Auto-manage Taxes?

[gauch0]

I can't be bothered to manually manage my tax rates. Am I putting myself at a disadvantage?

[Monk]

I can't be bothered to manually manage my tax rates. Am I putting myself at a disadvantage?

Not really. I typically keep the slider on normal and don't touch it through the entire game. Usually after i take a new province, i'll exempt taxes from the region for a turn or two, but other than that I dont mess with taxes at all.

I've played around with pushing it to High and turning it down, but honestly I find normal to be the best balance. No matter how much repression I have, pushing the taxes to high almost always sends one or two provinces into the Red. Low is.. well, typically much too low to get much in the way of a return. So Normal it is for me.

[Ishmael]

An exception to this is when you want to build up your economy - low taxes gives quite a large boost (well, reduced penalty) to town wealth growth. I found as Shimazu, when I had conquered the 2 southern islands and was preparing for realm divide, that this helped boost my economy significantly, as I was pulling in so much cash already that I couldn't spend it. Of course, I was probably turtling far too much, but that's another discussion.

[Monk]

An exception to this is when you want to build up your economy - low taxes gives quite a large boost (well, reduced penalty) to town wealth growth. I found as Shimazu, when I had conquered the 2 southern islands and was preparing for realm divide, that this helped boost my economy significantly, as I was pulling in so much cash already that I couldn't spend it. Of course, I was probably turtling far too much, but that's another discussion.

Hm. I'll have to try that next time I near RD. Very good idea Ishmael!