Taxes & Laws

Taxes and Laws will determinate your country's status and profit incomes, in Eclesiar. In order to have a country with prosper public coffers, your government will need to be aware and also be able to manage these factors.

You're able to see all of your country's Taxes and Laws by going to the menu Community > Country.

As you can see by the picture, there's a small list of taxes and laws your government will need to adjust, according to your community status. Theses taxes can be affected by the ideologies of your congress.

Definitions

Work Tax : This value will always be shown in percentage (%). It will represent the percentage of your salary that is provided towards your Country's public coffers. This will occur if the job offers are from public or private sectors. The Work Tax max value is 25%.

Ex : If you are working on a Cereal Production Factory, and you have a salary with Gross Salary of 150 CC (Country Currency), it means that X% of that salary will go towards your Country. X being the tax value. If X = 30, your Net Salary will be 120 CC and the other 30 CC will go to the government.

You can learn a bit more about Work in here.

VAT : Value Added Tax. This is a tax that is implemented in any article or product that goes into the market. This value will also always be shown in percentage (%).

Ex : VAT Tax is at 10% and you want to sell a single piece of food for 10 CC, it will mean that 1 CC will also go to your country's public coffers.

Import Taxes : This tax will only be applied to people from other country, who want to sell products in your country.

Ex : Assuming that I'm from country USA and I want to move to China to sell my food. China has a 10% VAT tax and an Import Tax of 10%. If put a single piece of food on sale for 100 CC, I'll only get 80 CC, as 10% goes to the government, dued to the VAT Tax and other 10% goes as well, dued to the Import Tax.

This value will also always be shown in percentage (%).

Minimum Wage : The minimum wage value will stipulate the minimum wage that every job offer will be, in your Country.

Ex : If your country's minimum wage law is 100 CC, it means that every job offer will have to be 100 CC or higher. Thus, no employer will be able to set the Gross Salary for less that 100 CC.

In order to modify or apply another values in these Taxes & Laws, you'll need to make a Law Proposal, in the Congress and vote it, so it can get approved.

Learn more about the Congress over here.