Taxing - by Houses

[Zeb Harley]

Having read the pros and contras I think taxing traders is a good idea. The problem that I see is the tax enforcement, since this has to work at all times 24/7.
If you position tax controllers on the borders of a system this will be very personal intensive. You don't have this much personal. Tax controlling and collecting is not much fun either, I guess, since you have to to stop ships while you have to calculate the supposed profit of the different amounts of cargo a transport is carrying. Imagine they have loaded about 20 different kinds of goods.

It is possible to raise a general tax anyway. Maybe this way:
for trading in a house system you have to buy a special tax certificate, a special item to carry around as is the battleship licence carried. So if you trade between Liberty and Bretonia, you would have to buy the Libertinian and the Bretonian tax licence and equip them in your ship. Everybody scanning the trader can now see if he paid the tax or is smuggling goods across the border. Tax should only apply to transports of a certain size and above to balance the appearance of players transport ships.

The problem how to get the taxes to the house governments must be solvable somehow.


This is just my personal opinion, I admit that other people may have another onel

Zebulon Harley, captain of Ageira Transport Engrela