Royal Tax is BS

[Luey Hewis]

There should be a way to avoid paying these taxes

[Schwift Master]

I think the same thing every time I purchase something and see a pay stub

[PocketAces]

You can turn it off when you start a new game. It's not hard to overcome, just need careful management. I'm paying about 3,8k, after payment I still have about 8k in the bank most times

[Fortigan]

The tax is extremely easy to pay. It doesn't even kick in until year 5 and is only 1 gold per person per year. You get 1 gold per month for each family in a tier 2 plot. That's 12 gold a year. So you are earning 4 times that tax per person from passive land tax alone.

Are you not setting a tax rate at your manor? Even a 5% tax would be more than enough to pay the Royal Tax and maintain constant mercenaries, assuming you do literally any trade at all.

How can you not afford that by year 5?

[Capitalist Overlord]

Agreed. Taxation is theft! End the fed!

[Ruin]

Originally posted by Fortigan:

How can you not afford that by year 5?

There is admittedly a bit of a learning curve, but yeah, once you get the hang of generating wealth in ML, it's really not that hard to manage the King's Tax...

[Holyvision]

Originally posted by Shaboi:

There should be a way to avoid paying these taxes

Viva La Revolution!

Toss out all the Tea!

[monkeymcbain]

The recent update dialled it down a lot... my liability in my current save went down from 1.6k to 400

[The_Mask]

When you start a new game turn it off if you dont like it .

[Clovis Sangrail]

Originally posted by The_Mask:

When you start a new game turn it off if you dont like it .

Where do you turn it off? Is that a beta thing?

[gusgblaw]

there is

[gusgblaw]

Originally posted by Clovis Sangrail:

Originally posted by The_Mask:

When you start a new game turn it off if you dont like it .

Where do you turn it off? Is that a beta thing?

Yeah, but release doesn't even have the king's tax so you aint missing much

[Michael]

As a swede, I say there is to little tax now. It was more fair in 960.
Paying tax is fun!

[Luey Hewis]

There should be a way to negotiate taxes and lower them.

[Fortigan]

Originally posted by Shaboi:

There should be a way to negotiate taxes and lower them.

This is a setting when you are starting your game. You can even turn them off completely. I advise always starting a new game if you are installing a beta patch. There is always the chance for save compatibility problems and things like this, where you can't adjust a new setting because it didn't exist when your game started.

Regardless, it's a VERY relaxed tax system. My guess is it simply caught you off guard because you were not used to it and loaded a save from before the patch and were not prepared.

[gusgblaw]

Originally posted by Shaboi:

There should be a way to negotiate taxes and lower them.

I think the current system is a placeholder for something that would be a bit more dynamic, dunno if it would imply ways to evade taxes, but a diplomatic system of sorts. Its been mentioned that if you don't pay the kings army would come to collect them by force for example.
As is its only a money sink for lategame power players, it's even starting on year 5 on current patch.