NationStates Jolt Archive

I just have a quick question about the tax rate. How high can it really go? I know it can only appear 100% but it seems to go higher, I'm just wondering if there is a limit or not.

If the upper limit is ∞, I can safely state that no one has reached that level yet.

Thanks, for the reply. So if I've been increasing my tax rate for a very long time past 100%, to lower it below 100% would take probably the same amount of time (or longer)?

Yeah, most likely it will take longer, since you can't be actually sure of how high it is, since you can't see how high it has actually gotten.

I am sure there are one or more issues that allow you to cut your tax rate down.

The tax rate is one of my peeves. Once it gets above 100%, there's no way to tell if it's 101% or 999%. I can't even tell how a 100% tax nation compares to another 100% tax nation unless the taxes are being ranked that day. :(

And of course the same situation also applies in the opposite direction: Once income tax has become "unheard of" in a nation there's no way for us to know whether its effective value (in terms of game mechanics) is just 00% or is some negative number...