Annual Income
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Annual income is the income in ducats added to the treasury on January 1 each year. Since the annual income is key to most of the activities the player will want to pursue, understanding where it comes from and how to add to it is one of the key comcepts in the game. It is the primary source of money that the player can use for building province improvements, recruiting and supporting armies and navies, and paying for sending merchants, spies, and missionaries. Other sources of this type of income include minting, which creates inflation; making loans to other countries, assuming they pay them back; and selling provinces to other countries.
Each January 1 the player receives income from taxes collected from provinces that the player owns. To get most of the value from any province, the owning country must have a core on the province. This normally takes 50 years in NA for newly acquired provinces but this delay can be avoided by the spy action, fabricate claim. See spies for details.
The tax available from a province is determined by a number of factors:
- Base tax value of the province
- This can be found by clicking on the province to open the province screen and doing a mouse over the tax listing. This not only reveals how much the base tax for the province is but also all the modifiers that are being applied to the tax for this province. Base tax can range from a low of 1 ducat a year to over 10 ducats year.
- Player creatable modifiers
- Center of Trade - adds 10 ducats per year
- Workshop - adds 2 ducats per year
- Customs house - adds 5%
- Other modifiers (not an exhaustive list)
- Stability - add from +30% for stability level 3 to -30% at stability level -3.
- Centralisation vs. Decentralisation focus from sliders - +5% (fully Centralized) to -5% (fully Decentralized)
- Land vs. naval focus from sliders - -10% (all army) to +10% (all navy) to overseas provinces
- Viceroys national idea - adds 30% to overseas provinces
- The final modifiers, core vs non-core status of the province and Constable, are applied after the modifiers above are used to create a calculated tax.
- Core vs. non-core status for the province - core status allows 100% of the calculated tax for the province to be added to the annual tax while a non-core province will only add 10% of the calculated tax to be added to the annual tax.
- Constable - adds 50%
