tax

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

## `tax`

      tax where [market | province | weight | men] rate
      * time: 0 days
      * priority: 1

The `tax` command is used to set the tax rate in a province, market or city. For all forms of the `tax` command, the first argument to the command is the location to be taxed, the second argument is one of the keywords "market", "weight", "men" or "province", and the third argument is the tax rate. In all cases you must be the ruler of a location to impose a tax. (When taxing a province or a market, any noble in the ruler's faction may issue the `tax` command.)

For markets, the tax rate may be from 0 to 25 percent. That percentage will be deducted from the sale price of all goods sold in the market and placed in the city garrison. To tax a city market, give the city id as the first argument to the tax command. To tax a market in a trader's guild, give the id of the guild as the first argument to the tax command. The tax rate for a market will not change until the end of the month.

For provinces, the tax rate may be from 0 to 10 percent. Each month, gold equal to that percentage of the population is collected from the peasants. The gold produced will be placed into the local garrison.

City rulers may also impose a tax on the men and/or goods entering a city.

The command `tax <city> men <rate>` imposes a tax on the men entering `<city>`. The rate is the number of gold that must be paid for each 100 men entering the city. Fractional amounts are truncated. For example, a noble with 213 men in his stack entering a city with a man tax rate of 10 gold per 100 men would incur a tax of 21 gold.

The command `tax <city> weight <rate>` imposes a tax on the goods entering `<city>`. The rate is the number of gold that must be paid for each 1000 weight of goods entering the city. The weight of goods includes everything a stack carries except the weight of the men and beasts themselves. Fractional amounts are truncated. For example, a stack with 11714 weight in goods entering a city with a weight tax rate of 25 gold per 1000 weight would incur a tax of 292 gold.