National Income Explained

Day 3,599, 12:26 • Published in Ireland USA • by Kevin Sheridan

Brother WittyPrakash dared us to write an article explaining national income. Here goes.



Work as Manager - The Bulk of most (all probably) countries' national income comes from WAM tax. Each time a citizen of Ireland, or a forig using a holding company in Ireland hits the "work as manager" button he gets taxed (for each individual company he WAMs). The amount he pays is based on the work tax determined by congress and the average national salary. In Ireland this amounts to around 2.42cc atm...So For example if I WAM 3 Q7 factories, I pay around 7.3cc to the treasury.

But that's not all...since Holding companies were introduced, 80% of the WAM tax goes to the country where the holding company is located and only 20% goes to the owner's country of citizenship. Each part is based on the respective country work tax.

As a small country with little population, Ireland earns around 2500 cc every day from WAM tax, pretty low 🙁. Attracting active and large holding companies to one's country is the most important purely economic national goal atm. In the last resource war Ireland did alright, getting nice weapons and food bonuses, but not enough to really compete with the larger economies/military powers incentive-wise.

VAT - Value Added Tax. As in RL, whenever you sell a product in Irish markets, you, the seller, pay VAT. Congress can set different VAT levels for each product family (Aircraft, Weapons, MTs, Food and Houses). Irish VAT is fixed atm at 1% across the board.




It is important to note that you can bypass VAT if you donate your items and , similarly, receive the payment back as a cc donation. Some would call this a "black market" transaction.

Work - Simple income tax, whenever an Irish citizen hits the work button as an employee he pays the treasury the percentage that congress has set as work tax. As you can see the value of "work tax" set by congress plays different roles in various taxes...



Import Tax - Whenever a forig sells something on the Irish market he is subjected to import tax. In Ireland, import tax for FRM and WRM is quite high, so foreigners who want to sell these here will have a very hard time being competitive.

Combat Orders and Medals - This is a fairly new tax...today, Irish fighters who earn money from CC medals or COs are subjected to the work tax, yes, the work tax again. This income spikes when Ireland is at war due to the accumulation of TP medals (and increased COs probably)


Treasury Donations - That's pretty self explanatory

Cities Subsidies - Until Plato does something interesting with cities budget and taxes, every country simply loses 10% of its income daily in the form of city subsidies.

Occupation - Countries who occupy foreign regions get to enjoy some of the taxes (VAT, Work Tax, Import) collected in the occupied regions....