I totally agree with mercian billman on that one I have very, very few rebellions in my campaigns (even with MTW 1.1). I Set Auto-tax on, then before pressing End year, I hold shift key and then use the mouse on the minimap in the far left to quickly survey for green/yellow/red (if you hold V at the same time, you get to see the sea lanes too). It literally takes all of 3 seconds.

The other thing I do is occsionally run the list of provinces to make sure that auto-tax had assigned them all on "very high". If not, I increase their garrison until they are on very-high. Almost always, the cost of the extra peasants is way less than the additional income from tax increase).

I also routinely assign all province titles to 4 acumen governors, only exception being provinces that grant extra command, which get assigned to promising generals.

afrit