Vassals' taxes too low

[Quatschimodo]

Hello everyone,

Can someone please assist me? I receive money from everyone because they are my vassals. Only from Aragon do I receive virtually nothing, even though they are my largest vassals.

Does anyone have any idea what the issue could be?

[Azunai]

Maybe they moved their capital to a stupid place and ruined their tax base?

[Kimlin]

Are they loyal?
Are they indebted or bankrupt?
What is their tax base?

[Quatschimodo]

Originally posted by Kimlin:

Are they loyal?
Are they indebted or bankrupt?
What is their tax base?

It is loyal at 69.69
The tax base is 69.95

I don't know if they are in debt or bankrupt. But stability is extremely negative at -85.47

[Kimlin]

Originally posted by Quatschimodo:

Originally posted by Kimlin:

Are they loyal?
Are they indebted or bankrupt?
What is their tax base?

It is loyal at 69.69
The tax base is 69.95

I don't know if they are in debt or bankrupt. But stability is extremely negative at -85.47

That is really low stability. I wonder if they did go bankrupt. That is also a really low tax base. In my game I just checked and they have a 105 tax base in 1374. Something bad is going on with their country.

[teron]

Originally posted by Quatschimodo:

I don't know if they are in debt or bankrupt. But stability is extremely negative at -85.47

That is the likely issue, since negative stability gives a malus to your estate satisfaction equilibrium. The vassal likely lowered the estates taxes to make the eventual equilibrium point 50%.

A quick test in my current game, I tanked my stability to -93.51, which was a -28.05 estate satisfaction. Which resulted in going from a 190 ducat income to -30 after taxes automatically dropped to maintain the 50% target estate satisfaction point.

Alternatively if you are not playing iron man, is to allow tag switching to flip to Aragon and look at their actual budget tab.

[Quatschimodo]

Originally posted by teron:

Originally posted by Quatschimodo:

I don't know if they are in debt or bankrupt. But stability is extremely negative at -85.47

That is the likely issue, since negative stability gives a malus to your estate satisfaction equilibrium. The vassal likely lowered the estates taxes to make the eventual equilibrium point 50%.

A quick test in my current game, I tanked my stability to -93.51, which was a -28.05 estate satisfaction. Which resulted in going from a 190 ducat income to -30 after taxes automatically dropped to maintain the 50% target estate satisfaction point.

Alternatively if you are not playing iron man, is to allow tag switching to flip to Aragon and look at their actual budget tab.

I only play Ironman. I want to get all the achievements first. Only later do I plan to play with mods, etc.

Yes, I've looked into this more closely now, and it can only be the stability. I'm waiting until the stability improves and checking regularly. But I assume that's the reason.