Modifying the income tax rate calculator
Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 3:40 pm
Update (30-December-2010): This has been implemented! Thank you to everyone who contributed to the discussion!
In another thread it was proposed that we should look at modifying the way NationStates calculates income tax rates, due to the very high numbers of nations at either extreme. In particular, older nations tend to reach 100% tax rates even with capitalist economies.
A simple solution would be to normalize this number, so that reaching 0% or 100% requires increasingly more effort.
Here is an example, where you can input a nation name and see how it would be affected. This takes the same data underlying your current tax rate (but which may be less than zero or greater than 100) and shifts it toward 33% (the OECD average).
On the one hand, this gives us a more realistic distribution of tax rates, and a proper "reward for effort" for nations who have consistently cut or added government services over time. On the other, it may disrupt those who rely on the current system, or want to quickly get nations to 0% or 100%.
Update (30-December-2010): Implemented! Thank you to everyone who contributed to the discussion on this change.
In another thread it was proposed that we should look at modifying the way NationStates calculates income tax rates, due to the very high numbers of nations at either extreme. In particular, older nations tend to reach 100% tax rates even with capitalist economies.
A simple solution would be to normalize this number, so that reaching 0% or 100% requires increasingly more effort.
Here is an example, where you can input a nation name and see how it would be affected. This takes the same data underlying your current tax rate (but which may be less than zero or greater than 100) and shifts it toward 33% (the OECD average).
On the one hand, this gives us a more realistic distribution of tax rates, and a proper "reward for effort" for nations who have consistently cut or added government services over time. On the other, it may disrupt those who rely on the current system, or want to quickly get nations to 0% or 100%.
Update (30-December-2010): Implemented! Thank you to everyone who contributed to the discussion on this change.