Questions tagged [taxes]
Used for questions about the effects of taxation on political economy and society
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The ruling body has decided to combine the yearly census with a head-tax, how can i avoid rampant tax avoidance and wrong data?
As a disclaimer: I'm working on a dark comedy setting with the aim of parodying the likes of Dune, 40k, LOTR, chess,DnD, etc so accept that things will be outrageous (and likewise, i will also accept ...
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Feasibility of an industrial society where a 'modern' tax system is less regarded/effective than 'tax farming'?
In my setting there was a expansionary city-state that has industrialized and extracts wealth from its holdings by 'outsourcing' tax collection to various tax farmers. Basically, every single ...
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Strictly speaking, what is a tax/levy/charge on bounties called?
To put it in very simple terms, in my sci-fi setting, we have a bounty system in use (cash for kills. Basically for every legitimate kill a specific type of soldier makes, they get a cash bonus). The ...
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My toll-bridge/castle has incredibly high fees, what can compel people/merchants/traders to 'put up with it'
To put a long story short, we have a land bridge between two political bodies. The bodies of whatever surrounding the land bridge is toxic and impassable. Other land bridges exist. The individuals ...
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Taxes-in-kind as legal tender concurrent with a 'semi-cashless' society [closed]
Taxes in the future
In my story, a vaguely cyberpunky retro-futurastic setting has digital payments (credit-chits+personal communication devices+identity implants etc). Ie, swipe, insert, tap and go.
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Enforced demilitisation via taxation
I'm the chief bean counter of a junta (based out of one city-state with crumbling infrastructure, rampant poverty and a food production deficit) and I'm tasked with easing/fixing the budgetary deficit....
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Unintended Consequences of a Cryptocurrency Based off of Radioactive Decay
Tax season is almost over in the U.S., and it got me thinking. Out of curiosity, I had joined a local chapter of the Libertarian party in the past. Many of them loved cryptocurrency. And many, but not ...
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Is it plausible for a isolated customs-fort to be collecting octroi and customs taxes simultaneously
So my micro-setting revolves around the sole customs-fort guarding the entrance (land bridge/causeway) to a impoverished city. This city is a fragment of a shattered Empire where the city ...
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Feasibility of an industrial state using tax farming and monopolies for revenue instead of a modern tax system? [closed]
In my setting there is a colonial empire that has industrialized and extracts wealth from its urban holdings with the sale of tax collecting privileges to the highest bidder in a manner analogous to ...
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Using a Royal Harem as a Bureaucratic Corps
Scribes and other literate administrators were a hot commodity in the ancient world. Whether they were Confucian Scholar-Gentry or Catholic Monks, the pre printing press world made whole social ...
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How to ensure every citizen gets exactly one Copper Ration?
The Silver Dominion
The great and grand Silver Dominion has a steel clad stranglehold on the continent's metal economy. In possession of WWI era industry and technology themselves, they keep their ...
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How could publicly accessible information proving that a public figure is corrupt go undetected for at least a year?
How could publicly accessible information proving that a public figure is corrupt go undetected for at least a year?
Assume that the public figure is a moderately noteworthy politician (equivalent to ...
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Would a fully automated future society where everything is owned by the state still require taxes?
In this future society:
All of Earth's resources can be accessed since the planet has one world government.
All services and goods are owned, created, and distributed by the state.
Every step of ...
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Fantasy Tax Rate Realism
In a story I'm planning, I want taxes to have an actual rate, and not just handwaved away.
The setting is classical medieval with Inheritance (book) type of magic.
I was thinking a flat 10% of ...
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Minimum level of technology to have a modern tax system?
As is my understanding (this is not my specialty), for the vast majority of history the crown (whatever sovereign entity exists at the head of the state) gathered income through a few means:
Tariffs (...
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