Can you set the tax rate for individual cities, or just on the whole?

[DrHaphazard]

So why can't you set tax rates for each city? Seems very strange to me since previous TW titles allowed per-city management.

As far as I can tell this is due to:

A) They wanted to make it harder to keep happiness up in the provinces since you can't micromanage taxes per city. I.e. you set you taxes low for the lowest happiness province (i.e. hurt your funding) or you leave your taxes higher and just hope the low happiness provinces don't revolt.

or

B) They wanted to simplify the taxation system. Personally I don't think that any dumbing down was necessary here.