New taxation for Occupied Regions.

Day 2,187, 05:44 • Published in Belgium Belgium • by JdlF

Hello dears,

As you are all aware (i'm sure), new taxations are up for occupied regions. While it is not good for eBE at that point of time; I believe it is a good thing for the game. But much will disagree on that statement. Indeed I feel wars should have more impact and, well, this is an high impact.

Whatsoever, let's look at it for eBelgium. eBelgium has formerly 3 regions. The amount of income will be weighted by the occupation taxe in such a way that we will get only 20% of all our incomes for the time being (as wiped).

Income taken into account come from VAT, work and import taxes.

Here is a small table showing which part of our income we would keep:



I took 1100 as actual daily income as it is quite reflected on the nbb spreadsheet

Keep in mind those are estimations based on average data and my current understanding of the formula. We will see really how it works in few times.

Update: Looking at eBE economy after a day we can be even more pessimistic as we are only getting over 60 cc/day thanks to our taxation system. I hop MoF will compare this with its spreadsheet and be able to confirm or disagree with such a tiny income. It may happen that our income is in fact higher than that thanks to other sources and that this tax wouldn't harm us so badly ... Or it could be that it harms us that much.

Thing that should be drawn to our attention is the less regions we have, the less income we should make (obviously). Wiped states should favor low taxes and higher wages for their consumers as they won't be able to supply them by theirselves. In a way, occupied states should work in a more capitalistic manner.

In such, you should see changes in weapon and food prices. Both can be expected, either lower costs due to lower charges. But also higher costs due to higher salaries. But my believing is that prices will lower slightly because managers won't change they salaries straight away and they have no reasons if they have their workers at home.

What for eBelgium? eBelgium income has never been high. But still those 30-40k income per month allow citizens programs. Right now with only 6000-8000 income per month it doesn't seem fit. So either eBelgium remain as it is for few time before recovering its regions; either the state have to change taxations (mostly VAT taxes which are the higher at 15😵. Keep in mind that citizen programs aren't going on our taxation system but on our treasury. So nothing should be taken back even if I expect some cuts in few programs (I would advice cutting expenses in BYS and BNA budgets - as for if we keep wiped we do not need an army at once. Still the budget should be enough for making DOs).

Update: Sadly, as the country president reminded me; a wiped country cannot change its taxes because only congress members can propose such a law. Therefore, the eBE choice is keeping wiped with a cost of 30 000 cc / month in an attempt to bother PTOers or retrieve regions (and do what we want).

Another point it: such law crash down taxations for PTOers and protect in a way small countries. Indeed if a country is PTOed, we would just need to wipe it to ensure that taxes won't profit PTOers.

Last but not least: I'd like government to track records of the daily revenue source linked with the number of region we have at the time. Of course it should already be reflected in incomes and so on as it is ... our income. But I feel that keeping track on it. At least for the first few weeks would allow us to perfectly understand the modifications it implies. As this article is only based on the formula given by eRepublik and an estimated overall income for eBelgium.

Best regards,

The Golden Miner.

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