and be happy then make big lottery with big prizes, but 50% of bets are for prizes 2nd 50% is for you

[Miri]

There's a certain coastal town that's got coal with drills, but visitors are forbiden from gathering anything exept pineaples and papayas, which they can later trade for the coal (using best-tool-gathering-rate for pines/paps vs bare-hand-gathering-rate for coal... )
(at least it was so, none of my charries hasn't been there for ages)

[nacistas]

i need to find a tax, suitable for my ability to be online. most of the time i can spend less than half an hour a day, but about half a day on weekends

[Chris]

and what about usage of taxes?
does any of you have something like budget? you collect taxes and then use it on some purpose. for example government taxes every vehicle produced and uses the collected "money" for improoving roads

I doubt that anyone bothers to keep a strict account of what is community income and what is the personal income of the community leader. Most leaders I've seen give their lives to their community, though I'm sure there are a few profiteers out there. A town with taxes tends to have a lot of vehicles and buildings with its name on it.

I haven't seen a vehicle-building tax. Most taxes are either for using a machine or collecting a scarce resource.

The lottery idea is interesting. That would be a lot of fun. You could also do raffles and service auctions.

[ceselb]

There's a certain seaside town which charges a 50% tax for use of it's hematite drills and there's always a wait to use them.

That's a matter of geography more than anything else. It's the only town with hematite for a very long distance that has sea access. Since boats are generally easier for people to build than motorized vehicles it attracts people even from the other side of the island in some cases. Hematite is despearately needed almost everywhere. Infact I haven't been anywhere yet where it was free to collect non-taxed. Hematite seems to bring out protectionism in the community that controls the resource more than any other.

There was or maybe still is a hunting fee in one swedish town.

That's also happening in atleast one english town that I know of.

When full-scale taxing is introduced across all towns in all continents, we'll see some serious progress [...] Eventually criminal activity will be pushed off continents and criminals will reside in the waters and the small islands and unexplored lands. That should prove to be interesting.

This is exactly what has happened in the polish zone. We're falling seriously behind, let me tell you.

There's a certain coastal town that's got coal with drills, but visitors are forbiden from gathering anything exept pineaples and papayas, which they can later trade for the coal

Still going, atleast a month or two ago when I passed.

i need to find a tax, suitable for my ability to be online. most of the time i can spend less than half an hour a day, but about half a day on weekends

Be polite and well liked. Set a reasonable tax level. Inform people about the tax in person and trust them to do what's right and pay up. That way you'll have something without much work.