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New Economic System and Tax Proposal

Day 1,568, 21:41 • Published in USA USA

• by faucoult

eUSA has %100 weapon bonus for a while but why eUSA weapon companies profit less from other countries with less bonus? It is because of tax regime. I think that we should lower the taxes to the minimum.

Here is a samle Q5 weapon company income statements for some selected countries.

faucoult
Governer of Midi-Pyrenees

Comments

ManThigh Day 1,568, 22:07

Why did you assume weapon prices would stay the same, but salary and wrm costs would drop?

faucoult Day 1,568, 22:29

Even if weapon prices stays the same people will benefit from VAT decrease, i wanted to show this
Salary will decrease because net salary received by employees will increase

Satya Yuga Day 1,568, 22:59

What would you do about income tax and import tax?
Less income tax would also increase employees' salary.
Higher import tax (some countries have 99%, you should add that to your chart) would result in less supply, higher profits for Managers, but increased market prices.

Tiamati Day 1,569, 00:35

While it is a capitalist ideal to have all tax rates @ 1% it simply won't work, especially here in the eUSA.

Regarding taxes at this point all I'd comment is that 15% income taxes along with doubling our import taxes would result in a fairer spread of the tax burden for citizens of the eUSA.

1224333 Day 1,569, 00:37

poland wep. bonus? 10%

Satya Yuga Day 1,569, 00:51

@Tiamati.Magick: While a 1% Tax Rate won't work across the board, especially with our practice of subsidizing our MUs, why only double our Import Taxes? I believe that we should be able to tweak our VAT and Income Tax to make up any difference in product prices and what remains in the employees' currency accounts after working, after raising our Import Taxes to 99%. Our government is here to serve eUS Citizens, not importers.

If raising Import Taxes to X% results in an increase in prices of Y USDs, then either VAT can be reduced to bring prices down by Y USDs, Income Taxes can be reduced to make up for that price difference or a combination of both.

The freer market solution would be to have the eUS Government spend less, but that isn't the nature of government.

Jules Casey Day 1,569, 02:25

Just export to a country with bot on et voila - maximum profit

Christopher Edwards II Day 1,569, 02:57

Maximum profit for the exporter, but how does that get money into the government's coffers, so they can subsidize those who do the most damage?

Isn't that what this is all about? Those who do more damage aren't willing to spend their RL money to become self-sufficient, so they lobby Congress to tax the two-clickers to take the money away from them for their benefit.

If they were honest with themselves, they would realize that this is not any ethically different than if they were to mug the taxpayer in an alley and steal their valuables. They're just having Congress do the work for them. But, hey, I'm a Libertarian, and we understand that taxation is theft. 😛

Samuel Seabury Day 1,569, 03:31

Welcome to RL Greece, people...with exchange rates fixed at 1-1, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, for national governments to conduct an independent fiscal policy. You will be able to buy and sell goods in countries with no or low taxes, placing downward pressure on prices in countries with higher taxes. If this doesn't kill this game, nothing will.