Him looking at spreadsheet: What are you doing?Me:  Playing the Sims. I might have gone a bit o

Him looking at spreadsheet: What are you doing?

Me:  Playing the Sims.

I might have gone a bit overboard setting up the taxes for Calamity Hills but as soon as Ragnar tops the politics career track our municipal building will be unlocked and taxes will start and I wanted to be ready for that!

It looks a little cumbersome but in practice it should be easy–like 30 seconds to plug in the numbers and everything is calculated for us.

Here’s our rates:

Income Taxes:  20% of weekly salary collected every Friday. No one is exempt: pets, teens and elder careers are all taxed.

Property Taxes:  10%-50% of property value (+bank balances once banks are unlocked w/ business) to be collected the last day of Season 4.  (Increases by 10% for every 100K up to 50% for 500K and up).

Deductions:  Business and vacation homes are not taxed so our richest Sims can invest in real estate (once it’s unlocked) to reduce their property taxes.

Life of Crime payments are still in effect and increasing every week so the income taxes on top of that should be an interesting challenge for some of our families.