4stan wrote:Issue 649. I chose to raise tariffs, and my taxes somehow went down?!?
Yes, that's coded in by the editor behind this issue.
The execution of taxation is a little inconsistent, because the game engine has a very simplistic model - all tax is income tax, which basically moves according to government expenditure and taxable economic output, plus some coded fudging factors. Because its a simplistic model, things which don't fit that model (like corporation tax, tariffs and so on) have been interpreted in different ways by different editors at different times. Does raising corporation tax increase the tax score because tax burden is up, or does it drop it because income tax can now be lower? Depends on your opinion of what the numbers mean.
Honestly, the whole thing is going to be a bit of a fudge, so there's no real way to fix these sorts of things from an editorial side, though at some time in the next year I plan to do a big review to see if we can achieve some consistency. It's some way down the line on the project list, but its been planned for a long time.
