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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is it possible that services cost the city money so the revenue is just the net income and the city would normally bring in more money per person, its just that they also have to pay alot to run parks or whatever so they bring in substantially less money. So basically how your population is contructed affects your income differently
@aerocloud202 wrote:is it possible that services cost the city money so the revenue is just the net income and the city would normally bring in more money per person, its just that they also have to pay alot to run parks or whatever so they bring in substantially less money. So basically how your population is contructed affects your income differently
@aerocloud202 Welcome to Answer HQ! While what you describe would make sense, and it is what's done in other Sim City titles that I've played in the past, it doesn't seem to be the case in this simplified version of the game. Personally, I've also seen a decrease in the per-capita revenue as the population increased, despite no changes in the number or placement of city services. As discussed in other threads, I stopped growing my city early and built up a large pool of Simoleons, then continued. When I was ready to continue, I laid out roads, police stations, etc. and purchased them all at once for the area I had unlocked. During the population growth phase, I also noticed the per-capita decrease, even though the only thing I was adding was new residential buildings.
I believe that it is more likely that someone created an algorithm for tax that boosts it slightly in early phases of the game since the specified percentage rate would pay too little for players to actually accomplish much. In real life, small towns struggle for exactly this reason, sometimes, and could probably use the same kind of boost -- if it wouldn't drive their entire population out of town.
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