Olympia: The Age of Gods PBEM (Jul 10 2001)

6.2.2.8: Province Tax

A noble who rules a province (by virtue of being the owner of the castle which garrisoned the province) may tax the province. The tax on a province is a rate of 0 to 10%. Each month, gold equal to that percentage of the population is collected from the peasants.

For example, a province with 357 peasants taxed at 5% would collect 17 gold in taxes.

Taxes are collected out of the peasants' collective wealth. Peasants in provinces without a city produce 1 gold per 20 peasants per month (5%). In provinces with cities, peasants produce 1 gold per 10 peasants per month (10%). If the peasants in a province do not have the gold to pay their taxes, they liquidate their property to get the gold, but this drives away one peasant for each gold needed.

For example, a province with 357 peasants taxed at 10% would collect 35 gold in taxes. If the peasants in the province had only 27 gold, raising the additional 8 gold would drive 8 peasants away, leaving the population at 349.

The tax rate is set with the tax order (see See tax).

A regular province with less than 100 peasants cannot be taxed. A province with a city cannot be taxed if it has less than 1000 peasants.

Money generated by taxing a province is placed into the province's garrison. A garrison will collect the province tax only if there is a noble seated in the controlling castle.