how is tax calculated?
if happiness goes down tax drops from 20% to 14.. 10 and so on but what does 20% represent? and how is it calculated. ive boosted my population by 30k, and my tax income has hardly increased by 400...
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Hey using Aprigul's data points you can fit a regression line to it and it seems to be simply a formula. The R squared value is 1 so I am guessing this would be the correct method within his data. However I tested this with a population of 77496 and it projected a much higher tax income than what I receive.
Anyway best way to figure out the method would be to post population and tax income at the 20% bracket for enough data.
The the equation from the regression line for Aprigul's data is Income=0.1493(population) + 2132.8
Doesn't work at higher level, my pop is 525378 and taxes are $19321
wow that is 5 times my current population and yet only maybe 50% more in tax revenue than I get. Has anyone discovered any more specific details?
- Here's my latest take on taxes http://answers.ea.com/t5/SimCity-BuildIt-Support/Tax-is-a-percentage-of-what-simcity-buildit/m-p/4292176#U4292176 taxes are definetely not based on the percentage of the population figure. I'm pretty sure theyre based on the theoretical income your city is earning. I.E. If your earning 20,000 daily at 20% tax rate then your city must be earning a total of 100,000 daily.
But for some reason there is an inflationary mechanism at work that reduces the earning power of the individual sim as the population grows. I have no idea why but I can confirm it.
I think half the fun for me is trying to figure out this convoluted system lol- Why are you making it so difficult? Tax is based on the awesomeness of a building. A maxed out building has 3 possible tiers: scrubby, decent, and amazing. These are based on the mix of amenities surrounding that building. The tax rate of a maxed out scrubby building is less than a maxed out amazing building.
