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Once you've built a palace, you can start placing Tax Collector's offcices. The tax collector is a walker, so make sure all your main housing areas are in range of one. To efficiently collect taxes, the collector needs to pass a house regularly. You can see your tax coverage and efficiency in your Overseer of the Treasury, as a percentage of population registered for tax and the amount of tax due that was not collected in a given year. You should keep your coverage above 90% and the uncollected amount should not be more than 10% of the total amount due. You can use the Administration/Taxes overlay to identify problematic areas of your city. | Once you've built a palace, you can start placing Tax Collector's offcices. The tax collector is a walker, so make sure all your main housing areas are in range of one. To efficiently collect taxes, the collector needs to pass a house regularly. You can see your tax coverage and efficiency in your Overseer of the Treasury, as a percentage of population registered for tax and the amount of tax due that was not collected in a given year. You should keep your coverage above 90% and the uncollected amount should not be more than 10% of the total amount due. You can use the Administration/Taxes overlay to identify problematic areas of your city. | ||
As mentioned before, there are limits to what taxes can do for your treasury. Taxes are a function of the wealth of a household, that is, the level of the house the citizens live in. As discussed in the article on [[Pharaoh/Education|Scribes]], having the highest possible level homes in your city has its drawbacks, namely the inhabitants becoming so wealthy they leave the workforce. However, this effect only occurs when a house reaches Common Manor (see [[Pharaoh/Housing|Housing]]), all housing levels below work | As mentioned before, there are limits to what taxes can do for your treasury. Taxes are a function of the wealth of a household, that is, the level of the house the citizens live in. As discussed in the article on [[Pharaoh/Education|Scribes]], having the highest possible level homes in your city has its drawbacks, namely the inhabitants becoming so wealthy they leave the workforce. However, this effect only occurs when a house reaches Common Manor (see [[Pharaoh/Housing|Housing]]), all housing levels below work in the "the higher, the better" principle. | ||
Still, in newly founded cities you can hardly have Residence level homes. The best you can hope for in your first years as governor in a given city are Spacious Homesteads, and many times you will have to do with Ordinary Cottages. If most of the homes in your city are Huts, don't bother collecting taxes, the meager amount collected is not really worth the employees and money necessary to build a Palace and Tax Collectors. | Still, in newly founded cities you can hardly have Residence level homes. The best you can hope for in your first years as governor in a given city are Spacious Homesteads, and many times you will have to do with Ordinary Cottages. If most of the homes in your city are Huts, don't bother collecting taxes, the meager amount collected is not really worth the employees and money necessary to build a Palace and Tax Collectors. |