Taxing and a byzantine question

[Duke of Gloucester]

The disadvantage of the auto tax (VI version) is it works so well 99% of the time. Something goes wrong - you lose control of a sea lane, your king dies or picks up a negative vice or something - and the province has less than 100% loyalty even on very low taxation, but the auto tax doesn't tell you. You have been using it with no problems right from the start, so you think you are still ok. If you are lucky you get away with it, and you don't even notice, but sometimes you get a loyaltist revolt or the HRE re-emerges in Switzerland! Answer - check loyalty at the end of every turn even on auto-tax.

[spmetla]

Although it won't always win you games I usually just keep my taxes at normal. If I'm planning on crusading I raise taxes a bit and if I get involved in a slug fest war I raise them as well. I play so that I'm always building up money for safe keeping and by taxing at a normal it gives me the extra cash boost I need when I tax higher by allowing me to build more troops while still putting money in the bank.

[katank]

doesn't it still take huge effort to raise and later lower taxes?

autotax works so well for me.

I use the shift and scan method for checking rebellions every turn.

I wish you can change the green level to 120 though.

[spmetla]

I enjoy micromanaging. When I tax I tax evenly across my whole nation. The biggest pain in the ass is that I can't raise taxes for all of my provinces like I could in STW I need to go to each one. I don't really worry about rebellions though, if it looks as if a province will rebel I usuallly wait for them to rebel and then send a nice army to crush it. Many a general of mine has become higher ranked and "field defense specialist" thanks to rebellions.
It wouldn't be fair to the more loyal of my people if I were to give the more rebellious ones tax breaks simply because they might rebel. No tax cuts for the rebellious!