What would cause my tax bills to be higher?

[C O R P S E Y]

I'm at day 95, first time playing and I've received 4 different tax bills. One was 1536, 500, 68, and I forget how much the last one was, but it was less than 500.
I thought you get billed annually and that it was less than this for your first year?

[Yurika]

Your fame also counted in the tax bill

[Iyasenu]

Not every bill you get is a Tax Bill.
You also get bills for using the Delivery Box service.
That's likely what the 68 oren bill was for.

You can check how much your Tax Bill is supposed to be by checking your Home Board and hovering over the section where it says what your tax levy is expected to be.

But you can also request to pay an extra tax if you ask your Maid and request to pay additional taxes.

Also, tax is a monthly thing, not yearly.
Monthly tax goes up by 500 every year, and by 2 for every point of fame you have.
You can sell your fame to an Informer NPC, which will both give you a little bit of money in return and in turn reduce the fame-related portion of your tax.

[gimmethegepgun]

Originally posted by Iyasenu:

You also get bills for using the Delivery Box service.
That's likely what the 68 oren bill was for.

Do you happen to know what, if any, consequences there are for not paying those?

[Iyasenu]

Originally posted by gimmethegepgun:

Originally posted by Iyasenu:

You also get bills for using the Delivery Box service.
That's likely what the 68 oren bill was for.

Do you happen to know what, if any, consequences there are for not paying those?

I don't actually know that, sorry.

[Akameka]

Originally posted by gimmethegepgun:

Originally posted by Iyasenu:

You also get bills for using the Delivery Box service.
That's likely what the 68 oren bill was for.

Do you happen to know what, if any, consequences there are for not paying those?

If you recieve a 4th tax bill while you already have 3 unpaid ones, you start losing 40 karma per month. Once you're negative Karma, guards will attack on sight and merchants outside of your towns and Derphys won't trade with you ( unless you use incognito spell/scroll ).

Apparently, Mysillia also send the IRS guys to break your legs, but didn't test myself lol

[gimmethegepgun]

Originally posted by Akameka:

Originally posted by gimmethegepgun:

Do you happen to know what, if any, consequences there are for not paying those?

If you recieve a 4th tax bill while you already have 3 unpaid ones, you start losing 40 karma per month. Once you're negative Karma, guards will attack on sight and merchants outside of your towns and Derphys won't trade with you ( unless you use incognito spell/scroll ).

Apparently, Mysillia also send the IRS guys to break your legs, but didn't test myself lol

I was asking about shipping bills, not tax bills.

[Cloud]

Your fame plays a huge roll. But you can sell your fame to any "informant" in any big town.
And also, the tax goes up by 500 orens EACH year, for a maximum of 5 years, and a total of 2500 in taxes only from that. You can also GET money for developing your town, and planting some high value tourist attractions, and heirlooms. Theoretically, it's no problem to get so much money only through town development, that you come out on a plus, no matter the taxes. If you have problems making money, get people into your town, plant mushrooms, and make alcohol from mushrooms and put those in the shipping box. Alternative: cut trees, saw the wood into planks, and make furniture. It sells well, even on low level, and can get absurd, the better your carpenter skill is.

[C O R P S E Y]

Originally posted by Yuuki:

Your fame also counted in the tax bill

My fame is very low