Province Tax

Olympia: The Age of Gods PBEM (Oct 4 2000)

#### 6.2.2.8: Province Tax

A noble who rules a province (by virtue of being the owner of the castle which garrisoned the province) may tax the province. The tax on a province is a rate of 0 to 10%. Each month, gold equal to that percentage of the population is collected from the peasants.

For example, a province with 357 peasants taxed at 5% would collect 17 gold in taxes.

Taxes are collected out of the peasants' collective wealth. Peasants in provinces without a city produce 1 gold per 20 peasants per month (5%). In provinces with cities, peasants produce 1 gold per 10 peasants per month (10%). If the peasants in a province do not have the gold to pay their taxes, they liquidate their property to get the gold, but this drives away one peasant for each gold needed.

For example, a province with 357 peasants taxed at 10% would collect 35 gold in taxes. If the peasants in the province had only 27 gold, raising the additional 12 gold would drive 12 peasants away, leaving the population at 345.

The tax rate is set with the `tax` order (see See tax).

A regular province with less than 100 peasants cannot be taxed. A province with a city cannot be taxed if it has less than 1000 peasants.

Money generated by taxing a province is placed into the province's garrison. A garrison will collect the province tax only if there is a noble seated in the controlling castle.