Suggestion - Taxes need to be imposed on in game persons

[Stylesjl]

A city can have taxes imposed on individuals called "Individual Income Tax" but this does not effect in game persons. For example no taxes are collected from a salary being paid to the CEO or other senior company officials, despite the fact that the amounts they get paid can be quite substantial (millions).

My suggestion is that cities collect individual income taxes for these persons - it could be based on the headquarters location. Payments made in that city would then go to that city's coffers, perhaps incentivising the player to choose the location of their headquarters more carefully.

In addition these taxes could also imposed on any income made by other persons from stocks, dividends, bank deposits. If there is no headquarters then perhaps the money collected could be evenly split among each of the in game cities.

[ALICE]

Good idea.

[cantdownloadit]

how would you stop it being exploited ? eg when your mayor, cranking tax rates to max just before dividend day, then dropping them to nothing to improve mayor rating for the rest of the year.

and for this to be "fair" then people should earn interest on all the money they own, not just the bit they can actually invest in the corporation founded banks.

To me its far easier to leave things as is, and assume both things are taking place and cancel each other out.

[Stylesjl]

Maybe add a feature that makes the individual taxes only taking effect after a certain delay? But yeah it does look like a possible conduit of exploitation.

[cantdownloadit]

honestly all the things like funding, immigration, taxes should have some delay from when you change the slider to when the effect happens.

[TheOscar]

Maybe callculate the effect not on the actual value but the average of the last 12 months?